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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:

Letter of Henry Mackenzie to unnamed correspondent., 1822.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 102-103
Scope and Contents

Concerns prosecutions under the games laws.

Dates: 1822.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters. / Letters of, and to, Henry Mackenzie.

Letter of Henry Mackenzie to unnamed correspondent., c. 1827.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folio 108
Scope and Contents

Concerns Mackenzie requesting copies of the `Lounger` and the `Mirror`.

Dates: c. 1827.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters. / Letters of, and to, Henry Mackenzie.

Letter of Henry Raeburn to unnamed correspondent., 1800.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 123-125
Scope and Contents

Concerns Raeburn`s request for payment for a double portrait.

A receipt for the same demand is signed by Henry Raeburn Jr.

Dates: 1800.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters.

Letter of J. McKain to Sir Charles Stuart.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14104
Dates: 1813.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letter of James Aikman to W. McGwin, British Linen Company Bank, Glasgow.

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Identifier: Acc.13785
Scope and Contents

Concerning attacks on him made in the Glasgow press, and a ladies` sale for the support of a missionary to the Highlands and the establishment of Gaelic libraries. Undated; paper dated 1826, but a note on the letter dates it to "about 1828".

Dates: 1828
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letter of James Boswell to Andrew Gibb., 1792.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 24-25
Scope and Contents

Concerns the collection of Candlemas and Whitsunday rents in Kilmarnock.

Dates: 1792.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters. / Letters of James Boswell to John Walkinshaw Crawfurd and to Andrew Gibb.

Letter of James Boswell to Andrew Gibb., 1793.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 26-27
Scope and Contents

Concerns rent arrears of Boswell`s tenants.

Dates: 1793.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters. / Letters of James Boswell to John Walkinshaw Crawfurd and to Andrew Gibb.

Letter of James Bruce of Kinnaird to Sir Joseph Banks., 1789.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 30-31
Scope and Contents

Concerns Bruce`s possible travels in Africa and Arabia.

Dates: 1789.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters. / Letters of James Bruce of Kinnaird.

Letter of James Burnett to Mrs David Garrick., c. 1790.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folio 36
Scope and Contents

Concerns Burnett`s forthcoming visit to Mrs Garrick.

Dates: c. 1790.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters. / Letters of James Burnett.

Letter of James Burnett to unnamed correspondent., 1780.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 34-35
Scope and Contents

Concerns Burnett`s Keeper of his Records.

Dates: 1780.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters. / Letters of James Burnett.

Letter of James Campbell to Duncan Stewart.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13705
Scope and Contents

Orders to take command of a small military force in Ayrshire

Dates: 1783.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letter of James Playfair to Thomas Cadell., 1783.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 117-118
Scope and Contents

Concerns the publication of Playfair`s `System of Chronology`.

Dates: 1783.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters. / Letters of James Playfair.

Letter of James Playfair to Thomas Hood., 1810.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 119-120
Scope and Contents

Concerns the sale of Playfair`s `System of Geography`.

Dates: 1810.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters. / Letters of James Playfair.

Letter of James Scott to Sir David Dalrymple., 1785.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 135-136
Scope and Contents

Concerns the early activities of the Antiquarian Society of Perth.

Dates: 1785.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters.

Letter of Jane Murray to her son John Murray.

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Identifier: Acc.14076-is now MS.50277 folios 129-130
Content Description

Concerns operations on the family plantation at Hopewell, Jamaica.

Dates: 1801.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letter of John Hall to Thomas Pennant.

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Identifier: Acc.13920
Dates: 1774.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letter of John Home to Harriet Kinloch., 1776.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folio 84
Scope and Contents

Concerns the poetry of John Milton.

A small engraving of Home is also included.

Dates: 1776.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters. / Letters of John Home.

Letter of John Home to Sir Ewen Cameron of Fassiefern., 1801.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 85-86
Scope and Contents

Concerns Home`s visit to Culloden the previous year.

The copy of Home`s `History of the Rebellion in the year 1745` which he sent to Cameron is held in the department of printed books.

Dates: 1801.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters. / Letters of John Home.

Letter of John King to Henry Mackenzie., 1797.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 98-99
Scope and Contents

Concerns Exchequer matters.

Dates: 1797.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters. / Letters of, and to, Henry Mackenzie.

Letter of John Pinkerton to David Erskine., 1790.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 115-116
Scope and Contents

Concerns early Scottish poetry and materials in the Bannatyne MS.

Dates: 1790.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters.

Letter of Margaret S McConnell, 1976, letter to Gordon Manning and enclosed cheque, 1987, and a copy of letter to Douglas and Matzi Dando, 1986., 1976, 1986-1987.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11338/6
Dates: 1976, 1986-1987.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Alasdair Gray. / Items relating to the Five Artists show.

Letter of Patrick Fraser Tytler concerning the new Archaeological Journal.

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Identifier: Acc.13784
Scope and Contents

Concerning the promotion in Scotland of the new `Archaeological Journal`, whose first volume has just appeared.

Dates: 1844
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letter of Richard Mackintosh to E. Dayvall., 1783.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 109-110
Scope and Contents

Concerns Henry Dundas`s policy in the East Indies.

Dates: 1783.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters.

Letter of Robert Boyd to John Pinkerton., 1782.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 28-29
Scope and Contents

Concerns Boyd`s attempts to play an organ.

Dates: 1782.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters.

Letter of Robert Burns to Captain John Gillespie., c. 1790.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 41-42
Scope and Contents

Contains a fragment of Burns`s Elegy to Miss Eliza Burnett.

Dates: c. 1790.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters. / Letters of Robert Burns.

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