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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 notes concerning 'A Man of Pleasure', a proposed musical about James Boswell by Robert McLellan., 1962-1964.

 File
Identifier: MS.26390
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence with Irvin Graham, the American composer who was to write the music (folio l); (ii) Preliminary notes for the plot (folio 70).

Dates: 1962-1964.

Correspondence and notes of James H Anderson, civil engineer, chiefly of a historical nature., 1936-1940.

 File
Identifier: MS.6359
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Correspondence, 1936-1937, concerning the Granton Ferry (folio 1);

(ii) Correspondence, 1937-1938, concerning James Fraser, Millwright, Dowally, designer of self-propelling twin boats (folio 29);

(iii) Correspondence, 1938, concerning the Tay Ferry.(folio 81);

(iv) Correspondence, 1940, concerning Thomas Yarrow and Benjamin Conner, employees of the Caledonian Railway Company (folio 95).

Dates: 1936-1940.

Correspondence and notes of William Stewart, of the Glasgow Herald.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10021
Scope and Contents

Concerning the printer James Watson.

Dates: 1900-1908 and undated.

Correspondence and notes relating to the literary and mountaineering books belonging to, sold by or donated by Janet Adam Smith., 1962-1999.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/79
Scope and Contents

Containing donations to the London Library, 1980, and to Somerville College, 1984.

Also containing a letter form I F McIver, National Library of Scotland, to Janet Adam Smith, 19 October 1998, relating to the possible donation of her papers and those of her late first husband, Michael Roberts, to the Library.

Dates: 1962-1999.