Letters. Correspondence.
Found in 3777 Collections and/or Records:
Circa 100 letters to David Wilkie.
Correspondents include Sir Walter Scott and David Roberts.
Circa 200 letters to Alan Riddell.
Concerning "Lines Review".
Circa 260 letters to and of David Morrison.
Correspondents include George Mackay Brown, Christopher Murray Grieve, Alexander Scott, and Sydney Goodsir Smith, on literary and personal matters.
Circa 500 letters of Florence M Russell to Norman McLaren.
With cards, drawings and photographs.
Circa 740 letters of and to Gavin Ewart.
On literary matters.
Circa 1300 letters to William Johnstone.
Correspondents include C M Grieve and Francis George Scott, mostly on artistic and literary matters.
Circa 4500 letters to Christopher Murray Grieve, alias Hugh MacDiarmid.
Mostly on political matters.
Collection of 26 letters of and to George Buchanan.
Collection of autographs formed by William Finlay Watson (died 1881), bookseller, Edinburgh.
The collection consists of letters and documents in the autograph of literary, political, social, artistic, naval, military, and legal celebrities, chiefly covering the period from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth.
The first 2,300 items bear numbers given in the National Galleries. Certain letters, etc., have been retained for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery; the series is therefore not continuous (see MS.595).
Collection of copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury.
The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.
Collection of holograph manuscripts of authors of the early 20th century.
Collection of letters and literary manuscripts submitted to Smith Elder and Company, publishers.
Collection of letters and signatures, with many of the letters addressed to Dr David Maclagan and members of his family.
Collection of papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
`Collection of Papers Experiments And Observations Relating to Husbandry, Grass, And other Branches Of Country Affairs,’ by William Baird of Auchmeddan.
The collection was compiled over the years 1736 to 1756, and was written in the latter year (pages iii, 234). It is made up of extracts from books, copies of letters, and notes of the experiences of the writer.
Collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Collection of papers of the Warden family.
The collection comprises correspondence of the Warden family, with transcripts of most of the correspondence, a travel journal written by Alexander Warden and a publication, 'Letters from St. Helena' (1816), by William Warden.
Collection of small groups of letters chiefly from Sir William H Delancey and Sir James W Gordon as successive Quartermasters General to Sir John Bisset and Sir Robert H Kennedy as successive Commissaries General, together with a number of letters of and to regimental officers, whilst on active service in the Peninsular War.
Most of the letters are dated between January and November 1811, and July 1812 and February 1813.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Collection of twenty-one documents relating to the Stuart family and the French royal family.
Collections and single letters of and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
‘Collections’ made by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, containing a number of genealogical papers and copies of military documents which he probably used when engaged on compiling ‘Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain from 1727 to 1783’.
Commentaries on the Book of Job, and copies of letters.
Many of the letters concern James Hervey`s "Theron and Aspasio", all apparently of Glasite tendency.
Commonplace book of Mrs C E R Drummond-Hay, of Seggieden, containing religious verses and transcripts of letters from her son, Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) James Adam Gordon Richardson Drummond-Hay while on active service.
The thirteen letters, written between February and April 1885, are addressed by James Drummond-Hay to his parents and other members of his family, and recount in diary form his experiences as a member of the Coldstream Guards contingent both on the voyage to the Sudan and on arrival there. There is much detailed description of military activity in the Suakin region.