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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 other manuscripts of the novelist James Grant.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8876-8885
Scope and Contents

Besides being a most prolific writer of fiction (he produced some fifty-six novels), James Grant wrote on the history, particularly military history, of Scotland. He was a keen supporter of the Volunteer Movement in Edinburgh, and founded, in 1852, the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights.

Dates: 19th century.

Correspondence and other papers chiefly of George Gleig, Bishop of Brechin, and George Robert Gleig, author of ‘The Subaltern’.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3869-3872
Scope and Contents

Also included is some correspondence of Sir Henry George Ward, a connection of Henry J S Bailey's family, and of Bailey himself.

Dates: 1787-1927, undated.

Correspondence and other papers chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1154
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Correspondence, 1660-1822, of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2889);

Correspondence, accounts and other papers, [?1698-?1853], chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2890).

Dates: [1660-1853.]

Correspondence and other papers, including photographs, newspaper cuttings and a pamphlet, concerning Sailors' Walk House, Kirkcaldy, a sixteenth-century building.

 Series
Identifier: MS.20761 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Scope and Contents

The papers were kept by the donor, Miss Gwendollyn Lendrum, secretary of the committee which prevented the house’s demolition, raised funds for its restoration, and ultimately transferred it to the National Trust for Scotland.

Dates: 1933-1953.

Correspondence and other papers of David Herd., 1757-1799, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1924
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: letters, 1757-1768, addressed to David Herd by his father and others, chiefly about property in Jamaica, with draft replies, etc. (folio 3); David Herd's burgess-ticket as freeman of the Canongate, 1799 (folio 84); literary and historical notes, undated (folio 85).

Dates: 1757-1799, undated.

Correspondence and other papers of John Richardson, of Kirklands, Writer to the Signet, and his family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3989-3992
Scope and Contents

A note on John Richardson's children will be found in MS.3989, folio i.

Dates: 19th century.

Correspondence and other papers of Rachel Annand Taylor; with copies of poems in several hands., 1892, 1901-1965, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.20433
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Copies of poems, 1892, undated, by different authors in several hands. (Folio 1.) (ii) Correspondence, 1901-1965, undated, including a few accounts and photographs. Many of the letters, 1962-1965, are written to Mrs Taylor's nephew, Walter Annand, on the possibility of publishing parts of 'Renaissance France'. (Folio 25.)

Dates: 1892, 1901-1965, undated.

Correspondence and other papers of the Scotts of Raeburn.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.2889-2897
Scope and Contents

To a great extent the papers have been examined by William Scott, the sixth laird (died 1855), whose notes, signed 'W.S.', appear throughout.

Dates: 1660-1853, undated.