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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 Michael Roberts, including some later papers of Janet Adam Smith concerning Michael Roberts.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13145/1-97
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence and papers relating to the following published volumes by Michael Roberts:'These our Matins' (London: Elkin Matthews and Marrot, 1930)'New Signatures', collected by Michael Roberts (London: Hogarth Press, 1932)'Elizabethan Prose. Selected and prefaced by M. Roberts' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1933)'New Country', edited by Michael Roberts (London: Hogarth Press, 1933)'Critique of Poetry' (London:...
Dates: 1922-1976, undated.

Papers of Miss Dora Tertia Liebenthal, musician and patroness of the arts.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21564-21577
Scope and Contents Miss Liebenthal, herself an able violinist, was best known for the lunch hour concerts she ran in the National Gallery of Scotland, from the Second World War until her death in 1970. She was particularly interested in introducing younger musicians to the public, and many of the players and singers she brought to Edinburgh went on to make distinguished careers. The papers deal with the organisation of these concerts, and include Miss Liebenthal's large correspondence with musicians and...
Dates: 1867-1970.

Papers of Morris Blythman, pseudonym Thurso Berwick.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10830
Scope and Contents

Includes songs written or collected by Blythman and papers concerning Hugh MacDiarmid and John Maclean.

Dates: 1961-1979 and undated.

Papers of Moultrie R Kelsall.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7716/1-328
Scope and Contents

Including scripts of plays, short stories, articles, talks, broadcast scripts of radio and television documentaries, and associated correspondence.

Dates: 1931-1977.

Papers of Muriel Spark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11344
Scope and Contents

Principally comprising correspondence arising from the writing of Spark`s autobiography "Curriculum Vitae", and also general business correspondence, together with a small number of working notes and manuscripts.

Dates: circa 1986-1995.

Papers of Muriel Spark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12082
Scope and Contents

Includes research material, manuscript and typescript of the novel, "Aiding and Abetting", manuscripts of short stories, and correspondence files, 1997-2000.

Dates: 1932-2001.

Papers of Nancy Forsyth, SNP activist.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14591
Scope and Contents Nancy Forsyth was born Nancy Gray in Grantown-on-Spey and educated at Grantown Grammar School. She worked for the Post Office and Royal Bank of Scotland in Inverness, where her husband Willie Forsyth was a colleague. She became actively involved in politics after signing the Scottish Covenant in 1951, working first as a branch organiser for the Liberal Party in Inverness. She had joined and started to actively canvass for the Scottish National Party by the Pollok by-election in March 1967,...
Dates: 1971-2005.

Papers of Neil M Gunn.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.209

Papers of Nigel Tranter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10360
Scope and Contents

Indcludes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of novels, short stories, and plays, architectural notes and drawings and correspondence.

Dates: 1933-1990.

Papers of Norah, Lady Mears, née Geddes

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13852/1-5

Papers of O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11310
Scope and Contents

Includes family correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, sketches, drawings, photographs and personal memorabilia.

Dates: 1899-1953 and undated.

Papers of part of the surviving business archive, or relating to the work, of Thomas Telford (1757-1834), engineer.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19969-19978
Scope and Contents The papers consist of business correspondence, draft reports, accounts and other papers relating to Thomas Telford's professional activities for the last decade of his life, as well as correspondence and some drafts relating to the 'Life of Thomas Telford civil engineer' itself. The business papers relate mainly to Scottish undertakings and to harbours, canals and fen drainage, with some personal and professional accounts. The collection is roughly half of the material which survived in John...
Dates: 1795-1838, undated.

Papers of Paul Henderson Scott.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13505/1-79
Scope and Contents Paul Henderson Scott was born and educated in Edinburgh, attending Edinburgh’s Royal High School and then moving on to study at Edinburgh University. It was at university that he first became involved with the Saltire Society. Shortly after this Scott was called up to serve in World War Two. He began his training as an army officer driving a lorry. However, through contact with diplomats from the foreign office he decided to take the examination and soon became a diplomat. A long diplomatic...
Dates: 1976-2001

Papers of Paul Henderson Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11894
Scope and Contents

Papers concern Scott`s service in the British Military Government of Berlin, 1945-1949, and his candidancy in the Scottish Parliamentary Election, 1999. Includes printed material concerning military training and the Allied Military Government of Germany.

Dates: circa 1942-1999.

Papers of Peter Butter relating to his work on Elizabeth Grant., Circa 1995.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13634/72
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with Dorothy of the Department of English Literature of the University of Glasgow. Also includes photocopies of Chamber’s Edinburgh Journal, Edinburgh Magazine, Howitt’s Journal and ‘The Irish Journals of Elizabeth Smith’ edited by David Thomson and Moyra McGusty (Oxford: Clarendon, 1980).

Dates: Circa 1995.

Papers of Philip D Thomson mostly relating to Hibernian Football Club.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10691/1-105
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, drafts, notes, and working papers of Philip D Thomson of and concerning '100 Years of Hibs' (Edinburgh, 1975), being the centenary history of Hibernian Football Club co-written with Gerald Docherty. With circa 1000 Hibernian Football Club match programmes, photographs, 27 scrapbooks, fanzines and epherma, 1933-93, of and relating to Hibernian FC and Scottish football in general.

Dates: 1933-1993.