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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:

Correspondence and letter books of Duncan MacKinnon.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6168/1-15
Scope and Contents In connection mainly with the British India Steam Navigation Company.This collection consists of the incoming correspondence and letter books of Duncan Mackinnon, a partner in MacKinnon, Mackenzie, and Co, of Calcutta, the firm from which the British India Steam Navigation Compnay developed. This correspondence covers the years 1873, when MacKinnon returned to India after his marriage, to 1881, and the letter books cover a somewhat longer period from 1871 to 1887. This was the...
Dates: 1873-1887.

Correspondence and literary papers, including articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts, of Janet Adam Smith.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12342/1-203
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Dates: 1930-2005.

Correspondence and literary papers of and concerning George Borrow collected by Sir Angus Fraser, with working papers of Sir Angus Fraser relating to George Borrow.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12091/1-74
Scope and Contents

Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).

Dates: 1794-2001, undated.

Correspondence and manuscripts of Agnes Ethel Mackay (died 1980).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26891-26894
Scope and Contents

Agnes Mackay was born and educated in Scotland, but spent much of her life in France. During the German Occupation, she lived in St Tropez with her cousin, Marion Melville, and they moved to Paris after the war. Her publications included poetry, biographies of Paul Valery and Arthur Melville, and critical works on art and literature.

Dates: 1917-1976, undated.

Correspondence and manuscripts of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, and of his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.6362-6401
Scope and Contents

There is also some correspondence of the Seaforth family, Henry's son, Joshua Henry, having married Helen, daughter of Lord Seaforth.

Dates: 1755-1887.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the family of MacLeod of Geanies.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19295-19308
Scope and Contents The correspondence and papers chiefly relate to Donald, 3rd of Geanies and his issue, including a series of letters from members of the family in America in the 1770s and on military and naval service during the Napoleonic wars. The MacLeods of Geanies are descended from the MacLeods of Assynt, a cadet branch of the MacLeods of Lewis. Assynt was lost to the family in the time of Neil, the 9th Baron, and the title but not the estate passed to his brother, John, the family fortunes being...
Dates: 1654-1874.

Correspondence and notes of William Stewart, of the Glasgow Herald.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10021
Scope and Contents

Concerning the printer James Watson.

Dates: 1900-1908 and undated.

Correspondence and other manuscripts of the novelist James Grant.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8876-8885
Scope and Contents

Besides being a most prolific writer of fiction (he produced some fifty-six novels), James Grant wrote on the history, particularly military history, of Scotland. He was a keen supporter of the Volunteer Movement in Edinburgh, and founded, in 1852, the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights.

Dates: 19th century.

Correspondence and other papers chiefly of George Gleig, Bishop of Brechin, and George Robert Gleig, author of ‘The Subaltern’.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3869-3872
Scope and Contents

Also included is some correspondence of Sir Henry George Ward, a connection of Henry J S Bailey's family, and of Bailey himself.

Dates: 1787-1927, undated.

Correspondence and other papers chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1154
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Correspondence, 1660-1822, of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2889);

Correspondence, accounts and other papers, [?1698-?1853], chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2890).

Dates: [1660-1853.]

Correspondence and other papers, including photographs, newspaper cuttings and a pamphlet, concerning Sailors' Walk House, Kirkcaldy, a sixteenth-century building.

 Series
Identifier: MS.20761 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Scope and Contents

The papers were kept by the donor, Miss Gwendollyn Lendrum, secretary of the committee which prevented the house’s demolition, raised funds for its restoration, and ultimately transferred it to the National Trust for Scotland.

Dates: 1933-1953.