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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, chiefly of General Sir George Brown, with some of other members of his family., 1780-1891, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2835-2862
Scope and Contents The earlier letters include those of Major-General John Brown, Regional Support Command, as a planter in Tobago, and on service in Ireland, 1797. Those of General Sir George Brown relate to the affairs of the 43rd, 85th, and Rifle Brigade, Army matters in general, official and political gossip, and private and Morayshire concerns. Beginning with the Napoleonic War, they describe or refer to the Radical disturbances, 1819-1820, service in Malta, 1822, 1826-1827, 1852-1853, the Reform...
Dates: 1780-1891, undated.

Correspondence, chiefly of George Brown, Provost of Elgin, Major-General John Brown, Regional Support Command, General Sir George Brown, and Peter Brown, Linkwood., 1769-1880, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3258-3262
Scope and Contents The correspondence deals in large part with surveys, leases, and other business relating to estates in Morayshire and elsewhere in Scotland. Sir George Brown's letters refer to regimental matters and to general affairs in the places where he is stationed - London, various Mediterranean stations, 1822-1836, Ireland, 1825, 1837, and the Crimea, 1854. Among the correspondents are: William Leslie, the eccentric Minister of Lhanbryde, 1811, 1816, undated; William Young Sellar and his relatives,...
Dates: 1769-1880, undated.

Correspondence chiefly of Sir David Dalrymple, but also including letters to his wife, Lady Janet Dalrymple., 1686-1724, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.25276
Scope and Contents

Much of the correspondence concerns Sir David Dalrymple's legal business and family affairs but there is some mention of national politics, the Parliamentary election for Haddington Burghs of 1713, and the battle of Sheriffmuir, 1715.

Dates: 1686-1724, undated.