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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 1557 Collections and/or Records:

Microfilm of correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray., 1808-1811

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1076
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Instructions to officers in the quartermaster-general’s department, with specimens of forms and returns, compiled by George Murray apparently in 1811 (Adv.MS.46.5.2);Copies of letters and orders, October 1808-November 1809 (Adv.MS.46.5.3);Copies of letters and orders, September 1808-February 1810 (Adv.MS.46.5.4);Copies of letters and orders, February 1810-May 1914 (Adv.MS.46.5.5);‘Registre de la campagne d’Espagne’,...
Dates: 1808-1811

Microfilm of family letter books of John Harriott, Magistrate of the Thames Police, containing copies of letters written chiefly to members of his family in India.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1196
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Family letter book of John Harriott, containing copies of letters written chiefly to members of his family in India. (MS.5066);

Family letter book of John Harriott, containing copies of letters written chiefly to members of his family in India; with three letters of, and two letters to, Harriot, and four leaves of rough notes. (MS.5067).

Dates: 1804-1807, 1810-1816.

Microfilm of incoming correspondence, 1896-1898, of the Colonial Committee of the Free Church of Scotland concerning New Zealand; and, letter book, 1896-1925, of the conveners and secretaries of the Women's Association for Foreign Missions of the Church of Scotland in China.

 Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1349-1350
Scope and Contents

The dates are taken from the records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.

Dates: 1896-1925.

Microfilm of incoming correspondence, 1896-1898, of the Colonial Committee of the Free Church of Scotland concerning New Zealand; and, letter book, 1896-1925, of the conveners and secretaries of the Women's Association for Foreign Missions of the Church of Scotland in China., 1896-1925.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1350
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Incoming correspondence, 1896-1898, of the Colonial Committee of the Free Church of Scotland concerning New Zealand (MS.21339 (part));

Letter book, 1896-1918, 1920, 1922-1925, of the conveners and secretaries of the Women's Association for Foreign Missions of the Church of Scotland in China (MS.7632).

Dates: 1896-1925.