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:
Papers concerning Trevor Royle, "James and Jim: a Biography of James Kennaway" (1983).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8551
Scope and Contents
Includes drafts, proofs, notes and correspondence.
Dates:
circa 1980-1983.
Papers concerning various persons and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun., 1616-1771, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17606-17609
Dates:
1616-1771, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
Papers concerning William Campbell of Stobs; his lands of Stobs and his wife's of Harvieston were mortgaged to Lord Milton., 1722-1765, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17697-17699
Dates:
1722-1765, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
Papers concerning "Writing Together: an International Festival of Writing", Glasgow.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10391
Scope and Contents
Includes reports, memoranda, committee minutes and letters from among others, Sorley MacLean, Naomi Mitchison and Edwin Morgan.
Dates:
1990.
Papers connected with the curatory for Agnes Murray Kynynmound from 1741, the year of her father's death, until 1746 when she married Gilbert Elliot (later Sir Gilbert, 3rd Baronet of Minto)., 1741-1746.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13253-13256
Papers connected with the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1011-1014
Scope and Contents
All, except MS.1011, accompanied by typed transcripts and notes.
Dates:
1715, 1745-1746.
Papers consisting of copies of correspondence, statements, transcripts of documents, and printed legal papers, arranged apparently in a chronological sequence, concerning the competing claims of Reginald George Macdonald of Castletirrim and Alexander Ronaldson MacDonell of Glengarry as Chief of Macdonald., 1822-1824, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.7
Dates:
1822-1824, and undated.
Papers containing correspondence and draft chapters relating to 'Defoe in Edinburgh and other papers', by Paul Henderson Scott, also containing the article, entitled 'Cultural independence', by Paul Henderson Scott., Circa 1989-1995.
File
Identifier: Acc.13505/22
Scope and Contents
The book encompasses a selection of essays which cover a broad range of topics in Scottish history.
Dates:
Circa 1989-1995.
Papers containing material, leaflets and correspondence relating to a symposium held in Lucca in 1991., 1991.
File
Identifier: Acc.13505/67
Papers, correspondence and accounts of Auldbar estate., 1755-1920.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15418-15430
Papers, correspondence, cuttings and photographs of Esther Barbara Chalmers and the extended Chalmers and Lorimer families, including research notes and drafts concerning the histories of the families.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8695/1-336
Scope and Contents
This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...
Dates:
1786-1983.
Papers, cuttings and other documents of Sir Theodore Martin.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12323
Dates:
circa 1844-1901.
Papers dealing with signals, diagrams for battle, and other matters., 1793-1808.
File
Identifier: MS.2435
Scope and Contents
Includes a diagram signed by Nelson.
Dates:
1793-1808.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Naval signals, and related material.
Papers found loose in, or otherwise associated with, various manuscripts belonging to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, now bound together., 1681-1919, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2212
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Road-bills, 1757-1881, undated, found loose in MSS.1921-1923: Bills of inn-keepers, chiefly in Moray, Banffshire, and Aberdeenshire; among these are some bills of 1871-1881, including a few of foreign hotels (folio 1);(ii) 'Information for Mr James Eleis & ye poor of ye Westkirk paroch agt Hary Nisbet yor of Dean', 1681, found loose in MS.1953: 'Leaves from the Buik of the West Kirke' (folio 32);(iii) Bills and notes,...
Dates:
1681-1919, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Papers from Nisbet House, Berwickshire.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5410-5508
Scope and Contents
The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.
Dates:
1575-early19th century.
Papers from Pitfirrane House, Fife.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.6406-6511
Scope and Contents
The papers derive from four main sources: material relating to the Halketts of Pitfirrane, to the Wedderburns of Gosford, to Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats, and to John McFarlane, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1709). The last male heir in the direct line of the Halkett family, Sir James (succeeded 1697), died in 1705, ending the baronetcy created in 1671. On his death his eldest sister, Janet, succeeded to Pitfirrane. She had married Sir Peter Wedderburn, 1st Baronet of Gosford, who now...
Dates:
1517-1897.
Papers from the office of John Smith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8156
Scope and Contents
Concerning roads and other local affairs.
Dates:
1815-1830.
'Papers in Mr Ernst's Case' being copies of correspondence, reports and statistics of and concerning Thomas Henry-Ernst, relating to dacoity in the district of Hooghly and neighbouring districts., 1809-1810.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.11597(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
Thomas Henry-Ernst was demoted from his office of Judge and Magistrate of Hooghly in 1809 to that of Third Judge of the Provincial Court of Appeal at Benares (Varanasi).
Dates:
1809-1810.
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 of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Bengal Government.
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Papers of the Bengal Government relating to the Judicial Department and the administration of law and law enforcement.
'Papers in Mr Ernst's Case' being copies of correspondence, reports and statistics of and concerning Thomas Henry-Ernst, relating to dacoity in the district of Hooghly and neighbouring districts., 1809.
File
Identifier: MS.11597(i)
Dates:
1809.
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 of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Bengal Government.
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Papers of the Bengal Government relating to the Judicial Department and the administration of law and law enforcement.
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'Papers in Mr Ernst's Case' being copies of correspondence, reports and statistics of and concerning Thomas Henry-Ernst, relating to dacoity in the district of Hooghly and neighbouring districts.
'Papers in Mr Ernst's Case' being copies of correspondence, reports and statistics of and concerning Thomas Henry-Ernst, relating to dacoity in the district of Hooghly and neighbouring districts., 1809-1810.
File
Identifier: MS.11597(ii)
Dates:
1809-1810.
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 of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Bengal Government.
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Papers of the Bengal Government relating to the Judicial Department and the administration of law and law enforcement.
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'Papers in Mr Ernst's Case' being copies of correspondence, reports and statistics of and concerning Thomas Henry-Ernst, relating to dacoity in the district of Hooghly and neighbouring districts.
Papers in the process of Sir Robert Spottiswoode, Lord New Abbey; papers from the library at Duns Castle, Berwickshire; and papers of James Balfour of Pilrig, director of the Darien Company., 1645-1796, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.3582
Papers, including correspondence and accounts, of the Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Dep.223- is now part of Dep.206.
Dates:
1964-1973.
Papers, including correspondence, articles, notes, reports and photographs, of Reginald W Powell, physicist.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10574/1-46
Dates:
1938-1985, undated.
Papers, including correspondence, financial documents, plans, reports and related material, concerning the estates of Foxhall and Avoncrook.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6275/1-133
Dates:
1618-1941, undated.