Manuscripts.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, notes and printed material relating to the Heating and Ventilation Commission, of which Campbell was secretary., 1855-1860.
Correspondence of Archibald Constable, publisher, Edinburgh, his firm and his family; with one volume of the manuscript of a work published in "Constable's miscellany".
The correspondents include many of the most celebrated men (chiefly literary) of the time.
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Duchess of Argyll.
The correspondence concerns the Duchess’s legal and financial affairs, particularly after the death of the 1st Duke of Argyll in 1703. Many of the letters are addressed to James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, her legal adviser (see also Adv.MS.29.3.5).
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Duchess of Argyll, volume I: letters of the Duchess, mostly to James Anderson., 1696-1726.
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Duchess of Argyll, volume II: letters of the Duchess, undated (folio 1); letters to her from various correspondents, 1691-1720 (folio 121)., 1691-1720, and undated.
Correspondence of George Paton, the antiquary.
Paton was originally a bookseller and later, in his leisure from his occupation in the Customs House at Edinburgh, he continued to cultivate his bibliographic and antiquarian interests. He corresponded with many of the leading antiquaries of his time, most prolifically with Thomas Pennant and Richard Gough. The topics range through all aspects of antiquities, topography, local history, and especially books.
Correspondence of James Maidment with and concerning John Riddell, with some other papers of Riddell.
The letters chiefly concern genealogical matters and the disposal after his death of John Riddell's manuscripts (the Riddell Collection), which were arranged by James Maidment and chiefly purchased by Lord Lindsay for ultimate preservation in the Advocates' Library.
Correspondence of John Borthwick of Crookston (died 1907) and his wife Elizabeth with other members of the Borthwick family; with financial and other documents concerning the Borthwick family, particularly John Borthwick (died 1845)., 1684-1904, undated.
Correspondence of John Leycester Adolphus and his family.
With a manuscript of Adolphus, concerning Sir Walter Scott.
Correspondence of John Riddell concerning the successful claim of James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford, to that title., 1834, 1842-June 1845.
Correspondence of John Riddell concerning the successful claim of James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford, to that title., July 1845-1847, 1849, and undated.
Correspondence of John Riddell concerning the unsuccessful claim of James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford, to the title of Duke of Montrose., 1850-1852.
Correspondence of Laurence Oliphant of Condie, mainly concerning the recovery of Gask after its forfeiture, and other letters which appear to have come into his hands., 1745-1769.
Correspondence of Major-General John Campbell, including many letters of his son, Colonel John Campbell, relating to the rising of 1745-1746, and orders, intelligence reports, and intercepted Jacobite correspondence: volume IV., July 1746-August 1747, 1748, 1762, undated.
Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.
Correspondence of Sir James Wordie formerly loosely inserted inside the printed books and pamphlets of the Wordie Collection., 1922-1959, undated.
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.
Correspondence of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion., June-July 1859.
Correspondence of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion., August 1859-1865, 1885, 1900, and undated.
Correspondence of the antiquary, John Pinkerton, with papers and notes accumulated by him in connection with works which he published or projected.
Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1582-late 19th century.
Correspondence of the Hoby family, said to have belonged to Archibald Constable, the publisher.
They were bound up, in no particular order, about 1820 (the paper of the endpapers is watermarked 1817), presumably for Constable.
Correspondence of the Scotts of Raeburn., 1660-1822.
The correspondence includes religious writings of the seventeenth century, by George Fox, 'the younger in the truth', George Keith, Walter Scott, the Quaker laird of Raeburn, and others, and papers, found at the Haining, relating to the duel in which Walter, the laird of Raebum, was killed in 1707. The later letters are chiefly addressed by Sir Walter Scott to the sixth laird.