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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 relative to John Knox's House, Edinburgh", 1846, 1849-1852, collected by Dr, afterwards Sir, Daniel Wilson., 1846-1859.

 File
Identifier: MS.1956
Scope and Contents

Minutes and correspondence of the Trustees for the Monument to the Memory of John Knox and the Knox House Preservation Committee (of which Sir Daniel Wilson was Secretary), with newspaper cuttings, preceded by an explanatory note and a list of contents by W T McCulloch, 1859.

Dates: 1846-1859.

Part of the collection of correspondence of George Paton, the antiquary.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.8
Scope and Contents

The letters in this volume are arranged chronologically under each correspondent, but the order of correspondents appears to be arbitrary. The principal writers are William Henderson (1775-1782, and undated), John Callander (1781, and undated), Robert Riddell (1787-1791, and undated), John Philp Wood (1786-1793, and undated), and George Chalmers (1774-1777, and undated), and the topics are chiefly books, antiquities, topography, and local history.

Dates: 1772-1793, undated.

Part of the papers of the family of Forbes of Culloden.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.2961-2974
Dates: 17th century-18th century.

Pencil sketches and several early watercolours of A E Borthwick, 1888, undated, with a number of pencil sketches of Robert Gibb, 1870-1876, 1895-1906, undated, chiefly of Scottish scenery., 1870-1906, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.10470
Scope and Contents

There are also some notes and a little correspondence, 1880-1883, concerning Robert Gibb's painting 'The thin red line', executed in 1881. The remainder of the sketches, chiefly undated, include early caricatures and a sketch by Lady Polwarth (folios 107-108).

Dates: 1870-1906, undated.

Personal and family correspondence of Christopher Murray Grieve., 1918-1977, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27148
Scope and Contents

Includes letters to Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid' from his mother, and also his correspondence with his first wife, Peggy Skinner, written after their divorce.

Dates: 1918-1977, undated.