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 4 Collections and/or Records:
Letters of and to Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald mostly concerning his treatises on telegraphic communication systems, but also others of his publications, and with some financial and legal papers., 1791-1825.
File
Identifier: MS.50699
Scope and Contents
Letters of correspondents at the Admiralty.Barrow, JohnLetter, 1 September 1814, of John Barrow, Southampton, to John Macdonald praising his telegraphic system. Folios 1-2.Letter, 13 May 1817, of John Barrow, Admiralty, London, to John Macdonald stating that his work on telegraphic communication has been laid before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Folios 3-4.Letter, 22 August 1818, of John Barrow, Admiralty, London, to John Macdonald...
Dates:
1791-1825.
Letters of James Bruce of Kinnaird., 1789-1793.
Series
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 30-33
Scope and Contents
Letters to Sir Joseph Banks, Jean Graham, and William Creech.
Dates:
1789-1793.
Letters of James Bruce of Kinnaird to Jean Graham and William Creech., c. 1790-1793.
File
Identifier: MS.23638, folio 32
Scope and Contents
Letter of James Bruce to Jean Graham, c. 1790, concerns a volume of a `certain work` which is ready for her perusal.
Letter of James Bruce to William Creech, c. 1793, concerns Bruce`s attempt to find out who has pirated his book.
Dates:
c. 1790-1793.
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.