Correspondence.
Found in 1778 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and legal papers of Hugh Seton of Touch, formally Smith, Archibald Seton, 13th of Touch, and Barbara Seton, 14th of Touch.
Correspondence and legal papers to and concerning John and William Smith and Patrick Wilson, writers, Kelso.
Correspondence and letter books of Duncan MacKinnon.
Correspondence and literary papers, including articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts, of Janet Adam Smith.
Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Correspondence and literary papers of Alastair D S Fowler.
Correspondence and literary papers of and concerning George Borrow collected by Sir Angus Fraser, with working papers of Sir Angus Fraser relating to George Borrow.
Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).
Correspondence and literary papers of Margaret O W Oliphant and her family.
Correspondence and literary papers of Naomi Mitchison, collected by Professor Isobel Murray, relating to "Beyond this limit" (Edinburgh, 1986) and "A Girl Must Live" (Glasgow, 1990).
Correspondence and literary papers of the author, Marion C Lochhead (1902-1985).
Correspondence and manuscripts of Agnes Ethel Mackay (died 1980).
Agnes Mackay was born and educated in Scotland, but spent much of her life in France. During the German Occupation, she lived in St Tropez with her cousin, Marion Melville, and they moved to Paris after the war. Her publications included poetry, biographies of Paul Valery and Arthur Melville, and critical works on art and literature.
Correspondence and manuscripts of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, and of his family.
There is also some correspondence of the Seaforth family, Henry's son, Joshua Henry, having married Helen, daughter of Lord Seaforth.
Correspondence and memoranda of John Philp Wood regarding his appointment, competence, pay, etc., as Auditor of the Excise.
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of and concerning Sir Patrick Geddes.
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the family of MacLeod of Geanies.
Correspondence and notes of William Stewart, of the Glasgow Herald.
Concerning the printer James Watson.
Correspondence and other manuscripts of the novelist James Grant.
Besides being a most prolific writer of fiction (he produced some fifty-six novels), James Grant wrote on the history, particularly military history, of Scotland. He was a keen supporter of the Volunteer Movement in Edinburgh, and founded, in 1852, the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights.
Correspondence and other material of the families of John Hill Burton and his parents-in-law, Cosmo Innes and Isabella Rose of Kilravock.
Correspondence and other papers chiefly of George Gleig, Bishop of Brechin, and George Robert Gleig, author of ‘The Subaltern’.
Also included is some correspondence of Sir Henry George Ward, a connection of Henry J S Bailey's family, and of Bailey himself.
Correspondence and other papers chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn.
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1660-1822, of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2889);
Correspondence, accounts and other papers, [?1698-?1853], chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2890).
Correspondence and other papers concerning the Buchanites, collected by Joseph Train.
Correspondence and other papers, including photographs, newspaper cuttings and a pamphlet, concerning Sailors' Walk House, Kirkcaldy, a sixteenth-century building.
The papers were kept by the donor, Miss Gwendollyn Lendrum, secretary of the committee which prevented the house’s demolition, raised funds for its restoration, and ultimately transferred it to the National Trust for Scotland.