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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 14710 Collections and/or Records:

20 letters and cards, 1990-1996, of Ronald Stevenson to Michael Lister, on musical and personal matters.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11318
Scope and Contents

Includes:

copies of 23 letters, 1990-1996, of Lister to Stevenson

copy of letter, 1994, of Lister to Alasdair Gray

correspondence, 1989-1996, of Lister, concerning Ronald Stevenson.

Dates: 1989-1996.

20 letters, mainly of George Walker, to Cadell and Davies.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7652
Scope and Contents

Concerning publication of James Cririe, "Scottish Scenery" (1803).

Dates: 1799-1802.

20 letters of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope to the Very Reverend George S Duncan and his son Douglas Duncan.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11201
Scope and Contents

Concerns the naval service of Douglas Duncan, and referring to George S Duncan`s connection with Sir Douglas Haig during the First World War.

Dates: 1941-1958.

20 letters of David Roberts to Sir James Emerson Tennent and his wife.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11697
Scope and Contents

Several letters concern Near-Eastern travel and the Victorian art scene.

Dates: 1846-1864.

20 letters of Eric Linklater to William N Roughead.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10551
Scope and Contents

Includes four letters of Marjorie Linklater and three letters of Alison Linklater to Roughead.

Dates: 1946-1965 and undated.

20 letters of Frederick Bailey, as Secretary of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, to Robert Bell.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7346
Scope and Contents

Concerning affairs of the Society.

Dates: 1893-1908.

20 letters of William Lockhart to George Lockhart.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5395
Scope and Contents

With transcripts, 20th century.

Dates: 1742-1756.

21 letters and fragments of and to Scottish clergymen.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8670
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Charles Cowan, Alexander Duff, Robert H Lundie, Thomas Guthrie and George S Duncan.

Dates: 1822-1948 and undated.

21 letters of James Henry Skene to his father, James Skene of Rubislaw and other members of his family.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11537
Scope and Contents

Letters concern James Henry Skene`s education in Germany, his military service and his residence in Greece.

Dates: 1826-1836.

21 letters of Sir D Y Cameron to Messrs Frost and Reed and Walter Frost.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6255
Scope and Contents

Concerning his etchings and paintings.

Dates: 1913-1928.

21 letters of Sir Henry Holland to his father, Peter Holland.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7515
Scope and Contents

On personal, social and academic matters.

With typescripts of the letters.

Dates: 1810-1811.

22 letters, 1843-1847, to John Stevenson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6271
Scope and Contents

Concerning the transactions of the committee for the erection of a memorial to James Wilson, leader of the Radical Rising of 1820, in which Stevenson took part.

With a biographical note on Stevenson by George Maddocks, and a colour photograph of his portrait.

Dates: 1843-1847 and undated.

22 letters of or to Alfred C Haddon.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8677
Scope and Contents

On anthropological subjects.

Including a letter, 1901, of Sir James G Frazer.

Dates: 1901-1930.

22 postcards, 1933-1942, of William Soutar to William Montgomerie and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7204
Scope and Contents

On personal and literary matters, with a sketch of Soutar.

With five letters, 1977, to Montgomerie, concerning Soutar, and an associated letter of Montgomerie to Maurice Lindsay.

Also four letters of Sir John Stirling-Maxwell and 11 letters of Anne G Gilchrist, 1948-1952, to Montgomerie, on literary and musical matters.

Dates: 1933-1977.

23 letters to Hamish Henderson from correspondents including Ewan MacColl and Douglas Young.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10528
Scope and Contents

With corrected typescript of Henderson`s translation of Antonio Gramsci`s "Lettere dal Carcere".

Dates: 1950-1986.

24 letters of John Cunningham and Colin MacLarty, both in Jamaica, to friends and relatives at Greenock.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7285-is now MS.50258
Scope and Contents

Discussing the effects of fever and commenting on the anti-slavery campaign of Wilberforce.

Dates: 1772-1801.

24 letters of Viscount Horne of Slamannan to Lord Beaverbrook.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8214
Scope and Contents

On political and personal matters.

Dates: 1922-1940.

25 letters of Charles, Lord Cornwallis, to Colonel John Macleod.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6771
Scope and Contents

Mostly on the Irish Rebellion.

Dates: 1782-1801.

25 letters of Roderick Watson Kerr to George M Thomson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6831
Scope and Contents

Concerning the Porpoise Press.

With typescript copies annotated by Thomson.

Dates: 1925.

25 letters of Tom Scott and two letters of George Macleod of Fuinary.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12064
Scope and Contents

Includes related material.

Dates: 1986-1995.

27 letters to J Scott.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8147
Scope and Contents

Concerning the Fife potato trade.

Dates: 1840-1841.