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:
Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount.
Series
Identifier: MSS.351-354
Dates:
1773-1849.
Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1-67
Scope and Contents
Contains also some copies of replies or of draft replies.
Dates:
1760-1838.
Letters and literary manuscripts of Andrew Lang.
File
Identifier: Acc.12906
Scope and Contents
Letters to publishers, collaborators and others on various topics including Homer, Chansons de Gate, research for his, and Alice Shield`s, "The King over the water", spiritualism and projected articles. Manuscript of "Ballade of neglected merit" (annotated by Edmund Gosse), and a summary of the Greek legend of Helle.
Dates:
circa 1903-1907.
Letters and manuscripts collected by Mark Napier, author of ‘Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston’, etc.
Series
Identifier: MSS.757-759
Dates:
1657-19th century.
Letters and manuscripts of Donald Whyte.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10431
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.
Letters and manuscripts sent to Smith Elder and Company, publishers, excluding those known to have been sent specifically to the Editor of the "Cornhill Magazine"., 1860-1878.
Series
Identifier: MSS.32001-32003
Letters and papers, 1777-1778, 1795-1804, and undated, sent to the publishers of Sir Robert Douglas`s ‘The Baronage of Scotland’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.6
Scope and Contents
The papers, which accompany the letters, consist of genealogical accounts of several of the landed families of Scotland, and are arranged in alphabetical order. Most of the letters that are addressed to individuals are to James Watson, who is described as `circulating library, stationer and bookseller` in the Edinburgh directories of the time. The genealogies of the families of Johnstone of Gallabank (folio 62) and of Leslie of Findrassie (folio 70) and the pedigree...
Dates:
1777-1804.
Letters and papers, chiefly of James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.4
Scope and Contents
Much of the correspondence is personal or concerns Anderson`s historical work, but some is of a legal or financial nature. Folios 154-158 consist of invitations to funerals.
Dates:
1684-1731, and undated.
Letters and papers concerning Sir Alexander Cochrane's command of a squadron off Ferrol, including material regarding enemy ship building and fitting in Spain., 1803-1805.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2310-2311
Dates:
1803-1805.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Letters and papers concerning Sir Alexander Cochrane's command of a squadron off Ferrol, Spain.
Letters and papers concerning Sir Alexander Cochrane's command of a squadron off Ferrol, including material regarding enemy ship building and fitting in Spain., 1803-October 1804.
File
Identifier: MS.2310
Dates:
1803-October 1804.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Letters and papers concerning Sir Alexander Cochrane's command of a squadron off Ferrol, Spain.
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Letters and papers concerning Sir Alexander Cochrane's command of a squadron off Ferrol, including material regarding enemy ship building and fitting in Spain.
Letters and papers concerning Sir Alexander Cochrane's command of a squadron off Ferrol, including material regarding enemy ship building and fitting in Spain., October 1804-1805.
File
Identifier: MS.2311
Dates:
October 1804-1805.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Letters and papers concerning Sir Alexander Cochrane's command of a squadron off Ferrol, Spain.
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Letters and papers concerning Sir Alexander Cochrane's command of a squadron off Ferrol, including material regarding enemy ship building and fitting in Spain.
Letters and papers concerning Sir Alexander Cochrane's command of a squadron off Ferrol, Spain., 1803-1821, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2310-2312
Dates:
1803-1821, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
Letters and papers concerning the claims of Colonel James Seton, Robert Seaton and Archibald William, 13th Earl of Eglinton, to the Earldom of Winton., 1824-1826, 1840, and undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.1.25-26.1.26A
Dates:
1824-1826, 1840, and undated.
Letters and papers concerning the claims of Colonel James Seton, Robert Seaton and Archibald William to the Earldom of Winton., 1824-1826, 1840 and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.25
Scope and Contents
Memorial, undated, for Colonel James Seton (folios 1-6); letters, 1824-1826, of Robert Seaton, a saddler in Bellingham, concerning his claim to the Earldom of Winton, with papers on behalf of Archibald William in opposition to Seaton's claim (folios 7-65); and, papers, 1840, of Archibald William in his own claim to the title (folios 66-246).
Dates:
1824-1826, 1840 and undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Letters and papers concerning the claims of Colonel James Seton, Robert Seaton and Archibald William, 13th Earl of Eglinton, to the Earldom of Winton.
Letters and papers concerning the prohibition of horse-racing., 1917.
File
Identifier: MS.10221
Letters and papers concerning the reduction of the Danish islands and Cayenne, accounts of naval actions against the French, decisions of the prize-courts, and other papers, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands., 1805-1809.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2314-2315
Dates:
1805-1809.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands.
Letters and papers mostly addressed to Sir Edward Hoby, the diplomatist and controversialist., 1550-1638.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.15
Scope and Contents
In 1594, Hoby was granted letters patent to buy and provide wool for sale in England. Most of the correspondence is dated 1602 and concerns the issue of licences to deal in wool, and the fees to be paid. There are also a few papers concerning the hiring of boats to transport coal in the Midlands, 1636.
Dates:
1550-1638.
Letters and papers mostly addressed to Sir John Bellenden of Auchinoul.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.14
Scope and Contents
Bellenden succeeded his father as Lord Justice Clerk in 1547 and held the post until his death in 1577, when he was succeeded by his eldest son Sir Lewis Bellenden. Most of the letters were written to him in his official capacity, and are legal and financial in nature. They include a number of accounts and letters concerning the affairs of Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, and of Robert Stewart, later Earl of Orkney.
Dates:
1533-1622.
Letters and papers, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland., 1231-1641.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.8
Scope and Contents
The subjects include the case brought by John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, against Robert Wallace; the ‘Second Book of Discipline’; the Act of Revocation; and the protests against the Service-book. Most of the papers concerning the Covenant have been published more than once, and some appeared as contemporary pamphlets.Copy of a charter, 1360, granted by David II to the Bishop of Aberdeen; in Latin (folio 1). - This was printed from Adv.MS.16.1.10 in ‘Registrum episcopatus...
Dates:
1231-1641.
Letters and papers, mostly contemporary copies, concerning a dispute within the Episcopal Church of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.7
Scope and Contents
The controversy was caused by some of the clergy of Edinburgh who objected to the canons of the Synod of 1743, particularly to those regulating the election of bishops.
Dates:
1744-1745.
Letters and papers, mostly of the Regent, James Douglas, Earl of Morton, to David Borthwick of Lochill, Lord Advocate., 1574-1604.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.9a
Scope and Contents
All the documents concern legal actions, and most contain the Regent`s instructions in each case. Unless otherwise stated, the papers are addressed to David Borthwick by the Regent.Writ to the Lord Advocates, David Borthwick and Robert Crichton of Elliock, to call a summons of error at the instance of Mungo Johnston of Locharby, against Laurence Simpson and others, Dalkeith, 24 March 1573/1574 (folio 1).Instructions to the Lord Advocates to summons certain unnamed...
Dates:
1574-1604.
Letters and papers of and concerning Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.13
Scope and Contents
Most of the letters were written by Lovat to Donald Fraser, later Minister of Urquhart and Logie, who was tutor to Lovat`s two elder sons, and concern the care and upbringing of the boys. Other letters concern the Rising of 1745, and include correspondence with Normand Macleod of Macleod and the Earl of Loudoun.
Dates:
1739-1794.
Letters and papers of, and concerning, Sir Patrick Geddes and Dr Arthur Geddes.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21204-21205
Dates:
1913-1977, undated.