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Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Any forms of addressed and written communication sent and received, including letters, postcards, memorandums, notes, telegrams, or cables.

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott and of Elizabeth Scott., 1817-1832.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11407/2-3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers concern the affairs of Thomas Scott, brother of Sir Walter, his family, and particularly his son-in-law Colonel Thomas Huxley.

Includes nine letters of Sir Walter Scott, and manuscript concerning the Isle of Man compiled by Thomas Scott, used by Walter Scott in `Peveril of the Peak`.

Dates: 1817-1832.

Correspondence of the Huxley family with the Public Archives of Nova Scotia., 1937-1993.

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Identifier: Acc.11407/9
Scope and Contents

Included are extracts from Walter Scott’s Journal and photocopies of Canadian newspaper articles on Huxley’s death.

Dates: 1937-1993.

Letters of Elizabeth Scott., 1832.

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Identifier: Acc.11407/3
Scope and Contents

Letters concern Sir Walter Scott`s last journey from London to Edinburgh.

Dates: 1832.

Letters of Sir Walter Scott., 1817-1824.

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Identifier: Acc.11407/2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, 1817-1827, of Sir Walter Scott, John Wilson Croker, Jessie Huxley (née Scott) and his sister-in-law Mrs Thomas Scott (Elizabeth McCulloch). Of the nine letters, seven are to Elizabeth mainly about affairs in Canada, and on Walter’s visit to Ireland.

Transcriptions of the letters have been tipped in.

Dates: 1817-1824.

Papers relating to Thomas Huxley’s death., 1826, 1937-1993.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11407/9-10
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers concern the affairs of Thomas Scott, brother of Sir Walter, his family, and particularly his son-in-law Colonel Thomas Huxley.

Includes nine letters of Sir Walter Scott, and manuscript concerning the Isle of Man compiled by Thomas Scott, used by Walter Scott in `Peveril of the Peak`.

Dates: 1826, 1937-1993.

`The Antient customary laws of the Isle of Mann`., 1811.

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Identifier: Acc.11407/4
Scope and Contents

`The antient laws of the Isle of Mann` copied by Thomas Scott during his stay on the Isle of Man. The documents were seen by Walter Scott who used them as part of his inspiration for the novel `Peveril of the Peak` (1823), and referred to them in his introduction. Thomas includes a letter to Walter, 11 April 1811, from the Isle of Man.

Dates: 1811.