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 14736 Collections and/or Records:
Album of letters and parts of letters of celebrities of the late 18th century and the 19th century., Late 18th century-19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.741
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The letters are unconnected except some addressed to the editor of 'Good Words' and others addressed to Professor George Buchanan, Glasgow.
Dates:
Late 18th century-19th century.
Album of letters, notes, accounts, parish records, printed notices, and political cartoons of Duncan Campbell, Minister of Moulin, and his son Duncan Campbell, Minister of St. Matthews, Edinburgh., 1805-1900, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.20403 [Manuscript]
Scope and Contents
Much of the album concerns personal and parochial matters, but the family corresponded widely, and writers include Duncan Forbes, the Orientalist, and the artist Erskine Nicol.
Dates:
1805-1900, undated.
Album of letters to and printed items collected by William Ford, bookseller, Manchester, through his involvement in the Edinburgh book trade.
File
Identifier: MS.18000
Scope and Contents
The album includes letters from several prominent Edinburgh figures of the early 19th century such as Thomas Thomson, Deputy Clerk Register, and Edward W A Drummond Hay, Principal Clerk, Lyon Office. Both men appear to have been in regular correspondence with William Ford. Amongst the printed items is an "Inventory of Work done for the State by his Majesty's Printer in Scotland 1642-1647" (Edinburgh, 1815), edited by Thomas Thomson. There are also a number of newspaper reports of meetings of...
Dates:
1810-1830.
Album of miscellaneous autographs, chiefly of the nineteenth century., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3553 [manuscript]
Album of miscellaneous autographs, chiefly of the nineteenth century, including, among the more substantial items, letters of Scott, Raeburn, Cockburn, and Jeffrey; with original binding.
Series
Identifier: MS.3553
Dates:
19th century.
Album of newspaper cuttings collected by Alexander Hutcheson concerning the haunted tower of St Andrews, the cathedral, the castle, and the abbey wall.
File
Identifier: MS.9608
Scope and Contents
Also pasted into the album are two pamphlets by David Henry about the cathedral and the castle, 1910, and three letters, 1894, 1911, of David Hay Fleming.
Dates:
1894-1911.
Album of original letters, compiled by Sir Hew Dalrymple., 1637-1904.
File
Identifier: MS.3420
Dates:
1637-1904.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts compiled and collected by the Honourable Sir Hew Dalrymple, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Library.
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Four albums of letters and documents, largely of Scottish interest, compiled by Sir Hew Dalrymple.
Album of original letters, compiled by Sir Hew Dalrymple., 1667-1823.
File
Identifier: MS.3421
Dates:
1667-1823.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts compiled and collected by the Honourable Sir Hew Dalrymple, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Library.
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Four albums of letters and documents, largely of Scottish interest, compiled by Sir Hew Dalrymple.
Album of press-cuttings from the ‘Berwickshire Advertiser’ of 1867 or earlier, giving the extracts from the Kirk Session Records of Stow from 12 November 1626 to 8 March 1667., 1626-1667, 1867.
Item
Identifier: MS.3035
Scope and Contents
James Simson's name is on the fly-leaf. A letter, 1867, of the Reverend Charles Rogers to Simson, thanking him for the loan of the album, is inserted (folio 11).
Dates:
1626-1667, 1867.
Album of the Reverend John Kirk.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11146
Scope and Contents
Includes University of St Andrews certificates, letters of Thomas Chalmers and others, cut signatures, sketches and plans.
Dates:
circa 1814-1855.
Album of Walter Bowman.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10717
Scope and Contents
Contains manuscript letters, prints, drawings and watercolours.
Dates:
1764.
Album, probably compiled by David Macdonald, printer, Edinburgh, containing letters and signatures of his correspondents; together with some letters formerly placed loosely amongst the pages of the album.
Series
Identifier: MSS.7171-7172
Scope and Contents
The letters are of interest only as autographs, and it is clear from the mutilated state of the album, as well as from the index found in it, that many other letters are missing, the pages on which they had been pasted having been clumsily cut out.
Dates:
19th century.
Album, probably compiled by David Macdonald, printer, Edinburgh, of letters and signatures of his correspondents, mainly Edinburgh personalities of the nineteenth century., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7171
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The letters are of interest only as autographs, and it is clear from the mutilated state of the album, as well as from the index found in it, that many other letters are missing, the pages on which they had been pasted having been clumsily cut out.
Dates:
19th century.
Album titled 'Autograph and Portraits', and labelled 1, of a collection apparently formed by Thomas Thompson, Liverpool., 1820-1840.
Item
Identifier: MS.967
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.
Dates:
1820-1840.
Album titled 'Autograph and Portraits', and labelled 3, of a collection apparently formed by Thomas Thompson, Liverpool., 1820-1840.
Item
Identifier: MS.968
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.
Dates:
1820-1840.
Albums of autographs and letters addressed to or collected by Mrs Isabella Bishop, nee Bird., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.7178
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The correspondents are political, literary, and clerical celebrities, chiefly English, of the nineteenth century. A number of letters are addressed to Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, physician, to whom the collection was presented by Mrs Bishop in 1886 (MS.7178, number 1). Most of the letters are of interest only as autographs but a few have further biographical or other interest, especially those of Thomas Arnold, Lord Byron, Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, Harriet Martineau, and Hannah More, in...
Dates:
19th century.
Albums of autographs and letters addressed to or collected by Mrs Isabella Bishop, nee Bird., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.7179
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The correspondents are political, literary, and clerical celebrities, chiefly English, of the nineteenth century. A number of letters are addressed to Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, physician, to whom the collection was presented by Mrs Bishop in 1886 (MS.7178, number 1). Most of the letters are of interest only as autographs but a few have further biographical or other interest, especially those of Thomas Arnold, Lord Byron, Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, Harriet Martineau, and Hannah More, in...
Dates:
19th century.
Albums of autographs and letters addressed to or collected by Mrs Isabella Bishop, nee Bird.
Series
Identifier: MSS.7178-7179
Scope and Contents
The correspondents are political, literary, and clerical celebrities, chiefly English, of the nineteenth century. A number of letters are addressed to Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, physician, to whom the collection was presented by Mrs Bishop in 1886 (MS.7178, number 1). Most of the letters are of interest only as autographs but a few have further biographical or other interest, especially those of Thomas Arnold, Lord Byron, Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, Harriet Martineau, and Hannah More, in...
Dates:
19th century.
Albums of caricatures by John A Hipkins., Circa 1870-1933, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2919-2927
Scope and Contents
The caricatures, which date from about 1870 to 1932, the year before the artist's death, depict many celebrities of the artistic, musical, and literary worlds, by whom the house of his father, Alfred James Hipkins, the musical antiquary, was much frequented.At the beginning of MS.2919 is a biographical notice of Hipkins by his sister; there are portraits of him by her, 1879, at the beginning of MSS.2923-2924, 2926; and his own caricatures of himself appear in MSS.2919 (page 25),...
Dates:
Circa 1870-1933, undated.
Alexander "Antique" Smith forgery of letter of Rob Roy MacGregor.
File
Identifier: Acc.9255
Scope and Contents
With portrait of Rob Roy MacGregor and engraving of Sir Joseph Banks.
Dates:
19th century.
“Alexander Cummings’s narrative”, a contemporary manuscript, containing copies of letters and other memorials of Sir Alexander Cuming, 2nd Baronet of Culter, Advocate, and Chief of the Cherokee nation, who died in 1775.
File
Identifier: MS.1677
Dates:
[Circa 1760.]
Alexander Skinner's Manuscript of Piobaireachd, so-called from the inscription 'Presented to Mr. Duncan Campbell, Piper to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe, by Alex. Skinner, Teacher of Dancing ... London, June 15, 1855'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3746
Scope and Contents
What Alexander Skinner presented was, it seems, the blank volume, cf. MS.3745. The music was almost certainly written by Duncan Campbell.According to a note (folio ii) by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society, Duncan Campbell left at least two manuscripts, one referred to simply as Duncan Campbell's Manuscript in the publications of the Piobaireachd Society, the other, this, an incomplete and probably unrevised copy of the first. The...
Dates:
[1855, or after.]
'Alpina': a collection of papers chiefly connected with the Alpine Club in London., 1865-1947.
File
Identifier: MS.6344
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Letters, 1869-1870, of the Reverend Henry Moseley, mathematician, to William Matthews, probably the editor of the Alpine Journal, concerning Moseley's theory of glacier motion (folio 1), with a letter, circa 1870, from John Ball, president of the Alpine Club, to Matthews, concerning a controversy with Moseley in the Journal (folio 30);(ii) Letters to Henry Cockburn, of the Alpine Club, London, relating to the purchase of mountaineering...
Dates:
1865-1947.
"An Account of the Action off the Little Fisher Bank [the Battle of Jutland] May 31st 1916" by the Reverend R H Malden, Chaplain, Royal Navy on HMS Valiant.
File
Identifier: Acc.11023
Scope and Contents
Includes related letter to Mrs Simpson, Abbotsknowe, Peebles, and a privately printed memoir of "The Battle of Jutland" (Leeds, 1918).
Dates:
circa 1918.
‘Ancient Scottish poems’ (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.337-340
Dates:
[1786, or after.]