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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 the Hon. Arthur R D Elliot relating to his financial affairs.

 Series
Identifier: Dep.318- is now MSS.19572-19573 and Ch.15393-15396.

Papers of the Hon William Douglas Home.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11222
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of a play, memoirs and reviews, together with correspondence on theatrical matters.

Dates: 1946-1991.

Papers of the Hunter and Bertram families in Kirkliston and East Lothian.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11102
Scope and Contents

Includes farm account book, 1816-1834, and letters of the Marquess of Tweeddale, 1856-1866.

Dates: 1791-1878 and undated.

Papers of the Irvine Robertson family, the Rev. Alexander Irvine, and the Stewart families of Garth, Kynachan and Drumcharry, with associated papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13156
Scope and Contents

Includes legal documents, correspondence, financial papers, Scottish travel journals, sermons and poetry. The correspondence is particularly of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine, minister of Little Dunkeld, and Col. David Stewart of Garth. Includes several items in Scottish Gaelic.

Dates: 17th-20th centuries.

Papers of the Lamont of Knockdow family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10174
Scope and Contents

Includes:

Geographical journals and notes, circa 1869-1870, of Sir James Lamont, 1st Baronet, concerning Novaya Zemlya.

Diaries and correspondence, 1888-1954, of Sir Norman Lamont, 2nd Baronet, and Augusta Lamont, both of Knockdow.

Dates: circa 1869-1954.

Papers of the Library and Information Services Council (Scotland) (LISC(S))., 1979-1997.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13657/1-41
Scope and Contents

The papers include reports of committee meetings, papers and reports of working groups, conference materials, papers of LISC counterparts in Northern Ireland and Wales, and papers relating to the establishment of LISC(S)`s successor, the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC).

Dates: 1979-1997.

Papers of the literary magazine, "Chapman".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6899
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, translations, articles, and reviews, with editorial correspondence, comprising over 700 letters. With associated printed items.

Dates: 1973-1976.

Papers of the Lothian Celtic Choir.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10394
Scope and Contents

Includes minutes and correspondence.

Dates: 1952-1979.

Papers of the Lothians Coursing Club.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11601
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, financial records and programmes.

Dates: 1939-1966 and undated.

Papers of the Malcolm family of Burnfoot.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9756
Scope and Contents

Includes Clementina Malcolm`s medical journal and letters to her from her children.

Dates: 1701-1845 and undated.

Papers of the Mure of Caldwell and Bloxham families.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13678/1-6
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of letters and notes on the genealogy of the Mure of Caldwell family, Ayrshire and their relatives the Bloxham family, Banbury, diaries of Catherine Mure, daughter of William Mure of Caldwell (succ.1776) and legal documents of and relating to the Mures of Caldwell and the Bloxhams.

Dates: 1496-1907

Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)

Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26036-26103
Scope and Contents

James Leslie Mitchell is best known for his Scottish novels, ‘Sunset song’ (London, 1932), ‘Cloud Howe’ (London, 1933) and ‘Grey granite’ (London, 1934), published under the pseudonym 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', but he also wrote essays, biographies, and a study of South American history, ‘The conquest of the Maya’ (London, 1934).

Dates: 1915-1979.