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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:

Commonplace book chiefly containing historical material., 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2095
Scope and Contents The contents include copies of speeches, letters, and various documents, abstracts, tables, and notes relating to history (chiefly Scottish, of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; also Highland and some English), foundations of religious houses at Restalrig and St Andrews, rents of Church benefices, coinage, Crown rents, Dutchmen fishing with busses in British waters, the Royal Navy, merchant adventures, etc., with notes from Scripture, epitaphs, etc. In various different...
Dates: 17th century.

Conference paper, "Representing the Plutonic Landscape : James Nasmyth`s Illustrations of the Moon", by Frances Robertson., 2002.

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Identifier: MS.42506
Scope and Contents

The paper was presented at The British Association of Victorian Studies Annual Conference, 5-7 September 2002, University of Hull : "Idealisms and Materialisms".

Dates: 2002.

Conference papers and articles by Farquhar Macintosh, 1974-1977 and undated

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Identifier: Acc.14003/107
Scope and Contents

Typescript or handwritten scripts of conference papers on secondary school education and education planning, partly intended for subsequent publication and preserved with letters from the conference organisers or editors. With some notes and an off-print by other authors.

Dates: 1974-1977 and undated

Contemporary copy of the speech delivered by George, Earl of Cromartie, after his conviction for treason., 1746.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.15(xxvii), folios 98-99
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The manuscript has been compiled from various sources. See the particular descriptions. Letters of presentation by or on behalf of the donors are included.

Dates: 1746.

Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.25
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Latin legal abbreviations, 16th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Speech in Latin addressed to `domine doctissime coeterique commilitones mei suavissimi`, in praise of modesty. Late 16th or early 17th century. (Folio 2.)(iii) Transcript, 19th century, of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3 February, 1590, concerning the slaughter of David Taillor by William Spottiswood of that Ilk and others. Cf. ‘The...
Dates: 16th century-1793.

Copies of correspondence of Alexander Christie and other papers, volume II: copies of letters, verse, etc., on Montrose politics; bound with Christie’s printed work on the same subject, ‘An address to the public’ (Montrose, 1790)., 1781, 1789-1791.

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Identifier: MS.3702
Scope and Contents

The papers particularly concern the building of a bridge, 1789-1791. There is also an address of Alexander Christie, 1781, and his commentary on the whole.

The caricatures on the plate facing page 56 of the printed book are identified by manuscript notes as (from left to right) David Scott of Dunninald, Provost Adam Glegg, and Alexander Christie himself.

Dates: 1781, 1789-1791.

Copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury. Volume I., 1793-1794.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.2, vol. I
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.

Dates: 1793-1794.

Copies of letters, notes and other papers of Stephen Hislop., 1837-1862, undated.

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Identifier: MS.8958
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Copies by Stephen Hislop of his letters to the conveners (Robert Gordon, James Buchanan, William K Tweedie) of the Foreign Mission Committee of the Free Church of Scotland, with some other letters on financial matters, 1845-1852, 1857, undated (folio 1); (ii) Copies in a later hand of Hislop's letters, 1846, 1850-1851, 1862, undated, to his colleague Robert Hunter (folio 84); (iii) Notes, 1844-1845, 1851-1852, by Hislop on expenses (folio 131); (iv) Various...
Dates: 1837-1862, undated.

Copies of letters to John Burdon-Sanderson and of papers and speeches given by him to learned societies and on other occasions., [?1854-before 1906.]

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Identifier: MS.20032
Scope and Contents

The papers were apparently intended for use in ‘Sir John Burdon Sanderson a memoir’, which was begun by Lady Burdon-Sanderson after his death in 1905 and completed and edited after her death in 1909 by their niece and nephew Elizabeth S Haldane (in whose hand many of the copies are written, most of the rest being in typescript) and John S Haldane, in 1911.

Dates: [?1854-before 1906.]

Copies of printed and other material concerning the ‘Forty-five., 1745.

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Identifier: MS.297
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter, manifesto, etc., of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 1745; the ‘dying declarations’, last speeches, etc., of Lord Balmerino, Mr John Hamilton, and other Jacobites; political verses, toasts, epitaphs, etc.

Dates: 1745.

Copies of speeches given by the Earl of Rosebery, together with drafts and notes, 1888-1896; with memoranda of conversations and meetings, 1867-1908, undated., 1867-1908, undated.

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Identifier: MS.10176
Scope and Contents From the Series: Rosebery, styled Lord Dalmeny from the death of his father in 1851 until he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1868, held various public offices including those of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1881-1883, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, February to July 1886, and again in 1892-1894, and was Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury from 5 March 1894 to 25 June 1895, remaining leader of the Liberal party till 1898.The papers consist chiefly...
Dates: 1867-1908, undated.

Copies of the death speech of Charles Radcliffe, Jacobite, 1746, and of two Jacobite poems, 'The tears of Scotland', and 'Ode on the battle of Gladsmuir', undated, all apparently in the hand of Thomas Pennant; bound in a volume of Jacobite pamphlets., 1746, undated.

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Identifier: MS.6542 [L.C.680(4)]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

These are the more substantial of the letters, papers and notes found in the Lauriston Castle Collection of printed books, whether pasted or inserted loosely into volumes or as inscriptions written in books.

Dates: 1746, undated.