Speeches. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents containing the text of any public address or talk.
Found in 923 Collections and/or Records:
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.1-81.2.10
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Address by the National Federation of Building Trade Employers in South Africa., 1924.
Item
Identifier: Ch.17422
Address by the Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland, presented on his retirement to Sir James Lewis Caw, Curator of the National Portrait Gallery and Director of the National Gallery.
Item
Identifier: Ch.5808
Scope and Contents
Written by Edward Johnston in black and red, with decorations in blue and gold.
Dates:
1930.
Address, entitled '‘Glimpses of John Buchan, his life in Canada and his legacy', by John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, with a letter to Lord Tweedsmuir by a Canadian friend commenting on the address., 1985.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/298
Dates:
1985.
Address, from inhabitants of Aberuthven, thanking George Drummond Graeme for the provision of a missionary., 1850.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15440
'Address presented by the inhabitants of Newport Salop to Charles Cecil Cotes Esq. on attaining his majority 1867.', 1867.
Item
Identifier: MS.10240
Address presented to John Stuart Blackie by the junior Greek Class at Edinburgh., 1878.
Item
Identifier: Ch.949
Address signed by the Provost and bailies of Edinburgh, to the Duke of Lauderdale.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8246
Dates:
1675.
Address to George Combe, phrenologist, from his class., 1838.
Item
Identifier: Ch.7608
Address to Robert Louis Stevenson Club of Edinburgh, 13 November 1971, also containing a copy of address to Robert Louis Stevenson Club, 1971., 1971.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/267
Dates:
1971.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
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Papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, relating to publications mostly by him, containing reviews, manuscripts, typescripts, letters and other material.
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Addresses to Robert Louis Stevenson Club of Edinburgh and to Sir Walter Scott Club of Edinburgh.
Address to Sir Walter Scott Club of Edinburgh., 1975.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/268
Dates:
1975.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
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Papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, relating to publications mostly by him, containing reviews, manuscripts, typescripts, letters and other material.
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Addresses to Robert Louis Stevenson Club of Edinburgh and to Sir Walter Scott Club of Edinburgh.
Address to the 1st Earl of Minto by the British inhabitants of Calcutta., 1813.
Item
Identifier: Ch.10493
Address to the 4th Earl of Minto from the Bombay Chamber of Commerce., 1905.
Item
Identifier: MS.12794
Dates:
1905.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the 4th Earl of Minto relating to his time in India.
Addresses, 1846, by the students of the School of Design, Nottingham, to Charles Heath Wilson and passport, 1858, issued to him.
File
Identifier: Ch.2631-2633
Dates:
1846, 1858.
Addresses, etc, given to the 4th Earl and Countess of Minto during his service as Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India., 1898-1910, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.10495-10633
Scope and Contents
A complete list of these addresses is available.
Dates:
1898-1910, undated.
Addresses, honorary diplomas, speeches, etc., 1813, 1816, 1898-1910, undated.
Series
Identifier: Ch.10493-10633
Dates:
1813, 1816, 1898-1910, undated.
Addresses to Robert Louis Stevenson Club of Edinburgh and to Sir Walter Scott Club of Edinburgh., 1971, 1975.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11628/267-268
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1971, 1975.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
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Papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, relating to publications mostly by him, containing reviews, manuscripts, typescripts, letters and other material.
Addresses to the PEN International Congress, Edinburgh., 1950.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10282/45-47
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1823-1840.
File
Identifier: MS.4890
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of two poems by Robert Brown Cunnynghame entitled “Tales o' the daft days. The mistress's tale or The hunt the gowk” and “Tale third. The boarding school Miss's tale or Bailie Blair's courtship”. These are apparently unpublished continuations of the three parts of “Tales o' the daft days” published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, November and December 1822, and March 1823. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript, 1823, of an apparently...
Dates:
1823-1840.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication.
Appendices to the tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Burma, 17 December 1911 - 8 February 1912., 1911-1912.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.9
Dates:
1911-1912.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.
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Typescript tour diaries of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton, with appendices.
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Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Burma, 17 December 1911 - 8 February 1912; with appendices.
'Art of the black-and-white artist, and the wood-engraver, with some beautiful examples, collected by John A. Hipkins.', Late 19th century-early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2931
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook contains specimens chiefly of the nineteenth century, including many illustrating the work of the deaf, preceded by a note by Miss Hipkins. Also two crayon portraits by John A Hipkins (pages 60-62); an address given by him on the achievements of the deaf in France (page 71); an original letter of Abbe Sicard (page 79 b); original studies of animals by Walter Geikie (page 84); and original paintings by Frank Maguire (page 90).
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Articles and speeches and miscellaneous papers of Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'., 1938-1956, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27407
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts and typescripts of articles and speeches, 1938-1956, undated, begin on folio 1. The miscellaneous papers, 1938-1954, undated, begin on folio 127. They include a few notes for 'A woman of letters' (folio 144).
Dates:
1938-1956, undated.
Articles, broadcasts and speeches., 1950s-1960s.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/250