Correspondence.
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Approximately 120 letters of Sir Walter Scott to Archibald Constable, with related correspondence and transcripts of seventy further Scott-Constable letters.
Correspondence and papers concerning figures of Scottish historical interest.
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
Correspondence of John Leycester Adolphus and his family.
With a manuscript of Adolphus, concerning Sir Walter Scott.
Letter of Sir Walter Scott to Harriet Bruhl Scott.
On "The Lord of the Isles" and the Polwarth title.
Letter of Sir Walter Scott to R. K. Douglas.
Concerning General Gourgaud`s criticisms of Scott`s `Life of Napoleon`.
Letter of Sir Walter Scott to Rev. George Tough.
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.
Letter of Sir Walter Scott to the Committee of Ladies.
On relief of the Irish peasantry at the time of the famine in Ireland.
Letter of Walter Scott to Cadell and Davies offering "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border", and a copy of their reply detailing terms.
Letter of Walter Scott to Daniel Terry.
A transcription of the letter has been included.
A copy of an engraving of a bust of Sir Walter Scott has also been included.
Letter of Walter Scott to John Richardson.
On a matter concerning the Court of Session.
Manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and Lord Byron from the Library of Honresfield House.
Papers, accounts, receipts and correspondence relating to the financial affairs of James Ballantyne and Co, and to Sir Walter Scott as partner in the firm, most being connected with John Gibson W.S., as solicitor to the Trustees.
Papers concerning the purchase by A and C Black of the Walter Scott copyrights and to subsequent operations connected with the "Waverley Property".
Papers of Clive Wainwright.
Papers concern Sir Walter Scott and Abbotsford and its furnishing and decoration.
Research papers, notes and correspondence of Eric Quayle, including material relating to his books on R M Ballantyne and Walter Scott.
Scott Huxley papers.
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`.
Volume of correspondence of James Nairne, WS, and papers of, and concerning, the Bannatyne Club.
Includes letters of Sir Walter Scott, James Ballantyne and David Laing.