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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 7219 Collections and/or Records:

Copies of the 2nd Earl of Minto's private mission letters to the Foreign Secretary (Lord Palmerston) and Prime Minister (Lord John Russell), enclosing some correspondence with British envoys in Italy and Italian politicians., September-December 1847.

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Identifier: MS.12070
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: September-December 1847.

Copies of the 2nd Earl of Minto's private mission letters to the Foreign Secretary (Lord Palmerston) and Prime Minister (Lord John Russell), enclosing some correspondence with British envoys in Italy and Italian politicians., January-February 1848.

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Identifier: MS.12071
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: January-February 1848.

Copies of the 2nd Earl of Minto's private mission letters to the Foreign Secretary (Lord Palmerston) and Prime Minister (Lord John Russell), enclosing some correspondence with British envoys in Italy and Italian politicians., February-June 1848.

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Identifier: MS.12072
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: February-June 1848.

Copies of the correspondence of the Bengal Government with the Court of Directors, and papers printed by order of the Court Directors., 1807-1813.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11341-11360
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates: 1807-1813.

Copies, probably made circa 1825, of official correspondence, 1783-1811, concerning Alexander Walker's career; with a contents table., 1783-1811.

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Identifier: MS.13730
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates: 1783-1811.

Copy, 17th century, of a journal kept by a member of Sir Robert Cecil`s suite during the period of his embassy to France, February-April 1598, before the signing of the Treaty of Vervins.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.10
Scope and Contents

The entries for each day are brief, and much of the manuscript consists of copies of official correspondence sent and received by Cecil, some of which was published in ‘An Historical View of the Negotiations between the courts of England, France and Brussels’, pages 100-157.

Dates: 1598.

Copy, 1812, of "Tales of the Peries the History of Azar Shah from the Persie", from a manuscript in the possession of John Leyden.

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Identifier: Acc.6138
Scope and Contents

With correspondence, 20th century, concerning John Leyden and to the Leyden papers now in the National Library of Scotland.

Dates: 1812, 20th century.

Copy of agreement and regulations (including some correspondence) concerning the French customs., 1816-1818.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.7.21
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.

Dates: 1816-1818.

Copy of Edward Dwelly`s Gaelic dictionary with inserted correspondence.

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Identifier: Acc.13736
Scope and Contents Interleaved copy of Dwelly`s dictionary belonging to Duncan Mac Isaac, Oban, one of Dwelly`s contributors, with his signature, "Donnachadh Mc Isaaic Oban, 1/6/1909" in volume 1. Some correspondence and printed ephemera are tipped into the volumes, including:Postcard, 1906, by Dwelly to Mac Isaac, in Gaelic (vol. 1); subscription form, 1903, for the newly-begun weekly paper of the Irish Gaelic League, `An Claidheamh Soluis` (vol. 1); a poster of Douglas Hyde, "An Craobhín...
Dates: 1902-1912

Copy of MS.8408: Fair copy of Indian administrative and other correspondence, November 1782-October 1783, of James Stuart; complete, with index, but without Stuart's marginal notes., 1782-1783.

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Identifier: MS.8409
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The papers chiefly refer to James Stuart's stay in India as an officer (later Commander-in-Chief) of the forces of the East India Company based at Fort St George (Madras). The most detailed portions of the papers cover the year immediately prior to Stuart's dismissal from the Company's service in 1783. Stuart appears to have retained these papers as justification of his actions and as a defence against accusations of inefficiency. He made different sets of copies of much of his...
Dates: 1782-1783.

Copy of the Orderly-book, 23 October 1745-14 August 1746, of the Duke of Cumberland’s Army under Marshal Wade., 1745-1746, 1829.

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Identifier: MS.303
Scope and Contents

Also included is correspondence, 1829, concerning the manuscript, including copies of letters of A Macdonald of the General Register House and Sir Walter Scott (folios 13-16).

Dates: Majority of material found within 1745-1746, 1829.

Copy of the will, 1792, with codicils, 1808, of Admiral John Elliot of Essenside, grand-uncle of the 2nd Earl of Minto, with correspondence and papers concerning his executry, 1808-1811., 1792, 1808-1811.

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Identifier: MS.11973A
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: 1792, 1808-1811.

Corrected typescript drafts and proofs of William Wolfe, "Scotland Lives" (1973).

 File
Identifier: Acc.9537
Scope and Contents

With associated notes and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1973.

Correspondence, 1959-1987

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14003/1-2
Content Description From the Collection: Correspondence and other papers of and about Dr Farquhar Macintosh, teacher and educationalist and supporter of Gaelic. He was born in Elgol, Isle of Skye, on 27 October 1923, a native speaker of Gaelic, and died in Edinburgh, 18 November 2007. He went to Edinburgh University and Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow, and became headmaster of Portree High School (1962-1966) and Oban High School (1967-1972), and finally Rector of the Royal High School, Edinburgh (1972 to 1989). He served...
Dates: 1959-1987

Correspondence., 1904-1916, 1936-1939.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5043/2
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

The Kirkliston Reading Room was opened for the inhabitants of Kirkliston and district in 1904.

Dates: 1904-1916, 1936-1939.

Correspondence., 1927-1962.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.4775/1-2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Concerning Hutchison`s journeys in Greenland and other arctic lands.

Dates: 1927-1962.