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Documents.

 Subject
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:

Miscellaneous correspondence and papers relating to other estates with which the Minto family was in some way involved., 1731-1886.

 File
Identifier: MS.13307
Scope and Contents Contains correspondence and papers relating to the following: (i) Whitsome Hill, Berwickshire, the property of Hugh Murray Kynynmound, advocate, 1731-1741 (folio 1);(ii) Invertiel, Fife, the property of Hugh Somervell of Invertiel, Writer to the Signet, father of Isabella Murray of Melgund, 1737-1743 (folio 50);(iii) Bilton near Wetherby in Yorkshire, relating to newly enclosed land at Bilton owned by John Iveson, but over which Anna Mary Amyand, later Countess of...
Dates: 1731-1886.

Miscellaneous deposits.

 Series
Identifier: MS.20767

Miscellaneous documents acquired with different lots of the Chalmers of Auldbar papers., 1704, 1793-1794, 1813-1816, 1840.

 File
Identifier: MS.15519
Scope and Contents

The contents include an account, 1704, for funeral expenses of Mrs Elizabeth Arbuthnott; accounts, 1793-1794, 1813-1816, of Alexander Deuchar for jeweller's and seal- engraver's work; and a letter, 1840, about an address presented to Prince Albert by the people of Kelso.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1704, 1793-1794, 1813-1816, 1840.

Miscellaneous letters and documents., 1585-1901.

 File
Identifier: MS.150
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Lord Justice Clerk Bellenden to James VI, relating his interview with Queen Elizabeth, London, 1 March, 1584/1585. See 'Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland, 1584-1585', pages 560, 564, 565. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter of Francis Stewart, titular Earl of Bothwell, to Colonel William Urie, relating to an attack upon a sentinel, Dumfries, 1670. (Folio 3.)(iii) ‘Mr. Gidean Guthry his aco.ͭͭ of letters’,...
Dates: 1585-1901.

Miscellaneous letters and documents.

 Series
Identifier: MS.573
Dates: 6th century-1869, undated.

Miscellaneous letters and papers concerning the ‘Forty-five., 1695-1784, 1846.

 File
Identifier: MS.295
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) ‘Information’ relating to a dispute between Lachlan Mackintosh of Mackintosh and Coll Macdonell of Keppoch over the feus of Glenroy, 1695. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter of William, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock, about a tenant, 1706. (Folio 2.)(iii) ‘The characters’, a poem printed as ‘A Jacobite Pasquil’ in ‘The Scottish Antiquary’, volume xii (1898), page 56, a cutting from which is attached. (Folio 4.)(iv) Letters of...
Dates: 1695-1784, 1846.

Miscellaneous military papers of Thomas Graham., 1794-1843.

 File
Identifier: MS.16197
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) An ink and wash sketch map probably showing positions of Austrian and French forces in the Isonzo valley of North Italy near Gorlzia during the Austrian retreat from Napoleon's Armée d'Italie in the spring of 1797 (folio 1); (ii) An ink sketch, undated, but circa 1798, of the coastal area behind Aboukir [Abu Qîr] Bay near Alexandria, Egypt, (folio 2); (ill) Extract of a letter, 7 Mar, 1811, of Captain William Milne, at Isla de Leon, near Cadiz describing the...
Dates: 1794-1843.

Miscellaneous papers chiefly concerning the work of Sir Walter Scott and papers of John Horne Stevenson and his brother Henry, chiefly concerning the Scott-Cadell letter books., 1801-1939, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.21070
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Miscellaneous papers, 1801-1871, undated, chiefly concerning Sir Walter Scott's work, and including a number of engraved illustrations from the novels. Also included are the notes of Robert Cadell of visits to Abbotsford in 1832. (Folio 1.) (ii) Papers, 1911-1939, undated, of John Horne Stevenson and his brother Henry, chiefly concerning the Scott-Cadell letter books (MSS.742-745). (Folio 90.)

Dates: 1801-1939, undated.

Miscellaneous papers concerning Roxburghshire., 1743-1912.

 File
Identifier: MS.13403
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Miscellaneous valuations of lands in Roxburghshire, 1750, 1778-1780 (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous election papers, principally relating to the creation of votes, 1743-circa 1860 (folio 36); (iii) Miscellaneous papers, 1743-1912, concerning inter alia Jedforest Coal, Stobie's map of Roxburghshire, pauper lunatics, and cholera (folio 140).

Dates: 1743-1912.