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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:

Correspondence and documents concerning the families of Thomas Smith, Professor of Evangelistic Theology at New College, Edinburgh, and John Smith, tenant in Libberton, Lanarkshire.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.7185-7186
Scope and Contents

The families of Thomas and John Smith were related by marriage and an outline genealogy is provided (MS.7185, folio i.).

Dates: 1790-1914.

Correspondence and documents relating to the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, to Prisoners of War, and to various Scottish peers, with memorials of the Judges of the Consistorial Court of Scotland., 1786-1835.

 File
Identifier: MS.353
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Correspondence and documents relating to the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh: (a) Dispute in 1792 between John Jackson, the proprietor, and Stephen Kemble, the lessee. The persons concerned were the Duke of Hamilton and Henry Dundas, as patentees, Robert Playfair, trustee for the creditors of John Jackson, and Mrs Harriet Esten of Covent Garden Theatre. (Folio 1.) (b) Renewal of the Patent, 1808, 1810. See also MS.19. The persons concerned were the Duke...
Dates: 1786-1835.

Correspondence and family papers of the Marquesses and Marchionesses of Lothian, received unbound., 1729-1900, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.5801
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Correspondence: an unsigned letter, 1729, to the Marchioness of Lothian from her sister (probably Eleanora, wife of John Craufurd of Craufurdland); eight letters, 1870, written by the 8th Marchioness and the 9th Marquess and Marchioness; and nine letters, 1871-1899, undated, written to the 9th Marquess. (Folio 1.)(ii) Other papers: copy of an inscription on a dirk given to the 6th Marquess, 1797; 'Maxims by my Father', in the hand of...
Dates: 1729-1900, undated.

Correspondence and financial papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1817-1841.

 File
Identifier: MS.11956
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence and statements of account received from the Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1817, 1825-1829 (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence and statements received from the British Linen Company's Jedburgh branch bank, 1824-1832, 1835, 1841 (folio 26); (iii) Letters and related papers, 1832-1834, relating to transactions with Schickler Brothers, Bankers, Berlin (folio 62).

Dates: 1817-1841.

Correspondence and genealogical accounts of and concerning William Nassau Elliot of Wells., 1692-late 18th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.12885
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letter of R Trotter, Edinburgh, to Thomas Rutherfurd of Wells (later of Edgerston), 1692 (folio 1); (ii) Family and general correspondence of and concerning William Nassau Elliot of Wells, 1761-1781, including letters of the 1st Baron Heathfield (folio 2); (iii) Genealogical account of the children of John Trayton Fuller of Ashdown House, Sussex, and his wife, Anne, daughter of the 1st Baron Heathfield, 1795 (folio 37); (iv) Genealogical account of the family...
Dates: 1692-late 18th century.