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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, sketch-plans, and newspaper-cuttings relating to the restoration of St Margaret’s Chapel, the Argyll Tower, and the Banqueting Hall of Edinburgh Castle.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1734-1739
Scope and Contents

The undertaking was financed by William Nelson the publisher, and the architect was Hippolyte Blanc, to whom most of the letters are addressed.

Dates: 1883-1893, undated.

Correspondence, sketches, notebooks and other papers of and concerning Sir David Young Cameron, Katharine Cameron Kay, and her husband Arthur Kay.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8950/1-41
Scope and Contents

Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.

Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.

Dates: 1895-1965, undated.

Correspondence, speeches, diaries, photographs and papers of Alastair Trevor Clark, mostly relating to his work as a civil servant in Nigeria, Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12598/1-56
Scope and Contents

The papers concern Alastair Trevor Clark’s writing and colonial duties from the beginning of his career in 1949 until the end of his professional career in 1990. They relate to colonial relations within Nigeria and other countries including Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands. The papers comprise letters, manuscript, articles, printed material, maps, government documents, despatches, press cuttings, photographs and reprints of articles.

Dates: [1923]-2005, undated.

Correspondence to and of William MacArthur., 1944-1961, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6878 Box 1(1)-(4)
Scope and Contents

Contains circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.

Dates: 1944-1961, undated.

Correspondence to Janet Adam Smith relating to the life and work of Michael Roberts., 1943-1997.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/82
Scope and Contents

Containing letters from:

Blaise Cullie, 1940s.

Robin MacArthur, 1950.

Bernard Hall, 1972.

Dr Vernon Williams on connection of Michael Roberts with St Mark and St John College, London, 1986 and 1997.

Hugh Montefiore, 1991.

Dates: 1943-1997.

Correspondence, together with some other writings, of John Leyden, collected by the Reverend James Morton., 1794-1811, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3380
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Original correspondence of John Leyden with his family and his friends in Scotland and in India, 1794-1811. The fragment of a journal of a tour in Cumberland in 1801 (folio 27) is printed by James Sinton in 'Transactions of the Hawick Archaeological Society’, 1906. (Folio 1.)(ii) Undated writings of Leyden: legend of Duke Richard; part of a sermon; poem, 'To J.B. from J.L.'; part of ‘Scenes of Infancy’ (verse and notes). (Folio 149.)...
Dates: 1794-1811, undated.

Correspondence, typescripts and printed items of and concerning O H Mavor., 1932-1951.

 File
Identifier: MS.8183
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Two printed pamphlets of O H Mavor with inscriptions, 'The Scottish Character', being the John Galt lecture for 1937, and 'The Nero Concerto', for Dundee Art Society, 1942. (Folio 1.)(ii) A cutting and a reprint from ‘The Observer’ of a profiie of Mavor, and several leaflets and circulars issued on his death in 1951, two of which are concerned with the setting up of a James Bridie Memorial Fund. (Folio 21). (iii) Typescript...
Dates: 1932-1951.

Correspondence, typescripts, press cuttings and other papers of Wilfred Taylor.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9575/1-119
Scope and Contents

Includes articles, reviews, memoirs, plays, speeches notes and correspondence.

With volume containing press cuttings, photographs and programmes, 1886-1937, concerning the Ayr Burns Club and Burns Federation.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1846, 1938-1986.