Skip to main content

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 116 Collections and/or Records:

Letter of Walter Scott, ? 1811.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12194
Scope and Contents

Letter concerns Scott`s memoir of John Leyden for the "Edinburgh Annual Register", includes a cover in Scott`s hand and a bond by Leyden, 1802.

Dates: 1802, ? 1811.

Letters, 1829-1833 and undated, of James Ballantyne to John Hughes.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11815
Scope and Contents

Letters of Ballantyne to Hughes concern printing and publishing and also the health of Ballantyne and Sir Walter Scott.

Includes:

six letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1822 and undated,

two letters of Walter Scott, WS, father of Sir Walter Scott, undated,

three letters of John A Ballantyne, 1837-1838.

Dates: 1822-1838 and undated.

Letters and documents to and concerning Sir Walter Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11878
Scope and Contents

Includes papers concerning the affairs of the Trust after 1826, including letters of Robert Cadell, James Ballantyne and John Gibson, papers on copyrights, the Magnum edition, the arbitration by Lord Newton, and a report by the Trustees to creditors, 1831. There are also earlier papers concerning plantations at Abbotsford and household records.

Dates: 1812-1831.

Letters of Sir Walter Scott to Alexander Macdonald.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14459
Scope and Contents

On Scott's use of documents, transcripts, proofs, drawings and charters.

Dates: 1828-1831.

Letters, press-cuttings, printed catalogues and articles of and relating to Charles K N Ballantyne, Secretary of the New Club, Edinburgh.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13342
Scope and Contents

Many of the letters relate Charles Ballantyne’s scholarly interests particularly Sir Walter Scott, Marc Raffalovich, John Gray and Aubrey Beardsley. As well as personal letters, some of the correspondence relates to requests to borrow paintings from the collection at the New Club, Edinburgh, the acquisition of which he had been in no small measure responsible for.

Dates: 1925-1984, undated.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Edgcumbe to Edward VII., 1818-1927.

 File
Identifier: MS.40363
Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Edgcumbe, Edward Robert Pearce.Letters, 1901, of Sir Edward Robert Pearce Edgcumbe to John Murray IV and Alexander Henry Hallam Murray. Folios 1-4.Edgcumbe, Richard John Frederick.Letters, 1872, 1875, 1884-1887, 1895-1896, 1898-1900, 1908, 1910-1912, 1914, 1916-1917, 1920, 1922-1923, 1926-1927 and undated to John Murray III and John Murray IV. Folios...
Dates: 1818-1927.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Godwin to Goldschmidt, E., 1813-1916.

 File
Identifier: MS.40455
Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Godwin, George Nelson.Letters and postcard, 1879 and 1899, of George Nelson Godwin to John Murray III. Folios 1-5. Further letters of this correspondent can be found at folios 68-69 of this manuscript.Godwin, William.Letters, 1813-1814, 1823 and 1832, of William Godwin to John Murray II. Folios 6-25.Folio 25. Note with the proposed title,...
Dates: 1813-1916.

Miscellaneous items of or concerning Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.308
Scope and Contents

Framed declaration, 1786, by Elizabeth Paton regarding her child by Robert Burns;

Exciseman`s notes by Robert Burns;

Four letters, 1816-1829, of Sir Walter Scott to Joseph Train;

Volume containing a manuscript copy, 1896, of `Brief sketch of a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott commencing in the year 1814` by Joseph Train;

Printed book, `The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott` (1897) by George G Napier.

Dates: 1786-1897.

Papers concerning the authorship of the Waverley novels, compiled by Gilbert James French.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.8906
Scope and Contents

Includes pamphlets, newspaper articles and letters.

With letters of J G Lockhart and others concerning the controversy and the writings of French, W J Fizpatrick and others, on the subject.

Dates: circa 1840-1857.

Papers concerning Torsonce Inn.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4464
Scope and Contents

With two letters of Sir Walter Scott.

Dates: 1818, 1820.

Papers of and relating to Sir Walter Scott and his literary property.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13422
Scope and Contents

Agreements, memoranda, letters, notes and drafts of Sir Walter Scott with his publishers Archibald Constable and Robert Cadell, and his printers, James Ballantyne, concerning Scott`s literary property. Included are a draft of the deed of 1819 selling the copyright of Scott`s novels and poems to Constable, and a letter of John Gibson Lockhart to Archibald Constable concerning his proposal for a Scott edition of Shakespeare, 1823.

Dates: 1817-1826

Photocopies and microfilm of letters of Sir Walter Scott.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6104
Scope and Contents

With associated papers.

Dates: circa 1800-circa 1832.