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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:

Barbara Balfour-Melville, "The Balfours of Pilrig" (1907), with interleavings annotated by Sir Graham Balfour.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9458
Scope and Contents

With photographs and letters including five, 1870, 1887-1892, of Robert L Stevenson, and two, 1859, 1869, of Florence Nightingale.

Dates: circa 1859-1907.

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.

Letter, 1884, of Robert Louis Stevenson to Horace Dobell, with two letters, 1879, of Thomas Watson to Dobell.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13716
Scope and Contents

The letters are tipped-in to Horace Dobell`s annotated copy of his work `On Loss of Weight, Blood-Spitting and Lung Disease` (London, 1880).

Dates: 1879, 1884.

Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13744/1-6
Scope and Contents

Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Stevenson’s tutor in that capacity. Stevenson showed little aptitude or interest in engineering but the two men became firm friends. After Jenkin’s sudden death in 1885, his widow Anne asked Stevenson to write a memoir of her husband and this correspondence arose from that connection.

Dates: 1885-1914, undated.

Photocopy of a letter, undated, of Robert Louis Stevenson to his mother, Margaret Stevenson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9506
Scope and Contents

With photocopies of notes, 1894 and undated, concerning Stevenson by Charles Baxter and A S Neilson.

Dates: 1894 and undated.

Two letters of John Buchan to Janet Adam Smith.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6301
Scope and Contents

Discussing Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James.

Dates: 1937.