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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
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Found in 683 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on America, Australasia, with miscellaneous material., 1766-1796, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24536
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Of North America and South America', 1790. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 261.
(ii) ‘Of the Indians in North America', 1769, based on an account by the Jesuit missionary, P J A Roubaud. (Folio 36.) Monboddo number 88.
(iii) Copy of a letter of Thomas Campbell, 1767, concerning an embassy to the Creek Indians in Alabama (Folio 56.) Monboddo number 116.
(iv) Papers concerning Patagonia, Peru and the Antilles, 1766, undated. (Folio 60.) Monboddo numbers 82, 84, 87,...
Dates:
1766-1796, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
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Literary and philosophical papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on anthropology and travel, consisting to a great extent of notes taken from published works.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on anthropology and travel, consisting to a great extent of notes taken from published works., 1766-1796, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24535-24536
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on population., 1774-1796, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24534
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Essays on population in ancient and modern times, 1779, 1787, undated. (Folio 1.) Includes Monboddo numbers 276, 197. (ii) Notes and excerpts from printed works, 1774-1796, undated. (Folio 50.) Includes Monboddo number 198. (iii) Statistics of baptisms in Kincardineshire parishes for 1686 to 1778, with other miscellaneous papers, 1778-1780, undated. (Folio 59.) Monboddo numbers 177, 216.
Dates:
1774-1796, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on Scottish, English and Irish history., 1765-?1794, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24532
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Two papers on the ancient history of Scotland, 1765, undated. (Folio 1.) The second ends with the royal pedigree in Gaelic which occurs in Adv.MS.72.1.1, folio 1 recto. Monboddo numbers 171, 173.
(ii) 'Of the succession in the kingdom of Scotland', undated. (Folio 41.) Monboddo number 174.
(iii) Transcripts, undated of charters and formal documents. (Folio 47.)
(iv) 'Observations upon Lord Lyttelton's History, and the constitution of the antient Parliaments...
Dates:
1765-?1794, undated.
Papers of John Maclean, Clydeside agitator, 1909-1923; with material concerning him, 1924-1966.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.88- is now Acc.4251.
Dates:
1909-1966.
Papers of John Spottiswoode, Advocate, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library, 1702-1728.
Series
Identifier: MSS.658-660
Dates:
1698-1718.
Papers of Robert Moir., 1537-1862, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21775
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) A psalm setting by Robert Moir written on two leaves cut out of MS.21774 after folio 17 and pasted to a larger sheet of stiff paper. (Folio 1.)(ii) Extracts from newspapers and other periodical publications concerning musical topics published between 1852 and 1862 (and some from earlier sources), written on twenty-five printed bifolia (from a larger number) containing a prospectus and a subscription list for ‘Beauties of the Bible’ by...
Dates:
1537-1862, undated.
Papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale concerning Lord Charles Hay of Linplum., 1756-1760.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14512-14515
Dates:
1756-1760.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester.
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Papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Political and miscellaneous papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, including material concerning Lord James Hay and Lord Charles Hay of Linplum.
Papers of the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20404-20435
Dates:
1892-1965, undated.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning exemptions from Jury Service.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/17
Dates:
1793-1814.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the City of Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/12
Dates:
1690-1695, 1731, 1749-1790, undated.
Papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal., 15th century-1927, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21174-21191
Papers on coinage concerning the Bengal Government, and correspondence and papers concerning the administration of the Cadet College, Barasat., 1807-1813.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11635-11636
Dates:
1807-1813.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Bengal Government.
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Papers on coinage concerning the Bengal Government, and correspondence and papers concerning the administration of the Cadet College, Barasat, and the College at Fort William.
Papers received by the 1st Earl of Minto during his absence from India on the Java Expedition., 1811.
File
Identifier: MS.11620
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Papers relating to claims of the military on Amboina (folio 1);
(ii) Letter of Neil Benjamin Edmondstone, Chief Secretary to Government, to Hugh Hope in Java (folio 116);
(iii) Copy of a dispatch from the Bengal Government to the Court of Directors concerning John Richardson, Political Agent in Bundelkhand, with an excerpt of a private letter from Richardson to the Chief Secretary (folio 121);
(iv) Copy of a dispatch from the Bengal Government to the Court of...
Dates:
1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Bengal Government.
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Papers received by the 1st Earl of Minto during his absence from India on the Java Expedition.
Papers relating chiefly to the election of Scottish Representative Peers.
File
Identifier: MS.1026
Scope and Contents
Some letters to Henry Dundas (Lord Melville), 1783-1807, unconnected with election, possibly indicate that these are part of the Melville papers. The papers consist of minutes of elections, lists of peers and their votes, protests, excerpts from ancient records, proposals as to methods of electing, and other papers.
Dates:
[?1703]-1771, 1783-1807, undated.
Papers relating to the sultanate of Bantam., 1808, 1812.
File
Identifier: MS.11709
Dates:
1808, 1812.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape.
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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.
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Letters and papers concerning the British invasion and occupation of Java, and papers relating to the sultanate of Bantam.
Papers, undated, of Hugh Dalrymple Murray Kynynmound concerning philosophy, chronology, and miscellaneous papers., Early 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.12813
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Of the Laws of Evidence' (folio 1);
(ii) Philosophical tract concerning justice and injustice (folio 18);
(iii) Tract concerning the existence of witches (folio 22);
(iv) 'Extract from Gerards Herbal' with related articles (John Gerard, ‘The Herball’, edited by Thomas Johnson, (London, 1636) (folio 28);
(v) Review of Jean Baptiste Du Halde's ‘The General History of China’ (London, 1736) (folio 38);
(vi) 'From the travels of the Abbé [François] Sevin just now...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Literary papers, music and drawings of various members of the Elliot of Minto family.
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Literary papers, apparently of Hugh Dalrymple Murray Kynynmound of Melgund and Kynynmound (died 1741), Advocate, second son of Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Hailes, and father-in-law of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet of Minto.
Petitions and Answers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the admission of Robert Forsyth, teacher of civil law in Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/16
Dates:
1790-1791
Photocopies of documents formerly at Yester House., 1673-1739.
File
Identifier: MS.14810
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Poem in the hand of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale: ‘On the death of Lady Sophia Hay who dyed at Yester the 29th of April 1678 and of her age the 13th yeare’ (folio 1);(ii) Extract of the blazoning of the coat of arms borne by Sir James Hay, 1st Baronet of Linplum, 10 February 1673 (folio 4);(iii) Newsheet, Edinburgh 1715, concerning fighting between the Jacobites and the forces commanded by the Duke of Argyll (folio 5);...
Dates:
1673-1739.
Photocopies of typescript transcriptions of letters of Thomas Telford to Andrew Little and other members of the Little family, with letters relating to Telford.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12871
Scope and Contents
Includes notes and extracts from letterbooks of Joseph Mitchell.
Dates:
1782-1845.
Photocopy of a typescript of an extract, 1822, from the journal of Robert Allan, son of Thomas Allan of Lauriston, the mineralogist., 1822.
Item
Identifier: MS.8871
Scope and Contents
The extract, written at the age of fifteen, describes a visit to the Hardens at Brathay Hall.
Dates:
1822.
Photocopy of entry of Sir Walter Scott`s marriage in register of St Mary`s, Carlisle.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4829
Dates:
1797.
Photocopy of excerpts from "Some of our Family Homes".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9190
Scope and Contents
Compilation of genealogical and geographical information concerning the Gordon family in Virginia.
Dates:
1981.
Photograph of extract from a Vatican Register recording the foundation of the University of Glasgow.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9513
Dates:
1451.
Poems, notes, extracts from books, and a diplomatic cipher., 1794, 1807, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5720
Dates:
1794, 1807, undated.