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 1781 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of or concerning William Holms and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8449
Dates:
circa 1825-1916.
Correspondence and papers of Patrick William Campbell, Writer to the Signet.
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Identifier: Acc.10349
Scope and Contents
Includes material on investments in Argentina, genealogy, biography and poetry.
Dates:
1880-1920.
Correspondence and papers of Priscilla, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, and some papers of John, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1945-1978; with a speech, 1935, of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.337- This deposit is is now part of Acc.11884.
Dates:
1935, 1945-1978.
Correspondence and papers of Prof Christopher T Harvie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11239
Dates:
circa 1968-1992.
Correspondence and papers of Prof Derick S Thomson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11047
Scope and Contents
Includes proofs concerning the publication of George Campbell Hay`s "Mochtar is Dughall" (Glasgow, 1982).
Dates:
1982-1983.
Correspondence and papers of Professor John Stuart Blackie and his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2621-2664
Dates:
1798-1915, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Professor Sir Robert Grieve.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10922
Dates:
1939-1988.
Correspondence and papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson (1898-1952) and of his younger brother, Midshipman Archibald Kirk Dickson (died 1916), with some papers of their father, William Kirk Dickson (1860-1949), first Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.13501-13597
Scope and Contents
The collection, in which family correspondence predominates, reflects all aspects of the naval career of Robert Kirk Dickson. He took part in the Battles of the Falkland Islands, 1914, Gallipoli, 1915, and Jutland, 1916. In the Second World War he served as Duty Captain in the Admiralty War Room, 1939-1940, and commanded the fast minelayer, H.M.S. Manxman, 1940-1942, when he took part in a series of offensive minelaying operations in the Channel, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. He was Deputy...
Dates:
1st half of 20 century.
Correspondence and papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane of Cloan (1856-1928), the statesman, lawyer and philosopher, and of his sister, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1862-1937), philanthropist and author.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5901-6109
Scope and Contents
The papers include correspondence of other members of the family of Haldane of Cloan covering a period of almost a century and a half from the beginning of the 19th century, especially rich for the period 1875-1937.
Dates:
19th century-early 20th century.
Correspondence and papers of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, 1874-1936; with manuscripts and typescripts of his writings and those of his wife Gabrielle, circa 1905-1936, and undated.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.205- is now part of Acc.11335.
Dates:
1874-1936.
Correspondence and papers of Robert Douglas McIntyre.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10090/1-208
Scope and Contents
Some family and other papers of Robert Douglas McIntyre's father, the Reverend John Ebenezer McIntyre (1874-1961), successively minister of Hightae and Dalton, Motherwell, Manse Road, and St Mary's, Edinburgh, United Free churches, and later of Barony and St James Place Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, precede the main collection.
Dates:
circa 1930-1988.
Correspondence and papers of Robert Duncan Macleod, editor of the ‘Library review’.
File
Identifier: MS.10330
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Corrected typescripts and manuscripts of articles by Frederick Niven and others, published in the ‘Library review’, volumes iii-iv (1932-1934), and in ‘Modern Scottish literature’, edited by R D Macleod (Glasgow, 1933), pages 13-16. (Folio 1.)(ii) Correspondence between Macleod and L Stanley Jast, 1930-1944, concerning libraries and Jast's contributions to the ‘Library review’. It includes the manuscript of an article by Jast, 'The man...
Dates:
1930-1944.
Correspondence and papers of Rodney B Murray as Chairman of the Scottish Steering Committee of the Women`s Suffrage 50th Anniversary (1968).
File
Identifier: Acc.9114
Dates:
1967-1973.
Correspondence and papers of Ruari McLean with Cynthia and David Pettiward.
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Identifier: Acc.11466
Scope and Contents
Concerning McLean`s introduction to "The Last Cream Bun" (London, 1984) with drawings by Roger Pettiward, pseudonym Paul Crum.
Dates:
1981-1984.
Correspondence and papers of Salis Daiches, including some of his wife Flora, son Lionel, and other members of the Daiches family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12278/1-61
Dates:
Circa 1880-?2003.
Correspondence and papers of Sheila McGregor, largely relating to knitting.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12343
Dates:
1973-2003, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Alexander Gray.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11897
Scope and Contents
Includes journals, broadcast scripts and tapes.
Dates:
circa 1918-1975.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet, and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7467
Dates:
1796-1916 and undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Charles Stuart (created Baron Stuart de Rothesay in 1828), British Ambassador to France, 1815-1830.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21261-21328
Scope and Contents
The contents of the collection range from 1800 to 1847 with a few later, and many undated items. Most (about two-thirds) of the collection concern Sir Charles Stuarts years as ambassador.
Dates:
1800-1868, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir George Adam Smith, Lilian, Lady Adam Smith, née Buchanan, and other members of the Adam Smith and Buchanan families.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.311- is now Acc.9446.
Dates:
1859-1949.
Correspondence and papers of Sir George Taylor, botanist, including diaries and photographs relating to botanical expeditions to Africa and the Himalayas.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9533/1-414
Scope and Contents
Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, 1927-8, East Africa, 1934-5, and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries.Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean Kingdon Ward, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a...
Dates:
1792-1990.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Graham Balfour, and material collected by him for his ‘The life of Robert Louis Stevenson’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9891-9911
Dates:
1870-1960, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Henry Lindsay Bethune.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8959
Scope and Contents
Concerning Bethune`s military career in Persia.
Including instructions, firmans (royal mandate or decree), commissions and bills.
Dates:
1813-1851.
Correspondence and papers of Sir James Randall Philip, procurator of the Church of Scotland, as convener of the Church’s Subcommittee on National Occasions; together with some correspondence of his predecessor, James F Strachan.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20488-20490
Dates:
1947-1955, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir John Archibald Murray, Lord Murray (1779-1859), a Senator of the College of Justice (1839-1859).
Series
Identifier: MSS.19735-19739
Dates:
1807, 1814, 1821-1858, undated.