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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 related papers concerning the island of Inchgarvie., 1804, and before.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.14
Scope and Contents

The series deals with the maintenance of a gun-battery on the island, and consists of letters between the guardians of James Dundas of Dundas (died 1881) and the military authorities. The correspondence centres on the year 1804, but includes copies and original papers of earlier date. It is arranged in order of endorsed numbers.

Dates: 1804, and before.

Correspondence and papers, 1739-1763, concerning Neil McVicar of Fergushill, and financial papers, 1735-1749, concerning Sir William Maxwell of Monreith and his trustees. , 1735-1763.

 File
Identifier: MS.17734
Scope and Contents

Neil McVicar, a writer in Edinburgh, was convicted in 1738 of professional misconduct and banished from Scotland; there were strong political overtones to the case.

Lord Milton's involvement with Sir William Maxwell is not clear; Sir William's mother was a Montgomerie (see MSS.17737-17740).

Dates: 1735-1763.

Correspondence and papers, 1793-1828, of Deputy Commissary General James Ogilvie, together with a small unrelated quantity of letters and chiefly printed papers, 1787-1835, undated, of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15201-15336
Scope and Contents James Ogilvie served throughout the Peninsular War firstly as Assistant, and from 22 March 1812 Deputy Commissary General, and the greater part of the collection relates to this period. It consists of: letters from, and statistical and other returns, vouchers, accounts and other financial papers submitted by, junior officers and clerks of the Commissariat Department; Ogilvie’s letters to the Commissaries General Sir Robert H Kennedy, Sir Charles Dalrymple and Thomas Dunmore, with their...
Dates: 1787-1835, undated.

Correspondence and papers, 1832-1885, undated, of Hugh Henry Rose, Baron Strathnairn., 1832-1886, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3798
Scope and Contents

At the end of this volume are to be found a few papers, 1867-1886, relating to Lord Strathnairn's brother Sir William Rose, Clerk of the Parliaments (folio 367).

Dates: 1832-1886, undated.

Correspondence and papers, 1898-1941, of Aylmer Haldane., 1898-1941.

 File
Identifier: MS.20257
Scope and Contents

The correspondence and papers are arranged in chronological order (folio 1) and are followed by a few letters and other papers, 1908-1940, transferred from MSS.20247, 20250, 20254-20255, 20259, where they had been found loosely enclosed (folio 118).

Dates: 1898-1941.

Correspondence and papers, 1940, of Jim Harley, Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11939
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers largely of and to the Children`s Overseas Reception Board (Scottish Branch) concerning the proposed evacuation of Rosemary Harley to Canada. Also includes Rosemary Harley`s school reports, 1932-1938, from Cranley School, Edinburgh, a Cranley School photograph, 1937, and her notes on the papers, 2001.

Dates: 1932-1940, 2001.