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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:

Legal correspondence and papers of John McFarlane, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1709)., 1682-1760, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.6414-6418
Scope and Contents MSS.6414-6415 contain general McFarlane correspondence, including (in MS.6414) a small amount of material relating to John McFarlane's father, also John McFarlane, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1678). MS.6415 contains forty-one letters of Duncan Forbes, of Culloden. MSS.6416-6418 contain over 300 letters of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, one of McFarlane's principal clients, as well as letters to him and a few legal papers concerning his affairs. Additional Lovat...
Dates: 1682-1760, undated.

Legal correspondence of the Douglas family of Springwood Park., 1770-1945.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8097-8099
Scope and Contents

Most of the letters are from the firm of Tods, Murray and Jamieson, Writers to the Signet, who handled the Douglas family's legal affairs. On the death of the 5th Baronet in 1935, the heir was a minor, and much of the correspondence concerns the rights of the trustees to dispose of books and items of jewellery.

Dates: 1770-1945.

Legal, financial, estate and agricultural correspondence chiefly of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1808-1861, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14457
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Correspondence, 1814-1836, with Sir James Gibson Craig (folio 1);(ii) Copies of correspondence, 1853-1857, between George Tait and David Aikman, factors (folio 58);(iii) Letters, 1838-1841, of George Dalziel, Writer to the Signet, concerning Peter Hume, George Tait and David Aikman, and various other financial and estate matters (folio 98);(iv) Letters, 1846-1853, of George Dalziel, Writer to the Signet, and...
Dates: 1808-1861, undated.