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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 Sir Thomas Muir on mathematics.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10068/1-5
Dates: Majority of material found within 1900-1920, 1934, undated.

Papers of Stanley Cursiter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5451
Scope and Contents

Including sketch books, typescripts of short stories, typescript and printed articles, and correspondence.

Dates: 1906-1967.

Papers of Sydney Durward Tremayne (1912-1986), the poet and journalist.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26675-26703
Scope and Contents

Sydney Durward Tremayne, who was born in Ayr, worked for provincial newspapers before becoming a leader-writer for the ‘Daily Mirror’, the ‘Daily Herald’ and the ‘Sun’; he also published several small collections of poems. Apart from his autobiography, the papers do not concern his work as a journalist.

Dates: 1947-1986, undated.

Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10281
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, plays, novels and essays, with correspondence.

Dates: 1923-1974.

Papers of T [and] T Clark, containing business correspondence, book stocks and financial papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10689/1-141
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the material is from the 1970s-1980s, however there are much earlier files in the author correspondence (Acc.10689/1-41) from as far back as 1870.

Dates: 1870-1990, undated.

Papers of T [and] T Clark, containing correspondence and business files.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11268
Scope and Contents

Containing papers mostly of 1970-1992, but including some material as early as 1936.

Dates: 1929-1992.

Papers of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.11-81.2.38
Scope and Contents

The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.

Dates: 1852-1900.

Papers of the author, broadcaster and schoolmaster, Hector MacIver (1910-1966).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26276-26300
Scope and Contents

Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.

Dates: 1928-1966, undated.

Papers of the author, Florence Marian McNeill.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26194-26259
Scope and Contents

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1901-1973, undated.

Papers of the Berwickshire Liberal Association, mostly concerning parliamentary elections but also including broader administrative and financial information.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6767/1[1]-20[100]
Scope and Contents

Including papers, circulars, correspondence and accounts.

Concerning the association and the orgranisation of paliamentary elections in the county.

The papers particularly refer to Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth (1849-1909), Liberal M.P. for Berwickshire, Harold John Tennant (1865-1935), Liberal M.P. for Berwickshire (1894-1918) and John Bertram Kellie of Duns, their main election agent.

Dates: 1873-1920, undated.