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, autobiographical papers, and sermons of the Very Reverend Donald Macleod, Doctor of Divinity (1831-1916), minister of The Park parish, Glasgow from 1869 to 1909, and editor of the periodical ‘Good words’ from 1872 to 1905.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9827-9833
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondence concerns Donald Macleod's editorship of ‘Good words’, including many letters from contemporary authors and men of letters, with some letters of his brother, Dr Norman Macleod, minister of The Barony parish, Glasgow, and the first editor of ‘Good words’.
Dates:
1856-1925, undated.
Correspondence between Lewis Spence and R E Muirhead.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3565
Scope and Contents
With an offprint of article of Spence.
Dates:
1927-1930.
Correspondence, chiefly between John Riddell and Thomas Ferguson, Writer to the Signet, and papers concerning the Earldom of Dumfries., 1825-1827.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.9
Correspondence, chiefly between John Riddell and William Mackenzie of Muirton, Writer to the Signet, and papers, including opinions by Riddell, transcripts of documents and printed session papers in the claim to the Earldom of Buchan by Sir Colin Mackenzie, 1st Baronet, of Kilcoy., 1839-1844, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.6
Dates:
1839-1844, and undated.
Correspondence concerning shipping and trading transactions at Calcutta, September 1774-February 1775, written mainly to James Williamson, captain of the ship `Pacific`., 1774-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.13
Scope and Contents
The correspondence is not indexed in detail.
Dates:
1774-1775.
Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19329-19405
Scope and Contents
Thomas Traill was born in Orkney in 1781 of the family of Traill of Tirlot and the collection includes miscellaneous genealogical, legal and historial material relating to Orkney. He graduated in medicine in the University of Edinburgh in 1802 and by 1803 had settled in practice in Liverpool where he became a prominent figure being prime mover in the foundation of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool of which he was first Secretary, and assisting in the foundation of the Royal...
Dates:
1645-1897, undated.
Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.
Dates:
Circa 1903-1982, undated.
Correspondence, essays, articles, cuttings and other literary papers of Alexander MacDonald, Gaelic scholar, and his daughter Mairi MacDonald, novelist and playwright.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7708/1-130
Scope and Contents
Papers of Alexander MacDonald, circa 1886-1962, including manuscripts of poems and essays, and associated correspondence. Also present are the papers of his daughter Mairi A MacDonald, 1915-1977, including manuscripts of novels, plays, and articles, with associated correspondence, including letters of Gordon Daviot. The collection also includes a book of poems by Isobel MacDonald, either the sister or mother of Alexander MacDonald; as well as some magazines and journals relating to Scottish...
Dates:
1886-1977.
Correspondence (folio 1) and notes (folio 86) by General Sir George Murray concerning the publication of ‘The Letters and Dispatches of John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough’., 1843-1845.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.9.24
Dates:
1843-1845.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers concerning the publication of ‘The Letters and Dispatches of John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough’, edited by General Sir George Murray.
Correspondence, manuscript drafts and typescripts concerning "MacDiamrid`s Disciple" by Henry Mair.
File
Identifier: Acc.12033
Dates:
2000-2001.
Correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of Alasdair Gray.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12108
Dates:
circa 1996-2001.
Correspondence, manuscripts, drafts and other papers of George Borrow and related figures., 1807-1992, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12091/1-14
Correspondence, mostly of the lairds of Gask and their immediate families, including incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters., 1635-1839.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.1.13
Scope and Contents
The subjects are generally matters of family interest. The family were Jacobites, out in both 1715 and 1745 risings, and in exile in France from 1746 to 1763, but there is comparatively little correspondence on political matters. Correspondence of Laurence Oliphant of Condie, mainly concerning the recovery of Gask after its forfeiture, and other letters which appear to have come into his hands, have been kept separate (Adv.MS.82.1.13).
Dates:
1635-1839.
Correspondence, mostly of the lairds of Gask and their immediate families, including incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters., 1635-1725.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.1.1
Correspondence, mostly of the lairds of Gask and their immediate families, including incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters., 1726-1735.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.1.2
Correspondence, mostly of the lairds of Gask and their immediate families, including incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters., 1736-1745.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.1.3
Correspondence, mostly of the lairds of Gask and their immediate families, including incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters., 1746-1750.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.1.4
Correspondence, mostly of the lairds of Gask and their immediate families, including incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters., 1751-1755.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.1.5
Correspondence, mostly of the lairds of Gask and their immediate families, including incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters., 1756-1759.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.1.6
Correspondence, mostly of the lairds of Gask and their immediate families, including incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters., 1760-1765.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.1.7
Correspondence, mostly of the lairds of Gask and their immediate families, including incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters., 1766-1774.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.1.8
Correspondence, mostly of the lairds of Gask and their immediate families, including incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters., 1775-1785.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.1.9
Correspondence, mostly of the lairds of Gask and their immediate families, including incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters., 1786-1790.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.1.10
Correspondence, mostly of the lairds of Gask and their immediate families, including incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters., 1791-1799.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.1.11