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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 1781 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and papers of Sir John Dalrymple, 4th Baronet.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9928
Scope and Contents

Includes papers on inventions and a series of caricatures Dalrymple planned with James Gillray.

Dates: 1793-1810 and undated.

Correspondence and papers of Sir Norman Lamont.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10153
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include 10th Duke of Argyll, Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, Viscount Elibank and 4th Marquess of Bute.

Dates: 1890-1946.

Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert A Watson-Watt, including his collection of printed material concerning the history of radar.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9343/1-88
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence and papers concerning radar in World War II, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1951, and other activities and interests.

Includes photographs, articles and printed books.

Dates: 1909-1969, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert Grieve.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10205
Scope and Contents

Concern Grieve`s work on the Clyde Valley Regional Plan and other working during his period as a senior and Chief Planner, Scottish Office.

Dates: circa 1945-1964.

Correspondence and papers of Sir William Craigie (1867-1957), the philologist and lexicographer.

 File
Identifier: MS.9987
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters to William Craigie, 1886-1923, undated, chiefly from other scholars concerning philological and editorial problems. A few unrelated letters, 1825-1885, from Palmerston, Peel, and others, have been placed at the beginning. (Folio 1.) (ii) Correspondence, 1923-1957, undated, with C T Onions and the Clarendon Press, concerning the ‘Oxford English dictionary’ and its supplements. ‘The dictionary of American English’ and other lexicographical...
Dates: 1825-1957, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Sir William Maxwell, President of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11650
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Albert, 4th Earl Grey, and Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery.

Dates: circa 1880-1920.

Correspondence and papers of the artist Alfred Edward Borthwick and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.10393-10491
Scope and Contents A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates: 1815-1967, undated.

Correspondence and papers of the Campbell family of Inverneill.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14395
Content Description

The archive of the Campbell family of Inverneill formerly kept in Canna House, Isle of Canna. It comprises correspondence and papers mainly of the 18th century, including he the business correspondence of various family members in military or government positions. There is also a component of estate papers concerning estates around Kintyre.

Dates: 18th-19th century, the bulk dating from the 18th century.

Correspondence and papers of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee and Jewish, Colonial and Continental Mission Committees.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7548/A/1-G/99
Scope and Contents

The archive of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, 1929-64, together with much 19th and earlier 20th century material, and some items relating to Jewish and Continental Missions.

Dates: 1796-1991, undated.

Correspondence and papers of the Church of Scotland Overseas Council, mostly concerning missions and churches in Africa and Jamaica.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9638/[A]1-23-[B]1-155
Scope and Contents

The African section of the archive of the Church of Scotland Overseas Council, 1965-75 (with some earlier material). This deposit also includes material relevant to Jamaica (1938-1966).

Dates: 1935-1977.

Correspondence and papers of the Dukes of Hamilton.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1031-1032
Scope and Contents The earliest letters are those addressed to the 1st Duke, and deal with his bargaining with the King of France for the restoration of the lands and dignities which were granted to his predecessors. Subsequent writers include the 2nd-4th Dukes, and Anne, wife of the 3rd Duke. Of their letters the most interesting are those of the 3rd Duke, which show the relations which existed between him and the Government, especially the King, Lauderdale, Livingstone, Melville, and Stair. Most of the...
Dates: 1627-1809, undated.

Correspondence and papers of the Earls of Minto.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8965- is now MSS.21233-21236

Correspondence and papers of the Edinburgh International Festival Society.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11779
Scope and Contents

Includes administrative papers and photographs.

Dates: circa 1956-1998.

Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.11001-13496
Scope and Contents The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703. Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates: 17th century-20th century.

Correspondence and papers of the family of Brown, chiefly of or concerning General Sir George Brown.

 File
Identifier: MS.1863
Scope and Contents

The papers include, among other matter: 'Reveries of an officer pent up in a transport ... 1806', being ideas on arms and equipment; letters, 1842, 1845, 1849, on uniforms; correspondence, 1817-1818, about a complaint made against the 85th Foot by the Magistrates of Chester; correspondence, 1865, 1868, about Sir George Brown's letters and papers; and a scheme, undated, for the transport of certain regiments.

Dates: 1806-1868.

Correspondence and papers of the family of Fleming of Cumbernauld and Biggar, Lords Fleming, and Earls of Wigtown.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20770-20800
Scope and Contents The family estates of Cumbernauld and Lenzie in East Dunbartonshire extended into the neighbouring parishes of Monkland in Lanarkshire and Dunipace in Stirlingshire. That of Biggar in Lanarkshire included also some lands in Peeblesshire, where the Flemings were in conflict with the Tweedies of Drumelzier. Members of the family were prominent in public affairs in the 16th and 17th centuries, but the later Earls took little part in them. The male line failed in 1747, and the estates passed to...
Dates: 1440-1960.