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Printed materials. Object genre.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Genre of written works published or otherwise available in printed form, usually on paper.

Found in 1186 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of Alexander Christie, Provost of Montrose, and other material relating to the affairs of the town, with discussions of Christie's religious and political views, copied by Christie.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3701-3703
Scope and Contents

The correspondents are mainly notables of Angus, divines, political thinkers, and merchants, and include Alexander Christie's brother William, the Unitarian writer, his son Thomas, the political writer, Sir David Carnegie, Baronet, George Dempster of Dunnichen, David Scott of Dunninald, the Reverend William Dalrymple (subject of "The Kirk's Alarm"), T F Palmer, the reformer, Robertson, the historian, and Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: 1781, 1789-1793.

Correspondence of Alexander W C O Murray., 1916-1920, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.8804
Scope and Contents

A small miscellany of printed items (chiefly press-cuttings) found amongst his brother's papers and a few letters to his widow have been placed at the end (folios 249-296 and 305-308 respectively).

Dates: 1916-1920, undated.

Correspondence of J B S Haldane., 1907-1964, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20534-20546
Scope and Contents Most of the correspondence belongs to the last seven years of J B S Haldane’s life, following his retirement from his position as Professor of Biometry at London University, which he spent at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta (1957-1961), the Genetics and Research Unit of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (1961-1962), and the Genetics and Biometry Laboratory, Bhubaneswar, Orissa.The correspondence consists chiefly of incoming letters with manuscript...
Dates: 1907-1964, 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 the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1815-1824.

 File
Identifier: MS.12122
Scope and Contents

Includes some related printed papers and pamphlets, 1815-1824, on the Scottish Poor Laws, on Savings Banks and on other related social questions, with among others Thomas Chalmers, Henry Duncan, minister of Ruthwell and founder of the Savings Bank movement, and Thomas Francis Kennedy of Dunure.

Dates: 1815-1824.

Correspondence of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, with some of other members of their circle., 1816-1875, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.2883
Scope and Contents The correspondence is preceded by a copy, 1876 (watermark), of the Minutes of Kirkcaldy Town Council, 1815-1816, relating to the appointment of Thomas Carlyle as schoolmaster there, and a printed notice, 1816, of Smith and Johnstone's school at Ecclefechan. Mrs Carlyle's letters, 1821-1826 and undated, include several written to Carlyle before their marriage. The writers include: Henry Duncan, Minister of Ruthwell, 1827 (on German theology); Allan Cunningham, 1832, 1837, 1839; Harriet...
Dates: 1816-1875, undated.

Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20510-20533
Scope and Contents

Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.

Dates: 1884-1936, undated.