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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:

Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, chiefly concerning financial matters., 1847-1859.

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Identifier: Acc.3521/20
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Miscellaneous letters, 1847-1859, concenring Henry Cockburn's statement of financial affairs November 1847;

Letters, 1848, concerning sale of house in Charlotte Square;

Correspondence, 1850 from Scottish Widows Fund and Equitable Assurance;

Tax accounts;

Papers, 1854, concerning Bonaly House.

Dates: 1847-1859.

Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of and concerning Margaret Oliphant., 1754-1921, undated.

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Identifier: MS.23211
Scope and Contents The contents consist of: (i) letters of various friends and contemporaries of Margaret Oliphant, 1844-1868, undated (folio 1); (ii) letters to Janet M Oliphant 1895-1921, undated (folio 19); (iii) memorandum of agreement with Henry Colburn 1849 and death certificate 1897 of Mrs Oliphant (folio 46); (iv) photographs and other depictions of Margaret Oliphant and her family and other subjects 1851, 1874, undated (folio 50); (v) excerpts in Janet M Oliphant's hand of Margaret Oliphant's...
Dates: 1754-1921, undated.

Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of and concerning the Reverend William Wilson., 1833-1939, undated.

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Identifier: MS.14225
Scope and Contents

The papers include genealogical material collected by Ralph A Wilson (folio 41), notes for sermons (folio 78) and an early notebook of William Wilson with notes of his reading (folio 86).

Dates: 1833-1939, undated.

Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of Hugh Elliot chiefly relating to Corsica and Sardinia., 1802-1806.

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Identifier: MS.13039
Scope and Contents

Includes lists of British sympathisers in Corsica, compiled by Carlo Grimaldi, circa 1804 (folio 1), and correspondence of Hugh Elliot with the Cavaliere di Tresi and the Due de Genevois (later King Charles Felix of Sardinia), 1804 (folio 66), and with Joseph Smith, British consul at Cagliari, 1806 (folio 92).

Dates: 1802-1806.

Miscellaneous correspondence and papers relating to other estates with which the Minto family was in some way involved., 1731-1886.

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Identifier: MS.13307
Scope and Contents Contains correspondence and papers relating to the following: (i) Whitsome Hill, Berwickshire, the property of Hugh Murray Kynynmound, advocate, 1731-1741 (folio 1);(ii) Invertiel, Fife, the property of Hugh Somervell of Invertiel, Writer to the Signet, father of Isabella Murray of Melgund, 1737-1743 (folio 50);(iii) Bilton near Wetherby in Yorkshire, relating to newly enclosed land at Bilton owned by John Iveson, but over which Anna Mary Amyand, later Countess of...
Dates: 1731-1886.

Miscellaneous correspondence, being letters of and to persons outwith the Strange and Lumisden families., 1743-1932, undated.

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Identifier: MS.14269
Scope and Contents

Notable correspondents include Thomas Wagstaffe, Anglican Chaplain to the Court of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 1752 (folio 2); Professor Hugh Blair, 1791 (folio 20); Benjamin West, the painter, 1814 (folio 28); Robert Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone to Sir James Stuyart Denham, 1823 (for another copy of this letter, see MS.683, folio 45) (folio 30); William Thompson, Baron Kelvin, 1890 (folio 40 verso); and Baron Rayleigh, 1890, 1912 (folios 40, 48).

Dates: 1743-1932, undated.

Miscellaneous correspondence of Charles Murray., 1892-1969, undated.

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Identifier: MS.27270
Scope and Contents

Much of the correspondence is addressed to Mrs Murray and concerns Charles Murray's publications and Memorial Trust. Later material concerns broadcasts and a television programme about Murray.

Dates: 1892-1969, undated.