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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents distributed to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.

Found in 1006 Collections and/or Records:

"Transactions of the Buchan Club” (Peterhead: P. Scrogie, 1942)., 1942.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/1089
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1942.

‘Tweeddale prize essay on the rainfall’ by T F Jamieson (Edinburgh and London, 1860), with a few pencil annotations and two tables entitled 'Rain registers'., 1860.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14825
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...
Dates: 1860.

Two letters, a leaf of manuscript, and a watercolour sketch by Joyce Cary, inserted in a copy of her 'A house of children' (London, 1941).

 File
Identifier: MS.5318
Scope and Contents

The manuscript contains a passage from the novel corresponding to page 30 and notes for another work. The sketch illustrates the scene described on page 30.

Dates: 1941-1942.

“Two Sermons: The First by Samuel Lord Bishop of Oxford, Chancellor of the most noble Order of the Garter; the second by the Warden of Trinity College, Glenalmond” (Montrose: Smith & Co., 1847)., 1847.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/1078
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1847.

‘Two Theban queens’ by Colin Campbell (London, 1909); the author's copy.

 File
Identifier: MS.9048
Scope and Contents The volume contains Colin Campbell’s signature on the flyleaf, a sketch at page 84, and a few pencil notes in his hand dispersed through the printed text. Inside the front cover are pasted a cutting from a bookseller's catalogue (folio 1) and a cutting from an unidentified newspaper containing a review of the book (folio 2).Two letters, 1925, to Campbell from Professor Francis Ll. Griffith in search of a copy of the book, which were formerly loosely enclosed at the title page,...
Dates: 1909.

Two volumes on secular antiquities, being the second and third parts of a work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical and secular antiquities of Scotland., 1700-1707, or after.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.9(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents The two volumes, known and frequently cited as `Hay`s Memoirs`, contain accounts of varying lengths and detail of titled, landed and other Scottish families, preceded by contents lists, and followed by indexes of names and, in 34.1.9(i), lists of books relating to the subject by Scottish writers (folio 347 verso), Irish writers (folio 360), and English writers (folio 361 verso), and by accounts of Scotsmen who died abroad (folio 365). In addition to four architectural drawings of (the...
Dates: 1700-1707, or after.

Typescript "Memories of the Advocates' Library" by William K Dickson, formerly Keeper of the Library and Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.

 File
Identifier: MS.2959
Scope and Contents

With a copy of William K Dickson’s ‘The National Library of Scotland', in ‘Juridical Review’, volume xl (1928), and a paper on the author by A A Grainger Stewart, ‘Scots Law Times’, December 1905 (both printed).

Dates: 1939.

Typescript tour diaries of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton, with appendices., 1909-1913.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.85.1.2-85.1.12
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.

Dates: 1909-1913.

Typescripts and published version of 'Torwatletie; or, the Apothecary' by Robert McLellan., 1940-1950.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26339-26341
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Robert McLellan's early plays were intended for the stage, but he later wrote for both radio and television. Not all were published, and many circulated in typescript copies.

Dates: 1940-1950.

'Unlikely stories, mostly' (London: Penguin, 1984), by Alasdair Gray, with annotations., 1984.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11338/25
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes a thesis entitled "The World of 4 to 7 Years", 1960, together with printed items illustrating Gray`s work as a graphic artist and book designer.

Dates: 1984.

"Valuation book, County of Kincardine" (1801)., 1801.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/956
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1801.

"Valuation book, County of Kincardine, 1899-1900"., 1900.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/957
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1900.

"Valuation book, County of Kincardine, 1900-1901"., 1901.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/958
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1901.

"Valuation book, County of Kincardine, 1901-1902"., 1902.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/959
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1902.

"Valuation book, County of Kincardine, 1902-1903"., 1903.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/960
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1903.

"Valuation book, County of Kincardine, 1903-1904"., 1904.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/961
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1904.