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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 735 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, written in various contemporary hands., 1638-1642.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.2687
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The proceedings consists mainly of speeches, petitions, newsletters, and diurnal occurrences, along with other documents, some of an earlier date, bearing on the constitutional crisis.

Dates: 1638-1642.

Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, written in various contemporary hands., 1639-1642.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.2688
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The proceedings consists mainly of speeches, petitions, newsletters, and diurnal occurrences, along with other documents, some of an earlier date, bearing on the constitutional crisis.

Dates: 1639-1642.

Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, written in various contemporary hands., 1640-1642.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.2687-2688
Scope and Contents

The proceedings consists mainly of speeches, petitions, newsletters, and diurnal occurrences, along with other documents, some of an earlier date, bearing on the constitutional crisis.

Dates: 1640-1642.

Collection of twelve seventeenth-century sermons, those with date and place noted being preached at Dalserf or Carluke in 1655., 17th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.5769
Scope and Contents

Included is the deathbed speech of Ephraim Melville, minister of Linlithgow (page 386).

Pages 237-244 are misplaced between pages 228 and pages 229.

Dates: 17th century.

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.

 Item
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

 File
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 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.

 File
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.