Testimonials.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents containing affirmation of person's character or the value of a thing. Specifically, written declarations stating an individual's achievements or the usefulness of a product or service, such as a letter of endorsement.
Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Robert Kemp, his father, the Reverend Arnold L Kemp and other members of the family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10125
Scope and Contents
Includes diaries, testimonials and photographs.
Dates:
1802-1986 and undated.
Papers of the Burns Begg family, being the family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.328- is now Acc.13138.
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Personal and financial papers of Alexander Low Bruce, containing testimonials, receipts and expenses., 1858-1860, 1884-1893, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11777/39-41
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1858-1860, 1884-1893, undated.
Personal correspondence and papers of Alastair Trevor Clark., [1923]-2005.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12598/11-29
Personal papers, including correspondence, of Robert Blair Wilkie and his family., 1932-2001.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12765/29-42
'Register of voters in the county of Perth ... 1832 with list or division of the county into districts for polling', printed by J Taylor (Perth, 1832); interleaved for notes, but with no endorsements., 1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.16169
Dates:
1832.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Correspondence, papers, legal and financial documents, canvass records and printed ephemera concerning elections and politics in the County of Perth parliamentary constituency involving Thomas Graham (M.P. from 1794 to 1807) and Robert Graham (Whig/Liberal campaign manager, 1831-1832, and parliamentary candidate, 1834).
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Canvass books and related papers.
Single letters and small collections of letters of nineteenth-century artists.
File
Identifier: MS.10994
Scope and Contents
Writers include Sir William Allan, Sir John Watson Gordon, Sir Henry Raeburn, Archibald G Reid and David Roberts. There is also a group of letters, 1853-1893, undated, to John Pettie from a variety of artists and authors and a small collection of testimonials, 1858, in favour of the artist Thomas Fairbairn.
Dates:
1809-1903, undated.
Staff applications to the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/53
Dates:
1847-1849.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 10: letters and papers, [Circa 1608]-1624 (chiefly 1621-1623), undated., [Circa 1608]-1624, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [x]
Scope and Contents
The letters are chiefly to James VI and John Murray.
Dates:
[Circa 1608]-1624, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
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State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics., 1560-1641, undated.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 (i)-(xiii)
Testimonial addressed by the parishoners of Lauder to Donald Macleod on his removal to Linlithgow., 1 July 1862.
Item
Identifier: Ch.8911
Dates:
1 July 1862.
Testimonial and references in favour of Marion Lochhead from her lecturers at the University of Glasgow.
File
Identifier: Acc.13003
Dates:
1923-1925.
Testimonial for Sir James Balfour of Denmilne by the English College of Arms, followed by the signatures and mottoes of the various heralds and pursuivants below paintings of their own arms.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.6
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was displayed in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891.
Dates:
1628.
Testimonials and appreciations of Edwin Muir and his work., 1935-1960.
File
Identifier: MS.19670
Scope and Contents
The papers include a copy o Edwin Muir's report on his work in Prague in 1947 (folio 14), and a collection of presscuttings, 1949-1960 (folio 95).
Dates:
1935-1960.
Testimonials and other notices, 1837, concerning the election of David Laing as Librarian of the Signet Library.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8543
Scope and Contents
With two annontated copies (one a proof), 1890, of "History of the Society of Writers to... [the] Signet".
Dates:
1837-1890.
Transcripts made in the early nineteenth century (see watermarks) of Mey and Tarbat charters and inventories, titled 'Cartularium Eccles. Cathedral. Rossensis'.
File
Identifier: MS.1018
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Excerpts from an inventory dated 1641 of charters then in the House of Mey and from other inventories of charters covering the period 1464-1637, relating to the Sinclairs of Mey and to neighbouring lands (folio 1), with notes regarding rights of Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, 1666, and a testimonial regarding Tarrell, 1382 (folio 13); (ii) Copies of charters in Tarbat House, 1457-1642, undated.
Dates:
1382-1642, undated.
Twenty-five volumes relating to cup-finals, semi-finals and testimonials of Hibernian Football Club., 14 October 1963-14 October 1991.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10691/54
Dates:
14 October 1963-14 October 1991.
Typescript appreciation of Prof William Beattie by Prof Alexander F Falconer and Dr Ronald G Cant.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9328
Dates:
? 1957.
Typescript testimonial, signed by Compton Mackenzie, in favour of David Cleghorn-Thomson receiving a Civil List pension.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12491
Dates:
1971.
Typescript testimonial to Alexander Paterson from the people of Hebron, 1921; an envelope of newspaper cuttings; and a typescript review of William Ewing's biography., 1921, N.d.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4499/7
Dates:
1921, N.d.