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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 4 Collections and/or Records:

Letter, 1820, and note, undated, of Walter Scott to John Ballantyne.

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Identifier: Acc.11746- is now MS.23141, ff 143-145.
Scope and Contents

Concerns their financial arrangements.

Dates: 1820 and undated.

Letter of John Ballantyne to John Aitken.

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Identifier: Acc.12434
Scope and Contents

Letter concerns his health and Walter Scott`s concern for himself and his health; includes an undated letter of James Ballantyne to Miss Corbett on printing matters.

Dates: 1820.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Gregory, J. to Grehl, F.D., 1810-1909.

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Identifier: MS.40484
Scope and Contents The letters are arranged by surname, in alphabetical order, and chronologically under each surname.Gregory, James. Letters, 1810, concerning the publication of a review in the “Annual Medical Review” of a work on “the medical controversy at Edinburgh” by James Gregory. James and John Ballantyne were discomforted by the knowledge that the book, which was being printed by J. Ballantyne and Co., had not been fully printed at the time of the review, and that John Murray...
Dates: 1810-1909.

Two letters of J G Lockhart to John Ballantyne.

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Identifier: Acc.11060
Scope and Contents

Lockhart gives favourable opinions on Walter Scott`s "The Abbot" and "Kenilworth".

Dates: ? 1820-1821