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Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Any forms of addressed and written communication sent and received, including letters, postcards, memorandums, notes, telegrams, or cables.

Found in 7214 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of the Malabar Commission, together with a mixture of other official and private matters., 1799-1800.

 File
Identifier: MS.13606
Scope and Contents

Included is an exchange of letters, etc., between Alexander Walker in Malabar and General Stuart, following the latter's departure for England in 1800.

Dates: 1799-1800.

Correspondence of the Marquess and 9th Earl of Argyll and their near relatives on personal and family affairs., 1604-1690, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3138
Scope and Contents The correspondence includes a letter written by Annas Campbell, a child, to her grandfather, 1604 (folio 1); letters of the 2nd Earl, afterwards Duke, of Lauderdale to the 9th Earl of Argyll, describing minutely a cabinet with secret drawers, 1671 (folio 28); an order of the Privy Council to Argyll to find 'Lowland caution' in respect of his commission for the Highlands, 1680 (folio 31); an anonymous and unaddressed letter from London, giving news of home and foreign politics, and...
Dates: 1604-1690, undated.

Correspondence of the Rennie family., 1779-1821.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19932-19933

Correspondence of the Rennie family., 1857-1936, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.19951
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Letters of and to J K Rennie, 1857-1896 (folio 1). (ii) Correspondence of George Banks Rennie concerning the Smeatonian Society, 1901-1902, 1908 (folio 179); (iii) Correspondence of William Rennie, barrister, and other family letters, 1893, 1907-1928 (folio 310); (iv) Letters of Lord Allenby to John Rennie Maudslay, 1921, 1936, undated (folio 405).

Dates: 1857-1936, undated.

Correspondence of the Richards, Gardiner, and Ashburner families., 1789-1933, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20351-20370
Scope and Contents

Most of the letters concern family and personal affairs, but there is much talk of their business interests whether in trading across the Atlantic and in India, or in the Gardiner paper mills on the Kennebec River.

Dates: 1789-1933, undated.

Correspondence of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteer Light Dragoons (incorporated in 1800 in the Royal Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry)., 1797-1801.

 File
Identifier: MS.872
Scope and Contents

The correspondence includes that of Sir Walter Scott as Secretary and Quartermaster, with drafts of Scott himself (folios 16, 28 verso, 46 verso, 50 verso, 62, 125, 138, 145, 161B, 162, 165B, 204) and of Colin Mackenzie of Portmore.

Dates: 1797-1801.

Correspondence of the Russells of Ashiesteel and their relatives, the Halls of Dunglass, including Captian Basil Hall; with other papers., 1788-1895, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3220-3221
Scope and Contents Most of the letters are addressed to General Sir James Russell and his wife. There are several written by Ann Murray Keith (the prototype of Mrs Bethune Baliol in Sir Walter Scott's ‘Chronicles of the Canongate’) to Christian Rutherford, 1808-1818, undated, containing many allusions to Scott.Other writers are: Maria Edgeworth, 1818; John Gibson Lockhart, 1825, 1840-1841; Reverend Joseph Wolff, missionary, 1834, 1850, 1858; Mountstuart Elphinstone, 1837; Scott's sons, 1837, 1839;...
Dates: 1788-1895, undated.