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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Physical or digital representations of a body of information designed with the capacity to communicate. In its broadest sense, ""documents"" include any item amenable to cataloging and indexing, that is, including nonprint media. For the activity of gathering and recording information, see ""documentation (function)""For specfic types of documents, see concepts under ""document genres."".

Found in 1533 Collections and/or Records:

Letters and enclosures of John Malcolm concerning diplomatic relations with Iran, and miscellaneous letters and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1807-1811, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11715-11718
Dates: 1807-1811, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India. / Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto as Governor-General of India.

Letters and enclosures of Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, to the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government., 1808-1810.

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Identifier: MS.11639
Dates: 1808-1810.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India. / Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape. / Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government with the Bombay Government.

Letters and enclosures of Sir Thomas Maitland, Governor of Ceylon, to the 1st Earl of Minto as President of the Board of Control and Governor-General., 1806-1808.

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Identifier: MS.11673
Dates: 1806-1808.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India. / Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape. / Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with various Governors and others. / Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with Sir Thomas Maitland, Governor of Ceylon.

Letters and enclosures of the Honourable Charles Andrew Bruce, Governor of Penang, to the 1st Earl of Minto, 1810, and correspondence of the 1st Earl with William Edwards Phillips, Acting Governor of Penang, with related papers, 1811., 1810-1811.

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Identifier: MS.11687
Dates: 1810-1811.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India. / Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape. / Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with various Governors and others. / Copies of correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto, concerning the detention of the transport 'Lord Minto', and letters, enclosures, and correspondence with the Governor and Acting Governor of Penang.

Letters and enclosures sent by John Malcolm to the 1st Earl of Minto concerning the army mutiny at Masulipatam., June-July 1809.

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Identifier: MS.11655
Scope and Contents

Includes material (folios 1-19) relating to Iran.

Dates: June-July 1809.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India. / Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape. / Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government with and concerning the Madras Government and Army. / Letters and papers sent by John Malcolm to the 1st Earl of Minto concerning the army mutiny at Masulipatam, and papers communicated by Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) Thomas Gage Montresor to Neil Benjamin Edmondstone. / Letters and papers sent by John Malcolm to the 1st Earl of Minto concerning the army mutiny at Masulipatam.

Letters and enclosures to the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government from Lieutenant-Colonel Keating as Lieutenant-Governor of Bourbon, (Réunion)., 1811-1812.

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Identifier: MS.11679
Dates: 1811-1812.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India. / Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape. / Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with various Governors and others.

Letters and enclosures to the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government from Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) Henry Sheehy Keating and Robert Townsend Farquhar, Governor of Mauritius, concerning the capture of Bourbon (Réunion) and Rodrigues., 1810.

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Identifier: MS.11678
Dates: 1810.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India. / Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape. / Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with various Governors and others.

Letters and enclosures to the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government from Robert Townsend Farquhar as Governor of Mauritius and Bourbon (Réunion)., 1811-1812.

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Identifier: MS.11680
Dates: 1811-1812.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India. / Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape. / Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with various Governors and others.

Letters and enclosures to William Nassau Elliot from military commanders and commissaries in Germany., 1761-1762.

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Identifier: MS.12886
Scope and Contents

The writers are Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick (folio 1), Sir James Cockburn (folio 36), General Henry Seymour Conway (folio 60), Commissary-General Frederick Halsey (folio 79), Field-Marshal Christian von Hardenberg (folio 111), Hildebrand, Councillor of Lingen (folio 140), Colonel Richard Peirson (folio 161) and Reder, merchant at Munster (folio 197).

Dates: 1761-1762.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament. / Correspondence and papers of and concerning William Nassau Elliot of Wells. / Correspondence and papers of William Nassau Elliot of Wells as Commissary and Commissary-General to the allied army in Germany.

Letters and 'miscellaneous documents' of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, chiefly concerning the National Library of Scotland., 1922-1936.

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Identifier: MS.25270
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters, 1924-1935, concerned with the purchase of Mary, Queen of Scots, manuscripts (1924), and with the business of the National Library Board of Trustees (folio 1); (ii-xi) 'Miscellaneous documents', 1922-1936, as follows. (ii) Copy of a letter, 1922, of Sir Frederick Kenyon, British Museum, to Dr W K Dickson on a Treasury grant to the Advocates' Library (folio 68); (iii) Correspondence with Sir John Lamb and Lord Novar (Secretary for Scotland) on the...
Dates: 1922-1936.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan (1873-1952). / Correspondence and papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan concerning the Advocates' Library and the National Library of Scotland.

Letters and other documents produced as the results of the examination of witnesses in Britain, 1765, and used as evidence by the Hamilton lawyers in the Douglas Cause lawsuit., 1765.

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Identifier: MS.5351
Scope and Contents

The letters and documents were formerly contained in a parchment folder, of which a portion has been retained.

Dates: 1765.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance. / Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet. / Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.

Letters and other documents received by the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3844-3851
Dates: 1787-1823.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letters and other papers chiefly of or concerning David Livingstone, including letters to Joseph Bevan Braithwaite.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20317-20319
Scope and Contents

The Braithwaites were a Quaker merchant family from Kendal, friends of Robert Moffat and his son-in-law David Livingstone. One, Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, was a barrister and acted as Livingstone's legal adviser. Livingstone's own letters to him and other members of the family have been dispersed (some are now in MSS. 10768 and 20312). These volumes contain other correspondence and papers, but chiefly concern Livingstone and his letters.

Dates: 1852-1973, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letters and other papers concerning the celebrations of the 21st anniversary of the foundation of the Buchan Field Club, bound in a volume of ‘Transactions of the Buchan Field Club’ (Peterhead, 1906-1908)., 1907-1909.

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Identifier: MS.6544 [L.C.744]
Dates: 1907-1909.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Miscellaneous manuscript content found in printed works in the Lauriston Castle Collection.

Letters and paper concerning place names in Aberdeenshire, used by George Chalmers in the compilation of his topographical dictionary.

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Identifier: MS.15989
Scope and Contents

The Dictionary was to have formed a supplement to George Chalmers's ‘Caledonia’, but was never published.

Dates: 1794-1800.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letters and papers addressed to John Forbes by Portuguese ministers and soldiers., 1793-August 1794.

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Identifier: MS.15342
Dates: 1793-August 1794.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of John Forbes, Lieutenant-General in the Portuguese service. / Letters and papers addressed to John Forbes by Portuguese ministers and soldiers, with drafts or copies of some of Forbes’ replies.

Letters and papers addressed to John Forbes by Portuguese ministers and soldiers., September 1794-June 1795.

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Identifier: MS.15343
Dates: September 1794-June 1795.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of John Forbes, Lieutenant-General in the Portuguese service. / Letters and papers addressed to John Forbes by Portuguese ministers and soldiers, with drafts or copies of some of Forbes’ replies.

Letters and papers addressed to John Forbes by Portuguese ministers and soldiers., July 1795-1796.

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Identifier: MS.15344
Dates: July 1795-1796.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of John Forbes, Lieutenant-General in the Portuguese service. / Letters and papers addressed to John Forbes by Portuguese ministers and soldiers, with drafts or copies of some of Forbes’ replies.

Letters and papers addressed to John Forbes by Portuguese ministers and soldiers, with drafts or copies of some of Forbes’ replies., 1793-1796.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15342-15344
Dates: 1793-1796.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of John Forbes, Lieutenant-General in the Portuguese service.

Letters and papers chiefly addressed to Duncan McLaren, Lord Provost of Edinburgh., 1838-1872, undated.

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Identifier: MS.15911, folios 251-275
Dates: 1838-1872, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Miscellaneous small collections of letters and papers.

Letters and papers chiefly of Richard Haldane., 1864-1947, undated.

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Identifier: MS.20049
Scope and Contents

Some of the papers have been transferred from other parts of the collection (folio 1).

The manuscript also contains a few papers of Richard Haldane’s mother (folio 155), his sister (folio 162), his nephew T G N Haldane (folio 193), and his brother Sir William S Haldane (folio 206); and a few unrelated items (folio 225).

A list of contents is included.

Dates: 1864-1947, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of Mrs Mary E Haldane, her parents Richard and Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, her sister Jane, and her son Richard B Haldane, later Viscount Haldane. / Correspondence and papers of, and concerning, Richard Burdon Haldane, who was created Viscount Haldane in 1911. / Correspondence and papers chiefly of Richard Burden Haldane.

Letters and papers chiefly relating to the Herring Fisheries in Scotland, and to police and prisons in Scotland., 1779-1848, undated.

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Identifier: MS.354A
Scope and Contents (i) Letters and papers (manuscript and printed) relating chiefly to the Herring Fisheries in Scotland, 1791-1796, 1801-1812, 1847, undated. The subjects include considerations on the best mode of encouraging the White Herring Fishing, 1791; British Society for Fisheries and the road from Dingwall to Ullapool, 1792; memorial of the Adventurers in the British White Herring Fisheries, 1794; reports, etc., of the Highland Society of Scotland on the proposed British White Fishery Bill [?1801];...
Dates: 1779-1848, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount. / Letters and papers relating chiefly to the Herring Fisheries in Scotland, and to police and prisons in Scotland, with a few maps and plans of prisons.

Letters and papers collected by Mr J R N Macphail, Kings Counsel, Sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Clackmannan.

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Identifier: MSS.1036-1037
Dates: 1651-1832, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letters and papers concerning Brodie Cruickshank., 1848-1963, undated.

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Identifier: MS.20325
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of: (i) Commission to Brodie Cruikshank to command the Apollonia expedition and letters of thanks on its success, 1848, 1851;

(ii) Copy of letter, 1854, describing Cruikshank’s death in Lisbon;

(iii) Letters and papers, 1963, undated, concerning Cruikshank.

Dates: 1848-1963, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts and papers of and concerning Brodie Cruikshank, merchant and official on the Gold Coast from 1834 to 1854 and author of ‘Eighteen years on the Gold Coast of Africa’.

Letters and papers concerning the British invasion and occupation of Java., 1810-1814.

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Identifier: MS.11708
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Miscellaneous military correspondence and papers, 1810-1812 (folio 1); (ii) 'Itinerary to serve as an accompaniment to the map of Java, showing the Post-stages, Forts, Towns and Military Stations, with their several distances as extracted from a late Tour of the Deputy Quarter Master General...', 1 October 1812 (folio 47); (iii) Letters and enclosures of Hugh Hope, civil commissioner of the eastern districts of Java, 1813-1814 (folio 57); (iv) Letters and...
Dates: 1810-1814.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India. / Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government concerning the British invasion and occupation of Java and other Dutch possessions in the East Indies. / Letters and papers concerning the British invasion and occupation of Java, and papers relating to the sultanate of Bantam.

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