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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 of, and concerning, the Murrays of Ochtertyre., 1704-1928.

 File
Identifier: MS.21101
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Correspondence, 1704-1928, of and concerning the Murrays of Ochtertyre. Many of the letters are to Sir Patrick Murray, 2nd Baronet, of Ochtertyre. Of particular interest are those concerning the efforts made to secure the release of his son Sir William Murray, 3rd Baronet, of Ochtertyre who was imprisoned at Edinburgh and Carlisle following the 1715 Rising, 1716-1717 ( folio 47-109 passim). Extracts from this correspondence have been published in ‘The...
Dates: 1704-1928.

Correspondence of and letters concerning Sir David Wilkie chiefly about his own work and the work of other artists., 1804-1862, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9835-9836
Scope and Contents

The correspondence includes letters concerning the technicalities of engraving, his relationship with his various patrons, and the business of the Royal Academy. Other topics of correspondence include: life in London's artistic circles, Wilkie's visit to Italy in 1826 and his impressions of Italian Renaissance painters, and his journey to the Middle East in 1840 and 1841.

Dates: 1804-1862, undated.

Correspondence of and petitions addressed to Hugh Elliot., 1805-1809, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.13053
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Petitions addressed to Hugh Elliot 1805-1806, undated, chiefly from French and Corsican emigrés (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence of Hugh Elliot with the British government (mostly George Canning), 1807-1809, concerning his salary as ambassador in Naples, and the opposition of the Neapolitan government to his return there (folio 159).

Dates: 1805-1809, undated.

Correspondence of and to Henry Cockburn concerning the question of new trials in jury cases., 1838.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.9.1.7
Scope and Contents Henry Cockburn was extremely dissatisfied with the attitude of the judges of the First Division to jury trials, and raised the matter formally with Lord President Charles Hope after the case of Collins against Hamilton, which he had heard in Glasgow as Lord Ordinary in 1837, was successfully appealed to the Inner House on what he considered spurious grounds. Cockburn argued that the judge who heard the case in the first instance should be consulted and heard by the appeal judges; his side of...
Dates: 1838.