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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 27 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and papers concerning figures of Scottish historical interest.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10742
Scope and Contents

Includes:

charter, 1316, of Robert the Bruce

royal letters, 1537-1645

contemporary description, 1587, of the death of Mary, Queen of Scots

letters, 1716-1821 and undated, of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and his family

letters, 1764 and 1793, of James Boswell

letters, 1810 and 1828, of Sir Walter Scott

letter, 1843, of Thomas Carlyle

Dates: 1316-1938.

Correspondence of John Leycester Adolphus and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6445
Scope and Contents

With a manuscript of Adolphus, concerning Sir Walter Scott.

Dates: 1792-1875.

Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott and of Elizabeth Scott., 1817-1832.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11407/2-3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers concern the affairs of Thomas Scott, brother of Sir Walter, his family, and particularly his son-in-law Colonel Thomas Huxley.

Includes nine letters of Sir Walter Scott, and manuscript concerning the Isle of Man compiled by Thomas Scott, used by Walter Scott in `Peveril of the Peak`.

Dates: 1817-1832.

Correspondence of the Huxley family with the Public Archives of Nova Scotia., 1937-1993.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11407/9
Scope and Contents

Included are extracts from Walter Scott’s Journal and photocopies of Canadian newspaper articles on Huxley’s death.

Dates: 1937-1993.

Letter of Sir Walter Scott to Harriet Bruhl Scott.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14308
Scope and Contents

On "The Lord of the Isles" and the Polwarth title.

Dates: 1815.

Letter of Sir Walter Scott to R. K. Douglas.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13809
Scope and Contents

Concerning General Gourgaud`s criticisms of Scott`s `Life of Napoleon`.

Dates: 1827.

Letter of Sir Walter Scott to Rev. George Tough.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13966
Scope and Contents

On an orrery presented by Tough to George IV on his visit to Edinburgh.

Scott addressed the letter to 'Rev. Mr Aytoun' confusing the minister's name with his parish.

Dates: circa 1822.

Letter of Sir Walter Scott to the Committee of Ladies.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14032
Content Description

On relief of the Irish peasantry at the time of the famine in Ireland.

Dates: 1822.

Letter of Walter Scott to Daniel Terry.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13755
Scope and Contents

A transcription of the letter has been included.

A copy of an engraving of a bust of Sir Walter Scott has also been included.

Dates: 1818.

Letter of Walter Scott to John Richardson.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13704
Scope and Contents

On a matter concerning the Court of Session.

Dates: 1830.

Letters of Elizabeth Scott., 1832.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11407/3
Scope and Contents

Letters concern Sir Walter Scott`s last journey from London to Edinburgh.

Dates: 1832.

Letters of Sir Walter Scott., 1817-1824.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11407/2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, 1817-1827, of Sir Walter Scott, John Wilson Croker, Jessie Huxley (née Scott) and his sister-in-law Mrs Thomas Scott (Elizabeth McCulloch). Of the nine letters, seven are to Elizabeth mainly about affairs in Canada, and on Walter’s visit to Ireland.

Transcriptions of the letters have been tipped in.

Dates: 1817-1824.

Papers of Clive Wainwright.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12077
Scope and Contents

Papers concern Sir Walter Scott and Abbotsford and its furnishing and decoration.

Dates: circa 1975-1999.

Papers relating to Thomas Huxley’s death., 1826, 1937-1993.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11407/9-10
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers concern the affairs of Thomas Scott, brother of Sir Walter, his family, and particularly his son-in-law Colonel Thomas Huxley.

Includes nine letters of Sir Walter Scott, and manuscript concerning the Isle of Man compiled by Thomas Scott, used by Walter Scott in `Peveril of the Peak`.

Dates: 1826, 1937-1993.

Scott Huxley papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11407/1-13
Scope and Contents

Papers concern the affairs of Thomas Scott, brother of Sir Walter, his family, and particularly his son-in-law Colonel Thomas Huxley.

Includes nine letters of Sir Walter Scott, and manuscript concerning the Isle of Man compiled by Thomas Scott, used by Walter Scott in `Peveril of the Peak`.

Dates: 1811-1939.