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Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous personal papers of George Combe., 1805-1858, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7435-7437
Dates:
1805-1858, undated.
‘Miscellaneous Poems’, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott., 1681/1682-1838, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.894
Scope and Contents
The contents contain, among other material, notes and copies of poems relating to John Dryden and his age, verses in the hand of one or more of the Misses Maclean Clephane of Torloisk (folio 38), Wordsworth’s ‘Yarrow Revisited’ in Robert Southey’s autograph (folio 45), and some printed verses, etc., including Robert Surtees’ ‘Musings in Collingwood-Street’, 1817 (folio 104).
There is a small collection of poems (folios 55, 60-80) in the hand of Williamina Belsches, one of which contains...
Dates:
1681/1682-1838, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Material concerning literary matters, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Miscellaneous printed documents of the Minto family, chiefly relating to India., 1792-1812.
File
Identifier: MS.19575
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Copy of a private Act of Parliament for vesting the entailed estates of Melgund and Kynynmound in Trustees, 1792 (folio 1);(ii) A cutting from the ‘Calcutta Gazette Extraordinary’, 13 August 1807, reporting the investiture of Sir George Barlow as a Knight Companion of the Bath (folio 11);(iii) 'Regulations Proposed by the Court of Directors to the General Court for the most advantageous Management of the Company's Affairs...
Dates:
1792-1812.
Miscellaneous prose works or drafts by William Sharp and 'Fiona MacLeod', largely unpublished., [Before 1906.]
File
Identifier: MS.8777
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Five apparently unpublished stories by William Sharp (folio 1);(ii) Six apparently unpublished stories by 'Fiona MacLeod' (folio 46);(iii) Part of an apparently unpublished article by William Sharp on 'Pélleas et Mélisande' by Maurice Maeterlinck (folio 64);iv) Reviews by 'Fiona MacLeod' of ‘The Cuchullin saga’ (London, 1898); of 'A field for modern verse' by Stephen Phiilips, in ‘The Dome’, February 1899; and of...
Dates:
[Before 1906.]
Miscellaneous Scottish manuscripts., [Circa 1670-1798, or after], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2202
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Memorial concerning who is the Chief of the Clan Macdonald', a copy (watermark 1813) of a memorial, circa 1670, maintaining the claim of Sir James Macdonald, 2nd Baronet of Sleat. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'A Godly Dream, compyled by Elizabeth Melvill, Lady Culross, Younger [i.e., Elizabeth Colville, of Culross], at the request of a friend ... 1686', a copy probably made in the eighteenth century, with modernization of old Scots words. For a list...
Dates:
Majority of material found within [Circa 1670-1798, or after], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Miscellaneous small collections of letters and papers.
File
Identifier: MS.1006
Dates:
1620-1837, undated.
Miscellaneous transcripts, chiefly copies of letters to Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, from Viscount Townshend, Professor Hugh Blair, John Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury, Professor Adam Ferguson, and Tobias Smollett., 1747-1806, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3464
Scope and Contents
The transcripts were probably intended to be included by Alexander Carlyle in his ‘Autobiography’. A comparison of the characters of Professor Blair and Principal Robertson and some unpublished letters of Alexander Carlyle on the militia are also included.
Dates:
1747-1806, undated.
Miscellany chiefly of correspondence and legal papers., 1757-1932.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15187-15195
Dates:
1757-1932.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
`Miscellany Exchequer Scotland`, a volume containing copies of accounts, warrants, minutes, reports and other papers created in the Court of Exchequer., 1705-1773.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.5
Dates:
1705-1773.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Miscellany of copies of official correspondence., 1804-1807.
File
Identifier: MS.13669
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes copies of correspondence, June 1804, concerning military measures against Sindhia and Holkar; copies of correspondence concerning the Gaikwar's affairs; copies of correspondence concerning Colonel Shrapnel's shells; and an original letter, 9 June 1807, from William Erskine about Dr Drummond's 'glossary' contribution to the Bombay Literary Society (folio 56).
Dates:
1804-1807.
Miscellany of journal drafts and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto associated with MSS.11991-11992., 1787, 1830, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.11993
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Portion of journal, Paris to Vevey, 27 May-23 June, 1830 (folio 1);
(ii) First draft of part of the Breithorn journal, with meteorological notes, 25 August-14 September, 1830 (folio 11);
(iii) Ambroise Paccard, 'Nottes Sur la vallée de St. Nicolas en Aout 1830', published in ‘Alpine Journal’, volume xvi, 1893, pages 322-325 (folio 41);
(iv) Copy of ‘Journal de Lausanne’, number 24, 21 May 1787, given to the 2nd Earl of Minto by Ambroise Paccard (see MS.11992,...
Dates:
1787, 1830, undated.
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, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Journals of the 2nd Earl and Countess of Minto, and their children.
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Series
Identifier: MS.20311
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Miscellany of memoranda, original letters and copies of letters., 1806-1810.
File
Identifier: MS.13672
Scope and Contents
The topics covered include: the piratical states, the affairs of Kutch, the 1809 Kathiawar expedition and the capture of Mallia, Captain Greenwood's mission to Bhooj and the treaty negotiations, and the arrangements for Alexander Walker's departure from India.
Dates:
1806-1810.
Miscellany of music.
File
Identifier: MS.21850
Scope and Contents
The material consists of:(i) A setting, 1772, for voice and piano by John Collett of 'An ode in honour of the birthday of Andrew Crosbie' by John Maclaurin, Lord Dreghorn (folio 1);(ii) A copy, in an early nineteenth-century (apparently contemporary) hand, of Karl Czerny, 'Choix de Walses brillantes et faciles pour le piano-forte' (folio 11);(iii) A full score, in an apparently late eighteenth-century hand, of the aria 'Son confusa pastorella' from the...
Dates:
1745-early 19th century.
Miscellany of papers concerning infanticide., 1805-1824.
File
Identifier: MS.13899
Dates:
1805-1824.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
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Miscellany of papers concerning infanticide which, in part at least, form drafts of MS.13875: ‘Historical notices’, volume IV, and MS.13898: Manuscript concerning Hindu infanticide.
Miscellany of papers concerning the Ellice family., 1799-1815, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.15176
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Correspondence, chiefly with George Chalmers, and notes, on antiquarian topics, 1799- 1815, undated (folio 1); (ii) Papers, 1741-1803, undated, concerning the Ellice family, consisting of typed biographical accounts (some incomplete) and copies of portraits of members of the family (folio 75); (iii) A small quantity of unrelated papers, 1844-1921, undated, found loosely enclosed in other parts of the collection (folio 216).
Dates:
1799-1815, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Miscellaneous papers.
Miscellany of papers on various topics, not all identified, including letters, 1811-1860, and undated (folios 1-98), a few printed legal papers, 18th-century (folios 102-127), extracts from public records and notes, almost all undated, many apparently incomplete., 18th century-1860.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.22
Miscellany of reports and memoranda., 1796-[circa 1800.]
File
Identifier: MS.13622
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes: (i) Reports on the economic potential of Malabar, its topographical features, etc. circa 1800 (page 3); (ii) Copy of a journal describing the Dutch defensive preparations at Trincomalee in 1795 (page 27); (iii) Copy of an account of Robert Andrews’ mission to Kandy in 1796 (page 43). See also MS.13796, page 9 and MS.13956, folio 11 verso.
Dates:
1796-[circa 1800.]
Miscellany (perhaps a part of a larger collection of papers), 1714, 1728, 1736, and undated, mostly relating to James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and his ‘Diplomata Scotiæ’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.19
Scope and Contents
The largest groups consist of lists of abbreviations used in mediaeval documents (folios 64, 71-111) and copies of various forms of letters (folios 65-69); most of the remaining papers consist of notes on various subjects and transcripts of unrelated documents. An engraved facsimile, 1771, of a charter of William the Lion has been added to the papers (folio 9).
Dates:
1714-1736.
Modern copies made from ‘Original Scotch tunes, full of Highland humours, for the Violin’., 1700.
Item
Identifier: MS.3129
Scope and Contents
Contains a note to the effect that it is copied from Mr Frank Kidson's manuscript copy, which is endorsed, "A copy of Muir Wood's facsimile of the original which is in the possession of Alan W. Inglis" (folio 12).
Dates:
1700.
Modern copies made from ‘Original Scotch tunes, full of Highland humours, for the Violin’, 1701.
Item
Identifier: MS.3130
Modern copies made from ‘Original Scotch tunes, full of Highland humours, for the Violin’, published by Henry Playford, and from the second edition, from the collection of Thomas Davidson Cook.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3129-3130
Dates:
1700-1701.
‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. VIII`, containing mostly original Gaelic scripts produced by John Francis Campbell`s collectors of “Versions of Stories in [‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’] Vol. 1”., 1859-1860.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.8(Part 1)
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘An t-Urraisgeach mor’, told to Hector Maclean by Donald McPhie, Iochdar, South Uist, June 1860. ‘More West Highland Tales’, 1, pages 24, 28-46. There is a note of Campbell on this version in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1, pages 21-22. (Folio 1.)(ii) `Sgeulach Mac na Banntrich`, told to Hector Urquhart by John Campbell, Strath Gairloch, June 1859. There is a summary of this version in ‘Popular Tales of the...
Dates:
1859-1860.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871.
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‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. VIII`, containing mostly original Gaelic scripts produced by John Francis Campbell`s collectors of “Versions of Stories in [‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’] Vol. 1”.