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 1778 Collections and/or Records:
Copy, 17th century, of a journal kept by a member of Sir Robert Cecil`s suite during the period of his embassy to France, February-April 1598, before the signing of the Treaty of Vervins.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.10
Scope and Contents
The entries for each day are brief, and much of the manuscript consists of copies of official correspondence sent and received by Cecil, some of which was published in ‘An Historical View of the Negotiations between the courts of England, France and Brussels’, pages 100-157.
Dates:
1598.
Copy, 1812, of "Tales of the Peries the History of Azar Shah from the Persie", from a manuscript in the possession of John Leyden.
File
Identifier: Acc.6138
Scope and Contents
With correspondence, 20th century, concerning John Leyden and to the Leyden papers now in the National Library of Scotland.
Dates:
1812, 20th century.
Copy of Edward Dwelly`s Gaelic dictionary with inserted correspondence.
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Identifier: Acc.13736
Scope and Contents
Interleaved copy of Dwelly`s dictionary belonging to Duncan Mac Isaac, Oban, one of Dwelly`s contributors, with his signature, "Donnachadh Mc Isaaic Oban, 1/6/1909" in volume 1. Some correspondence and printed ephemera are tipped into the volumes, including:Postcard, 1906, by Dwelly to Mac Isaac, in Gaelic (vol. 1); subscription form, 1903, for the newly-begun weekly paper of the Irish Gaelic League, `An Claidheamh Soluis` (vol. 1); a poster of Douglas Hyde, "An Craobhín...
Dates:
1902-1912
Corrected proofs, undated, of 'Female Wits' of Bill Dunlop; with related correspondence, 1990-1995, to Bill Dunlop from Chris Stewart of Canto Press.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11372/1-2
Dates:
1990-1995, undated.
Corrected typescript drafts and proofs of William Wolfe, "Scotland Lives" (1973).
File
Identifier: Acc.9537
Scope and Contents
With associated notes and correspondence.
Dates:
circa 1973.
Corrected typescript drafts of `Points in time: an autobiography` by Dr William Johnstone, and related materials.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.332
Dates:
1980.
Correspondence, 1807-1853, mostly of James Everson, Beverley, on the Scotch Baptist Church.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11076
Scope and Contents
Includes transcripts, 1944, by James Idwal Jones, together with notes, essays and pamphlets on the history of the Church.
Dates:
1807-1853, 1944.
Correspondence, 1834-1846, of Thomas De Quincey with William Tait, about the publication of articles and other works, principally his autobiography.
File
Identifier: MS.1670
Scope and Contents
At the beginning are placed relevant letters from J R Findlay and James T Black, 1882.
Dates:
1834-1846, 1882.
Correspondence, 1930-1935, of James Glen, Writer, Glasgow, chiefly with Professor Sir Herbert Grierson about questions connected with the latter's edition of Sir Walter Scott's letters and life of Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.2566
Scope and Contents
Included are extracts from the diary of John Ballantyne, 1814-1818 (folio 176).
Dates:
1814-1818, 1930-1935.
Correspondence, 1961-2017, and literary papers, circa 1970s, of David Macleod Black.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13836
Dates:
1961-2017.
Correspondence, 1968-1972, of Charles King with the University of London Press.
File
Identifier: Acc.11686
Scope and Contents
Concerns King`s edition of "Twelve Modern Scottish Poets" (1971).
Includes letter of Iain Crichton Smith to Charles King, 1994.
Dates:
1968-1972, 1994.
Correspondence, accounts and papers of Robert Macadam, baker.
File
Identifier: Acc.11127
Dates:
1836-1907 and undated.
Correspondence, almost entirely of the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville.
File
Identifier: MS.3841
Scope and Contents
The principal correspondent is Admiral Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane. His letters, and others accompanying them, deal with smuggling (folios 1-11), the disposition of military and naval forces while Cochrane was blockading Ferrol in 1804-1805 (folios 18-25), matters relating to Cochrane's commands, 1806, 1810, 1814, in the West Indies and on the North American station (folios 26-41, 46-55), and the court-martial, 1823, of a Captain George Harris, in which Cochrane was involved...
Dates:
1792-1824.
Correspondence and academic and literary papers of Prof A N Jeffares.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10594
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with publishers, lectures, articles and drafts of books, especially on Yeats.
Dates:
1950-1992.
Correspondence and bibliographical notes on children`s books, compiled by Eudo Mason.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4986
Dates:
1948-1966.
Correspondence and contributions relating to issue 22 of "Scotia Review", published spring 1997.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11469
Dates:
1996-1997.
Correspondence and documents concerning the families of Thomas Smith, Professor of Evangelistic Theology at New College, Edinburgh, and John Smith, tenant in Libberton, Lanarkshire.
Series
Identifier: MSS.7185-7186
Scope and Contents
The families of Thomas and John Smith were related by marriage and an outline genealogy is provided (MS.7185, folio i.).
Dates:
1790-1914.
Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
Series
Identifier: MSS.851-938
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Correspondence and financial and administrative papers of the Sligo and Smith-Sligo family of Inzievar.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8287/1-272
Dates:
1685-1968.
Correspondence and genealogical papers concerning the Forrester family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10884-Deaccessioned
Dates:
Undated.
Correspondence and journels of and concerning Dr Hermann Philip, missionary, his wife, Dora Stephens and his daughter Anna Maria Henderson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10139
Dates:
1841-1881.
Correspondence and lectures of David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11533
Scope and Contents
Mostly concerning artistic matters.
Dates:
1949-1961.
Correspondence and legal, financial and other papers of the Dunlop family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9250-9307
Scope and Contents
Much of the collection concerns William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University, his son Alexander, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and his grandson John, Tide Surveyor at Greenock. The papers of William Dunlop include material on the colony of South Carolina, the Darien Scheme, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland, while those of Alexander chiefly concern the University of Glasgow. The collection also includes diaries and literary works of John Dunlop of Gairbraid, the temperance...
Dates:
1605-1952.
Correspondence and legal papers concerning the Crinan Canal.
File
Identifier: MS.9500
Scope and Contents
Most of the papers concern the Canal proprietors' negotiations with the local landowners, at first to acquire land to build the Canal, and later in disputes about rights and ownership. There are also records of tolls paid, and accounts for damages to property.
Dates:
1795-1873.