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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of the Marquess and 9th Earl of Argyll and their near relatives on personal and family affairs., 1604-1690, undated.

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Identifier: MS.3138
Scope and Contents The correspondence includes a letter written by Annas Campbell, a child, to her grandfather, 1604 (folio 1); letters of the 2nd Earl, afterwards Duke, of Lauderdale to the 9th Earl of Argyll, describing minutely a cabinet with secret drawers, 1671 (folio 28); an order of the Privy Council to Argyll to find 'Lowland caution' in respect of his commission for the Highlands, 1680 (folio 31); an anonymous and unaddressed letter from London, giving news of home and foreign politics, and...
Dates: 1604-1690, undated.

Correspondence of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, with some of other members of their circle., 1816-1875, undated.

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Identifier: MS.2883
Scope and Contents The correspondence is preceded by a copy, 1876 (watermark), of the Minutes of Kirkcaldy Town Council, 1815-1816, relating to the appointment of Thomas Carlyle as schoolmaster there, and a printed notice, 1816, of Smith and Johnstone's school at Ecclefechan. Mrs Carlyle's letters, 1821-1826 and undated, include several written to Carlyle before their marriage. The writers include: Henry Duncan, Minister of Ruthwell, 1827 (on German theology); Allan Cunningham, 1832, 1837, 1839; Harriet...
Dates: 1816-1875, undated.

Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill.

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Identifier: MS.618
Scope and Contents

The letters are in continuation of MSS.610-617. Seven of the letters are copies.

Dates: 1831-1869.

Correspondence of Thomas Thomson and other papers formerly in his possession or in that of his family., 1797-1850, undated.

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Identifier: MS.786, folios 78-153
Scope and Contents The correspondence includes, with family letters and letters alluding to Sir Walter Scott, a copy of correspondence between Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Scott, and Archibald Constable on the proposed publication of Fountainhall’s writings by the Bannatyne Club, 1823 (folio 94); a letter of J M W Turner on the illustrations to Scott’s 'Provincial antiquities', 1828 (folio 104); letters and papers on the erection of a national memorial to Scott, 1832 (folio 114); and “Extracts from L’Histoire...
Dates: 1797-1850, undated.

Correspondence (original and copies) and papers concerning the Episcopal Church in Scotland, and especially various theological and organisational disputes affecting it., 1699-1750, undated.

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Identifier: MS.20765, folios 1-58
Scope and Contents

Two of the letters are addressed to Thomas Ruddiman, and presumably the whole collection was in his possession.

Dates: 1699-1750, undated.

Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.

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Identifier: MSS.20510-20533
Scope and Contents

Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.

Dates: 1884-1936, undated.

Correspondence, together with some other writings, of John Leyden, collected by the Reverend James Morton., 1794-1811, undated.

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Identifier: MS.3380
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Original correspondence of John Leyden with his family and his friends in Scotland and in India, 1794-1811. The fragment of a journal of a tour in Cumberland in 1801 (folio 27) is printed by James Sinton in 'Transactions of the Hawick Archaeological Society’, 1906. (Folio 1.)(ii) Undated writings of Leyden: legend of Duke Richard; part of a sermon; poem, 'To J.B. from J.L.'; part of ‘Scenes of Infancy’ (verse and notes). (Folio 149.)...
Dates: 1794-1811, undated.

Criticisms, translations, etc., of Sir Walter Scott’s works., Late 18th century-early 19th century.

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Identifier: MS.900
Scope and Contents The contents include the following:(i) Copy of a manuscript which was attached to a proof of the ‘Field of Waterloo’ containing criticisms by James Ballantyne and replies by Sir Walter Scott, 1815 (folio 1);(ii) Translations into German of portions of the ‘Bride of Lammermoor’, the ‘Pirate’, and the ‘Legend of Montrose’, by Henriette de Montenglaut, 1825 (folio 7); See her letter, MS.870, folio 90;(iii) Notes on historical errors in ‘Quentin Durward’...
Dates: Late 18th century-early 19th century.

Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, 1702-1706, reported, early 18th century, by Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall., 1702-1706.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.4.5
Scope and Contents

‘MS. C. – Decision of the Lord of Council and Session from June 1702 till February 1706’.

‘At the other end of this volume, reversed are copies of Acts, Decreets and Informations, in several cases, chiefly between the years 1677 & 1682, extending to page 304.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.2.10).

Dates: 1702-1706.