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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 810 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of printed legal papers 1805-1820 (several of them bearing marginalia by John Riddell) and a few memoranda and copies of documents, 1819, and undated, relating to the genealogy of Major-General Walter Ker of Littledean in his claim to the Roxburghe estates following the death of the fourth Duke., 1805-1820, and undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.5
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).

Dates: 1805-1820, and undated.

Comte de Las Cases, 'Letters from the Cape of Good Hope in reply to Mr Warden' (London: J. Ridgway, 1817)., 1817.

 Item
Identifier: Dep.353/20
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection includes the fair copy (not autograph) of Maitland’s ‘Narrative of the Principal Occurrences on board HMS Bellerophon’, and journals of his naval service in South America, 1819-20, the Mediterranean 1820-1, and 1828-30, and India, 1837-9. It also includes a number of printed books relating to Napoleon, particularly to the time he spent on St Helena. Some of these were written by Barry O’Meara and dedicated by him to Maitland with whom he had served as surgeon...
Dates: 1817.

Comte de Las Cases,' Letters' (London: J. Ridgway, 1819)., 1819.

 Item
Identifier: Dep.353/18
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection includes the fair copy (not autograph) of Maitland’s ‘Narrative of the Principal Occurrences on board HMS Bellerophon’, and journals of his naval service in South America, 1819-20, the Mediterranean 1820-1, and 1828-30, and India, 1837-9. It also includes a number of printed books relating to Napoleon, particularly to the time he spent on St Helena. Some of these were written by Barry O’Meara and dedicated by him to Maitland with whom he had served as surgeon...
Dates: 1819.

Copies of George Douglas, ‘The house with the green shutters’ (London, 1902), and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky ‘The possessed’ (London, 1913), with annotations by John MacDougall Hay., Early 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26795-26796
Scope and Contents From the Series:

John MacDougall Hay became minister of Elderslie in 1909, but is best known for his work as a novelist and poet, particularly for his novel 'Gillespie' (London, 1914). He also wrote numerous articles for newspapers and periodicals.

Dates: Early 20th century.

Copy of 'A Code of the Pay Regulations of the Various Military Establishments under the Presidency of Fort William, to which is added a Staff Table .., revised by Major William Sheppey Greene, Military Auditor General ..., (Kidderpore, 1810)., 1810.

 Item
Identifier: MS.11606
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates: 1810.