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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 5 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence between John Murray II and Archibald Constable and Co., publishers, with related papers., May-August 1807.

 File
Identifier: MS.40242
Scope and Contents The correspondence concerns the business relations between John Murray II and Archibald Constable and his partners, and includes receipts, invoices and other business papers. Copies of letters of Sydney Smith, Francis Jeffrey and Sharon Turner concerning the “Edinburgh Review”, with copies of letters to Longman and Co. concerning the same, are included among the letters. The papers are arranged chronologically. 1807.May: folios 1-39;June: folios 40-86;...
Dates: May-August 1807.

Correspondence of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10848
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, John Hamilton Dalrymple, 8th Earl of Stair, and John Wilson, pseudonym Christopher North.

Dates: 1802-1868 and undated.

Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11637
Scope and Contents Includes fragment of a manuscript on linguistics and the following letters:1. letter, 1850, of Thomas Carlyle to Richard Owen on the penalties of frequent dining out, and Assyrian bull sculptures2. letter, 1874, of Thomas Constable to Thomas Carlyle concerning Carlyle`s support of Constable`s efforts to vindicate his father, Archibald, in the face of Lockhart`s criticism3. letter, undated, of Henry Brougham4. letter, 1833, of Francis Jeffrey...
Dates: 1833-1874.

Poem of, and letters to, Thomas Campbell.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13732
Scope and Contents

Draft of Campbell`s `To the Rainbow`.

Letters to Campbell from Joanna Baillie, Francis Jeffrey, and Thomas Telford.

Dates: 1806-1819.