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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:

Papers of Ethel Bassin.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10536

Papers of F M Crum.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4981

Papers of Family Care.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11191

Papers of Francis Collinson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8985
Scope and Contents

Includes music manuscripts, research papers and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1920-1983.

Papers of Francis George Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9014
Scope and Contents

Includes notes, essays, poems and correspondence.

With 13 letters of George Campbell Hay.

Dates: 1925-1957 and undated.

Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.85.1.1-85.1.14
Scope and Contents

Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.

Dates: 1907-1913.

Papers of G S Fraser.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11756
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of articles, essays, reviews and translations, many arranged in order by Fraser`s wife, Eileen, with a view to publication in collected form; also includes printed material by Fraser and correspondence concerning his work.

Dates: circa 1957-1980.

Papers of "Gairm" and of Gairm Publications Ltd.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9367/1-62
Scope and Contents The editorial archive from 1952 to 1985 of the Gaelic literary and topical magazine 'Gairm' and of its associated Gaelic book publications, together forming Gairm Publications Ltd. The collection was assembled and maintained by Ruaraidh MacThomais, Professor Derick S Thomson, co-founder of the magazine (with the late Finlay J MacDonald) and editor since its foundation. Included also are some publishing papers of Professor Thomson's imprint, Clo Chaillean, Aberfeldy, and of a publication...
Dates: 1952-1985.

Papers of Gavin Maxwell and of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises Limited.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10555/1-163
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1955-1969 and undated.

Papers of General Sir J Aylmer L Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20247-20259

Papers of George Bruce.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12195
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and correspondence.

Dates: 1928-2002.

Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.21.1.1-21.1.12

Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.7201-7515
Scope and Contents George Combe was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he studied law; he became a Writer to the Signet in 1812. At this time he began to study the phrenological works of Franz Josef Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, and soon became a fervent advocate of that science. In 1837 he gave up his legal practice to devote himself to spreading the causes of phrenology, secular education, and criminal and prison reform, travelling widely in Europe and America. His views...
Dates: 1804-1872, undated.

Papers of George Dott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5927
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. minute book, 1926-1931, of the Scottish National Movement

2. papers and correspondence, 1931-1933, concerning the National Party of Scotland

3. letters, 1929-1938, of and to George Dott, including 32 of George Malcolm Thomson.

Dates: 1926-1938.

Papers of George Friel.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8797
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts of novels, short stories, and plays, together with associated correspondence.

Dates: 1932-1974.

Papers of George Lawson, Labour politician, including correspondence, articles, lecture papers and press cuttings.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9588/1-94
Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers of George McArthur Lawson (1906-78). From 1937 to 1940 he was a full-time National Council of Labour Colleges tutor in the East of Scotland, and served as the West of Scotland National Council of Labour Colleges Organiser from 1940-50 when he was appointed Secretary of Edinburgh and District Trades Council. In 1954 he was elected as Labour MP for Motherwell, and represented Motherwell, and Motherwell and Wishaw, until his retirement in Oct 1974. George Lawson served...
Dates: 1920-1978.

Papers of George Renfrew Wilson relating to his unpublished biography of David Young Cameron.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13488 Box 1(1)-Box 6(3)
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises research papers and typescripts of a biography of Sir David Young Cameron which seemingly was close to publication, probably by Paul Harris, Edinburgh in the early 1980s. The anecdotal evidence is that some kind of disagreement stopped publication.

The papers include typescripts, correspondence, exhibition catalogues and press cuttings.

Dates: c 1944-1980.

Papers of George Robinson, concerning the Zulu War, 1879.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6692
Scope and Contents

Including transcripts, photographs, photocopies, and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1879-circa 1976

Papers of George Sutherland Fraser.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9612
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts of poems, articles, lectures and reviews, with correspondence.

Dates: circa 1943-1980.

Papers of Graham Balfour.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9700
Scope and Contents

Largely concerning travels in the United States and in the Pacific Islands, but also concerning the literary remains of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Dates: 1885-1895.