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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 Sir Graham Balfour., 1884-1949, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9894-9896
Scope and Contents

There are a number of letters, 1900-1915, relating to the quarrel between Mr and Mrs Lloyd Osbourne and the latter's demand for the restitution of letters from Robert Louis Stevenson allegedly given to Mrs K Osbourne by Jane Whytt Balfour.

Dates: 1884-1949, undated.

Correspondence of Sir Graham Balfour., 1884-1899.

 File
Identifier: MS.9894
Scope and Contents

The disposal of Robert Louis Stevenson's estate is discussed with Charles Baxter, Sir Sidney Colvin and others in letters of 1895-1897.

Dates: 1884-1899.

Correspondence of Sir Graham Balfour., 1900-1911.

 File
Identifier: MS.9895
Scope and Contents

A large proportion of the letters of 1900-1901 are from relations and colleagues, answering enquiries about Stevenson in connection with writing of the biography, notable correspondents being Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Belle Strong, Sir Sidney Colvin and Henry James.

Dates: 1900-1911.

Correspondence of Sir Graham Balfour., 1914-1949, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.9896
Scope and Contents

Between 1922 and 1949 the bulk of the correspondence discusses the authenticity of ‘The hanging judge (Privately printed, 1887), a play written by Stevenson in collaboration with his wife, Fanny.

Dates: 1914-1949, undated.

Correspondence of Sir Henry Craik, politician.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.7174-7175
Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists almost entirely of letters written by prominent statesmen, clergymen, and men of letters of the period to Sir Henry Craik, with a few drafts of letters by him. The writers include Arthur Balfour, Lord Curzon and Lord Roberts.

Dates: 1865-1926.

Correspondence of Sir Henry Craik, with correspondents with surnames from A-H., 1865-1926.

 File
Identifier: MS.7174
Scope and Contents

There are also a few letters to Lady Craik.

The letters of Whitwell Elwin include twenty-eight folios of notes on Jonathan Swift's hypothetical marriage to Stella, and copies of three letters of Swift to Lord Bathurst, 1730.

Dates: 1865-1926.

Correspondence of Sir Henry Craik, with correspondents with surnames from J-W., 1865-1926.

 File
Identifier: MS.7175
Scope and Contents

At the end of the volume are some miscellaneous papers relating to Sir Henry Craik, including a memoir of a meeting with Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in 1891.

Dates: 1865-1926.

Correspondence of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson with various literary figures., 1904-1955.

 File
Identifier: MS.9332
Scope and Contents Among the more important letters are those from Sir Walter Raleigh, 1906, 1910-1911, 1920, concerning Grierson's work on Elizabethan literature; from Robert Bridges, undated, chiefly concerning the Society for Pure English tracts, and also expressing his dislike of Donne's poetry, and from C M Grieve ('Hugh MacDiarmid'), 1925, concerning his own poetry, his aims for Scottish literature in general, and the revival of the Scots vernacular.A typescript of Grieve's poem, 'I heard...
Dates: 1904-1955.

Correspondence of Sir James Dalrymple's younger children, 1753-1800, undated, and miscellaneous papers, 1759-1802., 1753-1802, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.25286
Scope and Contents The correspondence of Sir James Dalrymple's younger children, being chiefly letters to Janet and Rachel Dalrymple from their brothers, Alexander Dalrymple, hydrographer, Lieutenant-Colonel James Dalrymple, and William Dalrymple in Madras. With a letter from Captain Cook to Hugh Dalrymple, 1776. (Folio 1.) The miscellaneous papers including notes by Janet Dalrymple concerning a knitting school in Fisherrow, Musselburgh (Folio. 38), wills of Janet and Rachel Dalrymple, and verse of...
Dates: 1753-1802, undated.

Correspondence of Sir James Wordie formerly loosely inserted inside the printed books and pamphlets of the Wordie Collection., 1922-1959, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9501-9503
Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists of letters to James Wordie and carbon copies of his replies, together with miscellaneous material in manuscript, typescript and print, much of it referring to the particular printed work in which it was inserted.

A table of sources has been added to each volume.

Dates: 1922-1959, undated.

Correspondence of Sir John Coxe Hippisley, chiefly with Cardinal York or on his affairs, with a few letters on Catholic Emancipation., 1795-1811, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3112, folios 54-137
Scope and Contents

Many of the letters are copies, some of which Sir John Coxe Hippisley may have made in preparing his edition of ‘Letters from the Cardinal Borgia and the Cardinal of York, MDCCXCIX-MDCCC’.

Dates: 1795-1811, undated.

Correspondence of Sir Joseph Nöel Paton.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9133/1-52

Correspondence of Sir Lewis Robertson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11679/1-362

Correspondence of Sir Robert Barrie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10453
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Admiral Alan Gardner, Lucien Bonaparte, Admiral Sir John B Warren, Sir Peregrine Maitland and Matthew, Lord Aylmer.

Includes letter, 1823, concerning an American Indian.

Dates: 1807-1834.