Christmas cards.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Greeting cards that are sent or given as expressions of goodwill at Christmastime. The first Christmas cards were made in the 1840s in England. The tradition is followed in all English-speaking countries and the practice is growing in many others.
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
17 Christmas cards and letters of William McLaren, artist, to Winifred Hamilton-Meikle. Many of the cards are original artworks.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13183
Dates:
1953-1973.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Christmas airgraph received by Dr Rose M Clark, as a school girl in Rhodesia, from her aunt in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12977
Dates:
1943.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Christmas cards and papers of William Wolfe.
File
Identifier: Acc.13602
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of fourteen Christmas cards, 1989-2009, of William Wolfe (1924-2010), leader (1969 to 1979) and president (1980-1982) of the SNP. All the cards include a poem and all, but one of them, are illustrated with a photograph.
It also includes three letters, 1992-1994, and a typescript, 6 February 1992, concerning Wolfe`s account of his reaction to the Pope`s visit to Scotland in 1982.
Dates:
1989-2009
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Christmas cards of Naomi Mitchison, with woodcuts of Gertrude Hermes and others.
File
Identifier: Acc.4845
Scope and Contents
With typescript and copy of memorandums on National Parks, Highland education and museums of Mitchison.
Dates:
circa 1940-circa 1969.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Correspondence., 1972-1996.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13134/11-15
Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 1(1)-Box 46(2)
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.
Dates:
1962-1976, undated.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Correspondence of Janet Adam Smith, containing letters, exchanges, postcards and Christmas cards., 1935-1999.
File
Identifier: Acc.13861/4
Scope and Contents
Correspondence includes:
Letters to Maisie (Mrs Charles Smith Drew) from father and Janet Adam Smith, 1935, with references to the wedding of Janet to Michael Roberts;
Letters, exchanges, postcards and Christmas cards to Janet Adam Smith, 1938-1964;
Letters, exchanges, postcards and Christmas cards to Janet Adam Smith, 1965-1975;
Letters, exchanges, postcards and Christmas cards to Janet Adam Smith, 1976-1999.
Dates:
1935-1999.
Correspondence of Janet Adam Smith, containing letters, exchanges, postcards, Christmas cards and press cuttings., 1950-1999.
File
Identifier: Acc.13861/5
Scope and Contents
Correspondence includes:Letters to Janet Adam Smith from Elizabeth Guiness, Norah Clarke and Elizabeth Bremner, 1950-1994;Postcards and Christmas cards from Rupert Hart-Davis to Janet Adam Smith and John Carleton, 1965-1992;Letters to Janet Adam Smith from Maisie Drew, and Bessie and Nellie Crawford, 1970-1974;Letters, exchanges, postcards and Christmas cards to Janet Adam Smith, 1973-1999;Letters to Janet Adam Smith, and press...
Dates:
1950-1999.
Designers` Christmas cards received by Ruari McLean.
Series
Identifier: Dep.362
Dates:
1881, 1938-1982, 1990-2002, and undated.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Examples of lettering and calligraphy work of Tom Gourdie., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9136/66-68
File, 'The Attic Archive. 1995. Correspondence'., 1995.
File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 16(5)
Scope and Contents
Includes some christmas cards and postcards.
Dates:
1995.
File, 'The Attic Archive. 1996. Correspondence'., 1996.
File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 16(6)
Scope and Contents
Includes some christmas cards and postcards.
Dates:
1996.
File, 'The Attic Archive. 1997. Correspondence'., 1997.
File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 16(7)
Scope and Contents
Includes some christmas cards and postcards.
Dates:
1997.
Indexed notebook containing Christmas card lists., 1969.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/52
Letter and Christmas cards of Edith Simon to Dr Joan Basden, with two photographs.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14192
Scope and Contents
Edith Simon [Mrs Edith Reeve] and Dr Joan Basden were housed at Mortonhall House, Edinburgh, with their husbands, Dr Eric Reeve and Eric Basden, who were attached to the National Animal Breeding and Genetics Research Organisation in the Institute of Animal Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. The folder contains five 'paper-cut' Christmas cards, 1967-1969 and n.d., handmade by Edith Simon for Joan Basden and her family; letter, 30 August 1957, on the occasion of Joan and Eric...
Dates:
1948-1969.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Letters and cards of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Christine Shaw.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12854
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of Wild Hawthorn Press books, art-works, private view cards and other papers relating to Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Dates:
circa 1992-2000.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Letters and Christmas cards received by Dr Helen Morrison., December 1962.
File
Identifier: Acc.12917/126
Dates:
December 1962.
Letters and other papers, some of which are printed, originally found inside MS.21248: ‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler, but now kept separately., 1719, 1929-1933, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21249
Letters, invitations, photographs, cuttings and other papers of or relating to the Royal Family., 1902-1949.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9446/147-153
Letters of George Borrow to John Murray III and to Robert Cooke; with letters of Mary Borrow to John Murray III. Included are several miscellaneous items concerning George Borrow., 1840-1865, 1951.
File
Identifier: MS.42042
Scope and Contents
Folios 1-24. Letters, 1842-1865, of George Borrow to John Murray III, with letters of Borrow to Robert Cooke. 25-48. Letters, 1848-1857, of Mary Borrow to John Murray III, with a letter to “Mr. Woodfall”. 49-50. Letter, "Sept. 23d" of William Knapp to John Murray III. 51-52. Letter, 1840, of John ?Stouring to John Murray ?II. 53-54. Manuscript inventory of the “Letters of Geo. Borrow to John Murray, Esq.” 55. Manuscript copy of...
Dates:
1840-1865, 1951.
Letters of, to or concerning William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: correspondents with surnames from Sandler to Wisdom., 1900-1959, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.50102
Scope and Contents
The letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Sandler, Joseph.Letter, 1956, of Joseph Sandler to William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. Folio 1.Stanley, James.Letters, 1941, of James Stanley to William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. Folios 2-3.Sutherland, John.Correspondence, 1944-1963, including copies of letters, between John Sutherland and William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. Folios 4-110....
Dates:
1900-1959, undated.
Letters to Ian Rankin of correspondents with surnames and corporate names beginning P-R., 1984-2018, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.50308
Scope and Contents
The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by the surname or corporate name of the correspondents, and chronologically under each name.
Pappu, Phyllis.Letter, 2000, of Phyllis Pappu to Ian Rankin regarding Rankin’s novel ‘The Hanging Garden’. Folios 1-2.Pelicula Films. See Yule, John.Penzler, Otto.Letters and fax, 1993, 1996-1997, of Otto Penzler to Ian Rankin regarding publishing of Rankin’s novels (1993) and Rankin's novella...
Dates:
1984-2018, undated.
Lists of Christmas cards received by Muriel Spark, with some of the cards., 1983-1997.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11621/27-28
Lists of Christmas cards received by Muriel Spark, with some of the cards., 1983-1995.
File
Identifier: Acc.11621/27
Lists of Christmas cards received by Muriel Spark, with some of the cards., 1996-1997.
File
Identifier: Acc.11621/28