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 the family of Dundas of Dundas.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9901/1-79
Scope and Contents
Additional estate papers of the Dundases of Dundas consisting mostly of correspondence, legal processes, and miscellaneous management papers, 1741-1890. Correspondence filed with legal processes has not been removed. The original within the bundles of miscellaneous management papers has been retained.
Dates:
1741-1890.
Papers of the family of Dunlop of Stevenson.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.360
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5070-5138
Scope and Contents
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.
Dates:
1583-19th century, undated.
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning Saltoun estate., 1552-1903, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17146-17449
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.16501-17880
Scope and Contents
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
12th century-mid 20th century.
Papers of the family of Forbes and Stuart Forbes of Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.137- is now Acc.4796.
Dates:
1447-20th century.
Papers of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6141-6155
Scope and Contents
Sir William Foulis, 8th Baronet, married in 1843 Henrietta Ramage Liston, the great niece and heiress of Sir Robert Liston, the diplomatist. He then assumed the additional name of Liston before his own.
Dates:
1655-1891.
Papers of the family of Galbraith of Blackhouse.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7233
Dates:
1609-19th century.
Papers of the family of Gordon-Cumming of Altyre and Gordonstoun, consisting mainly of correspondence and literary papers of Eliza Maria, lady Middleton.
Series
Identifier: Dep.254- is now Dep.175/194-195.
Dates:
19th century-20th century.
Papers of the family of Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.27501-27598
Scope and Contents
Lockharts held the barony of Lee in Lanarkshire from the 14th century at least, but apart from a few charters this collection dates from the 17th to the early 20th century. The direct line of lairds of Lee, from Sir James, Lord Justice Clerk, and Sir William, Cromwell's ambassador, died out in 1777. Lee then came into the possession of the descendants of Sir James's younger son, Sir George Lockhart, Lord President, who had acquired large holdings of land consolidated into the baronies of...
Dates:
1502-20th century.
Papers of the family of Mure of Caldwell.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.4941-5018
Scope and Contents
The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.
Dates:
1580, 1582, 1631-1907.
Papers of the family of Sharpe of Hoddam.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11893
Scope and Contents
Papers arranged in folders and with notes by Jack Hodgson.
Dates:
circa 1679-1812.
Papers of the family of Smythe of Methven, consisting mainly of material on estate and legal affairs of the Smythes and other related families.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.331
Dates:
1711-1806.
Papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, from Spottiswoode House.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2933-2953
Dates:
1540-1851.
Papers of the family of Walter Johnston, merchant and solicitor, Mid Calder.
...
Identifier: Acc.9836
Scope and Contents
Includes account book, 1682-1688, for Johnston`s vintner`s business.
Dates:
1660-1727.
Papers of the firm of John Grant, Edinburgh bookseller and publisher.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10406
Dates:
1841-1926.
Papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes of Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4796
Dates:
1447-1969
Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families., 15th-20th centuries.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13827/1-420
Papers of the Free Church of Scotland relating to the McLaren Fund., 1849-1900, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.18075-18077
Dates:
1849-1900, undated.
Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14401-14827
Scope and Contents
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1486-mid 20th century, undated.
Papers of the Hays of Yester on special subjects., 1457-1910, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14539-14563
Dates:
1457-1910, undated.