Manuscripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(i)-(xiii)
Scope and Contents
The correspondence consists of letters to Hutton from various correspondents, many of whom were parish ministers to whom he had written asking for information; the papers consist of transcripts of charters and other formal documents, extracts from cartularies and other registers, and descriptions, sketches, plans and elevations of monasteries and other religious buildings. The greater part of the collection is dated between 1788 and 1790, and between 1809 and 1822 (many of the...
Dates:
1785-1823, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 1: Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and Wigtownshire., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(i)
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 2: Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(ii)
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 3: Peebles., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(iii)
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 4: Peeblesshire., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(iv)
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 5: Selkirkshire, Roxburghshire, Berwickshire, East Lothian, Midlothian., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(v)
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 6: West Lothian, Stirlingshire, Kinross-shire, Fife., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(vi)
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 7: Perthshire., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(vii)
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 8: Angus., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(viii)
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 10: Morayshire., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(x)
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 11: Inverness-shire, Ross-shire, Orkney., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(xi)
Scope and Contents
Folios 289r-290v contain Gaelic verses headed 'the Abbot of Fearn's advice to his foster son'. The verses (7 quatrains) and English translation form part of notes, 1815, written for Hutton by Rev. Hugh Ross, minister of Fearn.
Dates:
1785-1823, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 12: Transcripts relating to various places., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(xii)
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 13: Letters and papers concerning various places, Argyllshire, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Caithness, Dumfriesshire., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(xiii)
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Huttonconcerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 9: Angus, Kincardineshire, Aberdeenshire., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(ix)
Correspondence and papers of Major-General Stewart A Lithgow, of Fauhope, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order, Army Medical Services, with a few earlier letters of his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2543-2555
Dates:
1758-1893, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Margaret O W Oliphant and others.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23209-23219
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters of and to and papers of Margaret Oliphant and members of her family (MSS.23209-23211), her bank pass-book (MS.23212), diaries (MSS.23213-23216) and manuscripts of two of her works (MSS.23217-23219).
Dates:
1754, 1762, 1844-1921, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Mrs Mary E Haldane, her parents Richard and Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, her sister Jane, and her son Richard B Haldane, later Viscount Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20037-20079
Scope and Contents
Small quantities of letters and papers of other members of Mary E Haldane's family are contained in different parts of the collection. Also contained is a small quantity of letters and papers to Anne, wife of General Sir David Baird, and her sister Catherine Campbell Preston.
Dates:
1809-1937, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Professor John Stuart Blackie and his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2621-2664
Dates:
1798-1915, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane of Cloan (1856-1928), the statesman, lawyer and philosopher, and of his sister, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1862-1937), philanthropist and author.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5901-6109
Scope and Contents
The papers include correspondence of other members of the family of Haldane of Cloan covering a period of almost a century and a half from the beginning of the 19th century, especially rich for the period 1875-1937.
Dates:
19th century-early 20th century.
Correspondence and papers of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, 1874-1936; with manuscripts and typescripts of his writings and those of his wife Gabrielle, circa 1905-1936, and undated.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.205- is now part of Acc.11335.
Dates:
1874-1936.
Correspondence and papers of Robert Duncan Macleod, editor of the ‘Library review’.
File
Identifier: MS.10330
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Corrected typescripts and manuscripts of articles by Frederick Niven and others, published in the ‘Library review’, volumes iii-iv (1932-1934), and in ‘Modern Scottish literature’, edited by R D Macleod (Glasgow, 1933), pages 13-16. (Folio 1.)(ii) Correspondence between Macleod and L Stanley Jast, 1930-1944, concerning libraries and Jast's contributions to the ‘Library review’. It includes the manuscript of an article by Jast, 'The man...
Dates:
1930-1944.
Correspondence and papers of Salis Daiches., Circa 1898-1945, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12278/1-40
Correspondence and papers of Sir Charles Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Newhailes., 1849-1961, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.25534-25572
Scope and Contents
Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884.
Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...
Dates:
1849-1961, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir George Henry Rose., 1794-1854, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3797
Scope and Contents
Associated with this volume are Sir George Henry Rose's Star of the Royal Guelphic Order and his Pitt Club Medal, both at the back of the volume.
Dates:
1794-1854, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto., 1789-1859.
Series
Identifier: MSS.11740-12237
Scope and Contents
Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates:
1789-1859.