Copies. Derivative objects.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
Notebooks compiled by James Stuart, probably from the archives of the East India Company, prior to sailing for India in November 1775 to take up his military appointment at Madras., 1765-1775.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5381-5386
Scope and Contents
The notebooks contain extracts from correspondence on a number of topics, and copies of many miscellaneous letters.
Dates:
1765-1775.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Major-General James Stuart, a younger brother of Andrew Stuart, who, as an officer in the service of the East India Company, became involved in the disturbed politics of Madras.
Notebooks containing examination papers and school reports of Margaret Purves at Esdaile School., 1959-1961.
Item
Identifier: MSS.15867-15868
Dates:
1959-1961.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing miscellaneous material.
Notebooks from the Riddell Collection., 1807-1852.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.3.1-26.7.37
Dates:
1807-1852.
Notebooks of John Pinkerton., 1776-1788, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1713-1721
Notebooks of members of the Steuart family of Coltness.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15948-15949
Dates:
1636-1742.
Notebooks of Robert Garioch Sutherland containing copies and excerpts of work by other writers., 1933-[1955, or after.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26575-26577
Scope and Contents
MSS.26575-26576 were begun in 1933 and include work by Ezra Pound, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Julien Benda and others. In 1955, Robert Garioch Sutherland used the blank versos to transcribe Alexander Gibb's translation, ‘The Jephthah and Baptist by George Buchanan’ (Edinburgh, 1870). This transcription is continued in MS.26577, and followed by notes from Sutherland's reading.
Dates:
1933-[1955, or after.]
Notebooks of the Earl of Rosebery., 1814-1909.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10179-10193
Notebooks of the Reverend William Findlay, containing copies of ballads and extracts from an Ayrshire kirk session register.
Series
Identifier: Dep.211
Dates:
1615-1643.
Notebooks of William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian., Late 18th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5834-5838
Notes and copies of accounts of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton., 1754-1763.
Item
Identifier: MS.16945
Dates:
1754-1763.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Financial papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Financial books of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton.
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Account books of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton.
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Quarto account books of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton.
Notes and copies of notes of tours in France and of a journey to St Petersburg via Copenhagen., 1829-1832.
File
Identifier: MS.15144
Scope and Contents
The notes are on leaves cut out of a notebook and leaves in the form of two gatherings taken out of another.The contents are as follows:
(i) Notes, 1829, (apparently incomplete) of a tour through France to Chamonix made with his father and two others (folio 1);
(ii) Notes, 1831, of another tour in France (folio 9);
(iii) Notes, 1832, perhaps copies, of the journey to St Petersburg via Copenhagen recorded in MS.15143: Notebook of Edward Ellice (died 1880) containing notes of a...
Dates:
1829-1832.
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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Journals, chiefly of Edward Ellice (died 1863) and his son Edward Ellice (died 1880).
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Journals of Edward Ellice (died 1880).
Notes and copies or extracts from documents and printed books on historical and other subjects, titled ‘Miscellaneous Papers and Notes’; several of the notes are in Sir Walter Scott’s autograph., 1821-1850, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.911
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains material accumulated by John Gibson Lockhart.The papers include :Copies of four letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1824, 1829 (folios 15-22);Information regarding Jonathan Swift supplied by Irish correspondents (folios 33, 70);Maria Edgeworth’s note of the tour which she took with Scott in August 1825 (folio 50);Thomas Moore’s journal, in his hand, of his visit to Abbotsford in 1825, used by Lockhart in his ‘Life...
Dates:
1821-1850, 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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Miscellaneous material, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Notes and correspondence of the Reverend Dr John Struthers, Minister of Prestonpans, with manuscripts collected by him., 1836-1886.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2119-2127
Notes and descriptions of the important features and places in the various counties and other administrative and jurisdictional areas of Scotland, compiled by Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet, of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.27
Scope and Contents
The volume is labelled on the spine ‘Balfour`s collections on the shires’, and is inscribed ‘Vol:3.’ in a seventeenth-century hand on folio 5.The main text is preceded by a contents list (folio 5). Almost all of the entries are undated, but appear to have been written at different times between about 1630 and about 1640, with later additions until at least 1650 (folio 94) and 1654 (folio 321). The entries record natural features such as rivers and glens, and...
Dates:
Circa 1630-circa1654.
Notes and drafts of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 2nd half of 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.25452
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Notes on Scottish proverbs in Lord Hailes' hand, undated. See also MSS.25433-25435 (folio 1); (ii) Incomplete drafts of 'Specimen of a glossary of the Scottish language', undated (folio 94); (iii) 'Index Nominum' in Lord Hailes' hand found enclosed in his copy of Hubert Langueti 'Epistolae Politicae et Historicae ad Philippum Sydnaeum', 1646 (folio 114).
Dates:
2nd half of 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Miscellaneous papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Miscellaneous papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Notes and extracts on a wide variety of topics, taken from a large number of printed and manuscript sources relating to the history and topography of Scotland. Most of the leaves appear to have been written by James Chalmers for the benefit of George Chalmers his uncle (in whose hand some of the items are written), and all were no doubt part of the materials collected for ‘Caledonia’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.2.2
Scope and Contents
The leaves are bound in no discernible order of date or subject, although there are various groups of related leaves bound together. The items are undated: dated watermarks range from 1796 (folio 22) to 1818 (folio 283); many of the notes on the population statistics of the various counties appear to have been written between the census of 1801 and that of 1811.
Dates:
?1796-?1818.
Notes and letters on the genealogy of the Douglas family of Springwood Park including transcripts of charters and notes on other families related by marriage to the Douglases., 1739-1875, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8107
Dates:
1739-1875, undated.
Notes and other material on historical and other subjects, titled ‘Miscellanies’; some notes, etc., are in Sir Walter Scott’s hand., 12th century-1830, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.912
Scope and Contents
The papers include:German poem on the death of the terrier Camp, apparently by Henry Weber [?1809] (folio 14);James Hogg's ‘Glen-Avin’, in his autograph (folio 16);Prologue in Sir Walter Scott’s hand and apparently composed by him to ‘Helga’, probably the tragedy produced in Edinburgh in 1812 (folio 24);Drawing of the Torrs Mask presented to Scott by Train, with a description of it by Joseph Train (folio 80);Poem ‘To Time. By a...
Dates:
12th century-1830, 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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Miscellaneous material, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Notes and typescripts of an article, ‘The Repression and the Return of Bad Objects (with special reference to the ‘War Neuroses’)’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1943.
File
Identifier: MS.50191
Scope and Contents
The papers are arranged chronologically.
1943.
Amended typescript, 1943, of an article, ‘The Repression and the Return of Bad Objects (with special reference to the ‘War Neuroses’)’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The article was published in the ‘British Journal of Medical Psychology’, 1943. The amendments are by Fairbairn. Folios 1-29.
Amended carbon copy of folios 1-29, above. The amendments are by Fairbairn. Folios 30-58.
Dates:
1943.
Notes by Sir Hew Dalrymple of manuscripts relating to the Queensberry family., 17th century-early 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3414-3415
Scope and Contents
The main sources have apparently been the Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, but original manuscripts, particularly those owned by the Duke of Buccleuch, seem also to have been consulted. Many of the manuscripts have been transcribed at length. The subjects dealt with are the private and public interests of the Queensberry family; there are several notes on furnishings, with particular reference to pictures, and reproductions of portraits have been laid down throughout.
Dates:
17th century-early 20th century.
Notes by Sir Hew Dalrymple of manuscripts relating to the Queensberry family., 17th century-early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3414
Dates:
17th century-early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts compiled and collected by the Honourable Sir Hew Dalrymple, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Library.
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Notes by Sir Hew Dalrymple of manuscripts relating to the Queensberry family.
Notes by Sir Hew Dalrymple of manuscripts relating to the Queensberry family., 17th century-early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3415
Dates:
17th century-early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts compiled and collected by the Honourable Sir Hew Dalrymple, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Library.
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Notes by Sir Hew Dalrymple of manuscripts relating to the Queensberry family.
Notes for sermons, a copy of a spurious ballad, and a letter of the North British Railway to the Incorporation of Tailors of Canongate., 1782, 1846.
File
Identifier: MS.2211
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Notes for sermons, probably preached by the Reverend Robert Walker at Cramond, 1782. (Folio 1.)(ii) A copy of the spurious ballad of "Jock o' Milk", endorsed by David Herd, 'Fragment of an Old Scots Ballad, about 1342'. Perhaps made in 1802; see ‘Letters of Sir Walter Scott’, Centenary Edition (Edinburgh, 1932), volume i, pages 140-141, 142. This is perhaps the ballad mentioned in William Smellie, ‘Account of the Institution and...
Dates:
1782, 1846.
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.
Notes, in English, on Highland lore and historical tradition, some of them based on articles which appeared in the ‘Oban Times’ in the early twentieth century., 1671-early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3782
Scope and Contents
There are also modern copies of two letters, 1671, Of Alexander MacNaughtan of Dundarave to Sir Alexander Menzies, 1st Baronet. The manuscript may have been written by the Reverend Archibald Macdonald, Minister of Kiltarlity.
Dates:
1671-early 20th century.
Notes, legal papers, and letters concerning the attempts by Alexander Keith of Ravelston and Dunnottar (died 1792) to restore the earldom to George, Earl Marischal (succeeded 1712) and papers concerning the management of the Marischal estate., 1749-1758.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21180-21181
Scope and Contents
Although there are some originals many of the documents are copies in Alexander Keith's hand and the whole takes the form of a continuous narrative chronicling his attitudes in these matters. As such, the papers provide an interesting insight into his lifestyle as well as the affairs of the Keith estate.
The papers were at some time bound as one volume.
Dates:
1749-1758.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Legal papers of the Keith family.