Publications.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents distributed to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.
Found in 1006 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of notes in “Jamieson's dictionary of the Scottish language", revised edition (Paisley, 1912), notebooks and a journal of William Soutar.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1132-1133
Dates:
1912-[Before 1944].
Microfilm of notes of William Soutar in "Jamieson's dictionary of the Scottish language", revised edition (Paisley, 1912)., 1912-[before 1944].
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1132
Microfilm of papers of and concerning James Augustus Grant., [?1765]-1892.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.556
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy of ‘Memoranda’ by James Augustus Grant, (no publisher, undated), consisting of biographical data, with some later ink additions by Grant, [After April 1880] (MS.17925);Newspaper cuttings, 1892, on James Augustus Grant's death, funeral, etc., pasted into an album (MS.17926);Copy of 'A system of water-colour painting', 17th edition (London, 1858), by Aaron Penley, used by James Augustus Grant on his African expedition (MS.17927);...
Dates:
[?1765]-1892.
Microfilm of papers of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.928
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Legal, financial and other papers, [?1827-?1913], concerning James Augustus Grant (MS.17933);'Private Copy' of 'Memoranda' (no publisher, undated) by James Augustus Grant, [1880, or after] (MS.17940);Pedigrees of James Augustus Grant's family and others (Chisholm, Cuthbert, Fraser, Mackintosh, etc.) connected to it by marriage, written in an unidentified hand, with notes by Grant himself, ?19th century (MS.17941);...
Dates:
19th century-[?1913].
Microfilm of ‘Re-collections of an Indian Civilian’ by Francis Jeffrey Cockburn (London, 1906).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2028
Dates:
1906.
Microfilm of ‘The Earl of Gowrie: a tragedy’ (London, 1845) by James White; with considerable manuscript alterations, circa 1846, by the author.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.328
Dates:
1845, [?1846].
Microfilm of 'Walk across Africa’ (Edinburgh and London, 1864), by James Augustus Grant.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.554
Dates:
1864.
Microfilms of the ‘Earnock manuscripts’ containing correspondence and papers, chiefly concerning the publication of James Currie’s 'Works of Robert Burns, with an account of his life', 1st-8th editions.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1019-1020
Dates:
[1797-1819.]
"Midsummer night's dream" by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1924), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1924.
Item
Identifier: MS.14393
Dates:
1924.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and correspondence of Professor John Dover Wilson (1881-1969), the Shakespearean scholar.
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Papers concerning the literary and scholarly activities and interests of John Dover Wilson.
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Publications, chiefly written or edited by John Dover Wilson, with manuscript additions chiefly by Dover Wilson.
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New Cambridge edition of nineteen of William Shakespeare's plays, with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson on the interleaved pages.
‘Minor Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley’ (London, 1858), annotated by David Gray, with lists of quotations in his hand on the back endpapers., 1858.
File
Identifier: MS.8481
Minutes and other papers of the Edinburgh branches of the Union of Communication Workers (formerly the Union of Post Office Workers).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11553
Dates:
1921-1993.
Minutes, reports and other papers of the voluntary organisation, Play in Scottish Hospitals.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11456
Dates:
1975-1997.
Minutes, with some associated administrative papers, relating to the Church of Scotland Blantyre Mission, Malawi; and works concerning the history of the mission.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9069/1-8
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1892-1947, circa 1980 and undated.
Miscellaneous accounts and papers relating to the estates of the Douglas family of Springwood Park., 1754-1915, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8091
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts, 1787-1910 (folio 1);
(ii) 'Acct. of the length of the New March Dyke between Ancrum & Langnewton', 1767 (folio 68);
(iii) 'A scheme for dividing Roxburgh Kirk', 1754 (folio 69);
(iv) Papers, 1769-1800, concerning the stipend of the minister of Roxburgh (folio 71);
(v) Copy of minutes, 1862-1863, of meetings of the heritors of the parish of Ancrum (folio 76);
(vi) Information (printed), 1812, on the fisheries of the river Tweed in the...
Dates:
1754-1915, undated.
Miscellaneous foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches., 1822-1931.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8012-8022
Scope and Contents
The papers are arranged as follows: MS.8012-8014. Scottish Missionary Society; MS.8015-8016. East Africa Scottish Mission; MS.8017. Madras Christian College; MS.8018-8019. Scottish Churches Mission Board. MS.8020. Arouca. MS.8021-8022. Printed papers.
Dates:
1822-1931.
Miscellaneous genealogical material, chiefly in the hands of Andrew Stuart and James Stuart., [Late 18th century.]
File
Identifier: MS.8305
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) A memorandum of observations on a draft of part of ‘Genealogical History’ by Andrew Stuart (folio 1); (ii) Extracts from Scottish and French printed books (including ‘Historia Majoris Britanniae’ by John Major (Paris, 1521), ‘Collections’ by James Dalrymple (Edinburgh, 1705), ‘Dictionnaire Historique’ by Louis Moréri (Lyon, 1674), and ‘Chroniques’ by Enguerrand de Monstrelet (Paris, 1470) (folio 61);(iii) Extracts from...
Dates:
[Late 18th century.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, Writer to the Signet, of Craigthorn and Castlemilk, second son of Archibald Stuart of Torrance.
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Genealogical papers of Andrew Stuart.
Miscellaneous items of or concerning Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.308
Scope and Contents
Framed declaration, 1786, by Elizabeth Paton regarding her child by Robert Burns;
Exciseman`s notes by Robert Burns;
Four letters, 1816-1829, of Sir Walter Scott to Joseph Train;
Volume containing a manuscript copy, 1896, of `Brief sketch of a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott commencing in the year 1814` by Joseph Train;
Printed book, `The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott` (1897) by George G Napier.
Dates:
1786-1897.
Miscellaneous material of John Francis Campbell, including interleaved copies of his `Popular Tales of the West Highlands`, volumes 1 and 2 (Edinburgh, 1860)., 1858-1884.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.51.2.3-51.2.7
Dates:
1858-1884.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Miscellaneous pamphlets and other printed items belonging to Stephen Hislop or preserved with his papers., 1834-1884, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8976
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Edinburgh University, Humanity Class prize-list, 1834;
(ii) John Wilson, ‘Memorial respecting a Mission from the Free Church of Scotland to Nagpur in Central India’ (Edinburgh, ?1844);
(iii) ‘Oriental Christian Spectator’, 2nd series, volume 7 (1846), pages 339-372;
(iv) ‘Oriental Christian Spectator’, 2nd series, volume 8 (1847), pages 1-16;
(v) Stephen Hislop, ‘Nagpur, and the connection of the British Government with idolatry there’ (?Madras, ?1850).
(vi)...
Dates:
1834-1884, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
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Foreign mission records of the Free Church of Scotland.
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Papers of Stephen Hislop, missionary in Nagpur.
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Pamphlets and other printed items belonging to Stephen Hislop or preserved with his papers.
Miscellaneous papers., 1912-1929 and undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13629/18-21
Miscellaneous papers chiefly concerning roads and church matters in Perthshire., 1809-1843.
File
Identifier: MS.10917
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of:(i) Miscellaneous papers, 1809, 1811-1826, 1832-1833, relating to Perthshire roads including ‘Statement respecting the turnpike road from the east to the west end of Lochearn’ (Perth, 1824) (folio 1);(ii) Correspondence, 1810, 1813-1814, 1818-1823, 1833-1836, on Perthshire church matters (folio 121);(iii) Miscellaneous papers, 1810-1816, 1823, 1827, 1834-1836, on Perthshire church affairs much of it concerning the Muthill Episcopal...
Dates:
1809-1843.
Miscellaneous papers concerning railway companies other than Aberdeen, and Arbroath and Forfar., 1839-1865.
File
Identifier: MS.15485
Scope and Contents
The railway companies include: the Llanelly Railway and Dock Co., 1839-1856 (folio 1); the Scottish North Eastern Railway Company, 1861-1865 (folio 17); the Dundee and Arbroath Railway Company, 1836-1845 (folio 21); Forfar and Dundee Railways, 1843 (folio 32); The Great Northern Railway, 1854-1864 (folio 34); the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway Company, 1852 (folio 38); the Montrose and Brechin Railway, 1837 (folio 40); the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company, 1843 (folio 44); the...
Dates:
1839-1865.
Miscellaneous papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels., 1729-1794, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3118
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters of Mrs Alison Cockburn to Dr Douglas, with some poems, 1767-1794, undated (folio 1). Most of these are printed in her ‘Letters and memoir’, edited by T Craig Brown (Edinburgh, 1900). They are arranged as they appear in that work, those not printed being placed at the end.(ii) Observations by various writers on the agriculture of Roxburghshire, undated. (Folio 145.)(iii) Miscellaneous papers, undated (folio 168),...
Dates:
1729-1794, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of James Stuart., 1773-1791.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8437-8440