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 Philip D Thomson relating to Hibernian Football Club.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12436/1-50
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, annual reports, financial statements, fanzines and match day programmes, 1992-2005, of and relating to Hibernian Football Club collected by Philip D Thomson.
Dates:
1990-2005.
Papers of Professor Alexander Campbell Fraser, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh University.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.208
Dates:
1806-1931, and undated.
Papers of Professor Andrew Dewar Gibb, Queen`s Counsel, including diaries, notes, correspondence, and manuscripts and corrected typescripts of unpublished works, lectures, addresses, memoranda and broadcast talks, with related printed items.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.217
Dates:
1905-1966.
Papers of Professor John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, comprising letters to him from his first wife, his step-son, and others, with biographical fragments by his second wife.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14419
Dates:
1923-1969
Papers of Professor John Erickson concerning the `Edinburgh Conversations`.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13596
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memoranda and related papers, 1974-1997, concerning the ‘Edinburgh Conversations’ and Professor John Erickson`s involvement in them.John Erickson (1929-2002) was a British military historian and the West’s leading authority on the Soviet military during and after the Second World War. During the ‘Cold War’ he was one of the very few academics to earn the trust of both sides and a key channel for contact between the Soviets and the Americans.After...
Dates:
c.1970s-1994
Papers of R D Macleod.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8852
Scope and Contents
Concerning his editorship of the "Library Review".
Dates:
1954-1960.
Papers of R Macaulay Stevenson, mostly concerning the Glasgow School of Painters.
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Identifier: Acc.11212
Scope and Contents
Comprises notebooks, exhibition propectuses and correspondence, including letters of: Sir James Guthrie, E A Hornel and E A Walton.
Dates:
1886-1946 and undated.
Papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson., 1904-1952, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.13501-13588
Dates:
1904-1952, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson (1898-1952) and of his younger brother, Midshipman Archibald Kirk Dickson (died 1916), with some papers of their father, William Kirk Dickson (1860-1949), first Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
Papers of Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell, wife of James Leslie Mitchell., 1915-1979, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26073-26103
Scope and Contents
After her husband's death, Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell continued to encourage interest in James Leslie Mitchell's work, particularly through new editions and films, and her papers reflect this activity.
Dates:
1915-1979, undated.
Papers of Richard B Haldane, Viscount Haldane., 1875-[?1936], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20213-20223
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of notebooks containing notes on and for lectures and essays chiefly on philosophy (MSS.20213-20219), a quantity of writings on various topics (many incomplete) written on loose sheets (MSS.20220-20222) and press cuttings concerning the death and funeral of Richard B Haldane (MS.20223).
Dates:
1875-[?1936], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and other papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane, preceded by correspondence of and papers concerning his mother, Mrs Mary E Haldane and his maternal uncle, Sir John S Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and followed by notebooks and other papers of his sister Elizabeth S Haldane.
Papers of Robert Cadell and the Stevenson family, additional to MSS.21001-21069: Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell and his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21070-21071
Dates:
1801-1941, undated.
Papers of Robert Douglas McIntyre, containing general correspondence mostly received as Chairman and President of the Scottish National Party., 1950-1959.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10090/63-67
Papers of Robert G Sutherland, the poet's father, who was a house-painter in Edinburgh., 1904-1955, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26667
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Personal correspondence, 1904-1955, undated. (Folio 1.) It includes a number of letters written by the poet when in the army and as a prisoner of war. (ii) Miscellaneous papers, 1920-1947, undated. (Folio 85.)
Dates:
1904-1955, undated.
Papers of Robert Herdman.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4541
Scope and Contents
Comprising:
1. photocopy of "Picture Book", 1870-1887, recording pictures painted by Herdman
2. notes of Herdman, on Thomas Carlyle, made while painting his portrait
3. correspondence of R Duddingstone Herdman, 1897, concerning the mounting of an exhibition.
Dates:
1870-1897.
Papers of Robert Kemp, including typescripts of plays, novels, short stories, addresses, broadcast talks and documentaries; correspondence, including letters from James Bridie and Cedric Thorpe Davie; diaries, accounts, press cuttings and photographs.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.294- is now Acc.7622.
Dates:
Circa 1920-1967.
Papers of Robert Titilah, relating to his service during World War Two with the Parachute Regiment, including imprisonment at Stalag IVB, Muhlberg.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13648
Scope and Contents
Photographs, letter and army papers of Robert Titilah, 1897-1991, relating to his service with the 1st Parachute Regiment during the Second World War, particularly his internment as a Prisoner of War at Stalag IVB, Muhlberg, Germany.The papers include Titilah`s `Soldier`s Release Book`, which indicates that he enlisted in April 1942. He apparently enlisted on a whim after he had been drinking with a friend, and a studio portrait captures the men together shortly after this event....
Dates:
1897-1991
Papers of Robert Waterston concerning the Waterston family and the printing firm George Waterston and Sons Ltd, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12330
Dates:
18th century-mid 20th century.
Papers of Ronald Selby Wright.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11296
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, sermons, photographs, diaries and press cuttings.
Dates:
circa 1930-1994.
Papers of Rose Ethel Bassin, Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, Associate of the Royal College of Music (1889-1974), music-teacher, song-collector, and biographer of Frances Tolmie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14910-14946
Scope and Contents
Rose Ethel Bassin was born in Edinburgh of Ukrainian extraction, and studied music under Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and others. She taught in schools in England (1907-1911, 1919-1920), Edinburgh (1915), Newton Stewart (1916-1919), Stornoway (1920-1924) and Skye (1924-1927). During 1927-1934 she lectured in the University of British Columbia. After some time in London she spent the war years teaching in Harris, the Uist and Barra. She moved to Dingwall Academy in 1945, finally becoming Music...
Dates:
1926-1968, undated.
Papers of Samuel Beazley.
File
Identifier: Acc.9135
Scope and Contents
Concerning the building of Leys Castle near Inverness.
Includes correspondence, reports and accounts.
Dates:
circa 1833-1842.
Papers of Samuel Robin Spark.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13443
Scope and Contents
Family and personal papers, circa 1900-2007, of Samuel Robin Spark. Comprising mainly letters of his mother, Muriel Spark, to her son and to her mother, Sarah Camberg. The correspondence includes some letters of Penelope Jardine; also letters of Martin Stannard, Muriel Spark`s biographer. In 1981, Robin Spark began keeping copies of his outgoing letters to his mother; these are filed into the chronological sequence. With family papers, correspondence and documents gathered by Robin Spark in...
Dates:
1961-2006.