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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 7222 Collections and/or Records:

SLA Miscellaneous Papers., 1969-2006.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13656/113-129
Scope and Contents

Papers in the possession of SLA including reports, minutes, and, correspondence with the Library Association.

Dates: 1969-2006.

SLIC Newsletters, Minutes, and Working Group Papers., 1990-2011.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13657/52-58
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Papers of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC), including papers relating to its foundation in 1991.

Dates: 1990-2011.

Small collection of correspondence between the Quartermaster General's department and the Commissariat department whilst on active service in the Peninsular War.

 File
Identifier: MS.15337
Scope and Contents

Most of the letters are from Sir William H Delancey and Sir James W Gordon as successive Quartermasters General to Sir John Bisset and Sir Robert H Kennedy as successive Commissaries General.

Dates: 1812.

Small collections and single letters.

 File
Identifier: MS.3925
Scope and Contents Included are: letters of Scottish botanists to James Sowerby, 1793-1814; letters to William Blackwood, Publisher (died 1834), and his sons, 1816-1874; correspondence relating to John Murray, of Bowling Bay, and the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1824-1850; letters to the 7th, 8th, and 9th Lords Napier, 1810-1865; and letters to David Milne-Home, of Milne Graden, from men of science, 1837-1873.Among the writers of the other letters are James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Mrs Elizabeth...
Dates: 1793-1874.

Small collections and single papers.

 Series
Identifier: MS.2980

Small collections of correspondence and manuscripts of the author and essayist Thomas De Quincey, acquired at different times.

 File
Identifier: MS.21239
Scope and Contents Thomas De Quincey's own letters are written to his family and friends about his work and other activities, finance, and family matters. Letters addressed to him include one from an unnamed American admirer, 1853, (folio 18) which was published in ‘Thomas De Quincey’, pages 103-105, the catalogue of an exhibition held at Dove Cottage and the National Library of Scotland.Most of the manuscripts are fragmentary drafts of unidentified essays, but they include parts of "The English...
Dates: 1800-1855, undated.

Small collections of letters and papers., 1647-1862, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.2207
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous papers, 1647-1781, consisting chiefly of letters and orders addressed to William Farquharson of Inverey by Middleton and others, in connection with the Royalist campaign in Scotland, 1647-1656. 'Archaeologia Scotia', volume v, appendix, page 57. (Folio 1.)(ii) Orders of General Monck relating to Sir Robert Campbell of Glenorchy and the McNabs, 1654-1655, with modern transcripts, and a chaplain's commission given to...
Dates: 1647-1862, undated.

Speeches, and some correspondence, on various subjects., 1968-1994.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12135/906-912
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Includes research notes, typescripts and proofs of novels, correspondence, and papers concerning her involvement in cultural and business organisations.This archive includes papers relating to the following published works:'Games of kings' (1961)"Queens' play" (1964)'The disorderly knights' (1966)'Dolly and the singing bird' (1968)'Pawn in frankincense' (1969)'Dolly and the cookie bird' (1970)'The...
Dates: 1968-1994.

Steuart family papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3582
Dates: 19th century to 20th century.

Stirling branch correspondence, 1946-1947, including circulars from Headquarters, 1945-1947., 1945-1947.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10090/29
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Some family and other papers of Robert Douglas McIntyre's father, the Reverend John Ebenezer McIntyre (1874-1961), successively minister of Hightae and Dalton, Motherwell, Manse Road, and St Mary's, Edinburgh, United Free churches, and later of Barony and St James Place Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, precede the main collection.

Dates: 1945-1947.

Strowan estate correspondence., 1808-1836.

 File
Identifier: MS.10914
Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists of:

(i) Letters, 1808-1836, of Dundas and Wilson, Writer to the Signet (folio 1);

(ii) Letters, 1808-1834, of William Brown, factor (folio 100);

(iii) Letters, 1808-1822, of John Tainsh, writer, Crieff (folio 204);

(iv) Letters of Robert H Moncrieff, writer, Perth, 1820-1836 (folio 231).

Dates: 1808-1836.

Strowan estate papers., 1786-1883, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.10913-10917
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1786-1883, undated.

Summaries of the correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod and his amanuenses., Late 19th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.1.16-80.1.17
Scope and Contents

Not all the letters are dealt with, and the treatment becomes more cursory as the series progresses.

Dates: Late 19th century.

Surviving incoming correspondence of the Colonial, Continental and Jewish Mission Committees of the Free Church of Scotland.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21329-21397
Scope and Contents Apart from one volume from Australia and New Zealand in the 1850s (MS.21329), all date from approximately 1892 to 1900 and represent the correspondence of the single secretary of the three Committees, the Reverend Dr George Milne Rae, from his taking office to immediately prior to the union of the majority of the Free Church with the United Presbyterian Church in November, 1900. They were discovered in 1968 behind the false back of a cupboard in a classroom in the Free Church College,...
Dates: 1851-1854, 1891-1900.