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 the family of MacGregor or Drummond of Balhaldie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3186-3198
Dates:
1631-1908, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Founders` Guild for an Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11106
Dates:
1946-1950.
Correspondence and papers of the Governors of Catherine McCaig`s Trust.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11417
Dates:
1957-1991.
Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.19420-19571
Scope and Contents
Arthur Elliot was the second son of the 3rd Earl of Minto and his papers form a valuable supplement to the Minto collection. Included here are papers of Sir Thomas Frederick Elliot, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Emma, Lady Hislop, the grandmother of Arthur Elliot. Particularly well represented is Elliot's mother, Nina, Countess of Minto, her papers being especially rich in her correspondence and literary manuscripts. As an active Member of Parliament over a period of...
Dates:
1828-1956, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Hume family, chiefly of Alexander and William, musicians and songwriters.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11764
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts of two songs to settings by Alexander Hume.
Dates:
1852-1913 and undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
File
Identifier: MS.7194
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) A list, circa 1642, of the cannon belonging to the Marquess of Argyll (folio 2);(ii) Business correspondence and papers, circa 1653-1669, of Sir James Lamont and Archibald Lamont of Stilaig, his brother, including some draft petitions of Sir James to the English commissioners in Scotland, claiming restitution for injuries inflicted on himself and his family by the Marquess of Argyll (folio 4);(iii) Business correspondence...
Dates:
1640-1893.
Correspondence and papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine and their clients.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.1101-1530
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence and papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate and a Principal Clerk of Session, of Cramond and later of Delvine (died 1731), his sons Alexander, Writer to the Signet and a Principal Clerk of Session (died 1737), and John, Writer to the Signet, Deputy-Keeper of the Signet (died 1778), and Alexander's grandson Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baronet, Writer to the Signet (died 1835); formed a distinguished line of lawyers who were active in the affairs of their day and...
Dates:
Late 17th century-early19th century.
Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, formerly preserved at Yester House.
Series
Identifier: MSS.7001-7120
Scope and Contents
The collection consists largely of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century correspondence. The chief correspondents are the members of the family most active in public life, and their letters are on the whole more concerned with public than with personal affairs, though there is some discussion of family matters in the seventeenth-century letters. The most important and extensive correspondence is that of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, which dates from 1660 to 1697, and covers most of his...
Dates:
1550-1876, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Murrays of Stanhope.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.1.1(I)-(VII)
Scope and Contents
The great majority of the papers relate to Sir Alexander Murray, the 3rd Baronet (died 1743), and to his brother Charles, Collector of Customs at Bo`ness and de jure 5th Baronet (died 1770), although there are a few of their brother James, of Sir William, the 1st Baronet (died 1689), and of Sir David, the 2nd Baronet (died 1729).The family were Jacobites, and there is some correspondence of Sir Alexander with other participants in the rising of 1715. Apart from this, and from...
Dates:
1676-1769, and undated.
Correspondence and papers of the National Union of Public Employees, Scottish Region.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.151- is now Acc.4971.
Dates:
1920-1962.
Correspondence and papers of the poet and journalist Albert David Mackie.
File
Identifier: MS.19634
Scope and Contents
In 1961, Albert David Mackie wrote to a large number of Scottish authors asking them for information about their current work and this manuscript contains many of their replies. Also included are letters from Christopher Murray Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) on literary matters and from Duncan Macrae and T M Watson on theatrical productions, and corrected typescripts of a Scots version of the 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' by Robert Menzies.
Dates:
1926-1968, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Dates:
1802-mid 20th century, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Rev Dr James C. MacPhail and of his son, J R N MacPhail, Sheriff of Stirling.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12272
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers concern MacPhail Bursary scheme for Gaelic-speaking boys, other Highland matters and the Lewis (Park) Deer Raid trial, 1887.
Dates:
1860-1930.
Correspondence and papers of the Reverend Andrew Lothian and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7617/1-100
Dates:
1637-1909, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Reverend Dr Earle M Macphail.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10029
Dates:
early 20th century.
Correspondence and papers of the Reverend John MacKechnie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9208
Dates:
circa 1930-circa 1986.
Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.8501-8770
Scope and Contents
William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.
Dates:
1898-1955.
Correspondence and papers of the Scottish Labour History Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10482
Dates:
1983-1991.
Correspondence and papers of the Scottish Labour History Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11325
Dates:
1986-1994.
Correspondence and papers of the Scottish Labour History Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12325
Dates:
1969-1986.
Correspondence and papers of the Scottish Legal History Group.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11788
Dates:
1979-1996.
Correspondence and papers of the Scottish Mathematical Council.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10721
Dates:
1966-1972.
Correspondence and papers of the Scottish National Party, headquarters office.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10754
Dates:
1965-1989.
Correspondence and papers of the Secretary, Scottish Labour History Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7554
Scope and Contents
Largely in connection with the Society`s records preservation and cataloguing projects.
Dates:
1963-1978
Correspondence and papers of the Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.142- is now Acc.4850.
Dates:
1963-1969.