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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 1778 Collections and/or Records:

Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13898
Content Description

The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.

The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.

Dates: 1820-1974.

Archives of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, consisting of incoming correspondence, lectures and papers read to the Society; including the original manuscript, 1871, of the essay of Robert Louis Stevenson, 'Intermittent Lights'.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4534/1-183
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise two distinct yet related groups, giving in all quite a comprehensive account of the Society's history, and spanning more than a century of rapid scientific and technological achievement.

Dates: 1819-1940, 1946, undated.

Balcarres Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates: 1231-1686, and undated.

Bazett Michael Haggard, "Objects of Pity" (1892), with author`s corrections and associated correspondence.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8232
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Lloyd Osbourne, 1901, and Isobel Field, 1941.

Dates: 1892-1941.

Bibliographical notes and correspondence of Andrew Gibson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6356
Scope and Contents

Including letters concerning William Guthrie, "The Christian`s Great Interest" (Dumfries, 1785).

Dates: 1891-1897 and undated.

Bills drawn by John Ballantyne, James Ballantyne and Company, and John and Thomas Smith, and accepted by Sir Walter Scott.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.20
Scope and Contents

Correspondence concerning the donations is also included.

Dates: 1819, 1822-1825.

Biography of James Bonar, compiled by his son.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6536
Scope and Contents

Mostly comprising extracts from Bonar`s diary and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1830.

Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.8.1-26.7.37
Scope and Contents The collection consists of printed books, 1718-1850 (Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.42), and manuscripts, 1511-1857 (Adv.MSS.25.9.1-25.9.23), owned by Riddell, correspondence and papers (many incomplete) ?1799-1860, and undated, relating to peerages (Adv.MSS.26.1.1-26.1.29), to baronetcies, to landed families and to various related topics (Adv.MSS.26.2.1-26.2.23), and a large number of notebooks, circa 1805-1852, containing excerpts from the public records of Scotland, and other matter...
Dates: 1511-1860.

Business and legal papers of James Gentleman, merchant, Edinburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12184
Scope and Contents

Papers largely concern Gentleman`s Leith shipping interests; includes unrelated legal papers.

Dates: 1838-1893.

Business and personal correspondence with related financial records of W A L Marr, tea planter, India.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.5025/1-9
Scope and Contents

Most of the papers concern his work on the Malayalam, Chembra and Arrapetta tea plantations, but there is also material for the social life of the British in India at the time particularly the Arbuckle Trophy Football Tournament, the Ootacomund Club and the Wynaad Golf Club in the 1960s.

Dates: 1929-1970.

Business archive of Mainstream Publishing.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13617
Scope and Contents

The archive covers the company`s independent existence from 1978-2005 and includes some earlier related papers. In 2005 the firm entered into a business arrangement with Random House, and the later archive is now with the parent company.

Dates: Circa 1970-2005.

Business correspondence of Francis Brodie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7692
Scope and Contents

Being letters received from clients and other lawyers.

Dates: 1822-1828.

Business papers, notebooks, diaries, maps and plans of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10706/1-697
Scope and Contents These papers contain the business archive of the Stevensons from the late 18th century to the mid 20th century. They consist mainly of letterbooks, incoming correspondence, reports, memoranda, maps and plans, with a large number of printed pamphlets and reports by the Stevensons and others, concerning all the civil engineering works with which the family was involved. The main interest lies in the material relating to harbours and to lighthouse construction, and to the work of the Northern...
Dates: 1636-1963.

Business papers of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.216- is now Acc.10706.