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:
Administrative records, reports, general correspondence and papers of the Franco-Scottish Society, Scottish Branch.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13272/1-61
Dates:
1980-2010, undated.
Admiralty and Government communications to Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, concerning his command-in-chief in the Leeward Islands and the capture and subsequent government of the Danish islands of St. Thomas and St. John., 1805-1809.
File
Identifier: MS.2313
Dates:
1805-1809.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands.
Admiralty correspondence, being letters to Admiral Sir Peter Halkett, Baronet (succeeded 1837), when he was Commander-in-Chief of the American and West India Station., 1836-1837.
File
Identifier: MS.6413
Scope and Contents
A number of these letters concern the Slave Trade.
Dates:
1836-1837.
'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station., 1844-1847.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2413-2414A
Dates:
1844-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, including correspondence regarding the Malay Archipelago., 1844-1845.
File
Identifier: MS.2413
Dates:
1844-1845.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station.
'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, including correspondence regarding the Malay Archipelago, Hong Kong, and the attack on the stockade of a chief in New Zealand, 1845-1846., 1845-1847.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2414-2414A
Dates:
1845-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station.
'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, including correspondence regarding the Malay Archipelago, Hong Kong, and the attack on the stockade of a chief in New Zealand, 1845-1846., 1845-1847.
File
Identifier: MS.2414
Dates:
1845-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, including correspondence regarding the Malay Archipelago, Hong Kong, and the attack on the stockade of a chief in New Zealand, 1845-1846.
Admiralty papers and some associated correspondence on various subjects, of and concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1822-1853.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12062-12066
Dates:
1822-1853.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Political and diplomatic correspondence and papers of and concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto as First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, with further correspondence and papers on Admiralty and general naval affairs, 1822-1856.
`Adversaria`, being miscellaneous notes and copies of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald, with scholars such as William Nicolson, Edward Lhuyd and John Smith of Durham on Scottish history and antiquities.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.19
Scope and Contents
Smith`s letters (folios 47-61), some of which are originals, concern the records of Scottish history surviving at Durham. Other contents are as follows:(i) Notes on historical manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library (folio 2).(ii) The life of Robert Morison copied from his ‘Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis’, part 3, with notes on the same volume (folio 4 verso).(iii) `A list of Gold Scotch Coyns` (folios 13 verso, 18).(iv) `The...
Dates:
Circa 1682-1706, and undated.
Agreement of purchase, correspondence and reports with Aberdeen University Press., 1992.
File
Identifier: Acc.12384/101
Dates:
1992.
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.
Album containing obituaries and appreciations of Richard B Haldane and related news items and correspondence cut out of newspapers and periodicals, and a few telegrams., 1928.
Item
Identifier: MS.20223
Dates:
1928.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and other papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane, preceded by correspondence of and papers concerning his mother, Mrs Mary E Haldane and his maternal uncle, Sir John S Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and followed by notebooks and other papers of his sister Elizabeth S Haldane.
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Papers of Richard B Haldane, Viscount Haldane.
Album entitled Bird Life II compiled by John P. Ritchie., 1923-1974.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13663/2
Scope and Contents
Album consisting largely of letters, press-cuttings and printed notices on lectures on ornithology given by John P. Ritchie and letters concerning his film of the evacuation of St Kilda. With family invitations, notices and press cuttings.
Dates:
1923-1974.
Albums of letters and documents, almost entirely of Scottish interest, written by or relating to historical celebrities, and dealing with public and private affairs.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2955-2956
Dates:
1589-1881.
Annotated copy of Alasdair Gray 'Retrospective exhibition. Descriptive catalogue'. Glasgow: Collins Exhibition Hall, Strathclyde University, with index slips, cards and correspondence concerning paintings., 1974.
File
Identifier: Acc.11338/7
Annotated copy of television script, correspondence, 1985-1986, corrected copy of television script, circa 1985., Circa 1985.-1986.
File
Identifier: Acc.11338/3
Annual General Meetings of James Thin, bookseller, containing correspondence and notes., 1990-2001.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12384/32-43
Antiquarian and genealogical papers and correspondence of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 18th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15471-15481
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Antiquarian correspondence, being groups of letters from Patrick Chalmers's (died 1854) principal correspondents on antiquarian matters., 1843-1861.
File
Identifier: MS.15476
Scope and Contents
The correspondents are: John Stuart (folio 1); William Fraser (folio 75); Cosmo Innes (folio 121); Andrew Jervise (folio 149); R W Billings (folio 179); and Henry Laing (folio 214).
Some papers on early Scottish seals, associated with the interests shared by Laing and Patrick Chalmers, are included at the end of the volume (folio 246).
Dates:
1843-1861.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Apparent draft of MS.13730:Copies of official correspondence, 1783-1811, concerning Alexander Walker’s career; lacks the contents table., 1783-1811.
File
Identifier: MS.13731
Dates:
1783-1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of Alexander Walker during his retirement, including copies of earlier correspondence.
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Copies of official correspondence concerning Alexander Walker’s service in India and his subsequent claiming of arrears of salary and allowances; with some miscellaneous autobiographical notes by Walker.
Apparently a proof copy of a book titled 'Correspondence between John Murray, London, and Archibald Constable and A. Constable & Co., Edinburgh'., [1825, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.23233
Scope and Contents
The correspondence, which includes letters of and to a number of others, runs from 1803 to 1813 with four letters dated 1825, and is followed (page 131) by 'six letters omitted from their proper places' dated 1807, 1809. It is not known why these letters were printed; they do not appear to have been published.
Dates:
[1825, or after.]
Apparently an interleaved proof copy of an untitled printed book containing copies and excerpts of correspondence between Robert Cadell and Archibald Constable, 1811-1826, and between Constable and his son David 1809-1826., [1826, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.23234
Scope and Contents
The correspondence between Archibald and David Constable includes a number of letters of and to others. It is not known why either correspondence was printed; neither appears to have been published.
Dates:
[1826, or after.]
Appendices to the tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Burma, 17 December 1911 - 8 February 1912., 1911-1912.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.9
Dates:
1911-1912.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.
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Typescript tour diaries of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton, with appendices.
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Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Burma, 17 December 1911 - 8 February 1912; with appendices.
Appendix to 'Minute of the Present State and Demands of the British Army Serving on Colonial Stations' (Downing Street, May 1839), with related correspondence., October 1838-May 1839.
File
Identifier: MS.12164
Dates:
October 1838-May 1839.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Political and diplomatic correspondence and papers of and concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Confidential papers chiefly printed for the use of members of the Cabinet.
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Various printed confidential papers.
Approximately 120 letters of Sir Walter Scott to Archibald Constable, with related correspondence and transcripts of seventy further Scott-Constable letters.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.145- is now Acc.4880.
Dates:
1800-1827.