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 2 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Transcripts of letters of and to David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8788
Scope and Contents
Volume made at Buchan`s behest as one of his "Gleanings of Literature", and sent to the Bishop of Llandaff.
Letters concern Celtic languages and correspondents include Sir James Foulis of Colinton, Charles Vallancey, the Reverend Donald MacQueen and Jacob Bryant Phillipps.
Dates:
circa 1794.