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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:

Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.25
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Latin legal abbreviations, 16th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Speech in Latin addressed to `domine doctissime coeterique commilitones mei suavissimi`, in praise of modesty. Late 16th or early 17th century. (Folio 2.)(iii) Transcript, 19th century, of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3 February, 1590, concerning the slaughter of David Taillor by William Spottiswood of that Ilk and others. Cf. ‘The...
Dates: 16th century-1793.

Copies of documents relating to roads in the Highlands.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.19
Scope and Contents Copy of a memorial to the Treasury, 1799, by Robert Anstruther, Inspector of Military Roads, asking that the majority of the roads constructed in the Highlands continue to be maintained at public expense (folio 1), and two copies (folios 5, 8) of a letter, 1796, of Captain (afterwards Lieutenant-General) Henry Rudyerd to the Secretary of the British Society for extending of the Fisheries and improving the Seacoasts of the Kingdom, reporting on the road recently constructed from Contin to...
Dates: 1796, 1799.

Copies of memoranda on suggested naval operations by Sir Home Riggs Popham, including copies of his letters to Lord St Vincent, volume 2., 1804.

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Identifier: MS.67B
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Across the left-hand corner of folio 3a is the following note in pencil: 'This was written in consequence of General Pichegru and Dumourier wishing Government to attack Walcheren, to which I strongly objected in consultation with those officers, and was then desired to propose a scheme for offensive operations'. Sir Home Riggs Popham suggested attacks on the Island of Oleron in France and the islands of Schaven and Goeree in Holland.

Dates: 1804.

Copies of official correspondence, with some original reports concerning India., [?Circa 1820]-1824.

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Identifier: MS.13740
Scope and Contents The reports include:(i) The cultivation of coffee, 1824 (folio 3);(ii) The Baroda revenue system, undated, but post 1821 (folio 21);(iii) Memorandum, 7 August 1820, on the revision of the judicial code of the Bombay presidency, 7 August 1820 (folio 32);(iv) Regulations, undated, but circa 1820, concerning the duties of a collector, revenue regulations concerning village representatives, and queries concerning land values, with a glossary of...
Dates: [?Circa 1820]-1824.

Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.

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Identifier: MS.6135
Scope and Contents The items are also closely associated with William Maitland of Lethington, and are chiefly concerned with the diplomatic negotiations of the period with England and France; they are apparently unpublished. Where no exact date is given on the document, the letters have been dated from internal evidence.The contents are as follows.(i) Copy letter, [end of February 1563], of William Maitland of Lethington to François, Duc de Guise, reporting the course of his...
Dates: [1562]-1563, [1568].

Copy, 17th century, of the statutes of Christ`s College, Cambridge, 1506.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.4
Scope and Contents The text is followed (folio 28) by an additional chapter in the form of question and answer: `Dubia quaedam per socios Collegij Christi ... suo visitatori proposita et per eundem declarata`. On folio 29, in another hand, are copies of a declaration by the Vice-Chancellor,Andrew Perne, 1581, a memorandum of Thomas Osborne`s admission to the college, 1581, and the finding of Lord Burghley in a dispute between Osborne and the college, 1584.The initial on folio 1 is...
Dates: 1506.

Copy letters and memoranda of concerning Bábáji, the Gaikwar's Commander., 1802-1810.

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Identifier: MS.13650
Scope and Contents

The copies were probably compiled circa 1825.

Included is a memorandum on panchayet courts in Baroda in 1808 (folio 23).

Dates: 1802-1810.

Correspondence and associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War., 1808-1814.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.1.22-46.3.5
Scope and Contents

The associated papers consist of intelligence reports (many of which are illustrated by sketch-maps) by British officers, letters and memoranda forwarded from Spanish and Portuguese leaders, and a few intercepted letters of French Generals.

Dates: 1808-1814.

Correspondence and memoranda chiefly concerning the Duke of Bedford., 1805-1806.

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Identifier: MS.12921
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence and memorandum, March 1806, concerning the Duke of Bedford's instructions on appointment as Lord Lieutenant, relating chiefly to the Catholic question (folio 1); (ii) Three memoranda, 1805-1806, one in the Duke of Bedford's hand, relating to Maynooth College (folio 12); (iii) Copies of 'secret' letters of the Earl Spencer and Lord Howick to the Duke of Bedford concerning amendment of the Mutiny Act to allow Roman Catholics into the army on the...
Dates: 1805-1806.

Correspondence and memoranda, chiefly of the ‘Ossian Committee’ of the Highland Society of Scotland in preparing the Ossian Report (1805).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.24
Scope and Contents

Also contains correspondence and memoranda of Sir John Sinclair in preparing ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’. There are no Gaelic items. For a detailed listing see John Mackechnie.

Dates: 1797-[1805 or before.]

Correspondence and memoranda concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to Lord William Seymour, General Officer Commanding British forces in Canada., 1898-1900.

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Identifier: MS.12578
Scope and Contents

The papers and correspondence chiefly concern relations between Lord William Seymour and General Sir Edward Hutton, General Officer Commanding Dominion Militia, and to a lesser extent the raising of Canadian troops for South Africa. Appended (folio 291) is a memorandum prepared by Seymour in ?1903 giving a statement of his position in Canada, and of his disagreements with Hutton and the 4th Earl of Minto.

Dates: 1898-1900.