Letters. Correspondence.
Found in 3777 Collections and/or Records:
Antiquarian collections of W T Johnston.
Includes transcripts of letters and papers of eminent Scotsmen and other material relating to them. Files organised by subject.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Articles of agreement, 1797, previous to the marriage of Robert Nugent-Dunbar and Catherine Lister, with other family papers.
With:
1. four letters, 1844, to the Reverend John Oldershaw (brother-in-law of Catherine Lister)
2. papers, 1795-1796, concerning Machermore estate.
Assorted Cadell family papers, including two letters of Robert Cadell, publisher, and papers concerning India.
Assorted letters; with a receipt for Secret Service money signed by King George III, and instructions by King James III to Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston.
Author`s copy of James Logan Mack, "The Border Line" (1st Edition, Edinburgh, 1924), printed on rag paper, containing letters and other items tipped or pasted in.
Author`s corrected proofs of George MacDonald, "A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul" (1880).
With associated letter, 1930, of Grevillle MacDonald to Gilbert Rae.
Author's interleaved proof copy of ‘Occasional verses, translations and imitations’ by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie; with letters and papers to Glenbervie formerly loosely inserted therein.
Autobiography of Robert Douglas (1727-1809), Colonel of Marines in the Dutch Army and Lieutenant-General and Commander of the town of 's-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc).
Autograph album of H F Lloyd, manager of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh.
Much of the material is from letters to H F Lloyd written between 1838 and 1850 by members of the theatrical profession.
Autograph collection, chiefly of the late nineteenth century.
The correspondents include politicians, artists and figures from the medical and theatrical professions. It probably belonged to Jean Lang, née Blaikie, to whom many of the letters are addressed, but a substantial amount of the correspondence is to William Miller, Member of the Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and the physician, Sir Thomas Lauder-Brunton.
Autograph collection compiled by Katherine Probert, mostly from the publisher John Murray.
Autograph collection of John Horseman, Rector of Heydon, containing letters of celebrities of the early nineteenth century, chiefly addressed to Horseman, and many franks and other signatures.
Autograph collection of W K Dickson, Keeper of the Advocates' Library and Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, containing letters of political, literary, and other figures.
A number of the letters are addressed to Alexander Adam, rector of Edinburgh High School, and others to David Dickson, master of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh. There is a small group of naval autographs, 1746-1813 (folio 267) and a manuscript periodical, 'The Glencorse Advertiser', for July 1840 (folio 281).
Autograph letters of David Livingstone to various correspondents.
"Autograph Letters of Sir Walter Scott"
Contains letters mainly to Charles Erskine and James Curle, with associated documents, all as described in printed index bound in.
Autograph letters to Charles Lawson, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, from eminent persons in professional, civil and commercial life, being replies to invitations and other letters.
Autograph manuscript of `History of Scots Affairs from the year 1637 to 1641.`, by James Gordon, Minister of Rothiemay.
The manuscript, written between December 1659 and March 1661, contains the Argument to Book II, and Books II-V.
Autograph manuscript of `Ragionamento di Carlo V. Imperatore tenuto al re Philippo suo figliuolo In dargli la libera signoria di tutti gli stati suoi`, Giacomo Castelvetro`s translation, 1592, of Charles V`s advice to his son, 1555.
The colophon (folio 42) is signed `Giacopo Castelvetri cittadino modonese.`
The text is preceded (folio vi) by Castelvetro`s dedicatory letter to James VI.
Autograph manuscript of `The fair Unfortunate; or, the Tragedy of Jane Douglas, the Lady Glamis’, an unpublished drama in blank verse by Alexander Campbell, the editor Of ‘Albyn’s Anthology’.
The manuscript is undated, but another hand has added the date 27 November, 1819 (folio 89 verso).
Two sheets of musical accompaniment to songs in the text have been inserted (folios 41, 51).
Tipped in at the front of the volume is a letter, 1821, from the proprietors of Covent Garden Theatre, rejecting the play.
Autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine.
The majority of the works are unpublished, and those which are published present considerable divergences. All the plays were written for the stage, and in some cases the names of the actors appear in the list of dramatis personae. Adv.MS.5.1.16, (i) and (ii) seem to be unconnected with the remainder of the collection.
Autograph sermon on 1 Peter iii. 15 by the Reverend Sydney Smith, Canon of St Paul`s; with explanatory letter of the donor, 1919.
Autograph settings by Robin Orr of “The Kimmers o' Cougate” and Three Songs of Innocence by William Blake.
Autograph transcripts of 15 of Hugh MacDiarmid`s poems.
Includes letter of MacDiarmid to W Gordon Smith concerning a recording of the poems.