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:
Small collections of correspondence and manuscripts of the author and essayist Thomas De Quincey, acquired at different times.
File
Identifier: MS.21239
Scope and Contents
Thomas De Quincey's own letters are written to his family and friends about his work and other activities, finance, and family matters. Letters addressed to him include one from an unnamed American admirer, 1853, (folio 18) which was published in ‘Thomas De Quincey’, pages 103-105, the catalogue of an exhibition held at Dove Cottage and the National Library of Scotland.Most of the manuscripts are fragmentary drafts of unidentified essays, but they include parts of "The English...
Dates:
1800-1855, undated.
Small collections of correspondence, with some papers, chiefly of J B S Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MS.20655
Dates:
1912-1936, undated.
Small collections of letters and papers., 1647-1862, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2207
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous papers, 1647-1781, consisting chiefly of letters and orders addressed to William Farquharson of Inverey by Middleton and others, in connection with the Royalist campaign in Scotland, 1647-1656. 'Archaeologia Scotia', volume v, appendix, page 57. (Folio 1.)(ii) Orders of General Monck relating to Sir Robert Campbell of Glenorchy and the McNabs, 1654-1655, with modern transcripts, and a chaplain's commission given to...
Dates:
1647-1862, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Speeches, and some correspondence, on various subjects., 1968-1994.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12135/906-912
Dates:
1968-1994.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary and personal papers of Dorothy Dunnett.
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Further literary and personal papers of Dorothy Dunnett, including notebooks, photographs, typescripts, reviews, press cuttings, correspondence and related papers, mostly concerning historical research.
Stirling branch correspondence, 1946-1947, including circulars from Headquarters, 1945-1947., 1945-1947.
File
Identifier: Acc.10090/29
Dates:
1945-1947.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Robert Douglas McIntyre.
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Scottish National Party files of Robert Douglas McIntyre.
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Scottish National Party files of Robert Douglas McIntyre.
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Correspondence files relating to Scottish National Party business.
Strowan estate correspondence., 1808-1836.
File
Identifier: MS.10914
Scope and Contents
The correspondence consists of:
(i) Letters, 1808-1836, of Dundas and Wilson, Writer to the Signet (folio 1);
(ii) Letters, 1808-1834, of William Brown, factor (folio 100);
(iii) Letters, 1808-1822, of John Tainsh, writer, Crieff (folio 204);
(iv) Letters of Robert H Moncrieff, writer, Perth, 1820-1836 (folio 231).
Dates:
1808-1836.
Strowan estate papers., 1786-1883, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10913-10917
Dates:
1786-1883, undated.
Subject files of Margery Clinton, containing correspondence and working papers., 1975-1995.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11283/7-21
Subscription sheets, correspondence and a programme concerning instrumental music at the Annual Riding of Linlithgow Marches.
File
Identifier: Acc.10142
Dates:
1909.
Summaries of the correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod and his amanuenses., Late 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.1.16-80.1.17
Scope and Contents
Not all the letters are dealt with, and the treatment becomes more cursory as the series progresses.
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Summaries of the correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod and his amanuenses: summaries of letters in Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.3., Late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.16
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Summaries of the correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod and his amanuenses: summaries of letters in Adv.MSS.80.1.4-80.1.10., Late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.17
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Surviving incoming correspondence of the Colonial, Continental and Jewish Mission Committees of the Free Church of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21329-21397
Scope and Contents
Apart from one volume from Australia and New Zealand in the 1850s (MS.21329), all date from approximately 1892 to 1900 and represent the correspondence of the single secretary of the three Committees, the Reverend Dr George Milne Rae, from his taking office to immediately prior to the union of the majority of the Free Church with the United Presbyterian Church in November, 1900. They were discovered in 1968 behind the false back of a cupboard in a classroom in the Free Church College,...
Dates:
1851-1854, 1891-1900.
Talk notes, Oliver [and] Boyd, printers and publishers, by Douglas Grant, with covering letters., 2000.
File
Identifier: Acc.12384/114
Dates:
2000.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
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Business papers and correspondence of James Thin, bookseller.
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Associated business of James Thin, bookseller, with publishers, bookshops and others.
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Associated business of James Thin, bookseller, with Oliver [and] Boyd, printers and publishers.
Taylor Collection: papers relating to Scottish affairs.
File
Identifier: MS.68
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Notarial copy of the proceedings in the case of the magistrates of Elgin v the Procurator of the Church of Scotland, 1713. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Memorial concerning the opposition offered by the Bank of England to the draught of a warrant for a charter to incorporate the proprietors of the Scots Equivalent Debentures', 1719. (Folio 12.)(iii) Correspondence, 1719, of the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, on the prosecution of the...
Dates:
1713-1790.
Television scripts of 'The story of a recluse' by Alasdair Gray, including correspondence and notes., 1965-1987.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11338/2-5
Dates:
1965-1987.
Text, proofs and art-work for Alasdair Gray`s "An Anthology of Prefaces".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11769
Dates:
1984-1999.
Texts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson., 1701-1788.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23
Dates:
1701-1788.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
`The Antient customary laws of the Isle of Mann`., 1811.
File
Identifier: Acc.11407/4
Scope and Contents
`The antient laws of the Isle of Mann` copied by Thomas Scott during his stay on the Isle of Man. The documents were seen by Walter Scott who used them as part of his inspiration for the novel `Peveril of the Peak` (1823), and referred to them in his introduction. Thomas includes a letter to Walter, 11 April 1811, from the Isle of Man.
Dates:
1811.
'The Conduct from April to July, 1783, ... respecting the Operations of the Southern Force', a memorandum, including extracts from correspondence, prepared by James Stuart., 1783.
File
Identifier: MS.8412
Dates:
1783.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence and papers of Major-General James Stuart, younger brother of Andrew Stuart.
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Copies of correspondence, chiefly compiled for James Stuart, probably as part of his defence against accusations of inefficiency.
"The David Hume Archive".
File
Identifier: Acc.9254
Scope and Contents
Material sent in to National Library of Scotland in response to Prof D F Norton`s appeal for location of Hume material.
Dates:
circa 1986.
'The descent probative, branches, and relations of R.M., engr. in Edr.', i.e., Robert Mylne, son of the antiquary, 'by the mother ... Collected from a great many . . . authentick documents in my own custody', with additions and corrections by the father., 1728.
File
Identifier: MS.2094
Scope and Contents
The families chiefly described are those of Govean or Govan (page 1), Forrester of Denovan (page 29), Rind (page 37), Row (the reformer and his descendants) (page 43), Geddie (page 57), and Avery (page 101); detailed accounts are given of some individuals, with extracts from their correspondence. At the beginning (folio ii) is a fragment of an account of Mr John Govean, Minister of Campsie, followed by a list of contents. At the end are miscellaneous notes.
Dates:
1728.