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Memorandums.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents recording information used for internal communication.

Found in 993 Collections and/or Records:

‘Reports Guicawar reforms Guzerat vol. 1’: a volume containing memoranda and other papers concerning the reforms at Baroda., 1805-1807.

 File
Identifier: MS.13656
Scope and Contents

The manuscript includes:

(i) Memorandum, 5 February 1805, from Alexander Walker to Sitárám (folio 8);

(ii) Letter, etc., 1 January 1806, from Walker to Jonathan Duncan about the reforms (folio 10);

(iii) Copy correspondence, May 1806-January 1807, about expenses in Baroda and dealings with Sitárám.

Dates: 1805-1807.

‘Reports Guicawar reforms Guzerat vol. 2’: a volume containing memoranda and other papers concerning reforms, and other matters, at Baroda., 1806-1808, [circa 1820].

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Identifier: MS.13657
Scope and Contents The volume was bound up circa 1820, and includes:(i) Copies of official memoranda and correspondence, 1806-1807, about the reforms at Baroda, with a contents list compiled by Alexander Walker circa 1820 (folio 1);(ii) Copies of official correspondence, May 1807, about the expense of the military establishment at Baroda (folio 106);(iii) Copies of official memoranda and correspondence, 1807-1808, about the positions of Bábáji and Fateh Sing within the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1806-1808, [circa 1820].

‘Reports Guicawar reforms Guzerat vol. 4’: a volume containing memoranda and other papers, chiefly on the subject of female infanticide., [Circa 1807-circa 1822.]

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Identifier: MS.13659
Scope and Contents The many interleaved additions and annotations suggest that this volume was to form the basis of a published account of female infanticide.The contents are as follows:(i) Memorandum, March 1808, from Alexander Walker to Jonathan Duncan on the subject of female infanticide (folio 1);(ii) Extracts from Walker's correspondence, 1807, with influential native representatives which throw light on how they went about trying to eradicate female infanticide in...
Dates: [Circa 1807-circa 1822.]

‘Reports Guicawar reforms Guzerat vol. 5’: a volume containing memoranda and other papers., 1807-1808.

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Identifier: MS.13660
Scope and Contents

The manuscript includes:

(i) Reports, August-October 1807 and April-May 1808, from Alexander Walker in Kathiawar about the tributes due from local chieftains to Baroda (folio 7);

(ii) Memoranda , April-September 1808, about Sitárám and the Baroda revenue (folio 75).

(iii) Memorandum, November 1808, about the payment of tributes to Baroda (folio 215).

Dates: 1807-1808.

Revised and expanded version of the text of MS.13783: Series of twelve chapters probably based on original memoranda; probably compiled as late as 1822., 1785-1799, [?1822].

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Identifier: MS.13784
Scope and Contents The chapters are as follows:(i) First campaign against Tipu, 1790 (page 1);(ii) Second campaign against Tipu, 1791-1792 (page 33);(iii) Siege of Cochin, 1795 (page 45);(iv) Siege of Colombo, 1796 (page 53);(v) Account of Ceylon, 1796 (page 69);(vi) Account of Alexander Walker's journey to Madras through the Carnatic, Travancore and Malabar, 1796 (page 147);(vii) Journal of Walker's voyage from Cannanore to...
Dates: 1785-1799, [?1822].

Russian documents concerning the activities of Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart as British Vice-Consul in Moscow, and Russian politics.

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Identifier: Acc.11970
Scope and Contents A file, received bound, of fifty-one documents in Russian and relating to Russian politics, particularly in Moscow, 1915-1917. The papers were assembled by Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart (1887-1970), then British Vice-Consul in Moscow, where he enjoyed a wide range of social and political contacts. This period of Bruce Lockhart's career is described in his 'Memoirs of a British Agent', (London, 1932), pages 97-191.The documents are arrnaged as follows:1. List of...
Dates: 1915-1917, undated.

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)., 1988-2005.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/758-1159
Scope and Contents These papers relate to Magnusson's time working for Scottish Natural Heritage. The organisation was formed in 1992 following the amalgamation of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Commission for Scotland. Magnusson served as the Chairman of the organisation from 1992 until 1999. The papers contain minutes from SNH meetings, papers from working groups, such as those relating to the designation of the Cairngorms as a European Heritage Area and a series of papers...
Dates: 1988-2005.

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Working Group papers on "Paths for all" initiative., 1995-2005.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/854-867
Scope and Contents

"Paths for all" initiative aimed to create up to 200 local path networks throughout Scotland.

Dates: 1995-2005.