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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 Major-General Stewart A Lithgow., 1758-1893.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2543-2544
Scope and Contents The earlier letters include several of the poet Beattie, of Aaron Lithgow, a Dundee shipowner, relating to his voyages, 1809-1833, and Edwin Lithgow, writing from the Australian goldfields, 1853. Major-General Lithgow's correspondence relates to his service at the Cape of Good Hope, 1855-1856, in India (including the Mutiny), 1856-1871, on the Nile expedition, 1885-1886, and with the Zhob Field Force, 1890, and includes the warrant for the first grant of the Distinguished Service Order...
Dates: 1758-1893.

Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9736/1-161
Scope and Contents Born in Dalavich, Argyll and resident for most of his life in Paisley and Elderslie where he was in business as a surveyor, MacFarlane was a notable Gaelic activist and writer from the late 1880s. He played a prominent part in the early years of An Comunn Gaidhealach (particularly in the production of its magazine, An Deò-Gréine, later An Gaidheal) while, as a radical in politics, taking issue with what he regarded as the An Comunn leadership's over-deference to aristocratic patronage and...
Dates: 1882-1930, undated.

Correspondence of Marion Coleman with friends., 1835-1881.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15086-15101
Scope and Contents

Besides writing regularly to her family and her uncle, Marion Coleman maintained a large correspondence in English and French, with a wide circle of friends, many of whom were members of prominent continental families. These letters appear to have been written between 1835 and 1881, with the greater number written between about 1850 and 1870, but most are undated, and many are unsigned.

Dates: 1835-1881.