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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 29 Collections and/or Records:

Copies of three appreciations of Wallace, Burns and Stevenson by Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11786
Scope and Contents

Re-published in 1905 by Aeneas Mackay, Stirling, being the publisher`s own copies including original letters of Lord Rosebery, 1905, tipped in.

Dates: 1905.

Fragment of letter of Robert Burns to Robert Muir.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14488
Scope and Contents

On Burns's time in Edinburgh.

Dates: 1786.

Letter of Peter Hately Waddell, editor of Burns.

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Identifier: Acc.11609
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Waddell supplies his own autograph and those of Burns` daughter and granddaughter but regrets the impossibility of sending that of Burns himself.

Dates: 1877.

Letter of Prof John Stuart Blackie.

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Identifier: Acc.10715
Scope and Contents

Concerns the life of Robert Burns.

Dates: 1890.

Letter of Robert Burns to Captain John Gillespie.

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Identifier: Acc.7973
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Incorporating an early version of "Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet of Monboddo".

Dates: circa 1790.

Letter of Robert Burns to Mrs Frances Dunlop of Dunlop.

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Identifier: Acc.11233
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Concerns hospitality, hard drinking and Burns` advancement as an exciseman.

Dates: 1792-1793.

Letter of Robert Burns to Patrick Miller of Dalswinton.

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Identifier: Acc.11475
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Concerns the new (Edinburgh) edition of Burns`s poems, on Milllar`s character and Burns`s progress in the world.

Dates: circa 1787.

Letter of Robert Burns to Robert Graham of Fintry.

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Identifier: Acc.8367
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Concerning his training for the Excise service.

Dates: 1788.

Letter of Robert Burns to William Scott.

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Identifier: Acc.7896
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On binding and distribution of his works.

Dates: 1787.

Letter of Sir James Shaw, Lord Mayor of London, to J W Croker.

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Identifier: Acc.9321
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Concerns a proposed monument to Robert Burns.

Dates: 1815.

Letter of Sir John Steell to John MacLaren.

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Identifier: Acc.11009
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Concerns Steell`s statue of Burns destined for the United States.

Dates: 1880.

Letters of David Barnett, Lady Stair`s House Museum, Edinburgh, to May Merkley, Williamsburg, Ontario, Canada, on matters relating to Robert Burns.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12119
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Includes a lock of the hair of Burns`s widow Jean Armour and a copy of the deed relating to the Glenriddell Manuscripts.

Dates: 1918-1936, undated.

Miscellaneous items of or concerning Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.308
Scope and Contents

Framed declaration, 1786, by Elizabeth Paton regarding her child by Robert Burns;

Exciseman`s notes by Robert Burns;

Four letters, 1816-1829, of Sir Walter Scott to Joseph Train;

Volume containing a manuscript copy, 1896, of `Brief sketch of a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott commencing in the year 1814` by Joseph Train;

Printed book, `The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott` (1897) by George G Napier.

Dates: 1786-1897.

Photocopy of letter of Robert Burns to William Cruikshank.

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Identifier: Acc.11053
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Includes the verses "Written in Friar`s Carse Hermitage".

Dates: ? 1788.

Photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings concerning Isabella Burns Begg, youngest sister of the poet Robert Burns, and her descendents, including the Glasgow artists, the Begg sisters.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11193
Scope and Contents

Includes family tree and biographical notes on the members of the Burns Begg family who feature in this collection, including a letter of Gilbert Burns, brother of the poet, to Robert Burns Begg.

Dates: circa 1822-1995.

Poem of Robert Bridges, "To Robert Burns"

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Identifier: Acc.5617
Scope and Contents

With letter of Bridges to Sir Henry Newbolt.

Dates: 1901.