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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 7 Collections and/or Records:

Letter of George Hill to Thomas Cadell., 1795.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 81-83
Scope and Contents

Concerns a list of 12 people that Hill would like to send copies of his sermons to before they are officially published.

Hill`s obituary from `The Gentleman`s Magazine` (1820) has been copied out in hand and included.

Dates: 1795.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters.

Letter of Henry Mackenzie to Thomas Cadell., 1792.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 94-95
Scope and Contents

Concerns the publications of James Hutton.

Dates: 1792.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters. / Letters of, and to, Henry Mackenzie.

Letter of James Playfair to Thomas Cadell., 1783.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 117-118
Scope and Contents

Concerns the publication of Playfair`s `System of Chronology`.

Dates: 1783.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters. / Letters of James Playfair.

Letter of Robert Henry to Thomas Cadell., 1786.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 79-80
Scope and Contents

Concerns the copyright of Henry`s `History of Great Britain`.

Dates: 1786.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters.

Letters of, and to, Henry Mackenzie., 1792-c. 1827.

 Series
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 94-108
Scope and Contents

Letters of Henry Mackenzie to Thomas Cadell, William Davies, and, Henry Davidson. Letters of Samuel Rose, John King, and, Robert Ward to Henry Mackenzie.

Dates: 1792-c. 1827.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters.

Letters of James Playfair., 1783-1810.

 Series
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 117-120
Scope and Contents

Letters to Thomas Cadell and Thomas Hood.

Dates: 1783-1810.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters.

Letters of William Creech., 1773-1794.

 File
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 62-66
Scope and Contents

Letter of William Creech to John Nourse, 1773, concerns a set of books on natural history which Creech may have sold to Nourse.

Letter of William Creech to Mr Bell, 1793, concerns Creech`s approval over Mr Bell`s unstated course of action.

Letter of William Creech to Thomas Cadell, 1794, concerns the literary works of Hugh Blair and the publication of more volumes of Sir John Sinclair`s, `The Statistical Account of Scotland`.

Dates: 1773-1794.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of letters of, to and concerning eighteenth-century men and women of letters.

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