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 14696 Collections and/or Records:
Admiralty letters to Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane., 21 October 1813-31 March 1814.
File
Identifier: MS.2342
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
21 October 1813-31 March 1814.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane as Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station.
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Admiralty letters to Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane.
Admiralty letters to Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane., 1 April 1814-24 September 1814.
File
Identifier: MS.2343
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1 April 1814-24 September 1814.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane as Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station.
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Admiralty letters to Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane.
Admiralty letters to Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane., 26 September 1814-18 May 1815.
File
Identifier: MS.2344
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
26 September 1814-18 May 1815.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane as Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station.
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Admiralty letters to Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane.
Admiralty letters to Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane., 1813-1815.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2342-2344
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1813-1815.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane as Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station.
African diary, 1885, and copies of letters, 1885-1886, of Dugald McFadyen.
File
Identifier: Acc.11247
Scope and Contents
Diaries and letters concern the African Lakes Corporation`s trading station at Mandala, British Central Africa (Malawi). Includes a photograph of McFadyen, undated.
Dates:
1885-1886 and undated.
‘Age of reason’ by Thomas Paine (Paris, 1749), with a dedication on the flyleaf to Henry W Meikle, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, by John Dover Wilson, and a letter, 1940, from him to Meikle, pasted on the back board., 1749, 1940.
File
Identifier: MS.14377
Dates:
1749, 1940.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and correspondence of Professor John Dover Wilson (1881-1969), the Shakespearean scholar.
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Papers concerning the literary and scholarly activities and interests of John Dover Wilson.
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Publications, chiefly written or edited by John Dover Wilson, with manuscript additions chiefly by Dover Wilson.
Agreement between Alexander Constable & Company, of Edinburgh, and Hurst, Robinson, & Company, of London, concerning the publication of second editions of Sir Walter Scott’s novels and poetry, 1821, and a photograph of a letter of Sir Walter Scott to William Watson, Hawick, 1829., 1821, 1829.
File
Identifier: MS.1704, folios 68-71
Dates:
1821, 1829.
Agreement between Domenico Ronca and Thomas Carlyle and receipt of Ronca to Carlyle.
File
Identifier: Acc.10582
Scope and Contents
Agreement and receipt concern the keeping of fowl at 6 Cheyne Row.
With letter of Jane W Carlyle to John A Carlyle concerning the building of a client room by Thomas Carlyle.
Dates:
1853.
Album compiled by Elizabeth S Haldane containing letters of condolence, obituaries and other appreciations of Richard Haldane extracted from newspapers and periodicals 1928-1929; and a few cuttings concerning the campaign of public abuse against him in 1915., 1915, 1928-1929.
Item
Identifier: MS.20067
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Small quantities of letters and papers of other members of Mary E Haldane's family are contained in different parts of the collection. Also contained is a small quantity of letters and papers to Anne, wife of General Sir David Baird, and her sister Catherine Campbell Preston.
Dates:
1915, 1928-1929.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Mrs Mary E Haldane, her parents Richard and Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, her sister Jane, and her son Richard B Haldane, later Viscount Haldane.
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Correspondence and papers of, and concerning, Richard Burdon Haldane, who was created Viscount Haldane in 1911.
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Correspondence and papers chiefly concerning Richard Burden Haldane.
Album compiled by Katherine Jane Ellice, 1838-1864, entitled 'Scrabble Book Quebec, 1839', with notes 2013-2014 and undated, on Ellice family history in Canada and Glenquoich.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13651/1-3
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1838-1864, 2013-2014, undated.
Album, containing autograph letters of celebrities, chiefly literary, dating chiefly from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with some portraits.
Item
Identifier: MS.948
Scope and Contents
Several of the letters are addressed to the two Thomas Cadells, publishers.
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Album containing correspondence, chiefly relating to Mary, Queen of Scots, with transcripts (not wholly accurate), portraits, and views.
File
Identifier: MS.3657
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Letter of Lethington to Mary, Queen of Scots, describing an interview with Elizabeth, 1562 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Lethington to Dudley, on Mary's attitude to negotiations, apparently for her marriage with Dudley, Stirling, 1563 (folio 5);(iii) Letter of Throckmorton to Lethington, on the prospects of the marriage, London, 1565 (folio 8);(iv) Letter of Randolph to Leicester, on the same subject, Edinburgh, 1565...
Dates:
1562-1586, undated.
Album containing eight letters, 1833-1837, from Hugh Miller to Sir Thomas Dick-Lauder; and a transcript of a letter from Miller to Miss Dunbar of Boath, and of one from Miss Dunbar to Dick-Lauder, both of 1829.
Item
Identifier: MS.9654
Scope and Contents
The album contains (folios 13-18) a printed octavo prospectus for ‘The traditional history of Cromarty (Inverness, 1834).
Dates:
1829, 1833-1837.
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.
Album containing papers concerning the ninety-ninth and hundredth birthdays of Mary E Haldane, and telegrams of condolence to her children on her death in 1925., 1924-1925.
Item
Identifier: MS.20209
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) A letter of T G N Haldane and telegrams of congratulation from various people to Mary E Haldane on her ninety-ninth birthday in 1924 (folio 1);
(ii) Press cuttings concerning celebrations marking her hundredth birthday in 1925 (folio 56);
(iii) Telegrams of condolence to her children on her death in 1925 (folio 72).
Dates:
1924-1925.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and other papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane, preceded by correspondence of and papers concerning his mother, Mrs Mary E Haldane and his maternal uncle, Sir John S Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and followed by notebooks and other papers of his sister Elizabeth S Haldane.
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Correspondence of and papers of and concerning Mary E Haldane, mother of Viscount Haldane.
Album containing, pasted in, formal letters and documents, some printed items and a number of press cuttings, 1882-1949, chiefly concerning the military career of Aylmer Haldane., 1882-1950, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.20259
Scope and Contents
A small number of items relate to formal and ceremonial occasions at which Aylmer Haldane was present, and to his published writings.
Also pasted in are a few items, 1943, 1945, undated, concerning Haldane’s sister Alice (numbers 164-168), and obituary notices, 1950, of him (numbers 192-194).
Dates:
1882-1950, undated.
Album containing portraits of Sir Walter Scott, with papers of and concerning him.
File
Identifier: MS.23060
Dates:
1821-1827.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Item
Identifier: MS.10306
Scope and Contents
A draft title-page (folio 24) suggests that in 1850 Adam White was proposing to publish a work on 'Weeds and wild-flowers loved by Wordsworth', and the first part of the album contains a collection of materials towards this purpose: drawings and engravings of wild flowers with some specimens of pressed flowers, newspaper-cuttings, and copies of letters and poems of Wordsworth.The collection of information is then extended to include other poets: Coleridge, Cowper, Southey,...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-?late 19th century.
Album of caricatures by John A Hipkins: '1. The Royal Academy and others'., 1882-1910, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2919
Scope and Contents
The album contains sketches of Frederic Leighton, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the pre-Raphaelites, etc.
Dates:
1882-1910, undated.
Album of caricatures by John A Hipkins: '2. Science and Art. A couple of wise men'., 1877-1915, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2920
Scope and Contents
The caricatures are chiefly of Dr A J Ellis and Charles Keene, particular friends of the Hipkins family.
Dates:
1877-1915, undated.
Album of caricatures by John A Hipkins: '6. Musicians'., 1876-1929, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2924
Scope and Contents
The caricatures are preceded by a letter of Sir George Henschel enclosing a poem written by him on the death of John A Hipkins, 1933.
Dates:
1876-1929, undated.
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Item
Identifier: MS.3009
Scope and Contents
Hugh Scott of Draycott (Draycot, Draycote) House, a Captain in the East India Marine, was a son of Walter Scott of Raeburn (died 1830) and cousin of Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford. The album, compiled by Hugh Scott's descendants, contains letters of Sir Walter Scott and members of his family, printed matter relating to the subscription raised to purchase Abbotsford for the Scott family, drawings and photographs of Draycott, notes on family history by William Scott of Raeburn (died 1855),...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-1936.
Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8493
Scope and Contents
Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.
Dates:
1898-1902.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Album of John Horseman containing franks and other signatures, with a few letters., 1779-1850.
Item
Identifier: MS.844