Letters. Correspondence.
Found in 14704 Collections and/or Records:
Two volumes of letters of Sir George Webbe Dasent to his publisher David Douglas.
Letters concern Dasent`s Norse translations, "Story of Burnt Njal".
Two volumes of letters of Sir John Malcolm, Indian administrator and diplomat to his wife, Charlotte, written while on a voyage from India to the Persian Gulf on the British mission to Tehran.
Includes a photocopied typescript.
Typecripts, undated, of short stories, one with an African theme of Naomi Mitchison.
Includes:
"Housing Diary", Glasgow, 1934
letter, 1964, of Marion Campbell
verse, undated, including some of Stephen Spender.
Typed copies of family and personal letters of members of the families of Trotter., 1687-1819.
The letters, which formed a substantial part of the family papers kept at Dreghorn, were typed for (or possibly by), and are supplemented by typed explanatory notes of, Lieutenant-Colonel John Moubray Trotter of Colinton, fourth son of Archibald and younger brother of Coutts Trotter of Dreghorn.
The purpose for which the copies were made is unknown.
Typed copies of family and personal letters of members of the families of Trotter., 1820-1884.
The letters, which formed a substantial part of the family papers kept at Dreghorn, were typed for (or possibly by), and are supplemented by typed explanatory notes of, Lieutenant-Colonel John Moubray Trotter of Colinton, fourth son of Archibald and younger brother of Coutts Trotter of Dreghorn.
The purpose for which the copies were made is unknown.
Typed copies of family and personal letters of members of the families of Trotter (of Horton, of Bush, and of Dreghorn), descended from Alexander Trotter of Kettleshiel., 1687-1884.
The letters, which formed a substantial part of the family papers kept at Dreghorn, were typed for (or possibly by), and are supplemented by typed explanatory notes of, Lieutenant-Colonel John Moubray Trotter of Colinton, fourth son of Archibald and younger brother of Coutts Trotter of Dreghorn.
The purpose for which the copies were made is unknown.
Typed copies of letters and memoranda of Alexander Marshall, the eldest son of William Marshall, who died 1807 when a Major in the Indian Army volume, compiled in 1899 by David J Mackenzie., 1793-1800.
The letters are written by Alexander Marshall to his father whilst on active service in India.
Typed copies of letters of Sir Walter Scott to Lord Bloomfield, 1825, Princess Galitzin, 1826, and Longman & Company, undated, in the Saltykov-Shchedrin Public Library, Leningrad, and the Institute of Russian Literature in the Academy of Sciences of the USSR., 1825-1826.
Typed copy of ‘Correspondence by and relative to Sir John Wedderburn in 1747’, executed in 1747 for his share in the ’Forty-five., 1747.
The typescript was made from the originals lent to Mr Walter Biggar Blaikie by Miss Blackburn, great-granddaughter of Sir John Wedderburn.
Typed copy of specimen chapters (I-III, last) of 'Napoleon's Gaelic Marshal', a work on Etienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarents, Marshall of France, with letter to Mark Hamilton., Circa 1970.
Typed extracts, etc., from original correspondence of Sir Walter Scott not printed in MS.130A, including three letters of Sophia Lockhart and one of John Gibson Lockhart., 4th quarter of 18th century-early 19th century.
Typed letter from Thomas Innes of Learney, advocate, to W K Dickson, Keeper of the Advocates’ library, 30 May 1921, referring to the provenance of a portrait of Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, at Kingcausie; and a typed transcript (folio 4) of an account of the duel between Sir Alexander Boswell, Baronet, and James Stuart of Dunearn, 1822, written by Mary Ann, daughter of Claud Boswell, Lord Balmuto, with a transcript of a related letter.
The originals were owned by Miss E B Irvine-Fortescue of Kingcausie in 1921.
Typed scheme and specimen chapters of work on John Graham, Marquess of Montrose, with letter to Mark Hamilton., Circa 1970.
Typed synopsis of and specimen chapters (I-III, unnumbered) of proposed work on R B Cunnighame Graham, with letter to Mark Hamilton., Circa 1971.
Typed transcript of a letter of David Roberts to Wentworth Dilke.
Typed transcript of two letters of Thomas Hutchinson, Boston, to William Robertson., 1772.
The first letter concerns some papers to be sent as an appendix to Thomas Hutchinson's ‘History of America’. The second concerns Hutchinson's intention to send his son to the University of Edinburgh.
Typed transcripts of letters of Edward Ellice (died 1863) to Joseph Parkes., 1831-1863.
In most cases, correspondence of father and son cannot be separated, so a general description is given for each file, which may contain correspondence of one or the other, or both.
The correspondence has not been dated in detail. The dates indicated are based on the dates of the lives of Edward Ellice and his son.
Typed transcripts of letters of Mountstuart Elphinstone, mostly to William Erskine, the historian of India., 1811-1834.
Typed transcripts of Elphinstone’s letters to Erskine in Adv.MS.28.5.15.
Typed transcripts of letters to John Mackenzie of Delvine, Advocate, from the wife and son of the Reverend Dr Alexander Monro, and from Alexander Monro, Provost of St Salvator’s College, St. Andrews.
Typescript, 1920, of ‘The Gordons of Craichlaw’ by William MacMath, with corrections and prefatory notes by the author.
A letter about the work from E A Hornel, 1921, and a copy of Macmath's reply have been inserted (folio i).
Typescript, 1932, of 'Four good years': excerpts from Violet Jacob's letters to her mother, 1895-1896, and copies of her diaries, 1897-1900., 1895-1900.
The typescript was published as 'Diaries and letters from India, 1895-1900', edited by Carol Anderson, (Edinburgh, 1990).
Typescript, 1989, of a poem "Misprint in a Great Man`s Obit" by Gavin Ewart.
With two letters, 1977 and 1982, of Ewart, including one mentioning his poetry collection, "All My Little Ones".
Typescript and printed copies of 14 poems, 1985-1991 and undated, of W Price Turner.
With 13 letters, 1954-1981, to Price Turner from Scottish poets.