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:
The Graham Brown Collection.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4338/1-247
Scope and Contents
Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.
Dates:
1877-1962.
'The Icelandic Sagas' (1999)., 1998-1999.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/35-50
'The little red school book' (London: Stage 1, 1971), by Soren Hansen and Jasper Jensen, with related correspondence and notes., 1971.
File
Identifier: Acc.10397/45
The publications of Magnus Magnusson., 1948-2006.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/1-185
Scope and Contents
Most, but not all, of Magnusson's published works are represented. Also included here are the translations that Magnusson undertook on the work of the Icelandic author and Nobel prize winning novelist Halldór Laxness (1902-1998). Material relating to Magnusson's book on Mastermind "I've started so I'll finish" can be found in the Mastermind section.The material includes correspondence relating to book proposals, research notes compiled by Magnusson while working on his books, and...
Dates:
1948-2006.
The Scottish Library Association (SLA) and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) Archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13656/1-129
Scope and Contents
The archive contains the minutes, correspondence, committee papers, working group papers and reports produced by the Scottish Library Association (SLA) from 1912-2005, before it became the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) in 2005. Also included are photographs from various SLA conferences, video cassette tapes and CD-ROMs produced by the AV Scot Archive which is the Scottish branch of the Library Association Audio Visual Group. The...
Dates:
1912-2006.
'The Tragic Greek Campaign of 1941', a typescript account, compiled by Arthur Murray apparently in 1955, of the expedition under Wavell organised in 1941 by Winston Churchill to relieve Greece., [?1955]-1960.
File
Identifier: MS.8819
Scope and Contents
The typescript is accompanied by a note, 1960 (folio i), and copies of correspondence, 1956 (folios ii-xi).
The work was intended but not accepted for publication.
Dates:
[?1955]-1960.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence of Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray, Baron Murray of Elibank and correspondence and papers of his brother, Arthur Cecil Murray, Viscount Elibank.
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Correspondence and papers of Arthur Murray, who succeeded as Viscount Elibank in 1951.
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Articles, memoranda, notes and jottings of Arthur Murray concerning the career of Sir Winston Churchill.
"The Wellmer Correspondence", letters of Thomas Carlyle and family to Meta Wellmer.
File
Identifier: Acc.9207
Scope and Contents
With associated papers.
Dates:
1865-1879.
Theological writings and letters of James Tayes, written chiefly at Bo'ness.
Item
Identifier: MS.5165
Scope and Contents
Internal evidence suggests that James Tayes, if not actually a Quaker, subscribed to some Quaker doctrines; a summary of this evidence will be found on folio i.
There are copies of correspondence with John Brand, minister of Bo'ness (page 94); and with James Aird, minister of Torryburn (page 160).
Dates:
1688-1703.
Thesis, "Paths to Wholeness" by W Graham Monteith.
File
Identifier: Acc.11569
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence.
Dates:
1997.
Thomas Guthrie, "The Gospel in Ezekiel" (Edinburgh, 1856), with notes by Guthrie and correspondence between him and A. and C. Black.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.3327
Dates:
1855-1856.
Three commonplace books of Andrew Douglas, paymaster to the navy, father of George of Cavers (born 1753), consisting chiefly of philosophical reflections, poetry, notes on current affairs and medical receipts, mostly taken from printed sources.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.17.1.10-17.1.12
Dates:
1772-1785.
Three examples of miniature handwriting by James McKay, with related correspondence.
File
Identifier: Acc.12866
Scope and Contents
Includes an album of sketches and postcards from the First World War.
Dates:
circa 1914-1946.
Three letters of John Hamilton Gray to J. H. Bohte.
File
Identifier: Acc.13963
Content Description
Concerning a list of books that Hamilton Gray wishes to purchase from Bohte.
Dates:
1821-1822.
Three manuscripts relating to Field-Marshal George Wade, bound in one volume, apparently that formerly in the Junior United Service Club.
File
Identifier: MS.3076
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Poem by a Scottish author, describing the roads, bridges, etc., built by Wade in the Highlands and referring to the manners and resources of the country, 1737. It is followed by notes on allusions and meanings of words, and preceded by a preface in which the author discusses the difficulty which a Scottish writer finds in composing English poetry. It is quoted by J B Salmond, ‘Wade in Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1938), page 204. (Folio 1.)...
Dates:
1737-1744.
Three notebooks of William Findlay.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8310
Scope and Contents
Containing:
ballads collected by William Findlay
lectures, 1861-1862, of the Reverend Robert Buchanan on logic and rhetoric
correspondence, 1952-1958, of William Montgomerie.
Dates:
1861-1958.
Titles, financial records and papers of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11812/1-208
Scope and Contents
The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates:
1624-1972.
Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Amritsar, Karachi, Bombay, Kanpur, 17 October - 5 November 1911., 1911.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.7
Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Burma, 17 December 1911 - 8 February 1912; with appendices., 1911-1912
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.85.1.8-85.1.9
Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Kanpur, Delhi, Lahore, Lyallpur, Bombay, 15 February - 8 March 1913., 1913.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.11
Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Lahore, Amritsar, Delhi, Agra, Ahmedabad, Karachi, Kanpur, Allahabad, Calcutta, 7 December 1909 - 6 January 1910., 1909-1910.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.3
Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Madras, Bangalore, Bombay, 15 June - 12 July 1913., 1913.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.12
Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Madras, Poona, Bombay, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Bilaspur, July 1911., 1911.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.6