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Correspondence of Archibald Constable, publisher, Edinburgh, and his firm.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.319-332

Dates

  • Creation: 1799-1827.

Conditions Governing Access

Normal access conditions apply.

Conditions Governing Use

Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.

Extent

14 Volumes ; Quarto, unless otherwise stated.

Language of Materials

Undetermined

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented, 1928, with MSS.333-334, by Messrs. T and A Constable, University Press, Edinburgh, with the concurrence of the representatives of Archibald Constable’s family.

Separated Materials

Other volumes of this correspondence are MSS.668-683; and business books and letter-books of the firm, MSS.789-802. An account of all this correspondence given in MS.803. See also MSS.333-334.

Bibliography

The material was used by Thomas Constable in his ‘Archibald Constable and his literary correspondents’ (Edinburgh, 1873).
Title
National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
Author
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
Description rules
International Standard for Archival Description - General
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

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