Letter books.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Books of blank or lined paper on which letters to be sent have been written; also manuscript copies of letters, originally on loose sheets, bound together, usually in chronological order. Not to be confused with letterpress copybooks where the copies are created through a mechanical process.
Found in 143 Collections and/or Records:
13 diaries and letterbooks of James Gilliland Simpson, merchant, and his wife Jane née Horsburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12489
Scope and Contents
Includes a related typescript, circa 1985, of John Home Simpson.
Dates:
1800-1851.
Account and letter book of William Angus of North Grange, Lindores, elder of Abdie Church.
Item
Identifier: MS.17949
Scope and Contents
The account and letter book contains tables of agricultural wages 1857-1873, letters concerning local affairs 1846-1867, and letters and statements of Abdie church 1835-1875. At the back there is a record of baptisms of the Angus Family 1789-1840 (folio 17).
Dates:
1835-1875.
Account and letter books of W Green and Son Ltd, and of their predecessors, Bell and Bradfute, law publishers, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.193
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Account books and a ledger of Alexander Houston and Company, merchants, bankers, and shipowners in Glasgow, together with a letter-book concerning the business.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8895-8898
Dates:
1777-1807.
Business books of Archibald Constable & Company, Robert Cadell & Company, and Robert Cadell.
Series
Identifier: MSS.789-802
Dates:
1814-1847.
Business papers of James Dickson and Co.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9500
Scope and Contents
Includes letter book, stock inventories, account books and price book.
Dates:
1818-1932.
Business records, 1869-1892, of Walter Duncan, tea merchant in India, with his school copybook, 1846, printed sermon, 1900, from his funeral oration, with typescript and manuscript notes concerning his life.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13232
Scope and Contents
Walter Duncan (1834 – 1900) began his career in the office of a Glasgow firm of merchants, Messrs. Playfair, Bryce and Co., possibly in 1855 or early 1856. After a short spell in Demerara working for Playfair, Allan and Co., a merchant company run by Patrick Playfair but not connected in a business way with Playfair, Bryce and Co., he returned to Glasgow in 1858. At this point Patrick Playfair offered him a prospective partnership to establish a business in Kolkata, India, under the name...
Dates:
1846-1900.
Business records of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12235/1-522
Scope and Contents
The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates:
1752-2002, undated.
Copies of letters of John C Hooper to his parents, during his time in the Boer War.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6194
Dates:
1901-1902.
Copies of letters of William Porteous to James Linn.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7461
Scope and Contents
Mostly on personal matters.
Dates:
1860-1863.
Correspondence and letter books of Duncan MacKinnon.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6168/1-15
Scope and Contents
In connection mainly with the British India Steam Navigation Company.This collection consists of the incoming correspondence and letter books of Duncan Mackinnon, a partner in MacKinnon, Mackenzie, and Co, of Calcutta, the firm from which the British India Steam Navigation Compnay developed. This correspondence covers the years 1873, when MacKinnon returned to India after his marriage, to 1881, and the letter books cover a somewhat longer period from 1871 to 1887. This was the...
Dates:
1873-1887.
Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.15001-15195
Scope and Contents
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
Dates:
1757-1934, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Lewis Robertson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12345/1-189
Dates:
1960-2002, undated.
Correspondence and research papers of the Seanachaidh (historian) of the Clan Mackay Society with some records of the organisation
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11994
Dates:
circa 1887-2000.
Correspondence, autobiographical papers, and sermons of the Very Reverend Donald Macleod, Doctor of Divinity (1831-1916), minister of The Park parish, Glasgow from 1869 to 1909, and editor of the periodical ‘Good words’ from 1872 to 1905.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9827-9833
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondence concerns Donald Macleod's editorship of ‘Good words’, including many letters from contemporary authors and men of letters, with some letters of his brother, Dr Norman Macleod, minister of The Barony parish, Glasgow, and the first editor of ‘Good words’.
Dates:
1856-1925, undated.
Correspondence between Thomas G N Haldane and Bruno Brandi.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6064
Dates:
1934-1939.
Correspondence, diaries, speeches, library and music inventories, and electronic database of Sir Lewis Robertson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13065/1-76
Scope and Contents
The collection reflects Sir Lewis Robertson`s personal and business activities during the later years of his life. The correspondence files, 2003-2008, and letter books, 2004-2008, show his active involvement in many charitable and cultural bodies until his death in November 2008. Of particular interest are several volumes of speeches and interviews, 1989-2003, and three diaries, 1978-1980, dated during his time as Director of the Scottish Development Agency. Sir Lewis Robertson kept an...
Dates:
Circa 1940-2008.
Correspondence, letter-books, diaries and other papers of missionaries and missionary societies.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.99- is now Acc.4393.
Dates:
19th century.
Correspondence, notes, literary papers and other papers of the Cunninghame Graham family, mostly of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham; and financial and administrative papers relating to Gartmore and Ardoch.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11335/1-227
Dates:
1757-1991.
Divisional letter book of John Bisset, Commissary-General in Spain.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10322
Scope and Contents
Lacking the last few leaves of text and an unknown number of gatherings of block f.
Dates:
1812.
Family letter-books of John Harriott, Magistrate of the Thames Police, containing copies of letters written chiefly to members of his family in India.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5066-5067
Dates:
1804-1807, 1810-1816.
Four letter books of the Secretary, Gilmerton Branch, National Union of Mineworkers, Scottish Area.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10483
Dates:
1958-1961.
Jamaican estate letter book of Hugh F Leslie of Leith Hall sugar plantation.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10241-is now MS.50272
Dates:
1846-1848.