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Letters and papers of and concerning artists and other notables, collected by Aeneas Mackay.
File
Identifier: Acc.11785
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include:
David Y Cameron
Muirhead Bone
James McBey
Dates:
Late 19th century to early 20th century.
Letters and papers of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10250-10253
Dates:
1886-1912.
Letters and papers of the Brown family, Linkwood, with some of the family of William Leslie, Minister of Lhanbryde.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3258-3276
Dates:
1769-1883, undated.
Letters and papers of the geologist, Leonard Horner, and of his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2213-2222
Dates:
1782-1880.
Letters and papers of Thomas Carlyle, with a few of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle and others.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1796-1800
Dates:
1823-1875, undated.
Letters and papers of, to or concerning the Reverend William Stevenson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9200
Dates:
1858-1916.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
File
Identifier: MS.3115
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, poems, etc., of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet, to Peter Buchan, collector of Scottish ballads, Peterhead, 1828-1850, undated. The letters, which are in Laing's autograph, deal chiefly with literary matters of the day. Most of the poems (folios 4, 6, 10, 19, 23) appear later in published form.(ii) Poems and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell, in his autograph, with one letter to him, 1815-1865, undated. Several of...
Dates:
1815-1865, undated.
Letters and poems of George Bruce.
File
Identifier: Acc.12186
Scope and Contents
Includes papers of Ian McNab concerning George Bruce and Fraserburgh.
Dates:
1993-2000.
Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, and miscellaneous papers concerning him.
Series
Identifier: MS.23141(i)-(ii)
Dates:
19th century-mid 20th century, undated.
Letters, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9310-9315
Scope and Contents
The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.
Dates:
1779-1884.
Letters, journal and notes of the Reverend William Anderson, Missionary of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in Jamaica and Old Calabar.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2981-2983
Dates:
1831-1885.
Letters, notes, and fragments in the autograph of Lord Henry Brougham.
File
Identifier: MS.1659
Dates:
1803, 1838, 1866, undated.
Letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.9
Scope and Contents
The collection chiefly concerns Scotstarvet`s patronage of literature and learning, and political events on the continent.Symbols have been written in an unidentified hand, apparently of late 17th century provenance, in the upper left-hand corner of many of the letters; their meaning is not known. Leaves from a lost ‘album amicorum’ of Scotstarvet have been identified in folios 101-112. They contain inscriptions to him with mottoes, or classical extracts, by a number...
Dates:
1617-1668, undated.
Letters of and concerning the Angus family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7658
Scope and Contents
Letters, 1904-1916, of and concerning Stewart and Archie Angus to their parents, David and Mary Angus
letters, 1921-1939, of David and Mary Angus to their daughter, Jean Tatham
letters, 1931-1936, of Nancy Angus to Jean Tatham.
With notes of Anne Proctor.
Dates:
1904-1939.
Letters of celebrities, some accompanied by transcripts (not wholly accurate), notes, printed matter, and portraits.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3390-3399
Dates:
1745-1852, undated.
Letters of David Livingstone written to James MacLehose, Glasgow, and Mrs Sewell, shortly after he went out to Africa, describing his work and adventures in Bechuanaland.
File
Identifier: MS.656
Scope and Contents
The letters are preceded by a descriptive note, 1937, and typescripts of the letters.
Dates:
1841-1843, 1846.
Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Series
Identifier: MSS.601-609
Scope and Contents
These letters are in continuation of MS.568.Included are letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1835, 1839-1840, John Sterling, 1843, Dr John Aitken Carlyle, 1843-1844, 1853, 1864, undated, Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, 1844, 1853, Varnhagen von Ense, 1845, two Ladies Ashburton, 1849, 1856, 1864, Lady Sandwich, 1859, Professor George Lillie Craik, 1859, Lord de Grey, 1860, Richard Monkton Milnes, 1860, Jean Carlyle Aitken, 1861, Carlyle’s sister Mary Austin, undated, Geraldine Jewsbury, 1865,...
Dates:
1812-1866.
Letters of Thomas and Jane Carlyle, with a few of Mary Carlyle Aitken, afterwards Carlyle.
Series
Identifier: MS.3823
Dates:
1825-1882, undated.
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.511-518
Scope and Contents
There are no letters of Thomas Carlyle to his father. Several letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle (sometimes added to Carlyle’s letters as postscripts) and of various members of Carlyle’s family are included. Other writers are Daniel Corrie, Bishop of Madras, 1836; W H Wills, ‘Editor and factotum‘ of Charles Dickens, 1855; and Rudolf Sonnenburg, who brought out a German edition of ‘Frederick’, 1867. There are also letters of Carlyle to Whewell, 1861, Emerson, 1869, and others.
Dates:
1821-1870, undated.
Letters, papers and photographs of James Keir Hardie and Emrys Hughes.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.176
Dates:
1884-1969.
Letters to John Duncan Hamilton of Glasgow, mostly on literary matters.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.1.23-81.1.24
Dates:
1894-1930.
Letters to John Philp Wood, antiquary, with a bound volume entitled `Collections for the History of Cramond`.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.106- is now Acc.4566.
Dates:
1785-1807.
Letters to Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, and an instruction-book of his son Charles.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15381-15382
Dates:
1801-1815.
Letters to Sir Walter Scott; with a list of contents.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3874-3920
Scope and Contents
These letters, with those in the Abbotsford Collection (MSS.865-869), must make up almost the whole correspondence addressed to Sir Walter Scott.
Dates:
1796-1831, undated.