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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 7214 Collections and/or Records:

Walkinshaw and Birkhill estate papers., 1731-1814.

 File
Identifier: MS.10918
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers relating to the lands of Walkinshaw and Castlesemple in Renfrewshire: papers, 1809, 1813, relating to the trusteeship for Day Hort McDowall of Walkinshaw (folio 1); correspondence, 1808-1814, concerning the trusteeship (folio 37); miscellaneous papers, 1791, 1806, 1808-1811, 1813, undated, relating to Renfrewshire (folio 181);(ii) Correspondence and papers, 1735-1737, 1746, 1751, 1753, relating to the debt due by John Alison of...
Dates: 1731-1814.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Family papers, chiefly eighteenth to nineteenth century, of the Grahams of Airth.

"Wallace the hero of Scotland' (Edinburgh: Nimmo, Hay and Mitchell, 1900), by James Paterson, containing inserted notes, articles and correspondence., 1900.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10397/51
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes corrected typescripts of articles, reviews and broadcast talks, together with 55 letters from various correspondents.

Dates: 1900.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith. / Printed items of and gathered by Sydney Goodsir Smith. / Printed volumes of Sydney Goodsir Smith and others.

War correspondence between Lawrence Burness and his parents.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9088
Scope and Contents

Includes extracts of letters, parted into three volumes, and photographs, 1942, of people and places mainly in Burma.

Dates: 1940-1947.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Warrants, military papers, letters and inventories of the Earls of Callendar and Linlithgow, and of the family of Forbes of Callendar., 1613-1859, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.9639
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Warrants, etc., 1627-1689, of the Privy Council, chiefly to George, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow; and act of the Committee of Excise and Militia in Nithsdale, 1680 (folio 1);(ii) Miscellaneous military papers, 1644-1677, chiefly concerning the 3rd Earl of Linlithgow; receipts for military supplies, 1647-1688; and miscellaneous papers, 1677-1680, undated, concerning covenanters and conventicles (folio 26);(iii) Letters, 1613-1711,...
Dates: 1613-1859, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Estate and family papers, 16th century-18th centuries, of the Livingstons, Earls of Callendar and Linlithgow, with some correspondence, 19th century, of the family of Forbes of Callendar.

Wells executry and trust correspondence and papers., 1818-1831, 1842.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11925-11927
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: 1818-1831, 1842.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto. / Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto. / Executries and related papers concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers concerning the executry of William Elliot of Wells, the trustees of Wells estate, and the litigation of Sir William Francis Elliot, 7th Baronet of Stobs, with the latter (1819-1829).

Wells executry and trust correspondence and papers., 1818-1819.

 File
Identifier: MS.11925
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: 1818-1819.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto. / Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto. / Executries and related papers concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers concerning the executry of William Elliot of Wells, the trustees of Wells estate, and the litigation of Sir William Francis Elliot, 7th Baronet of Stobs, with the latter (1819-1829). / Wells executry and trust correspondence and papers.

Wells executry and trust correspondence and papers., 1820-1825.

 File
Identifier: MS.11926
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: 1820-1825.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto. / Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto. / Executries and related papers concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers concerning the executry of William Elliot of Wells, the trustees of Wells estate, and the litigation of Sir William Francis Elliot, 7th Baronet of Stobs, with the latter (1819-1829). / Wells executry and trust correspondence and papers.

Wells executry and trust correspondence and papers., 1826-1831, 1842.

 File
Identifier: MS.11927
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: 1826-1831, 1842.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto. / Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto. / Executries and related papers concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers concerning the executry of William Elliot of Wells, the trustees of Wells estate, and the litigation of Sir William Francis Elliot, 7th Baronet of Stobs, with the latter (1819-1829). / Wells executry and trust correspondence and papers.

Women, education and literature: the papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1767-1849, part 3, reels 1-4 (Adam Matthew, 2001).

 Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1205-1208
Dates: 1793-1st half of 19th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Women's Foreign Missions links to national church, containing minute books, press cuttings and correspondence., 1941-1972.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10903/8-12
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Chiefly relating to links with Women's Guilds at home and centenary celebrations, but also with material relevant to the history of Women's Forrign Missions. There is also a large number of play scripts in this accession.

Dates: 1941-1972.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Records and minute books of World Mission and Unity Department, Church of Scotland.

Work by other writers collected by Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1939-1980, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26620-26636
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

Dates: 1939-1980, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father.

Working papers, texts and correspondence of Professor Archie Duncan relating to his work on "Regesta Regum Scottorum, volume 5: The Acts of Robert I, 1306-29".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12934
Dates: circa 1950-1989.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Yester and general estate correspondence, being chiefly letters of various tenants, factors and lawyers, and including many letters of George Dalziel, Writer to the Signet., 1810-1865, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14458
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Unless specified otherwise, letters are addressed to, and correspondence is of, George, Marquess of Tweeddale (1787-1876), or his wife Susan, Marchioness of Tweeddale (1797-1870).

Dates: 1810-1865, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House. / Correspondence of the Hays of Yester. / Correspondence chiefly of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale. / Business, estate and agricultural correspondence of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale and his eldest son, the Earl of Gifford. / Legal, financial, estate and agricultural correspondence chiefly of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale.

Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.3134-3185
Scope and Contents

Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.

Dates: 1552-19th century
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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