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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:

Personal and official correspondence of Charles Steuart, including accounts., 1747-1798, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5025-5041
Scope and Contents The personal correspondence is mostly between Charles Steuart his sister, Mrs Cecilia Ruddoch, Kirkwall, Orkney, and his brother, James Steuart, writer in Edinburgh. It also includes letters from his nephews Thomas Ruddach (a merchant in Tobago), Charles Ruddach (a merchant in Grenada), Alexander Ruddach (who served for a time in the Navy), and William Steuart (who was Assistant Resident at the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad). The official correspondence is mostly between...
Dates: 1747-1798, undated.

Personal and political papers of Dr Robert Douglas McIntyre.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12917/1-134
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, publications and papers of Dr. Robert D. McIntyre (1913–1998).The collection contains political papers relating to Robert D. McIntyre’s political career, spanning from the early 1940s to his death in 1998.The collection contains many political documents (c.1940–c.1994) as well as Robert D. McIntyre’s and the Scottish National Party’s research papers and publications (1706–1994). Contained within miscellaneous research papers...
Dates: 1869-1997.

Personal and political papers of Rosemary Hall.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13491
Scope and Contents Rosemary Hall was born on 22nd April 1925 in Aberdeen. She spent her early life in Montrose where her father and uncle ran the family salmon fishing business. Hall began her schooling in Montrose. However, the outbreak of the war caused interruption and her school was evacuated to Speyside. She began her working life as a PA to a partner in a firm of accountants in Edinburgh. Although Hall gave up her job after marriage, she did not stop working; she was against nuclear power in all forms...
Dates: 1947-2010

Personal correspondence and papers of Ian C Dunn, with papers concerning gay activism and related organisations and campaign groups.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11905/1-163
Scope and Contents

Papers concerning personal interests (town planning, left-wing politics, Mansfield Place Church, Edinburgh Central Times) and gay rights activism – especially the activities of the Scottish Minorities Group, the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group and Outright Scotland.

Dates: 1961-1998, undated.

Personal correspondence and papers of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, mostly concerning the Scout movement and other public activities; with papers relating to military service and estate papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6688/1-47
Scope and Contents Personal correspondence and papers, 1929-68, with some estate papers, 1845-1967, of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, MC KBE KT (1875-1977), 2nd Baron Rowallan, Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth (1945-1959), and Governor of Tasmania (1959-1963). The correspondence is concerned mainly with Rowallan's activities in the Scout movement, but includes also some papers relating to his military service in both World Wars, and to his farming activities in Ayrshire. For further biographical details...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1845-1968, undated.

Personal correspondence with various correspondents related to the David Cohen Prize., 1997.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11621/197
Scope and Contents Correspondents include Clare Alexander (c/r MacMillan Publishers); Lynn Barber; Ronald Bedford; Georges Borchardt (c/r Georges Borchardt, Inc.); Ronnia Challoner; John Coldstream (c/r Daily Telegraph); Claude Durand; Tom Erhardt (c/r Casarotto Ramsay Limited); Stanley Galli; Patience and Michael Grazebrook; Geordie Grieg (c/r The Sunday Times); John horder; Sabine Ibach (c/r Mohrbooks AG); Gabriel Josipovici; Peter Kemp; Mindy Keskinen, (c/r Peter Davison / Houghton Mifflin Company); Harry...
Dates: 1997.

Personal medical records of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn and related correspondence., 1964, 1992.

 File
Identifier: MS.50249
Scope and Contents In-patient hospital records, 1964, of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. Folios 1-12.Manuscript notes, [1964], of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn concerning his condition and medical treatment. Folios 13-23.Correspondence, 1964, between the doctors of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn concerning his condition and treatment. Folios 24-28.Manuscript note, 1992, of Marion Fairbairn commenting on the correspondence of her husband’s doctors (folios 24-28). Folio...
Dates: 1964, 1992.

Personal papers of William Crosbie.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13367
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1933-1972, of the artist William Crosbie (1915-1999), with related printed material, circa 1943-1990. This small collection of material was apparently cleared from his studio at 12 Ruskin Lane, Glasgow, many years after his death.

Dates: 1933-1972.