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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 David Hume to Reverend Robert Traill.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13962
Content Description

concerns Traill's recent published sermon attacking Hume for his observations on the Scottish clergy.

Dates: 1755.

Letters of David Hume., 1761-1767.

 Series
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 87-93
Scope and Contents

Letters to William Petty and unnamed correspondent.

Dates: 1761-1767.

Letters of David Hume to William Petty., 1761-1767.

 File
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 87-91
Scope and Contents

Letter of David Hume to William Petty, 1761, concerns Hume`s earlier than planned return to Scotland.

Letter of David Hume to William Petty, 1767, concerns information on a mutual friend.

Letter of David Hume to William Petty, 1767, concerns Hume efforts to have Petty intervene on matters involving Hume`s friends.

Letter of 1761 is published in `The Letters of David Hume`.

Dates: 1761-1767.

Literary papers and correspondence of Henry Mackenzie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10686
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript of, notes for and letters, circa 1810, 1812-1821, concerning Mackenzie`s "Life of Home". With manuscript page, undated, of "Douglas" by John Home and a diary, circa 1803, of Home`s journey to Bath with David Hume in 1776.

Dates: circa 1803-1821.

"The David Hume Archive".

 File
Identifier: Acc.9254
Scope and Contents

Material sent in to National Library of Scotland in response to Prof D F Norton`s appeal for location of Hume material.

Dates: circa 1986.