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 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 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 of and concerning members of the Keith family., 1506-1906, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21183-21184
Scope and Contents

The papers include fragments of a Deer Abbey cartulary of 1542-1549 and rental of 1579, an account of the coronation of Charles I at Holyroodhouse in 1633, a roll of the Baron Court of Fetteresso and Dunnottar of July 1680, and papers concerning the Covenanting wars, the raising of Covenanting armies, the Revolution of 1688-1689, the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745, the attainder of the Earl Marischal in 1715 and the sale of his estates in 1720.

Dates: 1506-1906, undated.

Miscellaneous papers of Andrew Stuart concerning political, personal and other matters., 1727-1797.

 File
Identifier: MS.5390
Scope and Contents

The papers concern:

(i) The Coupar of Gogar Baronetcy case, 1773-1775 (folio 1);

(ii) The affairs of Sir George Colebrooke, 1784-1785 (folio 95);

(iii) Miscellaneous political and personal matters, 1727-1797 (folio 159);

(iv) Peter Stuart, a Scots soldier in the service of the King of France, 1747-1779 (folio 285);

(v) The Glasgow Dearth, 1800 (folio 304).

Dates: 1727-1797.

Miscellaneous papers of Hugh Elliot relating to the Governorship of Madras., 1814-1817, 1830.

 File
Identifier: MS.13059
Scope and Contents

The papers include correspondence about the affairs of Hugh Elliot's secretary Philip Heydinger, and an isolated letter, 1830, of Elliot's eldest son, Edward, a civilian in the Madras presidency.

Dates: 1814-1817, 1830.

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 Sir Patrick Geddes and Arthur Geddes., 1913-1943, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.21203
Scope and Contents

The papers include a programme for the 'Masque of learning' at Crosby Hall, London, 1913 (folio 1), lecture notes for nature study (folio 4), press cuttings, ‘Report to the City and University Collaboration Committee’, Bombay (folio 20), reprints from the ‘Sociological Review’, 1930 (folio 28), and notes on the Indian and Scots Colleges, Montpellier (folio 48).

Dates: 1913-1943, undated.

Miscellaneous papers of Sir Thomas Frederick Elliot., 1828-1880, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.19432
Scope and Contents

Many of the papers relate to Sir Thomas Frederick Elliot’s time in the Colonial Office (folio 1). In addition there are miscellaneous literary works including biographical notices of Elliot, 1828, 1868, undated, ‘Letters to a Colonist from his Partner in England’, 1850, and ‘A Discourse on Table Rapping’, 1867 (folio 176), and papers concerning the marriage settlement and executry of Elliot and his second wife, Elizabeth Bromley, 1868-1880.

Dates: 1828-1880, undated.

Miscellaneous papers of the Fleming family., Mid 17th century-19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.20800
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Anonymous poems, chiefly on public affairs and personages of the early eighteenth century. (Folio 1.) Those placed first are numbered E.56-84 (with gaps; for the earlier part of this series see MS.20773 (i)). This is XVIII A in the ‘Inventory’ (MS.20770). At the end is added 'The Song of the Ridsquare fought on the 7 of July 1576 [sic]', formerly loosely enclosed in MS.20779. (ii) 'Character of Sultan Galga Cham of Tartary', a satire, [circa 1720], on George...
Dates: Mid 17th century-19th century.