Publishers and publishing.
Found in 57 Collections and/or Records:
Editorial papers of "Gairm" magazine and Gairm Publications, Glasgow.
Further papers of John Murray, publishers.
Further papers of Smith Elder and Company, publishers, including letters to members of the Smith family from authors connected with the firm, and a number of literary manuscripts.
Further papers of Smith Elder and Company, publishers, c.1840s-1910s, mainly comprising letters to members of the Smith family from authors connected with the firm, including Lady Anne Isabella Ritchie, Harriet Martineau and Mary Augusta Ward, along with a number of literary manuscripts and other papers relating to the publishing business.
Journal, 1840-1854, of James Gall.
With family Bible, containing genealogy, 1766-1825, of James Gall, and his descendants.
Letter-books, stock-books, publication day-books and cash-books of Messrs W and R Chambers, publishers.
Letter of Henry David Inglis, with typed transcript, to his publisher Mr How of Whittaker and Co., London., 1833.
Letter, with typed transcription, concerning subscriptions to, and publication of, Mrs A.C. Carmichael’s “Domestic Manners and the Social Condition of the White Coloured and Negro Population of the West Indies” (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co, 1833). Letter confirms that Carmichael was the brother of John Stuart, author of “Three Years in North America”.
Letters addressed to the firm of Smith, Elder and Company by R D Blackmore, G M Fenn, S Baring Gould, H A Vachell and others.
Letters, chiefly addressed to Archibald Constable, publisher, with a few copies of letters written by him.
The correspondents include Basil Hall, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Alexander Henderson, David Herd, James Hogg, John Home, Francis Horner, Rowland Hunter and Thomas Hurst. There are some annotations by Thomas Constable, who made use of the material in his ‘Archibald Constable and his literary correspondents’ (Edinburgh, 1873).
Letters from Archibald Constable and Company to Messrs Hurst, Robinson and Company.
Literary papers, including manuscripts and typescripts, of Dionysia Press.
Manuscripts and business records of W and R Chambers, publishers, with some family papers.
Office correspondence and accounts of Bell and Bradfute, booksellers and publishers, Edinbrugh.
Papers concerning the business affairs and bankruptcy of George Johnstone, bookseller, Dumfries.
Papers of Aeneas Mackay.
Includes book files and correspondence.
Papers of Charles Graves (1899-1971).
Charles Graves, who worked for the ‘Scotsman’, published several collections of poems. He managed the Porpoise Press, the Edinburgh publishing house, from 1927 until 1930 when the business was sold to Faber and Faber.
Papers of "Gairm" and of Gairm Publications Ltd.
Papers of Peter Hodgkiss and the Ernest Press.
Correspondence, climbing journals, and working papers of Peter Hodgkiss, mountaineer and publisher; including papers of the Ernest Press.
The journals provide a record of the climbing activities of a keen mountaineer. The correspondence files contain both personal and business letters of Hodgkiss. The book files concern publications of the Ernest Press.
Papers of T [and] T Clark, containing business correspondence, book stocks and financial papers.
The bulk of the material is from the 1970s-1980s, however there are much earlier files in the author correspondence (Acc.10689/1-41) from as far back as 1870.