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 7214 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts and papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company).
Fonds
Identifier: Adv.MSS.83.1.1-83.9.3
Dates:
1694-1709.
Accounts, correspondence and other papers., 1640-19th century, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2936
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Account between George Wishart, Bishop of Edinburgh, and his factor in respect of the rental of Holyroodhouse and New Abbey, 1662-1667. (Folio 1.)(ii) Correspondence of Sir James Livingston of Kilsyth (afterwards Viscount Kilsyth), chiefly on his private business, 1640-1661, preceded by an inventory, 1682. From the appearance of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's name on a leaf enclosed with these papers (folio 35), they appear to have been...
Dates:
1640-19th century, undated.
Accounts of Sir Walter Scott and other documents relating to him., 1760-1838.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.916-922
Dates:
1760-1838.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
Accounts of the Bannatyne Club, with some related correspondence., 1823-1849.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9360-9362
Accounts of the Bannatyne Club, with some related correspondence., 1823-1830.
File
Identifier: MS.9360
Accounts of the Bannatyne Club, with some related correspondence., 1831-1833, 1838-1840.
File
Identifier: MS.9361
Accounts, shipping-returns, and correspondence concerning the Martinique expedition under the command of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane., 1809-1815.
File
Identifier: MS.2317
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1809-1815.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands.
Accounts, vouchers and correspondence of the treasurer of the Incorporation of Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh, with petitions, receipts and related miscellaneous papers., 1675-1872, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.7332/Box 3(1-15)
Additional papers of the Williamsons of Banniskirk, the Sinclairs of Southdun and the Henderson of Stemster, Bower., 1775-1866, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9872/157-178
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Containing the correspondence, accounts and papers of three Caithness families, the Williamsons of Banniskirk, the Sinclairs of Southdun and the Hendersons of Stemster, Bower. The papers span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. The bulk of the papers relate to the Ulbster estates in Caithness, under the Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Williamson's and Captain David Henderson's respective factorships. There are letters relating to The Caithness Fencible Regiment and the Caithness Highlander...
Dates:
1775-1866, undated.
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.1-81.2.10
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Additional related material acquired with MS.16495: Lesmahagow missal, being fragments of the missal and correspondence and notes of Sir Sydney Cockerell concerning it., 13th century-1953, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16495A-16496
Administration papers of James Thin, bookseller, containing correspondence, reports, essay and newspaper clippings., 1995-2003.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12384/62-69
Administration papers of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland)., 1971-1991, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10893/281-412
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.
Dates:
1971-1991, undated.
Administrative and political papers of the Elliot family of Minto., 1752-1781, 1801, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11031-11041
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This section consists of the personal, political and official correspondence and papers of the Elliots of Minto up to and including the 3rd Baronet, but chiefly of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), and of his son Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet (1722-1777). The former was Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire and served as Lord Justice Clerk from 1763; the latter was Member of Parliament for Selkirkshire, 1753-1765, and for Roxburghshire, 1765-1777, and served as Lord of the...
Dates:
1752-1781, 1801, undated.
Administrative correspondence and other materials of Ian Rankin relating to his ‘Lazarus’ television serial project., 1999-2001.
File
Identifier: MS.50494
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, 1999-2001, between Ian Rankin and others regarding the development of ‘Lazarus’. Folios 1- 91.Correspondence, circa 1999, to Ian Rankin from Nic at Ideal World Films, including film 'bibles' for 'This Life' and 'Jimmy McGovern's The Lakes'. Folios 1-78.Correspondence, 1999-2000, between Ian Rankin and Christopher Penfold, including character descriptions and development notes. Also includes ScriptWorks leaflet. Folios 79-90.Correspondence,...
Dates:
1999-2001.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Ian Rankin archive.
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Papers relating to the professional activities of Ian Rankin.
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Papers relating to the literary and other creative works of Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts and working papers of the scripts and screenplays of Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts and working notes of the scripts and screenplays of Ian Rankin for broadcast media.
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Typescripts and working notes of the television scripts and screenplays of Ian Rankin; with related production information.
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Typescripts and production information of the television dramas by Ian Rankin; with related developmental materials.
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Typescripts of the television dramas by Ian Rankin; with related developmental materials.
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Typescripts of 'Lazarus', a television serial project by Ian Rankin; with related working papers and promotional materials.
Administrative correspondence of Donald Elmslie Robertson Watt as joint editor of 'Scottish Historical Review'., 1964-1972.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9710/12-21
Administrative file of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland), relating to the fixed-term funding and grant applications, containing minutes, notes, budgets, correspondence, applications and related papers., Circa 1997-2001.
File
Identifier: Acc.12911/297
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.
Dates:
Circa 1997-2001.
Administrative, legal and financial papers concerning the estates of the families of Gray of Carntyne, and Anstruther Thomson, afterwards Anstruther Gray, of Kilmany, including records of coal mining interests, and also some private family papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8100/1-156
Scope and Contents
Most of these papers consist of titles and estate papers relating to the lands of Carntyne and Shettleston in Glasgow. They are particularly important for the history of the colliery at Westmuir from the death of John Gray of Carntyne in 1796 until that of his grandson, the Rev John Hamilton Gray, in 1867, but there is material from both before, and in particular from after that period. Robert Gray (d.1833) was a resident landowner, and an enthusiastic coalmaster. Though not all the Westmuir...
Dates:
1518-1965, undated.
Administrative papers of James Stuart., 1776-1787, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8425-8430
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:
1776-1787, undated.
Administrative papers of the Scottish Poetry Library., 1998-2010.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13626/12-26
Dates:
1998-2010.
Administrative records of the Bible Board for Scotland.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11182/1-41
Scope and Contents
In the early 19th century there was much public complaint about the cost and quality of Bibles produced on both sides of the Border where the respective King's printers enjoyed monopoly rights to the printing of acts of Parliament, proclamations, the Authorised Version of the Bible, the metrical psalms, catechism, etc (in England the universities of Oxford and Cambridge also had the Bible printing privilige). When the existing Scottish patent expired in 1839, new letters patent were issued...
Dates:
1832-1981.
Administrative Records of the Broadway Cinema, Prestwick
Series
Identifier: MI.5/30
Dates:
1938-1965
Administrative Records of the Scottish Film Producers Association
Series
Identifier: MI.4/2
Dates:
1948-1950