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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 14 Collections and/or Records:

Letter, 1780, of Laurence Oliphant, Laird of Gask, to David S Erskine.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9161
Scope and Contents

With letter of Sir David Carnegie to Messrs Spottiswoode and Robertson.

Dates: 1780 and undated.

Letter, 1792, of John Gillies to the Earl of Buchan.

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Identifier: Acc.8532
Scope and Contents

With a letter, undated, to Harry Plunket Greene, fragment of a letter, undated, of Cécile Chaminade, and other scraps.

Dates: 1792 and undated.

Letter of Adam Drummond to David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8712
Scope and Contents

Concerning a portrait of Sir James Balfour.

Dates: 1787.

Letter of Charles Lyttelton, Bishop of Carlisle, to David, Lord Cardross, later 11th Earl of Buchan.

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Identifier: Acc.11541
Scope and Contents

Concerns historical matters and preferment.

Dates: 1766.

Letter of Lord Hailes to the Earl of Buchan.

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Identifier: Acc.14360
Scope and Contents

Thanking Buchan for an honour given by the Society of Antiquaries and a proposal for a critical edition of cartularies.

Dates: 1781.

Letters of, to and concerning Colonel James Gardiner and his relations by marriage.

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Identifier: Acc.11647
Scope and Contents

Includes two letters of Philip Doddridge, which shed light on Gardiner`s piety and non-conformity, and two of David, 11th Earl of Buchan to Lady Frances Gardiner.

Dates: circa 1745.

Letters of various distinguished writers.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11963
Scope and Contents

Writers include Henry Mackenzie, Thomas Chalmers and William M Hetherington, and correspondence of David Stewart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan.

Dates: 1743-1833.

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.