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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 1 Collection or Record:

Letters of Robert Pearse Gillies to Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, and others.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11453
Scope and Contents

Letters concern literary, antiquarian and social matters.

Includes a file on the provenance of these letter books and their significance.

Dates: 1811-1827.