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 10927 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts, letters and other papers., 1844-1847.
File
Identifier: Acc.3521/16
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Including legal and financial papers.
Dates:
1844-1847.
Accounts, letters and other papers., 1854.
File
Identifier: Acc.3521/29
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Including legal and financial papers.
Dates:
1854.
Accounts, letters and other papers, 1803-1897, of and relating to Andrew Wilson, the painter, his son Charles Heath Wilson, and others of his family, with a printed obituary, 1820, of Robert Ker, commissioner of Cuttack., 1803-1897.
File
Identifier: MS.3836, folios 41-62
Dates:
1803-1897.
Accounts, letters, and receipts relating to the financial affairs of Professor John Wilson ('Christopher North')., 1832-1840.
File
Identifier: MS.4935
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers consist mainly of letters written by authors to Blackwood as their publisher, and by others in search of publication, but they also include some manuscripts and proofs of works considered for publication, together with some papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun and John Wilson ('Christopher North'). Broadly, this is the incoming correspondence of the firm during the nineteenth century. The outgoing correspondence, so far as it is represented by copies in letter-books, etc.,...
Dates:
1832-1840.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Accounts, letters, and receipts relating to the financial affairs of Professor John Wilson ('Christopher North'), which were dealt with by William Blackwood and Sons.
Accounts, letters, and receipts relating to the financial affairs of Professor John Wilson ('Christopher North')., 1841-1852, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.4936
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers consist mainly of letters written by authors to Blackwood as their publisher, and by others in search of publication, but they also include some manuscripts and proofs of works considered for publication, together with some papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun and John Wilson ('Christopher North'). Broadly, this is the incoming correspondence of the firm during the nineteenth century. The outgoing correspondence, so far as it is represented by copies in letter-books, etc.,...
Dates:
1841-1852, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Accounts, letters, and receipts relating to the financial affairs of Professor John Wilson ('Christopher North'), which were dealt with by William Blackwood and Sons.
Accounts, letters, and receipts relating to the financial affairs of Professor John Wilson ('Christopher North'), which were dealt with by William Blackwood and Sons., 1832-1852, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.4935-4936
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers consist mainly of letters written by authors to Blackwood as their publisher, and by others in search of publication, but they also include some manuscripts and proofs of works considered for publication, together with some papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun and John Wilson ('Christopher North'). Broadly, this is the incoming correspondence of the firm during the nineteenth century. The outgoing correspondence, so far as it is represented by copies in letter-books, etc.,...
Dates:
1832-1852, undated.
Accounts, letters and reports of accounts., 1824-1879.
File
Identifier: Acc.3521/54
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Including legal and financial papers.
Dates:
1824-1879.
Accounts of Lady Meade and of her son, Thomas Meade., 1764-1779, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.12947
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Apothecaries’ bills, 1764-1779 (folio 1); (ii) Letter, 1772, of Francis Paynter to Thomas Meade, enclosing a rental of Thomas Meade's estates at Mitchell in Cornwall (folio 46); (iii) Extract copy of Lady Meade's will, 1772 (folio 48); (iv) Miscellaneous Meade family accounts, 1718-1779, undated chiefly of Thomas Meade at Bath (folio 50).
Dates:
1764-1779, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament.
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Scawen and Meade family papers.
Accounts of the Bannatyne Club, with some related correspondence., 1841-1842, 1848-1849.
File
Identifier: MS.9362
Act and warrants of the Dean of Guild Court in favour of John Ritchie and Company, containing related letters., 1875-1886.
File
Identifier: Acc.11812/165
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates:
1875-1886.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Titles, financial records and papers of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'.
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Papers of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman', and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch', relating to the premises of the business.
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Title papers of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman', and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'.
Addison Ross Gallery, London, 1989
File
Identifier: MS.50727
Scope and Contents
This file contains letters, work lists, press releases, mailing lists, price lists, costings, ephemera, and copy news reviews regarding Lucinda Mackay's exhibition, 24-29 July 1989.
Dates:
1989
Additional material of John Francis Campbell on folklore, written in 1870, several years after the publication of ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, and entitled `Oral mythology`., 1870.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.2
Scope and Contents
The work was apparently intended for publication but for various reasons this did not take place. A letter to Campbell from the publishers, Smith, Elder and Company, 1870, is pasted at the beginning, rejecting his manuscript.He discusses folklore in general, with particular reference to Gaelic and Indian mythology and includes examples of various tales from several different countries.The text is written partly in Campbell`s own hand and partly a more formal...
Dates:
1870.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collections of Gaelic tales, folklore and proverbs, mainly written by John Dewar; material relating to folklore in general; papers concerning Highland dress; and several volumes relating to Irish language and folklore.
Additional notes for autobiography by Janet Adam Smith, covering World War One, the BBC years and 'The Listener', World War Two and relations with her parents, and miscellaneous letters to Janet Adam Smith, notes and press cuttings., 1914-1998.
File
Identifier: Acc.13861/77
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Dates:
1914-1998.
Additional papers of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes, containing mostly historical notebooks., 1841-1891, 1951-1972, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10022/135-161
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers mostly containing historical research notes, lectures, articles and or broadcasts, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes, minister of Halkirk (1934-1955) and of Hopeman (1955-1966) and historian of Highland evangelicalism. The collection consists mostly of notebooks, many very miscellaneous in content: only in principal content of each notebook or file is noted.
Dates:
1841-1891, 1951-1972, undated.
Additions to the 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' by John Jamieson, volume III., 2nd quarter of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.12
Scope and Contents
The contents include letters relating to the proposed publication of these additions.
Dates:
2nd quarter of 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Supplement and additions to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson.
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Additions to the 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' by John Jamieson, made after the publication of the two supplementary volumes.
Address, entitled '‘Glimpses of John Buchan, his life in Canada and his legacy', by John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, with a letter to Lord Tweedsmuir by a Canadian friend commenting on the address., 1985.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/298
Dates:
1985.
Administrative and financial papers of the Scottish Council for Civil Liberties., 1971-1997.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12971/3-91
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers of the Scottish Council for Civil Liberties including administrative and financial papers of the executive committee and various sub committees, local groups, annual reports and publications.
Dates:
1971-1997.
Administrative correspondence and papers of James Stuart., 1777-1783.
File
Identifier: MS.8425
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of:(i) Correspondence, 1777, concerning the administration of Tanjore (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence, 1782-1783, including some copies and extracts, chiefly concerning administration and a mutiny at Bidanore, and other papers (folios 38);(iii) Papers, 1782-1783, concerning a court of enquiry and a court-martial held by James Stuart, into the conduct of the officers who surrendered the forts of Trincomalee and Ostenburg to the French...
Dates:
1777-1783.
Administrative papers of the William Gallacher Memorial Library., 1970s-2017.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14114 Administrative Papers
Scope and Contents
The administrative papers of the William Gallacher Memorial Library contain correspondence files concerning the management and administration of the Library, alongside a series of inventories and catalogues documenting Library collections and those held by other related institutions. All files were formed by WGML librarians Bob Saunders and Audrey Canning in the course of their work. Files in this sub-fonds have not been fully catalogued, but summary descriptions have been provided to...
Dates:
1970s-2017.
'Admiralty Department letters' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station., 1842-1847.
File
Identifier: MS.2418
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:
1842-1847.
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 Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Department letters' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, with index.
'Admiralty Department letters' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, with index., 1842-1847.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2418-2419
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:
1842-1847.
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 Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
Admiralty letters, addressed to Sir John Borlase Warren and delivered to Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane on his assuming the command of the North American Station., 1812-1814.
File
Identifier: MS.2340
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:
1812-1814.
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.
'Admiralty Letters', from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, volume 1, containing letters numbered 1-255., 1842-1845.
File
Identifier: MS.2408
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The letters are numbered 1-770.
Dates:
1842-1845.
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 Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Letters' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, with index.
'Admiralty Letters', from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, volume 2, containing letters numbered 256-505., 1844-1845.
File
Identifier: MS.2409
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The letters are numbered 1-770.
Dates:
1844-1845.
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 Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Letters' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, with index.
'Admiralty Letters' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, volume 3, containing letters numbered 506-696., 1845-1846.
File
Identifier: MS.2410
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The letters are numbered 1-770.
Dates:
1845-1846.
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 Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Letters' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, with index.