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 14704 Collections and/or Records:
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald: volume I, 1532-1600., 1st quarter of 20th century
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.2.13
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (born 1849, died 1920), and Jessie E Macdonald.
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Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald.
Typescript 'Collected details re the Alston family (Scottish Branch)', compiled by Patrick R Alston, together with letters on the subject.
File
Identifier: MS.3127
Scope and Contents
The compiler attempts to trace the history of the Saxon family of Alston from its first appearance in Scotland, before 1399. His collection, which deals mainly with Alstons of the seventeenth to nineteenth century, consists for the most part of extracts from Lionel Cresswell, ‘Stemmata Alstoniana’, 1905, other printed sources, and official records.
Dates:
1939-1941, undated.
Typescript copies, 1964, of correspondence of Major-General Kenneth Mackenzie.
File
Identifier: MS.8028
Scope and Contents
The letters are chiefly of Sir John Moore and Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, to Kenneth Mackenzie. The correspondence refers to service in the Peninsular War and in the Netherlands campaign of 1813-1814.
The typescript was taken from a transcript, made circa 1912 from the original letters, which now seem to have disappeared.
Dates:
1798-1827, undated.
Typescript copies and cuttings of letters about piobaireachd published in the 'Oban Times'., 1907-1940.
File
Identifier: MS.9623
Typescript copies of letters, 1795-1797, of Mary Cecilia Gibson, daughter of Professor James Balfour of Pilrig and wife of William Gibson, of the Durie family, to her son Lewis in India.
File
Identifier: MS.3017
Scope and Contents
The letters deal almost entirely with the affairs of the Gibson family and their relations (Balfours, etc.), but contain allusions to the state of trade and building in Edinburgh due to the war (folios 6, 10, 19). At folio 40a is a letter, 1794, of another son, John, merchant in Danzig, to his mother, describing the Polish rising of that year. The letters are illustrated by modern photographs of Pilrig House, Peggie's Mill at Cramond, family portraits, and Danzig. The volume containing them...
Dates:
1795-1797.
Typescript copies of letters and translated excerpts from various books., 1796-[1824, or after].
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3825-3828
Dates:
1796-[1824, or after].
Typescript copies of letters of and to James Pittendrigh Macgillivray., 1910-1935.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3501/5-14
Dates:
1910-1935.
Typescript copies of letters of Henry Home, Lord Kames; James Hogg; Sir Thomas Dick Lauder; John Stuart Mill; Professor John Leslie; Thomas De Quincey; Richard Cobden; and Richard Monckton Milnes., 1781-1840.
File
Identifier: MS.1758, folios 6-20
Typescript copies of letters of Ian B C Neilson to his family, written on active service in the Boer War.
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Identifier: Acc.10428
Dates:
1900.
Typescript copies of letters of John Maclean, to Sir James Dodds, 1919, on his Royal Pardon, and an 'Open letter to Lenin', February 1921., 1919, 1921.
File
Identifier: Acc.10090/207
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Some family and other papers of Robert Douglas McIntyre's father, the Reverend John Ebenezer McIntyre (1874-1961), successively minister of Hightae and Dalton, Motherwell, Manse Road, and St Mary's, Edinburgh, United Free churches, and later of Barony and St James Place Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, precede the main collection.
Dates:
1919, 1921.
Typescript copies of letters of Patrick Geddes to members of his family., 1863-1931.
File
Identifier: MS.10508
Scope and Contents
Also included (folio 160) is an introduction to the letters by Patrick Geddes' daughter, Norah Mears.
Dates:
1863-1931.
Typescript copies of letters of Sir Robert Murdoch Smith in Asia Minor, chiefly to Sir John Burgoyne., 1856-1859.
File
Identifier: MS.13596
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection, in which family correspondence predominates, reflects all aspects of the naval career of Robert Kirk Dickson. He took part in the Battles of the Falkland Islands, 1914, Gallipoli, 1915, and Jutland, 1916. In the Second World War he served as Duty Captain in the Admiralty War Room, 1939-1940, and commanded the fast minelayer, H.M.S. Manxman, 1940-1942, when he took part in a series of offensive minelaying operations in the Channel, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. He was Deputy...
Dates:
1856-1859.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson (1898-1952) and of his younger brother, Midshipman Archibald Kirk Dickson (died 1916), with some papers of their father, William Kirk Dickson (1860-1949), first Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous papers, chiefly correspondence, of the Dickson family.
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Correspondence of Sir Robert Murdoch Smith, father of Kathleen Dickson, and the subject of a biography by William Kirk Dickson.
Typescript copies of letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1809, chiefly to Sir Ilay Campbell, on the business of the Parliamentary Commission for the improvement of Scottish Jurisprudence of which Scott was secretary, and of William Lockhart, Baronald, and Walter Lockhart, 1802, 1809., 1802, 1809.
File
Identifier: MS.3581, folios 57-69
Dates:
1802, 1809.
Typescript copies of letters of Sir Walter Scott to Benjamin Robert Haydon., 1821-1828.
File
Identifier: MS.2257, folios 100-102
Dates:
1821-1828.
Typescript copies of letters of various writers to William Laidlaw, with a few others., 1800-1840.
File
Identifier: MS.860
Scope and Contents
The writers include Sir Walter Scott, 1802-1830, undated, and his family and James Hogg, 1800-1801, 1815, 1821, undated. Some have been corrected in the National Library from the originals.
Dates:
1800-1840.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Letters of Sir Walter Scott.
Typescript copies of letters to Hilda Wolfe Murray from her brother Arthur Alexander Wolfe Murray whilst on active service in South Africa during the Boer War, as a captain in the 71st Regiment (the Highland Light Infantry)., 1899-1900.
File
Identifier: MS.9569
Scope and Contents
Also included (folios 32-34) are copies of three letters, 1899-1900, from Hilda Wolfe Murray’s eldest brother Colonel (afterwards Lieutenant-General Sir) James Wolfe Murray, then commanding lines of communication in Natal.
Dates:
1899-1900.
Typescript copies of letters to Hilda Wolfe Murray from her brother Arthur Alexander Wolfe Murray whilst on active service in South Africa during the Boer War, as a captain in the 71st Regiment (the Highland Light Infantry)., 1902-1903.
File
Identifier: MS.9570
Dates:
1902-1903.
Typescript copies of letters to Hilda Wolfe Murray from her brother Arthur Alexander Wolfe Murray whilst on active service in South Africa during the Boer War, as a captain in the 71st Regiment (the Highland Light Infantry).
Series
Identifier: MSS.9569-9570
Dates:
1899-1900, 1902-1903.
Typescript copies of letters written by Thomas Muir at Monterey, California., 1796.
File
Identifier: MS.3825
Typescript copies of the letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle to the Dowager Countess of Sandwich.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.24
Dates:
1850-1862.
Typescript copies of three letters of Sir Walter Scott., 1829, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1758, folios 31-34B
Typescript copies of two letters of David Livingstone, one of which is to Lieutenant Daniel Brebner.
File
Identifier: Acc.11534
Dates:
1859-1866.
Typescript copies of two letters of J Scott.
File
Identifier: Acc.9590
Scope and Contents
Describing in detail journeys in Tanzania and Kenya.
Dates:
1955-1959.
Typescript copies of two letters of Sir Walter Scott., 1806-1807.
File
Identifier: MS.1758, folios 23-30
Typescript copies of unpublished letters of Thomas Carlyle.
Series
Identifier: MSS.619-620
Scope and Contents
The letters are in continuation of MS.618.
Dates:
1866-1875.