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Speeches. Documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents containing the text of any public address or talk.

Found in 922 Collections and/or Records:

Standing order for the British and Hanoverian troops in Germany, September to October 1743.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9628
Scope and Contents

With copy of the speech to the King by John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl Stair, made at the Council of War at Worms, 23 August 1744.

Dates: 1743-1744.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS’, a collection of copies of Scottish historical documents, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts A’., 17th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.18
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains copies of the following: (i) ‘The contraversie concerning the validitie of the obligation of the tendes for union in one commonwealth, discussed’; (ii) Part of a paper respecting the controversy between Resolutioners & Protesters; (iii) Continuation of section (i): ‘The contraversie concerning the validitie of the obligation…’ (folio 11); (iv) Continuation of section (i): ‘The contraversie concerning the validitie of the obligation…’ (folio 20); (v) Reasons...
Dates: 17th century.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents

The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).

Dates: 17th century.

Talk, 1970, on Chirnside, given to the Soil Association Conference, with unassociated genealogical tables.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5076
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of three family trees, 1916 and undated, of the Blackadder family.

Dates: 1916, 1970 and undated.

Tape recording of Donald Whyte, "Scottish Emigration to North America", a paper read at the World Conference on Records, Salt Lake City.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6853
Scope and Contents

The reel is in an envelope with the typescript, 'Scottish emigration to North America, by Donald Whyte. Tape recording 5th August, 1969, World Conference on Records, Salt Lake City, UT'.

Dates: 1969.