Reports.
Found in 137 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941).
Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.
Papers of the Scottish Branch of UK Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Papers of the Scottish Committee, World Day of Prayer, including minutes, reports, and accounts.
Papers on Scottish Devolution collected by Neal Ascherson and sent to the Institute of Governance, University of Edinburgh.
Political, academic and personal papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, political academic and MP for Berwick and East Lothian.
‘Preliminary Report on the proposed Widow’s Scheme of the Faculty of Advocates’, by James Cleghorn, Accountant.
Printed papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Widow’s Fund.
‘Printed Papers Relative to the Widows’ Fund of the Faculty of Advocates’.
Private letters, and reports of inquiries and statements of officers vindicating themselves, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station.
The contents are as follows:
Private letters, 1814-1815, to Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane from officers under his command or co-operating with him while he was Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station (MS.2327);
Reports of inquiries and statements of officers vindicating themselves, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station, 1814-1815 (MS.2331).
Professional and personal correspondence and papers of Sir Alastair MacTavish Dunnett, newspaper editor and businessman.
Contains correspondence and papers concerning personal and business matters, including papers of several Thomson Organisation companies, and of many Scottish public bodies including the Edinburgh Festival Society, the Scottish Tourist Board and the Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Records and papers of Donaldson's Hospital, Donaldson's School and Edinburgh Royal Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children
Constitutions, reports, minutes, correspondence, financial records and printed books, 1846–2001, of Donaldson's Hospital and the Edinburgh Royal Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children and, from 1938, Donaldson's School.
Records, including minutes, reports, correspondence and related papers, of the Scottish Convention of Women.
‘Relazione della citta di Ginevra’ by Andrea Cardoino, an Italian Catholic.
See letter of J D Candaux, 15 February 1965.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.4.8.
'Report by Patrick Alexander Blair, Chartered Accountant in Edinburgh, to the Treasurer of the Honourable the Faculty of Advocates on the Library Expenditure'.
Report by Robert Stevenson, 1829, to the heritors on the upper Forth, on the navigation of the river from Stirling to Blackdub on the Teith, together with an estimate of costs, a copy of his preliminary report of 1826, and a plan.
The conclusion of the report is that while improvements in the river are possible, it would be preferable to build a road or railway between the two points.
The plan, based on a survey by J Sherar, is at 24 inches to the mile, and includes also a section of the river and of a proposed cut.
'Report of the Fifteenth Investigation of the Widow's Fund of the Faculty of Advocates'.
‘Report on Arrangement of Abbotsford Papers by Alexander Orrock, Junior [bookbinder] October, 1875’, a list of the manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott received from Abbotsford, indicating those which have been bound, etc.
Several of the manuscripts listed are now in the National Library.
'Report on Inver Woods' by Eustace S Lord.
The report is a full description, with plans, graphs and photographs, of part of the Atholl estates between the rivers Tay and Braan. It includes material on the climate, soil, flora and fauna, and local labour, as well as details of the timber.
Report on Scotland entitled, "Discorso notabile sopra le cose di Scotia, doue si sa il modo col quale si potrebbe estirpare I'heresie di quei due Regni: et habilitar ii Re di Scotia sendo catt[co] alla Successione del Regno d'Inghilterra do po la presente Regina".
The report was sent, after 1594 and before 1603, by an Italian emissary to a superior, and gives an account of the attitude of King James VI and various nobles and of the activities of Roman Catholics.