Scope and Contents Two manuscripts, differing somewhat from each other and from the printed work. At the end of each are the undertakings signed by subscribers to the scheme.(i) 'Proposals For Keeping the Streets Lains and Passages of the City of Edinburgh Neat and Clean By a Voluntary Subscription of the Proprietors and Possessors of the sundry Houses therein.' The proposals only, followed by the signed undertakings of 'the Possessors and Proprietors of the Four Ston Lands Within the Parliament...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Notes of a Presbyterian, 1658-1661, recording his own affairs and some public events (folio 1);(ii) Proposals of John Spottiswoode for study, miscellaneous notes, etc., similar to those in MS.2934, 1705-1707, undated (folios 3, 30, 56);(iii) Business journal of Spottiswoode, in French, recording consultations, fees, private expenditure, etc., 1707-1708 (folio 8);(iv) Lists of law-students, 1703, 1710-1712,...

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The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) ‘Act [i.e., Bill] for erecting the Advocats into a Society. 27 Jany. 1701’ (folio 1);(ii) Similar draft, undated (folio 2);(iii) Lists of advocates, 1661-1710 (folio 4);(iv) Printed petition to the Court of Session by the Dean and Faculty of Advocates and others regarding valuation of the burgh of Edinburgh by the stent masters, 1707 (folio 14);(v) Draft of formal receipt by John Spottiswoode of the...

Scope and Contents The papers include the correspondence of George Bannerman, Advocate, 1674-1675 (folio 1), of Mr Duncan Robertson, Writer, 1676-1685 (folio 15), and of Ronald Campbell, Writer to the Signet, 1693-1713, undated (folio 54); an account of ships laden at Grange Works, the fees of which went to the upkeep of the May light, 1640-1642 (folio 96); complaints against Robert Russell, Provost of Stirling, [circa 1673] (folio 100); the declaration of the Presbyterians now in the West of Scotland, 1679...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Press cuttings, February 1875, of the 10th Marquess of Tweeddale’s speeches concerning marine electric telegraphs (folio 1);(ii) Papers in Africaans, 1892-1900, largely administrative and military, including many signed by Benjamin Johanis Viljoen, Assistant Commandant- General, Transvaal Burgher Forces (see MS.14466, folios 201, 206-208) (folio 8);(iii) 'Proposal for loan of £3120 over the estate of Glenogil in the parish...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Copy of a private Act of Parliament for vesting the entailed estates of Melgund and Kynynmound in Trustees, 1792 (folio 1);(ii) A cutting from the ‘Calcutta Gazette Extraordinary’, 13 August 1807, reporting the investiture of Sir George Barlow as a Knight Companion of the Bath (folio 11);(iii) 'Regulations Proposed by the Court of Directors to the General Court for the most advantageous Management of the Company's Affairs...

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There is also a scheme for 'the complete library' by Lewis Mumford, 1927 (folio 180).

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This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.

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The papers concern Militia, Fencibles, Sea Fencibles, and Volunteers, with a few papers about the Regular Army, and many proposals of a general kind for the defence of the country.

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The contents include papers concerning the following: (i) Ireland, 1793-1809. Traitors; the Union (folio 1); (ii) Isle of Man, 1788, 1804, including proposals to relax Excise regulations (folio 23); (iii) Transportation of convicts, 1789, 1793, undated. Their landing in Newfoundland, principles, procedure (folio 43); (iv) Letters of Sir John Dalrymple, 4th Baronet, of Cousland, to Dundas (1st Viscount Melville), 1791-1807, undated (folio 97).

Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...

Scope and Contents The papers consist of the following:(i) Papers, 1721-1725, concerning the attempted appointment of Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles as a judge of the Court of Session (folio 1);(ii) Answers, 1725, for the King's Solicitor to the petition of Margaret Jamieson (folio 109);(iii) ‘The alterations proposed to be made in the Criminall Law of Scotland*, undated (folio 111);(iv) Memoranda, 1754, concerning the appointment of Thomas Hay of Huntingdon as a...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Note, 1660, of the conditions agreed between the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and William Knowles for draining the moss of Crombieside in the barony of Duncanlaw (folio 1);(ii) Papers, 1681-1826, being chiefly contracts, memorials and petitions concerning Gifford village, including material relating to Gifford paper mill (folio 3);(iii) Timber contracts and articles of roup, 1703-1773 (folio 47);(iv) Articles of...

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Some letters to Henry Dundas (Lord Melville), 1783-1807, unconnected with election, possibly indicate that these are part of the Melville papers. The papers consist of minutes of elections, lists of peers and their votes, protests, excerpts from ancient records, proposals as to methods of electing, and other papers.

Scope and Contents The papers consist of the following:(i) 'Instructions for preparing a case for the Duke of Hamilton touching his peerage as Duke of Brandon & c. and proceedings in the House of Lords on the Duke of Queensberry petition’ 1719 (folio 1);(ii) Printed recommendations to the King by the commissioners for securing the peace of the Highlands concerning the provisions of schools in the Highlands, 1716, with a manuscript, 1733, 'Memorial concerning the provisions made by...

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The proposals concern the need for certain public buildings, including those which eventually became Register House, the Signet Library, the Court of Session, and the North Bridge.

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Printed material consisting of proposed heads of a bill (folio 1) and the subsequent act (folio 9) relating to the making and maintenance of roads in Angus, 1830-1831; Patrick Chalmers’ annotated copy (and another) of the 'Turnpike Roads (Scotland) Bill, 1836' (folio 20); 'A Bill for the better management of Highways in England', 1859 (folio 26).

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On British history focusing on the local areas where great historical events took place.