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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 1186 Collections and/or Records:

Letters and documents relating chiefly to appointments to the first charge of the Canongate Parish Church, Edinburgh, and to the National Monument, Calton Hill, Edinburgh., 1808-1824, 1828-1848.

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Identifier: MS.352
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Letters and documents, 1808-1824, relating chiefly to appointments to the first charge of the Canongate Parish Church, Edinburgh. The correspondents include: Reverend Dr Andrew Grant, Moderator of the General Assembly, on the proposed Teind Bill, 1808, and on the Canongate, 1810; Sir John Sinclair, Baronet 1808; The Earl of Wemyss, 1808; Magistrates, Elders, and Incorporated Trades of the Canongate, 1808, 1810-1811, 1824; Reverend Dr Thomas...
Dates: 1808-1824, 1828-1848.

Letters and 'miscellaneous documents' of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, chiefly concerning the National Library of Scotland., 1922-1936.

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Identifier: MS.25270
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters, 1924-1935, concerned with the purchase of Mary, Queen of Scots, manuscripts (1924), and with the business of the National Library Board of Trustees (folio 1); (ii-xi) 'Miscellaneous documents', 1922-1936, as follows. (ii) Copy of a letter, 1922, of Sir Frederick Kenyon, British Museum, to Dr W K Dickson on a Treasury grant to the Advocates' Library (folio 68); (iii) Correspondence with Sir John Lamb and Lord Novar (Secretary for Scotland) on the...
Dates: 1922-1936.

Letters and papers concerning affairs in the United States of America., 1770-1886, undated.

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Identifier: MSS.15130-15136
Scope and Contents The Ellices owned a considerable amount of land in New York State, centring around the town of Little Falls. The correspondence consists chiefly of letters of agents who administered the property, and of letters from friends of Ellice who inspected their administration. There was considerable dissatisfaction on both sides. The Ellices felt that their agents were not drawing enough profit from the estates, and the local American authorities thought that not enough money was being put into...
Dates: 1770-1886, undated.

Letters and papers concerning honours bestowed on Thomas Carlyle.

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Identifier: MS.1795
Scope and Contents The contents concern the following:Membership of the Gesellschaft für in- und ausländische schöne Literatur in Berlin, 1830, 1835 (folio 1); of the Orden der Wachsamkeit, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1859 (folio 7); of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1866 (folio 16); and of the Prussian order, Pour le Mérite, 1874 (folio 18); with a letter forwarding an article published in the ‘Deutscher Reichs- und Königlich-Preussischer Staats-Anzeiger’ in honour of Thomas Carlyle's birthday, 1875...
Dates: 1830-1875.