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Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters.
Found in 1168 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of Sheila McGregor, largely relating to knitting.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12343
Dates:
1973-2003, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir John Dalrymple, 4th Baronet.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9928
Scope and Contents
Includes papers on inventions and a series of caricatures Dalrymple planned with James Gillray.
Dates:
1793-1810 and undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Lewis Robertson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12345/1-189
Dates:
1960-2002, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert A Watson-Watt, including his collection of printed material concerning the history of radar.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9343/1-88
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence and papers concerning radar in World War II, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1951, and other activities and interests.
Includes photographs, articles and printed books.
Dates:
1909-1969, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan, afterwards Baron Lynedoch, and of the Honourable Mary Cathcart, afterwards Mrs Graham, his wife.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.3590-3645
Dates:
1719-1850.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Gaelic manuscripts.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e(ii)
Dates:
1863-1925.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library relating to Wodrow manuscripts and pamphlets
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/4
Dates:
1759-1828, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Founders` Guild for an Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11106
Dates:
1946-1950.
Correspondence and papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
File
Identifier: MS.7194
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) A list, circa 1642, of the cannon belonging to the Marquess of Argyll (folio 2);(ii) Business correspondence and papers, circa 1653-1669, of Sir James Lamont and Archibald Lamont of Stilaig, his brother, including some draft petitions of Sir James to the English commissioners in Scotland, claiming restitution for injuries inflicted on himself and his family by the Marquess of Argyll (folio 4);(iii) Business correspondence...
Dates:
1640-1893.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Dates:
1802-mid 20th century, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Reverend John MacKechnie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9208
Dates:
circa 1930-circa 1986.
Correspondence and papers of the Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.142- is now Acc.4850.
Dates:
1963-1969.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents
Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates:
circa 1916-2006.
Correspondence, diaries, records of consultation, drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles and papers, and personal papers, of and relating to Dr William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13332- is now part of MSS.50100-50251.
Scope and Contents
Ronald Fairbairn was born in Edinburgh in 1889 and educated at Merchiston Castle School and the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Kiel and Strasbourg. During the First World War he served as a Territorial in the Royal Garrison Artillery with postings in Egypt and Palestine. He was Assistant Physician at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental Diseases from 1923-1924 and subsequently forged a career in medical psychology. He produced numerous psychological publications. He married,...
Dates:
1896-2006.
Correspondence, lectures, notes and other material of and concerning Sir Patrick Geddes and his son, Dr Arthur Geddes.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19253-19286
Dates:
1886-1968, undated.
Correspondence, lectures, notes and other papers of and concerning Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932).
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.10501-10657
Dates:
1808-1954, undated.
Correspondence, notes and press cuttings of the Reverend John C Carrick.
File
Identifier: Acc.6081
Scope and Contents
Moslty concerning the Newbattle Chartulary.
Dates:
1895-1896.
Correspondence, notes, literary papers and other papers of the Cunninghame Graham family, mostly of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham; and financial and administrative papers relating to Gartmore and Ardoch.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11335/1-227
Dates:
1757-1991.
Correspondence of Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray, Baron Murray of Elibank and correspondence and papers of his brother, Arthur Cecil Murray, Viscount Elibank.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8801-8824
Dates:
1895-1962, undated.
Correspondence of and papers concerning John Q Pringle.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8643
Dates:
1885-1982.
Correspondence of John and Margaret Anderson, emigrants in Ontario, Canada, with notes on the histories of the Lindsay and Cameron families, and related papers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13107
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, 1857-1867, of John and Margaret Anderson, Scottish emigrants in Hamilton and Stratford, Ontario, Canada, to Jean Lindsay at Coupsteps, Powmill, largely concerning their life in Canada. The collection also includes transcriptions of the letters, family history notes, a letter written by a young emigrant Scot, 1881, and miscellaneous papers relating to the Lindsay and Cameron families.John and Margaret Anderson emigrated to Ontario, Canada, around 1856. John was...
Dates:
1857-2009.
Correspondence of John Philp Wood regarding his edition of 'The peerage of Scotland’ by Robert Douglas, with manuscript notes on proof-sheets.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2251-2252
Scope and Contents
Most of the writers of the letters and notes are members of the families concerned, supplying information. Some of the Rosebery letters in MS.2252 are on personal matters.
Dates:
1785, 1794-1813, 1836.
Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott with James Wylie, Writer to the Signet, on the illumination of their house-fronts for the visit of George IV to Edinburgh, and a note of Scott to Wylie regarding the installation of oil gas in their houses.
File
Identifier: MS.539
Scope and Contents
James Wylie occupied the flat, 41 Castle Street, immediately above Sir Walter Scott.
Dates:
1822.
Correspondence of the Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates concerning a bond of Lord Elgin.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/21
Dates:
1821-1842.