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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 Scotts of Raeburn., 1660-1822.

 File
Identifier: MS.2889
Scope and Contents

The correspondence includes religious writings of the seventeenth century, by George Fox, 'the younger in the truth', George Keith, Walter Scott, the Quaker laird of Raeburn, and others, and papers, found at the Haining, relating to the duel in which Walter, the laird of Raebum, was killed in 1707. The later letters are chiefly addressed by Sir Walter Scott to the sixth laird.

Dates: 1660-1822.

Correspondence of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1663-1826, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5332-5333
Scope and Contents

The correspondence concerns, among other matters, the estates of Castlemilk and Milton, the development of areas near Glasgow (roads, canals, coal, etc.), and the collection of material for Andrew Stuart's genealogical works.

Dates: 1663-1826, undated.