Copies. Derivative objects.
Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
Papers and accounts concerning the University of Saint Andrews., 1438-1630.
Papers and an inventory of title-deeds of the family of Stuart of Torrance concerning the feuars of Glassford on the Torrance estate., 1813-1912.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Papers, 1813-1912, concerning the feuars of Glassford on the Torrance estate (folio 1);
(ii) Inventory, 1844, of title-deeds concerning the feuars of Glassford, with some nineteenth-century copies of early title-deeds, but not those inventoried (folio 172).
Papers and copies of correspondence concerning the Royal Navy., 1791-1829, undated.
Includes the following:
(i) Papers on various subjects, 1791-1829, undated, including administration, the Transport Board, the post of Checquer Clerk to the Greenwich Chest, inventions, and personnel (recruiting, impressment, pay, health, prizes);
(ii) 'Correspondence relating to the state of the Navy' between the Admiralty and the Navy Board, 1815-1818 (copies).
Papers and copies of letters relating to the trial of Lord Charles Hay., 1757-1760.
Papers and correspondence concerning roads, building specifications and copies of acts., 1790-1820.
Papers and correspondence of the Honourable Sir Charles G J B Elliot, Admiral of the Fleet., 1844-1875, undated.
Papers and letters of and concerning Helen B Cruickshank., 1934-1975.
Papers and letters of George Wade.
Including:
circa 50 letters and other documents, 1736-1737, concerning the Porteous Riots and subsequent events, compiled by Wade
circa 200 letters to and copies of letters, 1745-1746, of Wade, concerning the Jacobite Rising.
Papers and letters used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’ and the ‘Topographical Dictionary’., 1789-1816.
The papers are arranged by counties alphabetically, and within each county in the order: lists of place-names, copies of documents, other notes, letters (mostly from parish ministers, giving information about their localities; similar letters are in Adv.MS.81.9.3 and MS.15989)
Papers and letters used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’ and the ‘Topographical Dictionary’; volume 1: Aberdeenshire (folio 1), Argyllshire (folio 134)., 1795-1800.
Letters of 1795-1800.
Papers and letters used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’ and the ‘Topographical Dictionary’; volume 2: Ayrshire., 1795-1808.
Letters of 1795-1800, 1807-1808.
Papers and letters used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’ and the ‘Topographical Dictionary’; volume 3: Banffshire (folio 1), Berwickshire (very brief) (folio 157), Caithness (folio 163), Clackmananshire (folio 205)., 1795-1809.
Letters of 1795, 1797-1801, 1808-1809.
Papers and letters used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’ and the ‘Topographical Dictionary’; volume 4: Cromarty (folio 1), Dunbartonshire (folio 22), Edinburghshire (folio 53), Fife (folio 98)., 1795-1808.
Letters of 1795-1796, 1798-1799, 1802, 1805, 1808.
Papers and letters used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’ and the ‘Topographical Dictionary’; volume 5: Forfarshire (folio 1), Haddingtonshire (folio 82), Inverness-shire (folio 146)., 1795-1799.
Letters of 1795-1799.
Papers and letters used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’ and the ‘Topographical Dictionary’; volume 6: Kincardineshire (folio 1), Kinross-shire (folio 81), Kirkcudbrightshire (folio 106)., 1796-1803.
Letters of 1796-1800, 1803.
Papers and letters used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’ and the ‘Topographical Dictionary’; volume 7: Lanarkshire (folio 1), Moray (folio 48), Orkney and Shetland (folio 114)., 1794-1816.
Letters of 1794-1799, 1805, 1816.
Papers and letters used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’ and the ‘Topographical Dictionary’; volume 8: Peeblesshire (folio 1), Perthshire (folio 79)., 1789-1803.
Letters of 1789, 1795, 1797-1798, 1801-1803.
Papers and letters used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’ and the ‘Topographical Dictionary’; volume 9: Renfrewshire (folio 1), Ross-shire (folio 70), Roxburghshire (folio 196), Selkirkshire (folio 268)., 1795-1813.
Letters of 1795-1796, 1798-1800, 1813.
Papers and letters used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’ and the ‘Topographical Dictionary’; volume 10:Stirlingshire (folio 1), Sutherland (folio 106), Wigtonshire (folio 162), miscellaneous (folio 226)., 1796-1802.
Letters of 1796-1802.
Papers and notes of John Pinkerton relating to Scottish history and other subjects., 1342-1796, undated.
Papers and photographic plates collected by James Bell Salmond for the 1st and 2nd editions of his ‘Wade in Scotland’; with correspondence and press cuttings concerning the book.
Papers and some related correspondence concerning private acts of parliament relating to exchanges of entail on the lands of Balgowan, to consequent sales of land, and to the Annadale executry., 1786-1815.
Papers associated with Thomas de Quincey., 1800, 1837.
The papers consist of: copies of a translation of Horace, 'Odes', i. 22, made by Thomas de Quincy at the age of fifteen and his headmaster's attestation regarding it, 1800; and a letter complaining of his treatment of William Roscoe in the 'Edinburgh Magazine', 1837.