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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:

Sermons, lectures and correspondence of Rev Joseph Moffett, minister of Crown Court Church, Covent Garden, London, including some papers of and relating to Crown Court.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13467/1-124
Scope and Contents The papers consist principally of his sermons, which were subsequently much worked on by his daughter, Jean Stewart, also a Church of Scotland minister. Next are papers relating to the Loan Committee of Crown Court Church, which give an insight into the financial hardship suffered by at least part of the congregation during the interwar period. There are also several correspondence files, which are illustrative of Moffett’s involvement in the community based around Crown Court Church, as...
Dates: 1867-1990s, undated.

Seven letters of John Charles Walsham Reith, Lord Reith, to Sir John Anderson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11583
Scope and Contents

Letters concern Reith's wish for a worthwhile war job worthy of his talents, and recalling his earlier personal financial and career sacrifices; includes a copy reply from Anderson.

Dates: 1942-1943.

Single manuscripts and small collections.

 Series
Identifier: MS.2617
Dates: 1577-early 20th century.

Sketchbook and rough journal of John Francis Campbell combined for 1868 and early 1869., 1868-1869.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.4
Scope and Contents

The first part of the volume deals with a visit Campbell made to Norway from July to September 1868 (folios 14-145) and travels in Scotland and England made from October to December of the same year.

There is also a section on the Kildonan goldrush of 1869 with press cuttings and related correspondence, and at the end of the volume are several pages of notes concerning coal-mining and the Coal Commission.

Dates: 1868-1869.

SLA Miscellaneous Papers., 1969-2006.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13656/113-129
Scope and Contents

Papers in the possession of SLA including reports, minutes, and, correspondence with the Library Association.

Dates: 1969-2006.

Small collection of correspondence between the Quartermaster General's department and the Commissariat department whilst on active service in the Peninsular War.

 File
Identifier: MS.15337
Scope and Contents

Most of the letters are from Sir William H Delancey and Sir James W Gordon as successive Quartermasters General to Sir John Bisset and Sir Robert H Kennedy as successive Commissaries General.

Dates: 1812.

Small collections and single letters.

 File
Identifier: MS.3925
Scope and Contents Included are: letters of Scottish botanists to James Sowerby, 1793-1814; letters to William Blackwood, Publisher (died 1834), and his sons, 1816-1874; correspondence relating to John Murray, of Bowling Bay, and the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1824-1850; letters to the 7th, 8th, and 9th Lords Napier, 1810-1865; and letters to David Milne-Home, of Milne Graden, from men of science, 1837-1873.Among the writers of the other letters are James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Mrs Elizabeth...
Dates: 1793-1874.

Small collections and single papers.

 Series
Identifier: MS.2980