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Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Any forms of addressed and written communication sent and received, including letters, postcards, memorandums, notes, telegrams, or cables.

Found in 1773 Collections and/or Records:

13 letters of John Barr.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13901
Content Description

On Barr's imprisonment and experiences during and following the Radical uprising of 1820.

Dates: 1817-1822.

17 letters, circa 1752-circa 1781, of and to Hugh Hume Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7770
Scope and Contents

Concerning estate and family matters.

With six letters and other papers, 1674-1766, concerning Bruce Campbell and his family.

Dates: 1674-circa 1781.

18 letters of John Smith.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7737
Scope and Contents

Concerning Road Trustee business in Roxburghshire.

Dates: 1832-1839.

20 letters and cards, 1990-1996, of Ronald Stevenson to Michael Lister, on musical and personal matters.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11318
Scope and Contents

Includes:

copies of 23 letters, 1990-1996, of Lister to Stevenson

copy of letter, 1994, of Lister to Alasdair Gray

correspondence, 1989-1996, of Lister, concerning Ronald Stevenson.

Dates: 1989-1996.

22 letters of Thomas Carlyle and 19 of Jane Welsh Carlyle, 1830-1867 and undated, to members of his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7988
Scope and Contents

With eight letters of John Aitken Carlyle to his mother and brother, two letters, 1841, 1852, of R W Emerson to Thomas Carlyle, and associated correspondence.

Dates: 1830-1867 and undated.

31 letters, 1822-1836, of Sir David Wilkie to Sir James Willoughby Gordon.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7901
Scope and Contents

Mostly on artistic matters.

With copies of three letters, 1828-1839, of Gordon to Wilkie, and an associated memorandum.

Dates: 1822-1839.

Academic and literary correspondence of Professor Alastair Fowler, with some drafts of works and press cuttings.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12015/1-57
Scope and Contents

This accession is one of several in the National Library of Scotland covering mainly incoming correspondence, but also containing copies of some outgoing letters and other literary material.

Acc.12015/57 gives biographical details on individual correspondents.

Dates: [Circa 1971-2000], undated.

Academic and literary papers, including typescripts, drafts and correspondence, of Angus Calder.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9851/1-66
Scope and Contents

Concerning his doctoral thesis, books and broadcasts, his involvement in East African literature, his editorship of 'Journal of Commonwealth literature' and convenorship of the Scottish Poetry Library.

Includes lectures notes, drafts, histories, correspondence and interviews.

Dates: 1960-1988.

Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.1-81.2.10
Scope and Contents

Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.

Dates: 16th century-19th century.

Administrative, legal and financial papers concerning the estates of the families of Gray of Carntyne, and Anstruther Thomson, afterwards Anstruther Gray, of Kilmany, including records of coal mining interests, and also some private family papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8100/1-156
Scope and Contents Most of these papers consist of titles and estate papers relating to the lands of Carntyne and Shettleston in Glasgow. They are particularly important for the history of the colliery at Westmuir from the death of John Gray of Carntyne in 1796 until that of his grandson, the Rev John Hamilton Gray, in 1867, but there is material from both before, and in particular from after that period. Robert Gray (d.1833) was a resident landowner, and an enthusiastic coalmaster. Though not all the Westmuir...
Dates: 1518-1965, undated.

Administrative records of the Bible Board for Scotland.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11182/1-41
Scope and Contents In the early 19th century there was much public complaint about the cost and quality of Bibles produced on both sides of the Border where the respective King's printers enjoyed monopoly rights to the printing of acts of Parliament, proclamations, the Authorised Version of the Bible, the metrical psalms, catechism, etc (in England the universities of Oxford and Cambridge also had the Bible printing privilige). When the existing Scottish patent expired in 1839, new letters patent were issued...
Dates: 1832-1981.

`Adversaria`, being miscellaneous notes and copies of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald, with scholars such as William Nicolson, Edward Lhuyd and John Smith of Durham on Scottish history and antiquities.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.19
Scope and Contents Smith`s letters (folios 47-61), some of which are originals, concern the records of Scottish history surviving at Durham. Other contents are as follows:(i) Notes on historical manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library (folio 2).(ii) The life of Robert Morison copied from his ‘Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis’, part 3, with notes on the same volume (folio 4 verso).(iii) `A list of Gold Scotch Coyns` (folios 13 verso, 18).(iv) `The...
Dates: Circa 1682-1706, and undated.

Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates: ?1825-1856.

Archive of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10893/1-451
Scope and Contents

Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.

Dates: 1972-1991.