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 with various religious organisations., 1974, 1997.
File
Identifier: Acc.11621/196
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation; The Jewish Old Age Home for Scotland (c/r M. Greenstone); Wethersfield Institute (Ms. Mary E. Schwarz).
Dates:
1974, 1997.
‘Correspondence ... with Vice Admiral Sir Edward Hughes, K. B., etc.’: a volume of printed correspondence prepared by James Stuart., 1783.
File
Identifier: MS.8447
Correspondence, working notes, typescripts and photographs, relating to 'Working with Lustres', by Margery Clinton, published by Batsford in 1991., 1989-1992, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11283/42-46
COSLA Library Services to Penal Establishments., 1996-1997.
File
Identifier: Acc.13657/70
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on the costs involved in supplying services to Penal Establishments.
Dates:
1996-1997.
Cowie collection of manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Allan Ramsay and others, made by Charles R Cowie of Glasgow.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.15951-15975
Scope and Contents
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
Dates:
1720-1914, undated.
Critical works relating to 'The Brontës', edited by Muriel Spark., Circa 1949-1993, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10989/144-189
Daybook of David Wallace, fencing contractor, Grantshouse, and his family providing a detailed account of the day to day workings of a small business.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15559-15559A
Scope and Contents
The daybook is incomplete.
Dates:
1873-1907.
Defence, 1787, of Basil Cochrane as delivered by him at his trial for the murder of his servant, with copies of correspondence, 1784-1787., 1784-1787.
File
Identifier: MS.8461
Dates:
1784-1787.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of and concerning Basil Cochrane, a senior merchant of the East India Company in the Madras Presidency, and a nephew of Andrew and James Stuart.
Developmental materials of Ian Rankin for various creative works, including contact details, working notes, research, and press cuttings; report on marketing research project on Ian Rankin., 1983-2012, undated.
File
Identifier: MSS.50527-50533
Scope and Contents
This series contains various developmental materials of Ian Rankin for various creative works. Materials include contact details, working notes, research, and press cuttings. Also included is a report on a marketing research project on Ian Rankin.
Dates:
1983-2012, undated.
Developmental notes of Ian Rankin and others for his graphic novel ‘Dark Entries’; with related press cutting and business card., Circa 2006-2008.
File
Identifier: MS.50479
Scope and Contents
Notes, 2009 or before, of Ian Rankin relating to the development of the plot and characters for ‘Dark Entries’. Folios 1-41.The notes include research and working notes as well as editorial notes of Rankin. Some notes have been revisited and subsequently annotated by Rankin as his development of the graphic novel progressed. Most of the notes are undated and, as such, the arrangement has been suggested by a development of and changes in plot and theme.Also Included is...
Dates:
Circa 2006-2008.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Ian Rankin archive.
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Papers relating to the professional activities of Ian Rankin.
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Papers relating to the literary and other creative works of Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts of 'Dark Entries', a graphic novel by Ian Rankin; with related working papers.
Diaries and correspondence of David Morrison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6374
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include George Mackay Brown, C M Grieve, Neil Gunn and Fionn MacColla.
Dates:
1966-1974.
Diaries, draft biography, and family correspondence of General Sir Charles William Pasley (1780-1861), military engineer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9869-9884
Dates:
1796-1861, undated.
Diaries, financial and administrative papers of Barberfield Farm, near Pencaitland, East Lothian; with some personal correspondence and papers of the Blythe family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11021/1-223
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, accounts, diaries, and miscellaneous papers, 1861-1993, largely of and relating to Barberfield Farm, near Haddington, East Lothian. With personal correspondence, accounts, and photographs of Charles Blythe, Farmer, and his family, 1861-1993.Charles Blythe became tenant of Barberfield Farm in 1904 in partnership with his brother-in-law, William Millar, Draper, Tranent. In 1928, Blythe took on the lease of the neighbouring Heatheryhall Farm. Previously, he had been...
Dates:
1859-1993.
Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8969/1-78
Scope and Contents
The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.
Dates:
1896-1977.
Diaries, notebooks and related papers of George Dott, Scottish nationalist.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12987/1-64
Dates:
1909-2008.
Diaries of General Sir Charles William Pasley covering the years following his retirement from active army service and public employment., 1848-1861.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9869-9878
Scope and Contents
The diaries describe Charles Pasley’s regular activities in considerable detail, especially his continued work as public examiner for the East India Company's Military Seminary, Addiscombe College, Surrey, and the experiments at the Royal Engineer Establishment, Chatham, on his decked, copper-lined pontoons. Other subjects mentioned include army organisation, railways, revisions of his books on military engineering, decimal coinage, meetings of various learned societies attended, especially...
Dates:
1848-1861.
Diaries of Nancy Angus, with some related personal papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12365/1-41
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the diaries of Nancy W Angus, the daughter of David Angus, civil engineer. They give a view first of an adolescent’s life in Chile, then of a typist’s in London, then of a Voluntary Aid Detachment, and on through her work for the War Graves Commission, and then at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Dates:
1907-1960.
Diaries of Thomas Stewart Traill of trips to Orkney for the Parliamentary election of 1852, and to Argyll., 1852.
Item
Identifier: MS.19377
Scope and Contents
The volume includes notes on the lectures Professor Thomas Stewart Traill gave on Natural History at Edinburgh University during Professor Jamieson's illness, with transcripts of related correspondence (folio 81).
Dates:
1852.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill; with one of Robert Omond.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, usually in the late summer while on holiday with his family in Britain but also in France, Germany, and Switzerland.
Diaries, speeches, correspondence and other papers relating to visits to Australia by John Blythe Kinross in 1971 and 1976, and a visit to Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong in 1977., 1971, 1976-1977.
File
Identifier: Acc.8699/16
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1971, 1976-1977.
Diary and correspondence of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1451
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Diary, 1855, 1858, of Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland as a Captain of the 93rd Regiment, in India. (MS.2234);
Correspondence, 1855-1875, of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland. (MS.2235).
Dates:
1855-1875.
Diary of Daniel Murray Smillie, officer in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during WW1.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13748
Scope and Contents
Papers of Daniel Murray Smillie, written whilst serving as an officer with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during the First World War. The son of Robert Smillie, trade unionist and politician, Daniel Murray Smillie appears to have enlisted in 1915. The papers include a diary, 30 August to 17 November 1916, which gives an insight into the work of the RAVC at the veterinary hospital at Bulford, covering such subjects as the treatment of horses. More general themes are also covered...
Dates:
1916-1919.
Diary of Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, including details of his proposed application for the chair of Natural History at Edinburgh and transcripts of related correspondence., 1853-1854.
Item
Identifier: MS.19378
Dates:
1853-1854.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill; with one of Robert Omond.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, usually in the late summer while on holiday with his family in Britain but also in France, Germany, and Switzerland.
Diary of Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland as a Captain of the 93rd Regiment, in India., 1855, 1858.
Item
Identifier: MS.2234
Scope and Contents
The diary, recorded in "De La Rue’s improved Indelible Diary and Memorandum Book, 1855", describes the March through Fatehgarh, Cawnpore, and Unao to Lucknow, with the capture of the Martinière and the Begum's Palace in Lucknow.The diary is held in a leather travel writing set in the form of a wallet, produced by Thomas De La Rue and Co., London, which contains: a blotting pad, an ink bottle, a pen, pen-nib box and 2 spare pen-nibs, read sealing wax, 6 unused envelopes, an ivory...
Dates:
1855, 1858.
Diary of Sir John Hill, RN, detailing his mission to Scotland in 1837 to relieve distress caused by the famine.
File
Identifier: Acc.12738
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of commission from the Government and other associated papers and correspondence; with a volume of typed transcripts.
Dates:
1837.
'Dictionary of Norse Mythology'., 1987-1989.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/19-21
Dates:
1987-1989.