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 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

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 Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10968
Scope and Contents

Includes circa 900 letters and copies of letters, on literary matters.

Dates: 1987-1993.

Correspondence of Hew Morrison, with papers concerning his edition of ‘Songs and poems in the Gaelic language’ by Rob Donn., 1882-1903, undated.

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Identifier: MS.14955
Scope and Contents Material connected with Hew Morrison’s edition of Rob Donn’s ‘Songs and poems in the Gaelic language’ (folios 1-12), and general correspondence (folios 13-21), of which only Alexander MacKay’s letter concerns the poems.The contents are as follows.(i) Photographs and a map (folio 1);(ii) Farther copies of some of the press cuttings in MS.14954 (folio 4);(iii) The surname controversy: notes and a survey (folio 6);(iv) Letter to Hew...
Dates: 1882-1903, undated.

Correspondence of Ian Hamilton Finlay to several correspondents., 1969-1971, undated.

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Identifier: Acc.6533/1
Scope and Contents

Includes 15 letters and postcards of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Derek and Peggy Stanford, 1969-71, with fragments of 13 letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Derek Stanford, undated.

With copies of single letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Lord Eccles, Ronald Mavor, Rubenstein Nash and Co, and the Director, Scottish Arts Council, 1971, with a carbon copy of typescript of 'O Hark to the Mavor', undated.

Dates: 1969-1971, undated.

Correspondence of John, 2nd Earl, afterwards Duke, of Lauderdale., 1659-1672, undated.

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Identifier: MS.3136
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters of John, 2nd Earl, afterwards Duke, of Lauderdale, principally to John, 2nd Earl of Tweeddale, afterwards Marquess, 1659-1672. All are published by Henry M Paton in ‘Miscellany VI’, ‘Scottish History Society’, 3rd series, volume xxxiii (1939), except one on the process depending against the Earl of Morton and Viscount Grandison concerning Orkney and Zetland, 1669 (folio 79), and two regarding the revenue, 1669 (folios 86-87)....
Dates: 1659-1672, undated.

Correspondence of Richard Burdon Haldane, consisting of letters received by him, some copies of letters written by him and other manuscript material directly related to the correspondence in the form of enclosures., 1872-1928, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5901-5917
Scope and Contents This part of the collection contains a large number of letters written by eminent public figures on a wide variety of subjects. The typed copies of letters from Richard Burdon Haldane to various correspondents, which have been inserted in the general chronological sequence, were probably made for Sir Frederick Maurice when writing his 'The life of Viscount Haldane of Cloan'. They are not accurate, and should not be relied on. Haldane's own interests are well represented, though it is clear...
Dates: 1872-1928, undated.

Correspondence of Robert Adam the architect and his Edinburgh clerk of works, John Paterson., 1789-1791.

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Identifier: MS.19992
Scope and Contents A collection of 34 letters from John Paterson in Edinburgh to Robert Adam's office in London discussing work in hand, together with five letters from Adam to Paterson. The Paterson letters are originals and the Adam letters are drafts or copies, of which but one appears to be in Adam's own hand. In addition there are complete drafts of or copies of parts of eleven of the Paterson letters. The letters give a fine picture of Adam's extensive practice at the end of his life when his business...
Dates: 1789-1791.

Correspondence of Robert McLellan., 1975-1984.

 File
Identifier: MS.26473
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters of Robert McLellan to James King Annand, 1975-1983 (folio 1). They chiefly concern the publication of McLellan's 'Linmill' stories in ‘Lallans’, the magazine edited by Annand, but they also mention mutual friends and the work of other writers in ‘Lallans’. (ii) Miscellaneous correspondence, 1980-1984 (folio 35). It includes McLellan's reminiscences of Christopher Murray Grieve, 1980 (folio 38), and copies of his letters to John Calder concerning the...
Dates: 1975-1984.

Correspondence of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1889-1890
Scope and Contents

Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.

Dates: 1833-1910, undated.

Correspondence of Sir Charles Stuart (later Baron Stuart de Rothesay), when British Ambassador to France; and facsimile of a copy of the “Memoire et vote définitif et final de la Cour de Vienne dans l’affaire Aldobrandini".

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15386-15390
Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists chiefly of letters to Charles Stuart from French officials and politicians, with drafts or copies of some of his replies and some petitions for help from British residents in or travellers through France, and from French citizens. There are also a few letters to him concerning his book-collecting activities.

Dates: 1815-1830, undated.

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 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 the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly military., 1799-1801.

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Identifier: MS.11259
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters, copies of letters and dispatches of Lord Mulgrave, on a special mission to the Austrian military command, mostly to the 1st Earl of Minto, September- November 1799 (folio l); (ii) Copies of dispatches of Lieutenant-Colonel John Ramsay, British Commissary with the Austrian Army, to the 1st Earl and the Foreign Secretary, September-October 1799 (folio 69); (iii) Letters of Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, attached to the Austrian military headquarters,...
Dates: 1799-1801.