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:
Nine letters of Hector Berlioz, 1839-1860, undated, with two letters of Harriet Smithson, 1828, 1833, and correspondence concerning the Berlioz Memorial Fund, 1883. , 1828-1883, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3429 [HB.MS.10]
Dates:
1828-1883, undated.
Nine notebooks, relating to day-to-day running of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland), tour organisation and other matters. Some containing agendas and minutes of meetings, and also containing some correspondence loosely inserted into one of the unnumbered books., [?Circa 1978-1984].
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10893/346-348
Note and other material of John Purves concerning Italian literature., [Circa 1907]-1953, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15875-15881
Note-books of William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, containing correspondence and copies of documents relating to the claimants to the estate of Innes of Stow., [?1850-?1857.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.623-632
Notebook compiled by James Stuart including extracts from correspondence of the East India Company with the Madras Council, 1768-1771 and 1774-1775, and extracts from correspondence of Madras government with members of the company and with native rulers, 1767-1775., 1767-1775.
Item
Identifier: MS.5381
Dates:
1767-1775.
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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Papers of Major-General James Stuart, a younger brother of Andrew Stuart, who, as an officer in the service of the East India Company, became involved in the disturbed politics of Madras.
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Notebooks compiled by James Stuart, probably from the archives of the East India Company, prior to sailing for India in November 1775 to take up his military appointment at Madras.
Notebook compiled by James Stuart including extracts from correspondence of the East India Company with the Madras Council, 1768-1771 and 1774-1775, and from papers relating to the Tanjore expeditions of 1771 and 1773., 1768-1775.
Item
Identifier: MS.5382
Dates:
1768-1775.
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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Papers of Major-General James Stuart, a younger brother of Andrew Stuart, who, as an officer in the service of the East India Company, became involved in the disturbed politics of Madras.
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Notebooks compiled by James Stuart, probably from the archives of the East India Company, prior to sailing for India in November 1775 to take up his military appointment at Madras.
Notebook compiled by James Stuart including extracts from correspondence of the Madras government with members of the East India Company and with native rulers., 1767-1775.
Item
Identifier: MS.5383
Dates:
1767-1775.
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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Papers of Major-General James Stuart, a younger brother of Andrew Stuart, who, as an officer in the service of the East India Company, became involved in the disturbed politics of Madras.
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Notebooks compiled by James Stuart, probably from the archives of the East India Company, prior to sailing for India in November 1775 to take up his military appointment at Madras.
Notebook containing copies of correspondence between Thomas Robertson and officials in the Excise Office, and accounts for provisions., 1806.
Item
Identifier: MS.9642
Notebook containing correspondence relating to infant baptism with F Hayes; census of Caithness and later Caithness demography by Alexander Webster; and catechists and 'men' in Caithness and Sutherland., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10022/77
Notebook, containing papers relating to the mystics of the north east. Also containing religious correspondence of Lord Deskford., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10022/83
Notebook kept by the 6th Marquess of Lothian, chiefly concerning the service in Ireland of the Midlothian Fencible Cavalry Regiment, of which he was Colonel., 1797-1799.
Item
Identifier: MS.5750
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains copies of correspondence, orders, etc., a report of the Regiment's movements in the 1798 rebellion, and, inter alia, a treatise, 1801, on the etymology of military words (folio 68 verso), two stories (folios 103 verso, 136 verso), and notes on military theory.
Dates:
1797-1799.
Notebook of copies of correspondence mainly between James VI and I, and Charles I, and the Duke of Buckingham while the latter two were in Spain in 1623., 1623.
Item
Identifier: MS.25376
Dates:
1623.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Transcripts of historical documents made for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Notebook of the Earl of Rosebery containing the continuation of a diary kept during a visit to Raby Castle in September, 1865, a few entries for 1866-1869, and copies of letters of and to Lord Granville, 1869., 1865-1869.
Item
Identifier: MS.10187
Scope and Contents
The notebook is numbered ‘2’.
Dates:
1865-1869.
Notebook of transcripts made for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1657-1661, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.25379
Scope and Contents
The transcripts include, 'Lieutenant General Baillie his vindication for his own part of Kilsyth and Preston', undated. Also copies of correspondence between James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews, and Robert Baillie, Principal of Glasgow University, 1657-1661.
Inscribed in Lord Hailes's hand 'Transcribed from the original by Mr. Aitken of Glasgow' from the Wodrow papers.
Dates:
1657-1661, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Transcripts of historical documents made for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Notebook with some correspondence of the Reverend Archibald Robertson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8501
Scope and Contents
Concerning his work for the Scottish Mountaineering Club, and the Scottish Rights of Way Society.
Dates:
circa 1940-1953.
Notebooks and other papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane, preceded by correspondence of and papers concerning his mother, Mrs Mary E Haldane and his maternal uncle, Sir John S Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and followed by notebooks and other papers of his sister Elizabeth S Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20208-20229
Dates:
1859-1937, undated.
Notebooks compiled by James Stuart, probably from the archives of the East India Company, prior to sailing for India in November 1775 to take up his military appointment at Madras., 1765-1775.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5381-5386
Scope and Contents
The notebooks contain extracts from correspondence on a number of topics, and copies of many miscellaneous letters.
Dates:
1765-1775.
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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Papers of Major-General James Stuart, a younger brother of Andrew Stuart, who, as an officer in the service of the East India Company, became involved in the disturbed politics of Madras.
Notebooks, containing material relating to the Roman Catholics in the Highlands, also containing material on education and Wodrow correspondence., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10022/14
Notebooks of the Earl of Rosebery., 1814-1909.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10179-10193
Notebooks, typescript, scrapbook, correspondence and papers relating to 'Nairn: in darkness and light', by David Thomson., 1920s, 1978-1986, undated..
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13259/17-23
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920s, 1978-1986, undated..
`Notes about tartans` of John Francis Campbell, written between 1871 and 1873, ‘while seeking for the real Campbell Clan Tartan’., 1871-1873.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.9
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, notes and a few sketches, 1871-1873, 1884, are interspersed throughout the volume. The majority of the letters are from members of the Sobieski Stuart family.
One or two samples of tartan have been bound in at the beginning of the volume.
Dates:
1871-1873.
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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Collections of Gaelic tales, folklore and proverbs, mainly written by John Dewar; material relating to folklore in general; papers concerning Highland dress; and several volumes relating to Irish language and folklore.
Notes and correspondence, 1892-1911, undated, of the Earl of Rosebery concerning William Pitt; and miscellaneous literary and political papers of Rosebery., 1870-1914, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.10177
Notes and correspondence of and collected by Major-General Stewart A Lithgow on the genealogy of the Lithgow and other families., 1784-1909, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2545
Scope and Contents
The notes and correspondence concern: various families, 1894-1897, undated (folio 1); the genealogy and estate of Hector Lithgow, Commissary of Ordinance, Bengal, 1784, 1842-1886 (folio 56); and various branches of the Lithgow family, 1816, 1864-1897, 1909, undated (folio 78).
Dates:
1784-1909, undated.
Notes and correspondence of Archibald R B Haldane.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6071/1-29
Scope and Contents
Concerning "The Drove Roads of Scotland", "New Ways through the Glens", and, "Three Centuries of Scottish Posts".
Dates:
circa 1945-1971.
Notes and correspondence of James R Anderson, concerning a bibliography of Philip Doddridge's ‘Life of Colonel Gardiner’.
File
Identifier: MS.6156
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript of a lecture by James R Anderson, possibly given to Glasgow Bibliographical Society, apparently unprinted (folio 1);(ii) Extracts from an article and subsequent correspondence in the 'Scotsman', September-October 1918, relating to the Battle of Prestonpans and to Colonel Gardiner (folio 22);(iii) Notes, etc., relating to the compilation of the bibliography (folio 28);(iv) Letters, 1918-19, 1925, to...
Dates:
1918-1919, undated.