Speeches. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents containing the text of any public address or talk.
Found in 735 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous lectures, talks and speeches, undated, of J B S Haldane., [?1935-?1964.]
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Identifier: MS.20562
Dates:
[?1935-?1964.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
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Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane.
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Lectures, talks and speeches of J B S Haldane on scientific and other topics.
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Miscellaneous lectures, talks and speeches of J B S Haldane.
Miscellaneous letters, papers, engravings and photographs of the Abercromby family., 1798-1887, undated.
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Identifier: MS.24774
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) An engraving (16 x 10.5 centimetres) by John Kay of Edinburgh, 1798, of General Sir Ralph Abercromby reviewing his troops (folio 1);
(ii) An engraving (18 x 11.5 centimetres) by Thomas Kelly of London, 1816, depicting the 'Death of Sir Ralph Abercrombie', 1801 (folio 2);
(iii) An engraving, (13 x 10.5 centimetres), undated, and artist not known, of a portrait of Sir Ralph Abercromby (folio 3);
(iv) A photograph, (13 x 10 centimetres), undated, by the Arundel...
Dates:
1798-1887, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family, political and personal correspondence and papers of the Abercromby family, chiefly of James Abercromby (1776-1858), 1st Baron Dunfermline, with some correspondence and papers of his wife Marianne (died 1874), and of their son Ralph, 2nd Baron and diplomatist (1803-1868), and his family.
Miscellaneous letters to, draft replies, speeches, and notes of Sir Charles Dalrymple relating to his political career., 1869-1912, undated.
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Identifier: MS.25642
Scope and Contents
The papers chiefly concern parliamentary elections for Bute-shire, 1868, 1880, Midlothian, 1885, and Ipswich, 1886, 1900, 1906, and 1912.
Dates:
1869-1912, undated.
Miscellaneous manuscript items of Eric Linklater., 1944-1977, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10282/42-53
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of plays, novels and poems, with over 500 letters of and to various correspondents.
Dates:
1944-1977, undated.
Miscellaneous manuscripts from Pitfirrane House, Fife., 1558-1897.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6503-6511
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers derive from four main sources: material relating to the Halketts of Pitfirrane, to the Wedderburns of Gosford, to Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats, and to John McFarlane, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1709). The last male heir in the direct line of the Halkett family, Sir James (succeeded 1697), died in 1705, ending the baronetcy created in 1671. On his death his eldest sister, Janet, succeeded to Pitfirrane. She had married Sir Peter Wedderburn, 1st Baronet of Gosford, who now...
Dates:
1558-1897.
Miscellaneous material concerning poetry, genealogy, and other matters., 1558-1885.
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Identifier: MS.6503
Scope and Contents
One of the most important sections is that on poetry (folios 1-18). Included here (folio 1) is an anonymous translation into English made in ?1710 of George Buchanan's ‘Francisci Valesii et Mariae Stuartae regum Franciae et Scotiae, epithalamium’. An interesting and anonymous ballad (folio 8) is called 'The Westland Letany', being a satire on the misgovernment of Scotland by Lauderdale, written circa 1673. There is also a copy of 'Hardyknute' (folios 14-16), a ballad attributed to Lady...
Dates:
1558-1885.
Miscellaneous notes and articles of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., Early 20th century.
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Identifier: MS.9322
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript, undated, entitled 'On teaching poetry', being the text of a lecture delivered to a group of teachers at some time during Sir Herbert Grierson's tenure (1894-1915) of the Chair of English at Aberdeen (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript, undated of part of a bibliography of the works of Thomas Hardy compiled by R B H Thomson and presumably in his hand (folio 27);(iii) Manuscript, 1916, entitled 'Shakespeare Centenary...
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Miscellaneous notes, articles, financial records and other papers., 1801-1986, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9533/306-337
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, 1927-8, East Africa, 1934-5, and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries.Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean Kingdon Ward, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a...
Dates:
1801-1986, undated.
Miscellaneous papers and books of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1543-1924.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.7.1-80.7.14
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates:
1543-1924.
Miscellaneous papers and notebooks of Lord Rutherfurd and members of the Rutherfurd family., 1746-1930, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9720-9728
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Andrew Rutherfurd was Solicitor-General for Scotland, 1837-1839, and Lord Advocate, 1839-1841 and 1846-1851. The correspondence largely reflects his political and legal concerns, but also shows his interest in literature and the arts.
Dates:
1746-1930, undated.
Miscellaneous papers concerning public affairs., 1612-1699, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7032-7037
Scope and Contents
The papers consist chiefly of copies of speeches, acts, and official correspondence, reports of proceedings of the Council or Parliament, petitions, and papers concerning legal disputes, in some of which the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale acted as arbitrator.
Dates:
1612-1699, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale.
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Letters and papers concerning the 1st Earl of Tweeddale; and correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale.
Miscellaneous papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal., 1641-1685, 1723-1738, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21193
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Photographs of miscellaneous letters and commissions, 1641-1682, including a letter, 1641, from Charles I to William, 7th Earl Marischal, and a speech, undated, of Charles I. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Miscellaneous papers, 1723-1738, undated, including letters to George Keith, Advocate, Aberdeen, and John Douglas, Merchant in Aberdeen. Writers of letters include George, Earl Marischal (succeeded 1712), and his brother. Marshal James Keith. Additionally, the papers...
Dates:
1641-1685, 1723-1738, undated.
Miscellaneous papers, correspondence and speeches on the proposal for the designation of Cairngorms as Scotland’s first Natural Heritage Area., 1991-1994.
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Identifier: Acc.13542/853
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These papers relate to Magnusson's time working for Scottish Natural Heritage. The organisation was formed in 1992 following the amalgamation of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Commission for Scotland. Magnusson served as the Chairman of the organisation from 1992 until 1999. The papers contain minutes from SNH meetings, papers from working groups, such as those relating to the designation of the Cairngorms as a European Heritage Area and a series of papers...
Dates:
1991-1994.
Miscellaneous papers covering Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot's political career, with a concentration on the Free Trade movements of the 1890s and 1900s., 1879-1922.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19537-19564
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot was the second son of the 3rd Earl of Minto. He was educated privately, at Edinburgh University, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. After a brief period of practice on the Northern Circuit, he was elected Liberal M P for Roxburghshire in 1880; in 1886 he opposed Gladstone's Home Rule policy but held his seat as a Liberal Unionist until 1892. After being defeated by a single vote in 1895, Elliot was returned for Durham at a by-election in 1898. He was appointed...
Dates:
1879-1922.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.
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Papers and correspondence of Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot.
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Political, literary, and miscellaneous papers of Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot.
Miscellaneous papers including registration certificates as a medical student, 1921-1922, manuscript article on Tangier, undated, verse, undated, notebook on the 1909 Kosmoid financial disaster, certificate presented to Ben Humble on climbing the Matterhorn, 1938, speech and annotated menu card for Scottish Mountaineering Club's Annual Dinner, 1974 , 1921-1974, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.13846/8
Dates:
1921-1974, undated.
Miscellaneous papers, including research material, notebooks, artwork, and ephemera., 1824-circa 1980.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8058/215-230
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including corrected typescripts and proofs of historical and topographical works, and circa 400 letters and copies of letters.
With papers, 1928-1959, of the Standard Press, Montrose.
Dates:
1824-circa 1980.
Miscellaneous papers, mostly concerning ecclesiastical, legal and genealogical subjects., 16th century, 1743, 1773, 1776, 1844, 1855.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Inventory of writs, `Anent ye baronie of Tyllebulalb and redemptione thairof be James Strathay of Carmyle and lairdes of Skene`, 16th century (folio 1).(ii) 4 letters of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres, to his sister, Lady Elizabeth Lindsay, 1743, and undated (folio 4).(iii) `Scroll of a Speech on an Overture transmitted by the [General] Assembly [of the Church of Scotland to the Presbyteries] anent...
Dates:
16th century, 1743, 1773, 1776, 1844, 1855.
Miscellaneous papers, mostly relating to Jacobites., 1693-1825, undated.
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Identifier: MS.6290, folios 3-134
Scope and Contents
The papers include: a copy of a declaration, 1693, of James II to his Jacobite subjects, after his flight (folio 3); political verse, early 17th and 18th centuries (folio 5); copies of two speeches in the Scottish Parliament, 1702, one anonymous, concerning Presbyterian government (folio 18), and one by the Duke of Hamilton, signifying his retirement from Parliament (folio 19); a list, 1715, of clan chiefs, showing their political allegiances (folio 20); a copy of a letter, 1715, written by...
Dates:
1693-1825, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1933-?1979, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.27178-27214
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.
Dates:
1933-?1979, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels., 1729-1794, undated.
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Identifier: MS.3118
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters of Mrs Alison Cockburn to Dr Douglas, with some poems, 1767-1794, undated (folio 1). Most of these are printed in her ‘Letters and memoir’, edited by T Craig Brown (Edinburgh, 1900). They are arranged as they appear in that work, those not printed being placed at the end.(ii) Observations by various writers on the agriculture of Roxburghshire, undated. (Folio 145.)(iii) Miscellaneous papers, undated (folio 168),...
Dates:
1729-1794, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'., 1936-1956, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27407-27410
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The sister of Nancy Brysson Morrison, Margaret M Morrison studied at Glasgow School of Art and trained for the stage before beginning her career in literature.
Dates:
1936-1956, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of Robert Cadell., 1822-1849, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21069
Scope and Contents
The papers include a copy of the contract of copartnery, 1822, between Walter Scott and James Ballantyne (folio 1), corrections, [?1827], to the ‘Life of Napoleon’ (folio 11), and a speech, [?1844], made by Robert Cadell to the shareholders of the North British Railway Company (folio 29).
Dates:
1822-1849, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of Robert Kirk Dickson, chiefly typescript carbon copies of notes, speeches and other documents associated with his military career., 1941-1951.
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Identifier: MS.13587
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Typescript carbon copies of official reports, 1942, by Robert Kirk Dickson from H.M.S. Manxman, with 'Chronological summary of the first commission of H.M.S. Manxman, 1941-2, written by R.K.D, in 1944 at the request of the Deputy Director, Operations Division (Mining), Admiralty' (folio 1);(ii) Typescript carbon copy of 'Boil down of Cossac (43) 28. Appreciation and Outline Plan for Operation Overlord', by Captain Robert Kirk Dickson,...
Dates:
1941-1951.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson (1898-1952) and of his younger brother, Midshipman Archibald Kirk Dickson (died 1916), with some papers of their father, William Kirk Dickson (1860-1949), first Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
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Papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson.
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Personal and naval papers of Robert Kirk Dickson.
Miscellaneous papers of Sir Alexander Gray., 1921-1954, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26014
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Notes on the Diderik ballads, and the text of a broadcast on 'Sir Halewyn', 1947, undated (folio l); (ii) An address at a graduation in Edinburgh University, 1954 (folio l2). This was printed in Sir Alexander Gray's ‘A timorous civility’ (Glasgow, 1966), pages 32-40. (iii) Press-cuttings of poems and articles by Gray, with some reviews of his work, 1921-1940, undated (folio 25).
Dates:
1921-1954, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale., 1857-1898, undated.
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Identifier: MS.14535
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Will of the 9th Marquess of Tweeddale and papers concerning the executry of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, 1874-1876 (folio 1);(ii) Birth certificate, 1886, of Lord Arthur Vincent Hay (folio 28);(iii) Printed election addresses, 1865, 1868, of the 10th Marquess of Tweeddale to the electors of Taunton and East Lothian (folio 29);(iv) Official papers, 1890-1898, of the 10th Marquess of Tweeddale as Lord High...
Dates:
1857-1898, undated.