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Statements.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Formal accounts of facts or events, especially as given to the police or in court. Source: Concise Oxford English dictionary. 11th ed. (Oxford, 2004).

Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:

Statement by James Browne, advocate, and editor of the 'Caledonian Mercury', containing an account of conversations and copies of letters between himself and Robert Blackie., 1829.

 File
Identifier: MS.6290, folios 158-172
Scope and Contents

The manuscript concerns an article in the ‘Caledonian Mercury’ questioning the authenticity of a snuff-box presented by Mr Blackie to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland as having belonged to Robert Burns.

Dates: 1829.

Statement of the case of the petitioners in the case of the 'Beacon' newspaper, in the hand of Walter Scott [?1821], with the printed 'Petition', 1821, and 'Answers' thereto, 1822.

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Identifier: MS.126
Scope and Contents

Inserted at the beginning is an account of the circumstances in which Sir Walter Scott wrote this statement.

Dates: 1821-1822.

Various papers and correspondence concerning David Hume., 1746-1766, 1839-1844, undated.

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Identifier: MS.23163
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Reports and correspondence concerning the acceptance by the Royal Society of Edinburgh of Baron Hume's bequest and the granting of access to the papers to John Hill Burton, 1839-1844. There is a list of these papers, which are not included in the calendar, at the beginning of the volume. (ii) Miscellaneous manuscripts not by David Hume, 1746-1766, undated, including verses, a character of Hume, papers on mathematical principles, and historical statements by...
Dates: 1746-1766, 1839-1844, undated.

Various printed papers for use of members of the Cabinet., 1848-1850.

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Identifier: MS.12221
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) 'Case of Captain Cook', a memorandum, undated, but circa 1850, 2 pages; (ii) Copies of dispatches of Thomas Wyse, Athens, to Lord Palmerston 3 and 4 June 1850, 4 pages; 2 pages; (iii) 'Memorandum on the Answer of the Government of Greece to that of Great-Britain respecting the Islands of Cervi and Sapienza', Foreign Office 31 December 1849, 7 pages; (iv) 'Memorandum on the Condition and Prospect of Roman Affairs', 14 January 1850, 14 pages; (v) 'Statement of...
Dates: 1848-1850.