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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, including transcripts, concerning India and Russia., 1857-1871, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14469
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Transcripts of letters, 1857-1858, undated, to the 10th Marquess of Tweeddale at Simla, being chiefly transcripts of letters in MS.14468, folios 74-375 (folio 1);(ii) Letters, 1859-1871, undated, from India, with correspondents including the novelist, John Lang (folio 120);(iii) Correspondence, 1864-1865, largely topographical, concerning Russia, including letters of Edwin E Bishop and Alexander Keith Johnston (folio...
Dates: 1857-1871, undated.

Correspondence largely of Admiral Sir Peter Halkett, Baronet (succeeded 1837)., 1799-1897.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.6411-6412
Scope and Contents

Much of this material concerns the use of steam packets on the London to Portsmouth canal. Other matters of economic interest in MS.6412 are unemployment in the Dunfermline area during 1842-1843 (folios 123-135), and railway development in Scotland in 1845 (folios 159-203).

Dates: 1799-1897.

Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21101-21191
Scope and Contents The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates: 15th century-1934, undated.