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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 Catherine MacLeod, being chiefly letters from Mary, wife of John Davey, Doctor of Medicine., 1829-?1855.

 File
Identifier: MS.19306
Scope and Contents

There are also letters from Donald Matheson and the MacLeods in Ostend on genealogical matters, and one of 1842 from her brother, Duncan, a Colonel in the Bengal Engineers.

Dates: 1829-?1855.

Correspondence of Charles Graves., 1903-1968, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27476-27477
Scope and Contents

Much of the correspondence dates from the period when Charles Graves ran the Porpoise Press, and contains letters from Marion Angus, Neil Gunn and others whose work he published. There is also correspondence about establishing a memorial to the poet Robert Crawford in 1936, and letters about Graves's own work, both private and for the ‘Scotsman’.

Dates: 1903-1968, undated.

Correspondence of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe., 1826, 1831-1845, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.2511
Scope and Contents

The correspondence is principally with James Maidment, on literary and historical matters, some scandalous, and with John Stevenson, his publisher. There are also copies of letters of Sir Walter Scott to Sharpe, in the latter's hand, 1826, undated; extracts, etc., in Sharpe's hand; a biographical note on Sharpe (folio 235); and newspaper-cuttings relating to him.

Dates: 1826, 1831-1845, undated.

Correspondence of D C Parker concerning his book ‘Georges Bizet, his life and works’., 1907-1969.

 File
Identifier: MS.21551
Scope and Contents

The correspondence includes letters from Georges Bizet's widow, Mme Geneviève Strauss (better known as the original of Proust's Mme de Guermantes), and from others who had known Bizet, and after the publication of the book, from people who asked him for advice. It also includes correspondence with Felix Weingartner and other material concerning the discovery by D C Parker of Bizet's Symphony in C.

Dates: 1907-1969.

Correspondence of D C Parker, including letters of Sir Landon and Lady Ronald, Vaclav Talich and members of the Wagner family., 1857-1938.

 File
Identifier: MS.21554
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Letters, 1923-1928, of Sir Landon and Lady Ronald (folio 1); (ii) Letters, 1927-1938, of and concerning Vaclav Talich, chiefly concerning his concert tours and his work in Czechoslovakia (folio 44); (iii) Letters, 1857, 1873, 1881, 1929-1937, 1953-1959, from members of the Wagner family, and including a press cutting from the ‘Vestlandske Tidende’, 20 October 1934, concerning the origin of the sailors' song in ‘The Flying Dutchman’ (folio 59); (iv) General...
Dates: 1857-1938.

Correspondence of David Cairns.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6786
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Harry Lauder, Alison Cairns, Lord MacLeod of Fuinary and Helen Cruickshank.

Dates: 1911-1975.

Correspondence of David Nichol Smith, Professor of English Literature at Oxford.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19600-19608
Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists of letters to David Nichol Smith from fellow academics, mostly on literary and university matters.

Dates: 1895-1959.

Correspondence of David Roberts.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.8729
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include David Ramsay Hay, Edward Finden and John G Kinnear.

Dates: 1828-1858.