Copies. Derivative objects.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of a letter of Alexander Pope, the poet, to the Reverend Alexander Pope, Minister of Reay, with copy of certificate of its authenticity by Joseph Gordon, Writer to the Signet., 1738.
File
Identifier: MS.3581, folios 14-15
Dates:
1738.
Copy of a letter of Lord Hobart to General Richard Vyse concerning an enclosed plan for the formation of volunteer corps in Scotland., 20 June 1803.
File
Identifier: MS.14835, folios 113-118
Dates:
20 June 1803.
Copy of a letter of Mrs Anne Grant of Laggan, inserted in volume i of the first edition of her ‘Letters from the mountains’.
Item
Identifier: MS.5842
Scope and Contents
The letter, a reply to some well-wishers seeking to help Mrs Anne Grant, describes the financial difficulties which led her to print the 'Letters from the mountains'.
According to a note on the flyleaf of the volume, the copy was made by Harriet, 2nd wife of the 6th Marquess of Lothian.
Dates:
1806.
Copy of a letter of Robert B Armstrong to Sir Walter Elliot of Wolfelee.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8993
Scope and Contents
Concerning Sir William Fraser.
Dates:
1880.
Copy of a letter of Sir Walter Scott to Sir Hugh Innes, Baronet of Lochalsh, declining the offer of an eagle., 1823.
Item
Identifier: MS.2224, folio 63
Copy of a letter of the Countess of Findlater to David Crawford, Deputy Keeper of the Signet, describing the marriage of Simon Fraser and the Dowager Lady Lovat., 1697.
Item
Identifier: MS.3161
Copy of a letter of the Earl of Marchmont to Queen Anne, on the appointment of Commissioners for negotiating the Union., 1702.
Item
Identifier: MS.3278, folios 30-31
Dates:
1702.
Copy of a letter of William Blackwood to Edward Bruce Hamley., 1885.
Item
Identifier: MS.30049, folios 36a-f
'Copy of a Memoire or paper upon Lime, read in a Meeting of the Philosophical Society at Edinburgh Aug: 2[d] 1739 containing an Account of the Materials of which it is made, the way of burning or calcining Limestone, and the Nature [and] Properties and uses of Lime by Mr [Alexander] Lind [of Gorgie] Member of the Said Society.', [1739, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.17834
Dates:
[1739, or after.]
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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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning science.
Copy of a Minute of Agreement between a Committee of the Faculty of Advocates and Mitchell and Company concerning the catering for the Faculty luncheon room.
Item
Identifier: F.R.347
Dates:
1908.
Copy of a petition of debarred advocates, said to have been prepared by Sir George Mackenzie.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.20
Dates:
1675.
Copy of a photograph, 1894, of Nora Blair, her mother and sister; and cadenzas for Beethoven's Violin Concerto composed for her in 1894 by her tutor, Maurice Sons, leader of the Scottish Orchestra.
File
Identifier: MS.21859
Dates:
1894.
Copy of ‘A rich storehouse or treasurie for the diseased’ by A T, made by Robert Fergusone in 1661., 1596.
Item
Identifier: MS.5171
Scope and Contents
The work contains detailed medicinal information.
Dates:
1596.
Copy of a sermon, undated, by Dr Thomas Jackson (presumably the Dean of Peterborough) on Genesis 42.21., Mid 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.20484
Dates:
Mid 17th century.
Copy of a song composed by John Wilson in 1838, with a letter, 1850, of Sir Robert Christison, and a letter, 1856, of Captain Arthur Walker describing the Crimea., 1838, 1850, 1856.
File
Identifier: MS.5406 (viii), folios 39-48
Dates:
1838, 1850, 1856.
Copy of a speech of Prof Kenneth Varty.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10826
Scope and Contents
Concerns the presentation of his "Festschrift" to Prof H T Barnwell, London.
Dates:
1982.
Copy of a statement by King Umberto II of Italy on the abolition of the monarchy in Italy, drawn up at the request of Lieutenant-Colonel G R Gayre while writing his ‘A case for monarchy’., 1957.
Item
Identifier: MS.20765, folios 209-236
Dates:
1957.
Copy of a transaction of the merchants of Edinburgh concerning Spanish wine., 1670.
Item
Identifier: Ch.10874
Copy of a transcript of a BBC radio programme marking the centenary of the birth of John Buchan.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6467
Dates:
1975.
Copy of a verse enigma, undated, by George Canning., 4th quarter of 18th century-1st quarter of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.10335, folio 148
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century-1st quarter of 19th century.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.12
Scope and Contents
The work consists largely of copies and abstracts of charters and other formal documents relating to the Stewartry and Principality of Scotland (folio 6), the Duchy of Cornwall (folio 52 verso), the Principality of Wales and the Earldom of Chester (folio 56) , the Duchy of Normandy (folio 58 verso) and the Dauphine of France (folio 58 verso), preceded by a summary of the contents (folio 2), and followed by a conclusion (folio 62), an appendix (folio 63), a copy (folio 72 verso) of an act of...
Dates:
1751, or after.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.3
Scope and Contents
The work consists largely of copies and abstracts of charters and other formal documents relating to the Stewartry and Principality of Scotland (folio 7), the Duchy of Cornwall (folio 57), the Principality of Wales and the Earldom of Chester (folio 60), the Duchy of Normandy (folio 62 verso) and the Dauphine of France (folio 62 verso), preceded by a summary of the contents (folio 2), and followed by a conclusion (folio 65 verso), an appendix (folio 66 verso), a copy (folio 75 verso) of an...
Dates:
1751, or after.
Copy, of about the end of the seventeenth century, by the antiquary Robert Mylne, of ‘Ane account of ane Embassie performed by William Steuart [Stewart], Commendator of Pittenweim, and Mr John Skeen to England, Denmark, and the Princess [Princes] of Germanie in Anno 1590'.
Item
Identifier: MS.2912
Scope and Contents
The account was written by John Skene (afterwards Lord Curriehill) (see folio 42 verso). The mission was to the Protestant princes, and its object was to bring about peace treaties between England and Spain and between France and Spain, or, failing that, an alliance of Denmark, Scotland, and the Germans which should assist the peaceful party against the obdurate. See ‘Calendar of the state papers relating to Scotland... 1547-1603’ (1898-1963), volume x, page xvi. The journal covers the...
Dates:
1590.
Copy of Adv.MS.31.3.18, documents relating to heraldry, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.22
Scope and Contents
Translations have been provided with the material in Latin.
Dates:
1385-1661.