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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, photographs and papers relating to the Clyde Workers` Committee.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13524
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, photographs and papers, 1913-c 1920s, relating to John W. Muir (1879-1931), trade unionist and Labour MP for Glasgow Maryhill, and his involvement in the Clyde Workers’ Committee (CWC). Some of the papers also relate to his wife Catherine Fraser and to other prominent members of the CWC.

Dates: 1913-c.1920s

Correspondence, poems and notes of and concerning Phoebe Anna Traquair., 1883-1948, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.8122
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Correspondence of Phoebe Anna Traquair, 1890-1948 (folio 1); (ii) Poems in her hand dated Aberdour, 1883 (folio 215); (iii) Miscellaneous of notes, undated (folio 224).

The major part of the correspondence is from Lieutenant-Colonel William E Moss, her nephew, and from her two sons, Harry, a surgeon in Edinburgh, and Ramsay, an architect in Montreal.

Dates: 1883-1948, undated.

Correspondence, poems and other papers of the Reverend William Anderson., 1833-1895, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.2981
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence, 1833, 1839-1849, 1866-1877, 1888, 1895, undated (folio 1); poems, 1832-1842, undated (folio 82); writings in the language of Old Calabar, and miscellaneous papers, undated (folio 110).

Dates: 1833-1895, undated.

Correspondence, press cuttings and obituaries of male and female climbers, containing some obituaries written by Janet Adam Smith, 1956-1997.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/132
Scope and Contents

Containing obituaries of: Eveleigh Leith, 1976; Dorothea Richards, 1986-8; Nea Morin, 1987; Una Cameron, 1988; Dorothy Isobel (Charmian) Longstaff, 1993; Alison Hargreaves, killed on K2, 1995; Peter Bicknell, 1996; Ella Maillart, 1997.

Dates: 1956-1997.

Correspondence, press cuttings and other papers concerning (and including some letters and papers of) James Scott Skinner, with some autograph music by him.

 File
Identifier: MS.22021
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Correspondence and papers, 1883, [?1914-?1921], undated, of W Hean Findlay and George Short concerning (and including some letters and papers of) J Scott Skinner (folio 1);

(ii) Autograph music, 1914, undated, by Skinner (folio 154);

(iii) Press cuttings, 1917, 1923-1926, concerning Skinner, most of which are from the People's Friend, February-May 1923, containing an autobiographical account of Skinner (folio 168).

Dates: 1883-1926, undated.

Correspondence principally to, and of, Patrick Chalmers of Auld bar, with related papers., 1834-1850, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.19586
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: William Blackadder, Glamis, James Burnes, Montrose, Frederick Fotheringham, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh, Patrick Watson Carnegy of Lour, Henry Baxter of Idves, Advocate and Patrick Irvine, Writer to the Signet. The volume also contains other miscellaneous accounts and notes, 1816-1818, and undated (folio 151).

Dates: 1834-1850, undated.

Correspondence principally to, and of, Patrick Chalmers of Auldbar, with related papers., 1823-1833.

 File
Identifier: MS.19585
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: Henry Stephens, agriculturalist, William Henry Maule, Baron Panmure, James Speid, Solicitor and Provost of Brechin, Henry Baxter of Idves, Advocate, William Blackadder, Glamis, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Erskine, Patrick Watson Carnegy of Lour. The volume also contains a letter of Samuel Chalmers, Merchant, Gibraltar (while in London) to his brother William Chalmers of Auldbar (died 1765) on family matters, 1759 (folio 1).

Dates: 1823-1833.

Correspondence, production files, scripts, cuttings and other papers of John McGrath.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11615/1-110
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the material dates from ca.1979-1990, though there are some earlier and later items. Much of it concerns McGrath’s work outside 7:84, the theatre company which he and others established in 1971.

Dates: Circa 1926-1997.