Letters. Correspondence.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Pieces of correspondence that are somewhat more formal than memoranda or notes, usually on paper and delivered.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Album containing miscellaneous autograph letters, signatures, etc.
Item
Identifier: MS.3719
Scope and Contents
A number of the letters are addressed to members of the family of William Blackwood the publisher (died 1834), and the correspondents include literary celebrities and eminent soldiers of the nineteenth-century. It includes: two pages of a manuscript by Fitzgerald Ross (no. 15) and letters of Roderick Murchison (no. 17), Elizabeth Gaskell (no. 50), Agnes Strickland (no. 52) and George Henry Lewes (no. 53).
It also includes a certificate appointing George Frederick Blackwood a lieutenant in...
Dates:
19th century.
Letter of William Blackwood to John Aitken.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12429
Scope and Contents
Letter concerns a contribution to "Blackwood`s Magazine" by James Hogg.
Dates:
1820.
Letter of William Blackwood to John Bradfute.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10814
Scope and Contents
Concerns bookselling in Glasgow.
Dates:
1797.
Letters of William Blackwood mostly to his wife Janet.
File
Identifier: Acc.12243
Scope and Contents
Letters largely on personal and family matters but also give literary and publishing news.
Dates:
1810-1826, undated.