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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 Sir Norman Lamont.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10153
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include 10th Duke of Argyll, Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, Viscount Elibank and 4th Marquess of Bute.

Dates: 1890-1946.

Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert A Watson-Watt, including his collection of printed material concerning the history of radar.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9343/1-88
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence and papers concerning radar in World War II, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1951, and other activities and interests.

Includes photographs, articles and printed books.

Dates: 1909-1969, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert Grieve.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10205
Scope and Contents

Concern Grieve`s work on the Clyde Valley Regional Plan and other working during his period as a senior and Chief Planner, Scottish Office.

Dates: circa 1945-1964.

Correspondence and papers of Sir William Craigie (1867-1957), the philologist and lexicographer.

 File
Identifier: MS.9987
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters to William Craigie, 1886-1923, undated, chiefly from other scholars concerning philological and editorial problems. A few unrelated letters, 1825-1885, from Palmerston, Peel, and others, have been placed at the beginning. (Folio 1.) (ii) Correspondence, 1923-1957, undated, with C T Onions and the Clarendon Press, concerning the ‘Oxford English dictionary’ and its supplements. ‘The dictionary of American English’ and other lexicographical...
Dates: 1825-1957, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Sir William Maxwell, President of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11650
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Albert, 4th Earl Grey, and Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery.

Dates: circa 1880-1920.

Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1781-1786, 1793, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.11198
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence and papers concerning the administration of the Penitentiary Act, 1781-1786, 1793, undated (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence and papers concerning experiments on the growing of tobacco in Scotland and the duty on home-grown tobacco, 1781-1785 (folio 86).

Dates: 1781-1786, 1793, undated.

Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1799-1803.

 File
Identifier: MS.11271
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence of the 1st Earl with the Foreign Secretary concerning his emoluments, 1800-1803 (folio l); (ii) Personal financial papers of the 1st Earl concerning his Vienna Embassy 1799-1801 (folio 49); (iii) Letters of Innocenzo della Lena and the Abbé della Lena, 1802, concerning paintings bought by the 1st Earl in Vienna (folio 138); (iv) "Catalogue of Lord Minto's Books at Vienna, sent to England 1801" (folio 156).

Dates: 1799-1803.

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., 1822-1856.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12048-12068
Scope and Contents The 2nd Earl of Minto succeeded his cousin, Lord Auckland, on 19 September 1835 and held the office (with renewals of his commission in July 1837 and March 1839) until the fall of the Melbourne ministry in September 1841. He appears in the papers as a diligent administrator, though the presence in the service of a brother, son, nephew and other connexions led to later accusations of nepotism in The Times and other politically hostile journals. The correspondence reflects the great pressure...
Dates: 1822-1856.