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:
Letters and papers relating chiefly to the Herring Fisheries in Scotland, and to police and prisons in Scotland, with a few maps and plans of prisons., 1779-1848.
Series
Identifier: MSS.354A-C
Letters and papers relating to Canadian affairs concerning the 4th Earl of Minto., 1900-1904.
File
Identifier: MS.12577
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Memoranda, notes of conversations, and copies of correspondence relating to General Sir Edward Hutton's relations with the Canadian government, and to his resignation, 1900 (folio 1);(ii) Memorandum by Sir Charles Tupper on the events leading to Canadian participation in the South African War, circa 1902 (folio 97);(iii) Letters of the 12th Earl of Dundonald, General Officer Commanding Dominion Militia, to the 4th Earl of Minto, with...
Dates:
1900-1904.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to Canada.
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Papers relating to the 4th Earl of Minto's tenure of office as Governor-General of Canada.
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Correspondence and other papers concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to military affairs in Canada.
Letters chiefly to or concerning David Livingstone, and to Joseph Bevan Braithwaite; with other papers concerning Livingstone., 1852-1894, 1922-1971, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.20317
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Envelopes, 1857-1875, from some of David Livingstone's and Robert Moffat's letters; letters, 1856-1858, to Livingstone from among others Arthur Tidman and John Smith Moffat; draft indenture, 1857, between Livingstone and his trustees; two accounts for the Zambesi Expedition (one for the Lady Nyassa), 1858, 1861; and papers, 1874, 1891, undated, concerning Livingstone's appointment as Consul, his will and his journals (folio 1);
(ii) Letters, 1852-1897,...
Dates:
1852-1894, 1922-1971, undated.
Letters concerning the East Lothian Reform Association and liberal political organisation in the county.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10851
Dates:
1835-1838.
Letters from Alexander Warden and his wife M. B. Warden from Trinidad to family in Scotland., 1816; 189-1847.
File
Identifier: Acc.13991/1
Dates:
1816; 189-1847.
Letters from George Rose to Sir John Orde concerning the governorship of Dominica.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13685
Scope and Contents
The correspondence chiefly relates to the governorship of Dominica under Sir John Orde.
Dates:
1784-1808
Letters, May 1799, between William Wilson, Glasgow, and Alexander Mundell, solicitor and economist, concerning Scottish colliery legislation., 1799.
File
Identifier: MS.14835, folios 101-108
Dates:
1799.
Letters, notebooks and manuscripts of and concerning Hugh Miller, geologist.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.7516-7527
Dates:
1650-1872.
Letters of Adam Ferguson., 1762-1779.
Series
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 69-74
Scope and Contents
Letters to William Petty and William Eden.
Dates:
1762-1779.
Letters of Adam Ferguson to William Petty., 1762.
File
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 69-72
Scope and Contents
Letter of Adam Ferguson to William Petty, 1762, concerns the militia issue in Scotland.
Letter of Adam Ferguson to William Petty, 1762, concerns Ferguson`s attempts to secure Petty`s patronage for the position of Principal of Edinburgh University.
Dates:
1762.
Letters of Allan Barns-Graham to R E Muirhead on Scottish Home Rule.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14277
Scope and Contents
With Christmas card from Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham to Muirhead, 1925.
Dates:
1920-1925.
Letters of, among others, William Robertson (undated), William Ogilvie (1774-1779), John Davidson (1770-1789, and undated), the Earl of Buchan (1780-1804, and undated), Francis Grose (1789, and undated), John Nichols (1781-1785), and George Chalmers (1792-1800)., 1770-1804, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.5.8(iv)
Letters of, and about, Eleanor Roosevelt to Arthur C Murray, 3rd Viscount Elibank.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14392
Scope and Contents
Four letters of Eleanor Roosevelt to Arthur C Murray, concerning a visit from W. L. Mackenzie-King, Prime Minister of Canada, 2 May 1948, with related correspondence between Murray and Mackenzie-King; campaigning ahead of the 1956 US Presidential Election, 28 October 1955 and 20 January 1956; and the Suez Crisis, 14 November 1956.With letters of Robert E Sherwood; Sir William Wiseman, Bt; and Stella, Lady Reading to Arthur C Murray on Eleanor Roosevelt's visits to the UK and...
Dates:
1946-1957
Letters of and concerning Francis C Kinchant, Cornet, 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys); with press-cuttings concerning the reinternment in Edinburgh of Charles Ewart, also of the 2nd Dragoons., 1815-1938.
File
Identifier: MS.15385, folios 1-66
Scope and Contents
NOTE S&C
The contents are as follows:
(i) Letter, 23 October 1813, of Philip Hunt to his sister, enclosing a recipe for a cure, known as ‘The Chelsea pensioner’, for gout and rheumatism and also enquiring after ‘Miss Kinchant’ (folio 1);
(ii) Letters of Francis Kinchant (folio 4);
(iii) Copy of a letter, 1817, describing the death of Kinchant at Waterloo (folio 14);
(iv) Correspondence and notes, 1894, 1910, 1917, of Vivian McLaughlin and Major-General J C Kinchant concerning Francis...
Dates:
1815-1938.
Letters of and regarding Corporal James Birse, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13630
Scope and Contents
Letters of and regarding Corporal James Birse, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1916-1917.James Birse was born in Aberdeenshire in October 1884, and trained as a pharmacist working in both Aberdeen and Edinburgh prior to emigrating to Canada in 1904 where he continued in the same trade. After the outbreak of the First World War, he volunteered with the Canadian Expeditionary Force and Private Birse travelled to the UK for training in early 1916. The items consist of two...
Dates:
1916-1917
Letters of, and to, Henry Mackenzie., 1792-c. 1827.
Series
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 94-108
Scope and Contents
Letters of Henry Mackenzie to Thomas Cadell, William Davies, and, Henry Davidson. Letters of Samuel Rose, John King, and, Robert Ward to Henry Mackenzie.
Dates:
1792-c. 1827.
Letters of and to James Stewart., 1860-1905
File
Identifier: Acc.13862/2
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Francis Younghusband and Horace Waller
Dates:
1860-1905
Letters of and to Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald mostly concerning his treatises on telegraphic communication systems, but also others of his publications, and with some financial and legal papers., 1791-1825.
File
Identifier: MS.50699
Scope and Contents
Letters of correspondents at the Admiralty.Barrow, JohnLetter, 1 September 1814, of John Barrow, Southampton, to John Macdonald praising his telegraphic system. Folios 1-2.Letter, 13 May 1817, of John Barrow, Admiralty, London, to John Macdonald stating that his work on telegraphic communication has been laid before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Folios 3-4.Letter, 22 August 1818, of John Barrow, Admiralty, London, to John Macdonald...
Dates:
1791-1825.
Letters of and to Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald mostly concerning his work 'A New System of Telegraphy'., 1810-1826.
File
Identifier: MS.50698
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning treatises by John Macdonald on telegraphic communicationCorrespondence mostly between John Macdonald, the East India Company, and the Admiralty concerning the development and publication of 'A treatise explanatory of a new system of naval, military and political telegraphic communication of general application, in which a comprehensive numerical dictionary, [...] is applied'. (London: T. Egerton, 1817.)Letters of John Macdonald...
Dates:
1810-1826.
Letters of and to Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald mostly concerning his work 'A New System of Telegraphy', but also others of his publications, and with some personal papers.
File
Identifier: MSS.50698-50699
Dates:
1791-1826
Letters of and to the 2nd Earl of Minto from various related families., 1800-1849, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.11798
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Letters of Agnes, Lady Carnegie, wife of Sir David, 4th Baronet of Southesk, and cousin of the 2nd Earl of Minto, and of other members of her family, to the 2nd Earl, 1800-1849. The contents of this part of the volume are arranged thus: letters of Lady Carnegie, 1808-1849 (folio 1); letter of Sir James, 5th Baronet, 1814 (folio 29); letter of Christian Mary, daughter of Lady Carnegie, 1800 (folio 30), letters of Anne Wauchope, née Carnegie, 1806-1820 (folio...
Dates:
1800-1849, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Family and general correspondence of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence of the 2nd Earl of Minto with related families.
Letters of and to Thomas Carlyle, and a proof sheet of ‘Frederick the Great’, with corrections in Carlyle's hand., 1821-[1865, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.3112, folios 230-262
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Letters to Thomas Carlyle from John Aitken Carlyle, 1821, 1831, 1834-1837 (folio 230);
Letters of Carlyle: to Spring-Rice, 1843 (folio 246); to the Reverend William Hanna, 1849, 1852 (folios 248, 253); to James Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, 1852 (folio 250); to an unknown correspondent, discouraging him from writing poetry, 1856 (folio 255); to his sister Jean, 1857 (folio 257); to Thomas Ballantyne, 1860 (folio 261);
Proof-sheet of ‘Frederick the...
Dates:
1821-[1865, or before.]
Letters of and to Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch and his wife, the Honourable Mary Graham, née Cathcart; letters of Robert Graham; letters and papers of Lady Christian Graham, née Hope, mother of Lynedoch., 1766-1848, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16001-16019
Dates:
1766-1848, undated.
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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Family and general correspondence and papers of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, with some papers of their heirs in the unentailed estate, the Maxtone Graham, formerly Maxtone, of Cultoquhey family.
Letters of and to Walter Henry George Johnstone-Douglas., 1896-1962, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7638/36-40