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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 14704 Collections and/or Records:

Typescript of a novel and a memoir of Colin Mackay.

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Identifier: Acc.12540
Scope and Contents

Includes related letters to Heather Scott.

Dates: 2003.

Typescript of an address on Robert Louis Stevenson delivered by R A Knox to the Stevenson Club in 1949.

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Identifier: MS.8792
Scope and Contents

The typescript was marked by R A Knox to indicate pauses and points of emphasis.

A letter of Knox to Sir Randall Philip, Sheriff of Ayr and Renfrew, concerning the deposit of the address in the National Library of Scotland, is also included.

Dates: 1949.

Typescript of Hamish Brown`s "Get Your Knees Brown, Brown: National Service Letters Egypt, Kenya, 1953-1955".

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Identifier: Acc.12688
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of expeditions in Scotland by pupils of Braehead School, 1950s.

Dates: circa 1950-1959, circa 2005.

Typescript of Richard Paterson`s memoir of life at Blantyre Mission, Malawi.

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Identifier: Acc.9785
Scope and Contents

Includes:

six letters, 1929-1933 and undated, of the Reverend Dr Alexander Hetherwick to Patterson

letter, 1948, of J G Katchigie also to Patterson.

Dates: 1929-1988 and undated.

Typescript of "The family of Sir Walter Scott's brother Tom" by William Moncreiffe, apparently unpublished.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8789
Scope and Contents

Two unpublished letters, one of Sir Walter Scott to John Wilson Crocker and the other of Ann Scott to her granddaughter Jessie, are reproduced in the text. The volume also includes a pedigree, from which one leaf is missing, showing the descendants of Sir Walter and Thomas Scott, and portraits of Thomas Scott, his wife and his mother, as well as other family photographs.

Dates: [Circa 1932.]

Typescript, "Spain. Section 3. 1870", by Austen Henry Layard., 1883.

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Identifier: MS.42389
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

Dates: 1883.

Typescript, "Spain. Section 4. 1871", by Austen Henry Layard., 1883.

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Identifier: MS.42390
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

Dates: 1883.

Typescript, "Spain. Section 13. 1877", by Austen Henry Layard., 1883.

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Identifier: MS.42399
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

Dates: 1883.

Typescript, "Spain. Section I. 1869-1870", by Austen Henry Layard., 1883.

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Identifier: MS.42387
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

Dates: 1883.

Typescript, "Spain. Section II. 1870", by Austen Henry Layard., 1883.

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Identifier: MS.42388
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

Dates: 1883.

Typescript, "Spain. Section V. 1872", by Austen Henry Layard., 1883.

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Identifier: MS.42391
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

Dates: 1883.

Typescript, "Spain. Section VI. 1872-1873", by Austen Henry Layard., 1883.

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Identifier: MS.42392
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

Dates: 1883.

Typescript, "Spain. Section X. 1874-1875", by Austen Henry Layard., 1883.

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Identifier: MS.42396
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

Dates: 1883.

Typescript, "Spain. Section XI. 1875", by Austen Henry Layard., 1883.

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Identifier: MS.42397
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

Dates: 1883.

Typescript, "Spain. Section XII. 1876", by Austen Henry Layard., 1883.

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Identifier: MS.42398
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

Dates: 1883.

Typescript `Tour Notes of the Director General of Commercial Intelligence` of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton, July 1907., 1907.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.

Dates: 1907.

Typescript transcriptions, ?3rd quarter of 20th century, of letters, 1834-1843, of Caroline Norton to John Murray II., ? 1974.

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Identifier: MS.42508
Scope and Contents Typescript transcriptions of letters of Caroline Elizabeth Stirling Maxwell (née Sheridan, then Norton) to John Murray [II]. The transcriptions have been ordered chronologically by the date on the original letters. The original letters can be located in Ms.42507.Typescript transcriptions of letters dated 1834: folio 1-3;Typescript transcriptions of letters dated 1836: folios 4-20;Typescript transcription of letter dated 1839: folio 21;...
Dates: ? 1974.

Typescript transcriptions, "Copies of letters and fragments of letters from Lord Holland to Mr. John Murray (1821)". Included with the transcriptions is a letter of Gertrude Thresher, the transcriber of the letters, to John Murray V., 1948.

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Identifier: MS.42234
Scope and Contents

On the manila cover containing the transcriptions there is the following comment by John Murray V, concerning the originals of the letters : "In the collection of Lord Ilchester at Melbury and lent to me that copies might be made to keep with our Holland letters. JM Jan 1948".

The letter of Gertrude Thresher to John Murray V concerns an error in the transcription of folio [].

Dates: 1948.

Typescript transcriptions, ? mid 20th century, of letters, 1821-1843, of Maria Edgeworth to John Murray II., ? Mid 20th century.

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Identifier: MS.42181
Scope and Contents The typescripts have been arranged chronologically by the date of the original letter. The typescripts are all undated - the dates given below correspond to the original letter from which the transcription was made.Typescript transcription of a letter, 1821, of Maria Edgeworth to John Murray [II]: folios 1-5;Typescript transcriptions of letters, 1828, of Maria Edgeworth to John Murray [II]: folios 6-9;Typescript transcription of a letter, 1832, of Maria...
Dates: ? Mid 20th century.