Correspondence.
Found in 7214 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence concerning the Edinburgh branch of the Defence of Literature and the Arts Society.
Correspondence concerning the editorship of the 'Scottish Historical Review'., 1962-1972.
Correspondence concerning the family of Minto financial affairs., 1856-1884.
The contents are as follows.
(i) Correspondence of the 3rd Earl with Mrs Emily Turner, 1878-1884. A native of South Africa, she was apparently brought to London in the 1850s by the Honourable Gilbert Elliot on the understanding that he would marry her (folio 1);
(ii) Miscellaneous financial correspondence, 1856-1882 (folio 129).
Correspondence concerning the Hudson’s Bay Company., 1821-1863.
Includes letters on the negotiations of Edward Ellice (died 1863) as trustee for the North West Company.
Correspondence concerning the Jacobite Risings., 1714-1745.
Contains letters of John Erskine, Earl of Mar (succeeded 1689), to Thomas Kennedy, Lord Advocate, enclosing a petition from Alexander McDonald of Glengarry, 1714; letters of Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar, to Colonel Cornelius Kennedy, 1715; letter of Colonel Montgomerie to the same, 1715; letters of Francis Kennedy of Dalquharran to Thomas Kennedy, Lord Advocate, his brother, describing Edinburgh during its occupation by Prince Charles Edward Stuart's troops, 1745.
Correspondence concerning the National Library of Scotland`s 1967 Hugh MacDiarmid exhibition.
Including seven letters of C M Grieve, two each of Helen B Cruickshank and R S Thomas, and one of Robert Lowell.
Correspondence concerning the Outlook Tower, chiefly with Jean Craigie Cunningham., 1932-1938.
The subjects include arrangements for the lease of rooms in the Tower, plays and lectures, and the Patrick Geddes Memorial Appeal.
Correspondence concerning the publication of Christopher Murray Grieve’s, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ ‘Complete poems'., 1972-1978, undated.
Duval and Hamilton had intended to take part in the publication of a limited edition, but they eventually withdrew. The correspondence (which includes letters to Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid') reflects their involvement with the editors and printers, and the disagreement with the commercial publisher Timothy O'Keeffe.
Correspondence concerning the publication of "Conversations of Lord Byron" by Thomas Medwin., 1822-1824.
Correspondence concerning the publication of ‘Milestones on the Dover Road’, with related notes., 1963-1968.
Correspondence concerning the sale and transfer of the John Buchan Library to Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario., 1954-1955.
Correspondence concerning the Scotland-Australia Bicentennial Committee.
Correspondence concerning the Scottish Poetry Library., 1988-2014.
Correspondence concerning the series 'Meanings for Scotland', which James Leslie Mitchell was to have edited., 1934-1936.
Contained are letters from the contributors and from George Routledge and Sons, the publishers. After James Leslie Mitchell's death, the title of the series was altered to 'The Voice of Scotland', but few of the projected volumes were published.
Correspondence concerning the Sheriffship of Forfar, 1806-1807, and patronage disputes, 1836., 1806-1807, 1836.
The contents are as follows: (i) Correspondence, 1806-1807, concerning the Sheriffship of Forfar. Writers include John Hagart, Advocate; Adam Duff of Findon, Advocate (who was appointed Sheriff in 1807); Robert Cullen, Lord Cullen; and Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville. (Folio 1.) (ii) Correspondence concerning patronage disputes in 1836 relating to the Postmasterships of Arbroath (folio 38) and Brechin (folio 157). (Folio 38.)
Correspondence concerning the supervision of a thesis by J G Mahon., 1969-1974.
Correspondence concerning the voyages to the East Greenland Sea made chiefly in the 1860s and 1870s by David Gray, a whaling captain from Peterhead., 1922-1940.
The correspondence, which is chiefly between David Gray’s son Robert W Gray and Sir James Wordie, is accompanied by cuttings from the ‘Buchan observer’ in which were published series of articles on, and excerpts from, the logs of these voyages. The proposal that a small book should be published based upon the contents of the logs seems not to have been carried out.
Correspondence concerning the winding up of the affairs of John Wood, baker in Kelso.
Correspondence concerning the Women's Social and Political Union in Glasgow, including letters from Christabel Pankhurst to Miss Allen., March 1913-May 1914.
Correspondence concerning trading and mercantile affairs, including correspondence of the house of Chalmers and Guthrie, Idol Lane, Tower Street, London in which Patrick Chalmers, 3rd of Auldbar (died 1826), was a partner., 1821-1844.
Correspondence consisting chiefly of instructions to Thomas Robertson from officials in the Excise Office., 1809-1812, 1816-1820, undated.
Correspondence consisting chiefly of letters to George Smith and to members of the firm, to his wife Elizabeth, and to his son-in-law and successor as head of the firm Reginald J Smith., 1846-1924, undated.
Many of the envelopes in which they were posted, and the folders in which they were preserved by the firm, are present with the letters.
Correspondence consisting chiefly of letters to James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, with some drafts of his replies., 1724-1799, undated.
Many of the letters are very substantial and discuss topics to be found in Lord Monboddo's published works, such as metaphysics, the philosophy of Locke, and the origin of language.