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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Physical or digital representations of a body of information designed with the capacity to communicate. In its broadest sense, ""documents"" include any item amenable to cataloging and indexing, that is, including nonprint media. For the activity of gathering and recording information, see ""documentation (function)""For specfic types of documents, see concepts under ""document genres."".

Found in 1533 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and associated papers of J S Haldane., 1884-1936, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20510-20517
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.

Dates: 1884-1936, undated.

Correspondence and associated papers of J S Haldane chiefly concerning his physiological and other scientific work., 1884-1936, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20510-20513
Scope and Contents

Almost all the letters are addressed to J S Haldane. A few written by Haldane to other members of the family are included at their chronological places.

Dates: 1884-1936, undated.

Correspondence and associated papers of J S Haldane chiefly concerning his scientific work., 1884-1909.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.20510 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Almost all the letters are addressed to J S Haldane. A few written by Haldane to other members of the family are included at their chronological places.

Dates: 1884-1909.

Correspondence and associated papers of J S Haldane chiefly concerning his scientific work., 1911-1913.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.20511 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Almost all the letters are addressed to J S Haldane. A few written by Haldane to other members of the family are included at their chronological places.

Dates: 1911-1913.

Correspondence and documents relating to the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, to Prisoners of War, and to various Scottish peers, with memorials of the Judges of the Consistorial Court of Scotland., 1786-1835.

 File
Identifier: MS.353
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Correspondence and documents relating to the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh: (a) Dispute in 1792 between John Jackson, the proprietor, and Stephen Kemble, the lessee. The persons concerned were the Duke of Hamilton and Henry Dundas, as patentees, Robert Playfair, trustee for the creditors of John Jackson, and Mrs Harriet Esten of Covent Garden Theatre. (Folio 1.) (b) Renewal of the Patent, 1808, 1810. See also MS.19. The persons concerned were the Duke...
Dates: 1786-1835.

Correspondence and notes, 1921-1940, undated, of J H Stevenson, chiefly concerning a dispute with Wilfred Partington and Donald Carswell about their criticisms of Robert Cadell, 1930, but a few letters on genealogy are also included., 1921-1940, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.21065
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.

Dates: 1921-1940, undated.

Correspondence and other papers chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1154
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: [1660-1853.]

Correspondence and other related papers concerning the island of Inchgarvie., 1804, and before.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.14
Scope and Contents

The series deals with the maintenance of a gun-battery on the island, and consists of letters between the guardians of James Dundas of Dundas (died 1881) and the military authorities. The correspondence centres on the year 1804, but includes copies and original papers of earlier date. It is arranged in order of endorsed numbers.

Dates: 1804, and before.

Correspondence and papers, 1898-1941, of Aylmer Haldane., 1898-1941.

 File
Identifier: MS.20257
Scope and Contents

The correspondence and papers are arranged in chronological order (folio 1) and are followed by a few letters and other papers, 1908-1940, transferred from MSS.20247, 20250, 20254-20255, 20259, where they had been found loosely enclosed (folio 118).

Dates: 1898-1941.