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 11 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence of Rev. Dr Alexander Irvine., 1802-1808 and undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.14544/1
Scope and Contents
Letters addressed to Rev. Dr Alexander Irvine, and drafts of letters in his own hand. See John Mackechnie, 'Catalogue of Gaelic Manuscripts in selected libraries in Great Britain and Ireland', 2 volumes (Boston 1973), volume 1, page 338, numbers 8-17 (quoted below as Mackechnie).Draft of a letter, 11 October 1808, of Irvine to an unnamed correspondent, mainly reporting on his Ossianic investigations. 2 folios, quarto, partly cross-hatched. Mackechnie, no. 8.Draft of a...
Dates:
1802-1808 and undated.
Letter of Henry Mackenzie to an unnamed correspondent.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10711
Scope and Contents
Concerns poaching and prosecutions under the Game Laws.
Dates:
1822.
Letter of John King to Henry Mackenzie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11132
Scope and Contents
Concerns exchequer matters.
Dates:
1797.
Letter of Samuel Rose to Henry Mackenzie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11129
Scope and Contents
Concerns literary matters mentioning many writers and their work and describes a visit to William Cowper during a period of "melancholia".
Dates:
1796.
Letter of "The Author of Tremaine" [Robert Ward] to Henry Mackenzie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11130
Scope and Contents
Ward praises Mackenzie`s work and literary influence.
Dates:
1825.
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.
Verse epistle, 1719, of Allan Ramsay, addressed to the Musical Club of Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.9546
Scope and Contents
With a letter, 1792, of Henry Mackenzie to Thomas Cadell.
Dates:
1719, 1792.