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:
Loose autographed election tickets and postal covers of the Bannatyne Club., 1829-1839.
File
Identifier: MS.9359
Loose items including correspondence mainly to Mrs Traill, leader of group D., 1944, n.d.
File
Identifier: Acc.4303/4
Dates:
1944, n.d.
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 1., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.16
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 2., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.17
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 3., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.18
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 4., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.19
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 5., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.20
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 6., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.21
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 7., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.22
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 8., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.23
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 9., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.24
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 10., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.25
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, with an index (Adv.MS.32.6.26) by Sir Henry Stewart of Allanton.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.32.6.16-32.6.26
Dates:
1746-1775.
Magnus Magnusson's translations of the works of Halldór Laxness., 1948-2002.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/1-12
Dates:
1948-2002.
Manuscript and printed material chiefly concerning the etymology of place-names and surnames, compiled by James Brown Johnston.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5279-5287
Dates:
1904-1939.
Manuscript containing: (i) copies of correspondence, with related papers, between the `Catholic Remainder of the British Church` (the non-juring Bishops) and the Orthodox Church, concerning a scheme for union between these bodies, 1716-1725; (ii) copies of letters of Thomas Brett to Archibald Campbell, Bishop of Aberdeen, 1722-1725.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.17
Scope and Contents
(i) The negotiations between the non-juring Bishops and the Orthodox Church were initiated during the stay in London of Archbishop Arsenius of Thebais, and conducted largely through the Russian Court; they end on the death of Peter the Great. See ‘A History of the Non-Jurors’, pages 309-361, and ‘The Orthodox Church of the East in the Eighteenth Century’.The original letters and papers from the Orthodox side in these negotiations (with English or Latin translations when these are...
Dates:
1716-1725.
Manuscript drafts and other papers, 1978-1992, concerned with the composition of 'Blood on the walls', by William Winter Hamilton, published by Bloomsbury, London, 1992., 1978-1992.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10951/68-74
Manuscript drafts, corrected typescripts and proofs of Alasdair Gray, "A History Maker".
File
Identifier: Acc.11203
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence.
Dates:
1994.
Manuscript, first page proofs, and an interleaved proof copy of J A Harvie-Brown, "The Wonderful Trout".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3467
Scope and Contents
With relevant notes and correspondence.
Dates:
1898.
Manuscript notes, typescript drafts, and correspondence related to short story 'Harper and Wilton'., 1995.
File
Identifier: Acc.11621/99
Manuscript of an English translation of ‘A drunk man looks at the thistle' by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', with a covering letter to Kulgin Duval., 1967.
File
Identifier: MS.27014
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.27
Scope and Contents
It was originally Ferguson`s intention to print Dutch text and English translation of all Dutch documents quoted, but this scheme had to be abandoned for reasons of space, and only the English translations were ultimately printed (Volume I, page xxxiii). Before this change of plan, the Dutch texts had been inserted into the appropriate places of the manuscript of Volume I and part of Volume II; the rest are preserved separately, Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23.Summaries and extracts of...
Dates:
1698-1901.
Manuscript of chapters 1-3 of ‘Thermography’ by John Francis Campbell., 1883.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.6
Scope and Contents
The volume begins with notes and correspondence concerning the publication of the work. The letters are mainly to Campbell from the printers, with several from other correspondents including Sir George W Dasent and Sir Henry E Roscoe, 1883.
There are several rough drawings and diagrams accompanying the text.
Dates:
1883.
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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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
Manuscript of ‘Gallipoli memories’ by Sir Compton Mackenzie., [1929, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.10791
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is heavily corrected, and chapter 3 is missing. According to correspondence placed at the beginning of the volume (folios i-iv), this chapter was dictated. The preface is placed at the end (folio 525).
Dates:
[1929, or before.]