Letterpress copybooks.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Books containing letterpress copies of letters. The copies are created through the process of pressing the original letter while still wet against a blank sheet of paper. The copy paper is usually very thin and will capture a mirror image of the original. Not to be confused with letter books in manuscript.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
circa 180 letters of General Sir Frederick Hamilton.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8218
Scope and Contents
Mostly written from the Crimea and including accounts of the battles of Balaclava, Inkerman, and the Alma.
Dates:
1847-1855.
Press-copy letter book of Thomas Ranken, S.S.C.
Item
Identifier: MS.20757
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Copies of letters, 1857, of Thomas Ranken, his partner Robert Johnston, Writer to the Signet, and their firm Ranken, Walker, and Johnston, Writers to the Signet, as agents for Madeline Smith, defendant in the famous murder trial. The letters are chiefly to other lawyers, but include some to medical experts. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Copies of letters, 1859, 1861-1862, of Ranken on various legal matters, in particular the establishment of an Edinburgh agency of the...
Dates:
1857-1862.