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:
Journal of John Francis Campbell, kept while travelling in Norway, Russia and Italy, 1873-1874, and illustrated with a number of photographs and watercolours., 1873-1874.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.8
Scope and Contents
Campbell’s description of his visit to Italy dwells particularly on Mount Vesuvius and on the works of art he saw in Rome and Florence.Near the beginning of the volume he discusses Gaelic literature and meteorology with accompanying diagrams and cuttings.A little correspondence for 1874 and several printed items including copies of Campbell’s ‘On the Glaciation of Ireland’ (folio 3) and ‘About Polar Glaciation’ (folio 28) have been inserted at the front of the...
Dates:
1873-1874.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Journal of John Francis Campbell written while he was travelling in the West of Scotland collecting Gaelic folklore., 1870-1871.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.2.2
Scope and Contents
The volume contains many Highland tales which Campbell has taken down in English in note-form. There are only one or two he has written in Gaelic.Campbell has illustrated the journal with a few watercolour sketches of Scottish Scenes (folios 10-12, 85, 87 verso, 117 verso, 158 verso-159, 166 verso, 169 verso, 283) and some miscellaneous insertions have been made throughout the volume:(i) A printed pamphlet ‘On Prehistoric Remains in the Neighbourhood of the Crinan...
Dates:
1870-1871.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871.
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Collections of Tales for the ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’ project, with related correspondence and other papers.
Journal of Lieutenant David Aytoun, Royal Navy, on H.M.S. Dragon in the Mediterranean, with various notes, observations and copies of correspondence.
File
Identifier: MS.13598
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes descriptions of Lisbon, Gibraltar and Minorca, the dimensions of the masts and yards of H.M.S. Dragon, religious notes, verses, copies of David Aytoun's letters and memorials requesting promotion, and Aytoun's curriculum vitae, which includes a list of the ships on which he served. Aytoun, a younger brother of the laird of Kinnaldie, joined the Royal Navy on 12 May 1729, as a Midshipman, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 13 October 1738. He went on...
Dates:
1743-1746.
Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7723
Scope and Contents
Comprising:1. Eastern journal, 1838-1839, of Roberts, in two volumes ("Egypt" and "Syria"), in the hand of his daughter, Christine Bicknell2. "The Roberts Festival", 1842, album containing press cuttings, reports and correspondence with or concerning Roberts3. Family correspondence, 1836-1863, of Roberts, including 60 letters to Christine and Henry Bicknell4. Draft essay, 1851, on the Royal Academy of Arts, and a page of notes, 1862, on...
Dates:
1836-1863 and undated.
Journals and papers of Rawdon Goodier, largely concerning his activities in Rhodesia between 1955 and 1961.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12397
Dates:
1955-1995.
Journals and papers of Thomas Lennox Gilmour.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8989
Scope and Contents
Concerning his education, service as private secretary to the 5th Earl of Rosebery, and to his government work during the First World War.
Dates:
1879-1920.
Journals, commonplace books and letters from the library at Newbattle Abbey., 17th century-1900.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5785-5801
Dates:
17th century-1900.
Journals, notebooks and other papers of Sir James Mann Wordie, polar explorer, mostly relating to his tours and expeditions.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12559/1-99
Scope and Contents
Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, press-cuttings and related papers, 1903-1959, n.d., of and relating largely to the expeditions of polar exploration and scientific discovery, travel and mountaineering activities of Sir James Mann Wordie, Master of St John’s College, Cambridge (1889-1962).
Dates:
1865-1959.
Journals, orders, letters and other papers of Lieutenant-General Hon Sir William Stewart relating to commands and service at home and abroad, and to the formation of the Rifle Brigade.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9074/1-74
Scope and Contents
Acc.9074/1-61 consist of 61 bound volumes entitled 'The Cumloden Papers'.
Dates:
1713-1909.
Juvenilia, college reports and correspondence of John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross., 1927-1968, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7638/41-88
Keith letters, including letters, 1758, of William Pitt (afterwards Earl of Chatham), and of the Earl Marischal, the friend of Frederick the Great, 1773, and correspondence, 1845, 1854, of Mrs Gillespie Smyth concerning the family connections of Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Murray Keith, her father., 1758-1854.
File
Identifier: MS.2617, folios 24-49
Dates:
1758-1854.
Lectures and notes of John Dover Wilson on rhetoric, with some related correspondence, chiefly of examiners in rhetoric, and a number of test papers and departmental hand-outs on the subject., 1937-1943, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14367
Dates:
1937-1943, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and correspondence of Professor John Dover Wilson (1881-1969), the Shakespearean scholar.
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Papers concerning the literary and scholarly activities and interests of John Dover Wilson.
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Papers of John Dover Wilson concerning education and English literature.
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Lectures of John Dover Wilson on rhetoric and English literature.
Lectures and speeches by David Ainslie Thin and by James Thin., 1969-2003, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12384/159-161
Ledgers, receipts, contracts and other business papers and correspondence of Messrs John Grant Ltd, booksellers.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5024 [ledgers] (1)-Box 6(4)
Dates:
1886-1960, undated.
Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1792, 1807-1859.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11918-11975
Legal and financial correspondence of Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird.
File
Identifier: Acc.9131
Dates:
1904-1905.
Legal and financial documents and correspondence related to pets, invoices, charities, employees, receipts., 1947-1948, circa 1980-1984, 1993-1997.
File
Identifier: Acc.11621/205
Dates:
1947-1948, circa 1980-1984, 1993-1997.
Legal and financial papers and correspondence of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto., 1881-1905.
File
Identifier: MS.12527
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Papers relating to the marriage trusts of the 14th Earl of Strathmore, 1881-1904 (folio 1), Francis Scott of Geddington Priory (folio 128), and Sir Gerald Portal, K B E, 1904-1905 (folio 159). (ii) Correspondence and papers concerning London property, 1891-1893 (folio 165).
Dates:
1881-1905.
Legal and financial papers and correspondence of the 4th Earl of Minto., 1862-1913.
File
Identifier: MS.12526
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) General financial correspondence, 1895-1898 (folio 1); (ii) Passports, etc., 1862, 1864, 1874, 1898 (folio 78); (iii) Papers and correspondence relating to the marriage settlement of the 4th Earl of Minto, 1883 (folio 85); (iv) Papers relating to the Scottish will of Lord Henry Bentinck, 1897-1898 (folio 147); (v) Papers relating to the marriage trust of Reginald Corbet of Hankelow, 1891-1913 (folio 177).
Dates:
1862-1913.
Legal and financial papers of the 4th Earl of Minto., 1862-1913.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12525-12530
Scope and Contents
The papers here concern primarily salaries, etc., for military service, payments for the purchase, letting, and repair of London property, marriage trusts, and dealings with bankers and stockbrokers.
Dates:
1862-1913.
Legal and personal correspondence of Andrew Stuart., 1760-1800, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5391
Scope and Contents
The correspondence begins on folio 1. Also included are some miscellaneous letters and papers found with the collection (folio 165).
Dates:
1760-1800, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Various financial, legal and personal papers of Andrew Stuart.
Legal and political correspondence and papers of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.9.1.1-9.1.13
Scope and Contents
Included in the papers are letters, 1831-1849, of Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, Senator of the College of Justice, to Cockburn, and some notes, undated, for Jeffrey`s biography.
The legal papers are concerned mainly with trials in which Cockburn appeared as counsel, and consist largely of briefs drawn up for his instruction, copies of the precognitions of witnesses, and some printed material relating to the cases.
Dates:
1810-1849.
Legal and property papers of James Thin, bookseller., 1882-2000.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12384/2-8
Legal and some financial correspondence of the Ellice family, consisting chiefly of letters to the legal firm of Gibson-Craig, Dalziel and Brodies and in particular to John C Brodie, Writer to the Signet., ?1821-1896.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15188-15190
Dates:
?1821-1896.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Miscellany chiefly of correspondence and legal papers.
Legal correspondence and papers of John Graeme of Eskbank, Writer to the Signet, and of Robert Graham, concerning matters other than Balgowan and Lynedoch business., 1792-1815.
File
Identifier: MS.16267
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Letters and papers, 1792-1795, concerning an exchange of entail act for Patrick Murray Threipland (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence and papers concerning David Maclaurin (folio 150).
Dates:
1792-1815.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Correspondence and papers, legal papers, memoranda and reports, tacks, rent rolls and accounts concerning the administration of the Balgowan, Lynedoch and Redgorton estates.
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Papers and correspondence chiefly concerning civil litigation involving the estate, and family trusts.
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Papers concerning the litigation between Robert Graham and the Lynedoch trustees and the subsequent appeal to the House of Lords.