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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:

Correspondence and papers of Elizabeth Chaffard and her family.

 File
Identifier: MS.9685
Scope and Contents

Madame Chaffard ran a millinery and dress-making business in Edinburgh, but during the period 1866-1867, to which most of the letters belong, she lived in Brighton and the business was managed by her sister, Mrs Mary Carmichael. The letters concern family matters as well as the firm's accounts and its day-to-day management.

Dates: 1844-1899.

Correspondence and papers of Eric Linklater.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10328
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of Rudyard Kipling, Sir Compton Mackenzie and Evelyn Waugh.

Dates: 1920-1972.

Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.1.1-46.10.2
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.

Dates: 1793-1846.

Correspondence and papers of General Sir Thomas Hislop, Baronet, (1764-1843), and of his wife, Emma, daughter of Hugh Elliot, diplomatist., 1783-1882, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.13111-13153
Scope and Contents General Sir Thomas Hislop's daughter Emma Eleanor Elizabeth married the 3rd Earl of Minto. Most of Sir Thomas Hislop's papers concern business and financial affairs, and his military career, in particular the Deccan Prize Case. But his general correspondence also includes a series of letters from the Venezuelan revolutionist, Francisco de Miranda, with whom Hislop had been connected in the West Indies. The papers of Lady Hislop contain much family material, including a substantial run of...
Dates: 1783-1882, undated.

Correspondence and papers of George Smith (1824-1901), publisher, and founder of the Dictionary of National Biography, and his successors as heads of the firm of Smith, Elder and Company.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.23171-23192
Scope and Contents

The papers relate chiefly to the publication of articles in the 'Cornhill Magazine' (which George Smith founded), and of books published by the firm.

Dates: 1846-1924, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Gilbert Askew, concerning his research into the history of the bagpipe.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14222/1-5
Content Description

A collection of papers of Gilbert Askew (1893-1950), numismatist and expert on the Northumbrian bagpipe. It contains correspondence and press cuttings concerning Askew's published works 'The bibliography of the bag-pipe', 'Two sets of miniature bagpipes in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland' and 'The bagpipe in Early Britain', and material collected for an unpublished work entitled 'The bagpipe in England'.

Dates: 1929-?1950.

Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto., 1847-1939, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.12365-12803
Scope and Contents Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates: 1847-1939, undated.

Correspondence and papers of H E Sumner.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9469
Scope and Contents

Concerning the history of Rhodesia, with some papers, circa 1944, on Eritrea.

Dates: circa 1944, 1973-1976.

Correspondence and papers of H H MacTaggart.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.8755
Scope and Contents

Concerning MacTaggart`s family and the executry of his father William McTaggart.

Dates: 1877-1972.

Correspondence and papers of Hector Hugh Mackenzie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12175
Scope and Contents

Papers mainly concern Highland history and music, including some papers relating to Frances Tolmie.

Dates: circa 1926-1984.

Correspondence and papers of Helen B Cruickshank., 1909-1975, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26706
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence, mostly concerning Helen Cruickshank's publications, 1909- 1975, undated (folio 1); (ii) Copies of poems by Helen Cruickshank and others, 1917-1972, undated (folio 68); (iii) Miscellaneous papers, 1928-1975, undated (folio 100). They include autobiographical notes written by Helen Cruickshank for use with an application for a grant (folio l09).

Dates: 1909-1975, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.26
Scope and Contents Most of the material concerns Arlington in his capacity of Secretary of State, particularly with reference to French and Dutch affairs, and much of it is dated 1669. The correspondence contains letters from foreign statesmen and diplomatists such as the Marquis de Louvois and Baron von Lisola, English politicians such as Sir Richard Temple and Sidney Godolphin, and a number of unsigned letters reporting on events in Europe, probably from Arlington`s agents. There are a few memoranda on...
Dates: 1662-1678.

Correspondence and papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan (1873-1952).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.25260-25273
Scope and Contents Hugh Macmillan was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1897 and took silk in 1912. In 1924 he became non-political Lord Advocate in the first Labour government of Ramsay Macdonald, and was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1930-1939, 1941-1947, and Minister of Information, 1939-1940. His talents for chairmanship resulted in appointments to the chair of several important committees and organisations of which the best known was the 'Macmillan Committee', the Treasury Committee on Finance and...
Dates: 1911-1952.

Correspondence and papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan concerning the Advocates' Library and the National Library of Scotland., 1913-1937.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25266-25273
Scope and Contents

This section of the Hugh Pattison Macmillan papers is concerned with the campaign to create a National Library of Scotland on the basis of the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, 1913-1924; the Scottish National Library Endowment Trust, and Sir Alexander Grant's benefaction, 1923; the drafting and passage of the National Library of Scotland Act, 1925; and the business and administration of the two libraries, 1914-1937.

Dates: 1913-1937.