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 lectures of David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11533
Scope and Contents
Mostly concerning artistic matters.
Dates:
1949-1961.
Correspondence and legal and official papers of Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats., 1611-1612, 1654-1720, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.6488
Scope and Contents
This volume has been divided into the following sections: correspondence (folios 1-26), family legal papers (folios 27-70), official legal papers (folios 71-80), official accounts (folios 81-154). The official papers concern Sir Patrick Murray in his capacity as General Receiver of Crown Rents and Foreign Excise.
Dates:
1611-1612, 1654-1720, undated.
Correspondence and legal documents concerning the families of Thomas Smith and John Smith., 1790-1914.
File
Identifier: MS.7185
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Correspondence, 1799-1914, chiefly from Thomas Smith, when a missionary in Calcutta, to his sister, Catherine, wife of Thomas Smith, tenant in Libberton. Smith's letters deal mainly with family affairs but include some comments on life in India, the disruption of 1843, the effect of the Corn Laws, and the Indian Mutiny. The miscellaneous correspondence includes a letter to Smith from Alexander Duff, the missionary. (Folio 1.)(ii) Legal...
Dates:
1790-1914.
Correspondence and legal documents relating to a law case between Walter Oswald and Elizabeth Henderson Oswald, parents of Henry Robert Oswald, senior, and John Henderson, brother of Elizabeth Henderson Oswald, over the property of their father, Robert Henderson, and of their two brothers., 1807-1841.
File
Identifier: MS.9041
Dates:
1807-1841.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and diaries of Henry Robert Oswald (1790-1862), surgeon and physician in Edinburgh and Douglas, Isle of Man; and of his son Henry Robert Oswald, junior (1827-1892), an assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Company, who rose to the position of Surgeon-General of Burma, 1876-1879, and briefly of India, 1879, and who retired to Edinburgh with his family in 1881.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Oswald family.
Correspondence and legal, financial and other papers of the Dunlop family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9250-9307
Scope and Contents
Much of the collection concerns William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University, his son Alexander, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and his grandson John, Tide Surveyor at Greenock. The papers of William Dunlop include material on the colony of South Carolina, the Darien Scheme, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland, while those of Alexander chiefly concern the University of Glasgow. The collection also includes diaries and literary works of John Dunlop of Gairbraid, the temperance...
Dates:
1605-1952.
Correspondence and legal papers concerning the Crinan Canal.
File
Identifier: MS.9500
Scope and Contents
Most of the papers concern the Canal proprietors' negotiations with the local landowners, at first to acquire land to build the Canal, and later in disputes about rights and ownership. There are also records of tolls paid, and accounts for damages to property.
Dates:
1795-1873.
Correspondence and legal papers of Hugh Seton of Touch, formally Smith, Archibald Seton, 13th of Touch, and Barbara Seton, 14th of Touch.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19204-19209
Dates:
1775-1831.
Correspondence and legal papers of the Library of the Kirk of Saltoun., 1898-1899, 1920-1941.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9270/32-34
Dates:
1898-1899, 1920-1941.
Correspondence and legal papers to and concerning John and William Smith and Patrick Wilson, writers, Kelso.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8764
Dates:
1747-1846.
Correspondence and letter book of Isabella Plumb, including some related papers., 1888-1942, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12680/1-6
Correspondence and letter books of Duncan MacKinnon.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6168/1-15
Scope and Contents
In connection mainly with the British India Steam Navigation Company.This collection consists of the incoming correspondence and letter books of Duncan Mackinnon, a partner in MacKinnon, Mackenzie, and Co, of Calcutta, the firm from which the British India Steam Navigation Compnay developed. This correspondence covers the years 1873, when MacKinnon returned to India after his marriage, to 1881, and the letter books cover a somewhat longer period from 1871 to 1887. This was the...
Dates:
1873-1887.
Correspondence and letters., 1920-1961.
Series
Identifier: Acc.4826/1-9
Correspondence and literary papers, including articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts, of Janet Adam Smith.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12342/1-203
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dates:
1930-2005.
Correspondence and literary papers of Alastair D S Fowler.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12542
Dates:
1954-2005.
Correspondence and literary papers of and concerning George Borrow collected by Sir Angus Fraser, with working papers of Sir Angus Fraser relating to George Borrow.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12091/1-74
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).
Dates:
1794-2001, undated.
Correspondence and literary papers of Margaret O W Oliphant and her family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23193-23208
Dates:
1846-1897, undated.
Correspondence and literary papers of Naomi Mitchison, collected by Professor Isobel Murray, relating to "Beyond this limit" (Edinburgh, 1986) and "A Girl Must Live" (Glasgow, 1990).
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12709
Dates:
circa 1984-1994.
Correspondence and literary papers of the author, Marion C Lochhead (1902-1985).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26190-26193
Dates:
1928-1971, undated.
Correspondence and manuscripts of Agnes Ethel Mackay (died 1980).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26891-26894
Scope and Contents
Agnes Mackay was born and educated in Scotland, but spent much of her life in France. During the German Occupation, she lived in St Tropez with her cousin, Marion Melville, and they moved to Paris after the war. Her publications included poetry, biographies of Paul Valery and Arthur Melville, and critical works on art and literature.
Dates:
1917-1976, undated.
Correspondence and manuscripts of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, and of his family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.6362-6401
Scope and Contents
There is also some correspondence of the Seaforth family, Henry's son, Joshua Henry, having married Helen, daughter of Lord Seaforth.
Dates:
1755-1887.
Correspondence and material of Robert Garioch Sutherland for his edition of selections from the work of Sir David Lindsay., 1979-1980.
File
Identifier: MS.26621
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence with the publisher, Michael Schmidt, and others, 1979-1980 (folio 1); (ii) Notes (folio 11); (iii) Drafts of Robert Garioch Sutherland's introduction (folio 28). Much of (ii) and (iii) is written on the backs of letters and other scrap paper.
Dates:
1979-1980.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father.
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Work by other writers collected by Robert Garioch Sutherland.
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Material for Robert Garioch Sutherland's edition of selections from the work of Sir David Lindsay, intended for publication by the Carcanet New Press.
Correspondence and memoranda chiefly concerning the Duke of Bedford., 1805-1806.
File
Identifier: MS.12921
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Correspondence and memorandum, March 1806, concerning the Duke of Bedford's instructions on appointment as Lord Lieutenant, relating chiefly to the Catholic question (folio 1);
(ii) Three memoranda, 1805-1806, one in the Duke of Bedford's hand, relating to Maynooth College (folio 12);
(iii) Copies of 'secret' letters of the Earl Spencer and Lord Howick to the Duke of Bedford concerning amendment of the Mutiny Act to allow Roman Catholics into the army on the...
Dates:
1805-1806.
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 chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning William Elliot of Wells.
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Correspondence and papers of William Elliot of Wells as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1806-1807.
Correspondence and memoranda chiefly concerning the proposed printing by T and A Constable of the Skerryvore edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's works for Odhams Limited., 1936.
File
Identifier: MS.23614
Dates:
1936.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letter books, correspondence and other records of the printing firm of T and A Constable, Edinburgh, together with records of the Edinburgh Press, which was amalgamated with the firm in 1936.
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Letter books, correspondence and other records chiefly of T and A Constable.
Correspondence and memoranda concerning Andrew Stuart's genealogical works., 1788-1799.
File
Identifier: MS.5401
Dates:
1788-1799.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Various financial, legal and personal papers of Andrew Stuart.