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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:

Family correspondence of the Macrae family of Conchra and Ballimore., 1853-1910, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.15921
Scope and Contents

Many of the letters are addressed to Duncan Macrae (1816-1898), a surgeon in India, and include letters from his elder brother, John Macrae of Conchra, who emigrated to South Carolina, circa 1828. There are also a number of letters from Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Archibald Macrae, another brother.

Dates: 1853-1910, undated.

Family correspondence of William Wallace., 1882-1926.

 File
Identifier: MS.21549
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Loose scraps of correspondence, 1897, between William and Ottilie Wallace, and letters, August-September 1925, of William to Ottilie, with one letter of June 1926 (folio 1); (ii) Letters, 1880, 1885-1886, of Dr James Wallace, medical officer of health in Greenock, to his son William, many of them concerning medical matters in Glasgow hospitals (folio 40); (iii) Letters, 1882, 1885-1886, to William Wallace from his mother and sisters (folio 92).

Dates: 1882-1926.

Family papers and correspondence of and concerning Hugh Miller., 1650-1864, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.7516
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Legal papers, 1717-1803, concerning the Feddes and Wright families, Cromarty (ancestors of Hugh Miller) (folio 1);(ii) Legal papers, 1855-1857, undated, concerning Hugh Miller and his dependents (folio 14);(iii) Fragment of an abusive article on Hugh Miller, undated (folio 38);(iv) Four letters, 1650-1758, including one of George Monck, the others relating to the family of Forbes of Culloden (folio 40);...
Dates: 1650-1864, undated.

Family papers, chiefly eighteenth to nineteenth century, of the Grahams of Airth.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.10801-10969
Scope and Contents The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1668-1897, undated.

Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5320-5404
Scope and Contents

Both families were descended from Archibald Stuart of Castlemilk and Fynart (died 1660).

Dates: Late 15th century-Early 20th century.

Family, political and personal correspondence and papers of the Abercromby family, chiefly of James Abercromby (1776-1858), 1st Baron Dunfermline, with some correspondence and papers of his wife Marianne (died 1874), and of their son Ralph, 2nd Baron and diplomatist (1803-1868), and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.24725-24774
Scope and Contents James Abercromby was Judge Advocate General, 1827; Chief Baron of the Exchequer Court, Scotland, 1830-1832; a member of the Whig Cabinet as Master of the Mint, 1834; Speaker of the House of Commons, 1835-1839; and created 1st Baron Dunfermline, 1839.Much of the family correspondence is from Ralph Abercromby, 2nd Baron and from and his wife, Mary Elizabeth, a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Minto. With the papers are a few letters, 1909-1912, to Alexander Lockhart Trotter,...
Dates: 1798-1887, undated.

File box, '28. Rob Fairley. Letters to Peter Haining'., 2000-2008.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 37(1)-(12)
Scope and Contents

The box is covered and lined with synthetic fleece. It contains correspondence on CD-ROM discs.

Dates: 2000-2008.