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Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters.
Found in 5113 Collections and/or Records:
Additional papers of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes, containing mostly historical notebooks., 1841-1891, 1951-1972, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10022/135-161
Dates:
1841-1891, 1951-1972, undated.
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.1-81.2.10
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Additional related material acquired with MS.16495: Lesmahagow missal, being fragments of the missal and correspondence and notes of Sir Sydney Cockerell concerning it., 13th century-1953, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16495A-16496
‘Additional testimonials in favour of Thomas Stewart Traill as candidate for the Chair of Materia Medica in the University of Edinburgh’, with manuscript notes., 1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.19401
Dates:
1832.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
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Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, and his family.
Additions to the 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' by John Jamieson, volume I., 2nd quarter of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.10
Dates:
2nd quarter of 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Supplement and additions to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson.
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Additions to the 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' by John Jamieson, made after the publication of the two supplementary volumes.
Additions to the 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' by John Jamieson, volume II., 2nd quarter of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.11
Scope and Contents
Contains 'Catalogus Bibl. Joannis Jamieson, A.D.1812'.
Dates:
2nd quarter of 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Supplement and additions to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson.
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Additions to the 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' by John Jamieson, made after the publication of the two supplementary volumes.
Additions to the 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' by John Jamieson, volume III., 2nd quarter of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.12
Scope and Contents
The contents include letters relating to the proposed publication of these additions.
Dates:
2nd quarter of 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Supplement and additions to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson.
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Additions to the 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' by John Jamieson, made after the publication of the two supplementary volumes.
Address book of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', including a few notes and quotations., [Circa 1960.]
Item
Identifier: MS.27210
Dates:
[Circa 1960.]
Administrative documents issued to James Johnston by the Royal College of Defence Studies., 1985
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/183-185
Dates:
1985
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Major-General James Johnston
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Papers relating to the military career of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to James Johnston as a staff officer and in higher command.
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Papers relating the post-graduate course taken by James Johnston at Royal College of Defence Studies in military strategy and international politics.
Administrative file of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland), relating to the fixed-term funding and grant applications, containing minutes, notes, budgets, correspondence, applications and related papers., Circa 1997-2001.
File
Identifier: Acc.12911/297
`Adversaria`, being miscellaneous notes and copies of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald, with scholars such as William Nicolson, Edward Lhuyd and John Smith of Durham on Scottish history and antiquities.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.19
Scope and Contents
Smith`s letters (folios 47-61), some of which are originals, concern the records of Scottish history surviving at Durham. Other contents are as follows:(i) Notes on historical manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library (folio 2).(ii) The life of Robert Morison copied from his ‘Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis’, part 3, with notes on the same volume (folio 4 verso).(iii) `A list of Gold Scotch Coyns` (folios 13 verso, 18).(iv) `The...
Dates:
Circa 1682-1706, and undated.
Album compiled by Katherine Jane Ellice, 1838-1864, entitled 'Scrabble Book Quebec, 1839', with notes 2013-2014 and undated, on Ellice family history in Canada and Glenquoich.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13651/1-3
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1838-1864, 2013-2014, undated.
Album, containing notes taken by the father of Thomas Ross, the architect, of sermons preached by the Reverend John Caird, and drawings by Ross.
Item
Identifier: MS.3646
Scope and Contents
The sermons were preached in Errol Church in 1851 (folio 1).
Some of Thomas Ross's drawings bear dates from 1858 to 1919 (chiefly architectural sketches and designs), and some are evidently juvenile. Loose drawings and a sermon (folio 94) have been pasted in.
Dates:
1851, 1858-1919, undated.
Album of drawings of `An eight week`s tour in Scotland taken by ten Douglas`s`.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13363
Scope and Contents
Drawings made on a tour in Scotland in 1845. Places visited include Dalkieth, Edinburgh, Roslin chapel, the Trossachs, Glencoe, Tyndrum, Ballahulish, Kinlochmore, Loch Leven, Dunolly Castle, Inverary, Newbattle and Hoddam Castle.
Dates:
1845
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Item
Identifier: MS.3009
Scope and Contents
Hugh Scott of Draycott (Draycot, Draycote) House, a Captain in the East India Marine, was a son of Walter Scott of Raeburn (died 1830) and cousin of Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford. The album, compiled by Hugh Scott's descendants, contains letters of Sir Walter Scott and members of his family, printed matter relating to the subscription raised to purchase Abbotsford for the Scott family, drawings and photographs of Draycott, notes on family history by William Scott of Raeburn (died 1855),...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-1936.
Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8493
Scope and Contents
Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.
Dates:
1898-1902.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Album of John Borthwick (died 1830), containing engravings of caricatures, with manuscript notes accompanying each engraving., 1784-1817.
Item
Identifier: MS.10383
Album of letters, notes, accounts, parish records, printed notices, and political cartoons of Duncan Campbell, Minister of Moulin, and his son Duncan Campbell, Minister of St. Matthews, Edinburgh., 1805-1900, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.20403 [Manuscript]
Scope and Contents
Much of the album concerns personal and parochial matters, but the family corresponded widely, and writers include Duncan Forbes, the Orientalist, and the artist Erskine Nicol.
Dates:
1805-1900, undated.
Album of manuscript extracts, in the hand of James Simson, Melrose, with occasional illustrative notes by the transcriber., 1667-1708.
Item
Identifier: MS.3034
Album of photographs of Highland Railway locomotives, compiled and annotated circa 1950., 19th century, 1920-1929.
Item
Identifier: MS.19984
Dates:
19th century, 1920-1929.
Album of photographs of Highland Railway locomotives, compiled and annotated circa 1950., 19th century, 1920-1929.
Item
Identifier: MS.19985
Dates:
19th century, 1920-1929.
Album of reels, minuets, hornpipes, marches, and other dances, with a list of reels (incomplete) at the beginning and notes of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe., 1st half of 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3346 [Ing.153]
Scope and Contents
Inside the end cover is a note, "Mr. Stenhouse's Vol. X. MSS".
Dates:
1st half of 19th century.
Albums of caricatures by John A Hipkins., Circa 1870-1933, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2919-2927
Scope and Contents
The caricatures, which date from about 1870 to 1932, the year before the artist's death, depict many celebrities of the artistic, musical, and literary worlds, by whom the house of his father, Alfred James Hipkins, the musical antiquary, was much frequented.At the beginning of MS.2919 is a biographical notice of Hipkins by his sister; there are portraits of him by her, 1879, at the beginning of MSS.2923-2924, 2926; and his own caricatures of himself appear in MSS.2919 (page 25),...
Dates:
Circa 1870-1933, undated.
Albums of caricatures by John A Hipkins, wood-engraver, with scrap-books containing material collected by or associated with him.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2919-2931
Scope and Contents
The volumes, which have been arranged and provided with biographical notes and lists of contents by John A Hipkins's sister, Miss Edith J Hipkins, the painter, illustrate the cultivated life of London in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. Since Hipkins himself was deaf, there is much material relating to the artistic and other activities of the deaf.
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.