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 James Spalding on manufacturing techniques, on the flour and yarn mills at Bonnington in Edinburgh, on Spalding's position as surveyor for the Commissioners, and on his financial difficulties., 1743-1750.
File
Identifier: MS.17580
Dates:
1743-1750.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland (later, for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland), appointed in 1727.
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Papers of and concerning James Spalding, flax-dresser and linen-manufacturer.
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Correspondence and papers of James Spalding on manufacturing techniques, on the flour and yarn mills at Bonnington in Edinburgh, on Spalding's position as surveyor for the Commissioners, and on his financial difficulties.
Correspondence and papers of James Spalding on manufacturing techniques, on the flour and yarn mills at Bonnington in Edinburgh, on Spalding's position as surveyor for the Commissioners, and on his financial difficulties., 1751-1782, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17581
Dates:
1751-1782, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland (later, for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland), appointed in 1727.
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Papers of and concerning James Spalding, flax-dresser and linen-manufacturer.
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Correspondence and papers of James Spalding on manufacturing techniques, on the flour and yarn mills at Bonnington in Edinburgh, on Spalding's position as surveyor for the Commissioners, and on his financial difficulties.
Correspondence and papers of James Valentine.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11392
Scope and Contents
Concerning the formation of the National Party of Scotland and the University of Glasgow Rectorial Election of 1928.
Dates:
1927-1996.
Correspondence and papers of John Addison Birkbeck; with items relating to Dundee Typographical Society, including a volume, September 1879-January 1897, of the Courier and Argus Chapel of the Dundee Typographical Society.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5277
Scope and Contents
Containing minutes of chapel meetings, lists of members, and accounts.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1879-1897, circa 1940-1971.
Correspondence and papers of John Anderson Graham and Katherine Graham, mainly concerning the Kalimpong homes and their missionary work in North India; with correspondence and papers of James Purdie, superintendent of Kalimpong homes.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6039 Box 1(1)-Box 17(2)
Scope and Contents
These papers consist of the personal archive of the Very Rev John Anderson Graham DD, founder of the Kalimpong homes, and much of the general archive of the Homes themselves from the beginning of Graham's ministry there in 1889 until 1972.The importance of the collection lies in the detailed account it gives of the early development and later growth and organisation of one of the Scottish mission centres in India, and in the light it throws on the social and educational problems...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1857, 1880-1972, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Brand.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6386
Scope and Contents
Mostly concerning his service in India.
Dates:
1873-1883.
Correspondence and papers of John Brown and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6134
Scope and Contents
Including letters of Thackeray and Ruskin, and papers concerning John Scott.
Dates:
1728-1923.
Correspondence and papers of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, his wife Susan Buchan, Lady Tweedsmuir, his brother James Walter Buchan, and sister, Anna Buchan.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11627/1-120
Dates:
1863-1978.
Correspondence and papers of John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11343- is now Acc.11628.
Dates:
1924-1995.
Correspondence and papers of John Buchanan, 'Glasguensis', and papers collected by him, dealing almost exclusively with the history of Glasgow and district., 1759-1899.
File
Identifier: MS.2675
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters of John Buchanan to Joseph Irving, author and journalist, 1856-1859, 1875 (folio 1);(ii) Letters, 1852, 1855-1856, 1859-1863, 1865, of Robert Reid, 'Senex' of the Glasgow Herald, to Buchanan; and a copy of an autobiographical memoir of Reid, 1855, with comments by Buchanan (folio 47);(iii) Letters, 1856, of Hugh James Rollo, Writer to the Signet, the Younger, to Buchanan, with genealogies of the family of Paterson of...
Dates:
1759-1899.
Correspondence and papers of John Burdon-Sanderson., 1828, 1855-1931, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20501-20508
Dates:
1828, 1855-1931, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, chiefly addressed to him from the Low Countries and relating to his regiment, the Scots Greys, and the War of the Austrian Succession.
File
Identifier: MS.2520
Scope and Contents
Included are a few letters addressed to Lieutenant-General Sir James Campbell of Lawers.
Dates:
1741-1748, 1773, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Elliot (1732-1808), 4th son of Lord Minto, Lord Justice Clerk., 1723-1815.
Series
Identifier: MSS.12865-12884
Scope and Contents
John Elliot entered the Royal Navy in 1745 and reached the rank of Admiral in 1799. He was Member of Parliament for Cockermouth, 1767-1768, and served as Governor of Newfoundland, 1786. Most of this material relates to his estate of Essenside in the parish of Ashkirk, Roxburghshire, and to his mining interests, especially the affairs of the White Water Mineral Company. In the family and general correspondence, there is material relating to his naval career, especially his Governorship of...
Dates:
1723-1815.
Correspondence and papers of John Forbes, Lieutenant-General in the Portuguese service.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15342-15350
Scope and Contents
Forbes was a soldier of fortune who enlisted in the Portuguese army in the Seven Years' War and afterwards settled in Portugal, remaining in the service for the rest of his life. He was the second son of George Forbes of Skellater, Aberdeenshire and although he never owned the property (which his father sold) he was frequently referred to, and known as Forbes de Skellater, or Forbes-Skellater. The manuscripts refer to the campaigns of the Portuguese army in the wars against France of...
Dates:
1793-1797, 1801-1804, 1807, 1818, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Graeme and Robert Graham., 1808-1837.
File
Identifier: MS.16245
Scope and Contents
Much of the correspondence in the volume is between Robert Graham and the Lynedoch factor, William Goodsman.
Dates:
1808-1837.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Correspondence and papers, legal papers, memoranda and reports, tacks, rent rolls and accounts concerning the administration of the Balgowan, Lynedoch and Redgorton estates.
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Correspondence and papers of John Graeme and Robert Graham on the general legal and financial business of the estate.
Correspondence and papers of John Graeme and Robert Graham., 1838-1857.
File
Identifier: MS.16246
Scope and Contents
Much of the correspondence in the volume is between Robert Graham and the Lynedoch factor, William Goodsman.
Dates:
1838-1857.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Correspondence and papers, legal papers, memoranda and reports, tacks, rent rolls and accounts concerning the administration of the Balgowan, Lynedoch and Redgorton estates.
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Correspondence and papers of John Graeme and Robert Graham on the general legal and financial business of the estate.
Correspondence and papers of John Graeme and Robert Graham; many of the papers concern entail business., 1805-1807.
File
Identifier: MS.16244
Dates:
1805-1807.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Correspondence and papers, legal papers, memoranda and reports, tacks, rent rolls and accounts concerning the administration of the Balgowan, Lynedoch and Redgorton estates.
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Correspondence and papers of John Graeme and Robert Graham on the general legal and financial business of the estate.
Correspondence and papers of John Hill Burton, advocate and historian, consisting chiefly of letters to Burton, together with a few miscellaneous notes and memoranda written by him.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9391-9446
Dates:
1825-1881, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Horne Stevenson, concerning Walter Scott's manuscripts and letters., 1871-1944, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21064
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Papers, 1871-1944, undated, chiefly concerning the sale of manuscripts belonging to the Stevenson family. Much of the correspondence is with James Maclehose from 1914-1918. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Papers, 1932, undated, concerning the business books of Archibald Constable and Robert Cadell, presented to the National Library of Scotland by John Horne Stevenson in 1932 (MSS.789-902), and the Cadell collection of Walter Scott's correspondence (MSS.742-745). (Folio...
Dates:
1871-1944, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
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Stevenson papers of Robert Cadell.
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Correspondence and papers of John Horne Stevenson, grandson of Robert Cadell.
Correspondence and papers of John Horne Stevenson, grandson of Robert Cadell., 1871-1944, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21064-21065
Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11628/1-323
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1885, 1925, 1931-1996, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, and the Buchan family., 1929-1994, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11628/1-49
Dates:
1929-1994, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, mostly relating to his father, John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir., 1885, 1925, 1934-1996, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11628/281-312
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1885, 1925, 1934-1996, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, mostly relating to his military career., 1939-1996, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11628/166-197
Dates:
1939-1996, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, mostly relating to various societies and activities., 1928-1996, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11628/207-243
Dates:
1928-1996, undated.