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:
Poem of, and letters to, Thomas Campbell.
File
Identifier: Acc.13732
Scope and Contents
Draft of Campbell`s `To the Rainbow`.
Letters to Campbell from Joanna Baillie, Francis Jeffrey, and Thomas Telford.
Dates:
1806-1819.
Poems and articles of Eurys I Rowlands.
File
Identifier: Acc.9383
Scope and Contents
With correspondence.
Dates:
1986-1987.
Poems and letters of the author and journalist William Henry ('Will H') Ogilvie (1869-1963); with photocopies of letters of his wife, Katherine, and other related papers. Included incorrectly is the typescript of "My mither's aunt and other verses" by William Ogilvie (1891-1939), Edinburgh architect.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26027-26029
Dates:
1909-1963.
Poetry notebook, literary correspondence and papers of Tom Scott.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11751
Dates:
1965-1995.
Political, academic and personal papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, political academic and MP for Berwick and East Lothian.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13476/1-319
Scope and Contents
John Pitcairn Mackintosh (1929-1978) was a political scientist, professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and a Labour MP for Berwick and East Lothian (1966-1974, 1974-1978). He was pro-Europeist and pro-devolutionist and campaigned in favour of a yes vote during the 1979 Referendum on a Scottish Aseembly.The material consists of the personal and academic papers detailing Mackintosh’s political and academic career. The papers document his many academic ventures including his...
Dates:
1927-1978, undated.
Political and personal correspondence and papers of Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, including some papers of John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11884/1-359
Scope and Contents
These papers provide a very full and extensive record of the political and public career of Lady Tweedsmuir, particularly of Scottish politics from 1945 to 1974, and of foreign policy in the early 1970s in her areas of responsibility as Minister of State, for example, the 'Cod War' dispute with Iceland. Business papers include some relating to her directorship of the transatlantic Cunard Line, and the construction and launching of RMS ‘Queen Elizabeth 2’. Some papers of Lord Tweedsmuir,...
Dates:
Circa 1911-circa 1998.
Political correspondence and papers and some personal accounts of Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19579-19581
Dates:
1805-1816.
Political correspondence and papers of Archibald Philip Primrose (1847-1929), 5th Earl of Rosebery, statesman and author.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10001-10216
Scope and Contents
Rosebery, styled Lord Dalmeny from the death of his father in 1851 until he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1868, held various public offices including those of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1881-1883, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, February to July 1886, and again in 1892-1894, and was Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury from 5 March 1894 to 25 June 1895, remaining leader of the Liberal party till 1898.The papers consist chiefly...
Dates:
1860-1927, undated.
Political correspondence and papers of Dr Gordon Wilson, former leader of the Scottish National Party and MP for Dundee East.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13099/1-109
Scope and Contents
Dr Gordon Wilson, Scottish Nationalist politician and lawyer, was born in 1938. He was co-founder of Radio Free Scotland and Secretary of the Scottish National Party during the 1960s. Dr Wilson was a Member of Parliament for the Dundee East constituency (1974-1987). He was senior Vice-Chairman of the SNP (1973-1974) and parliamentary energy spokesman. He was Vice-Chairman for Oil (1972-1973), Director of the ‘It’s Scotland’s Oil’ Campaign (1972-1976), Senior Vice-Chairman of the SNP...
Dates:
1944-2000.
Political correspondence between Jo Grimond and Alan Peacock.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12820
Dates:
circa 1960-1993.
Political correspondence concerning Donald Stewart and Arthur Donaldson.
File
Identifier: Acc.12769
Scope and Contents
This small collection consists of three letters and show the early days of Donald James Stewart as a politician.1. Letter from Janet King, organising secretary of the Scottish National Party, to Donald Stewart acknowledging receipt of his letter and offering help and assistance, 1938. 1 folio.2. Letter from Arthur Donaldson, treasurer of the Scottish National Party, to Donald Stewart providing advice on setting up a branch of the Scottish National Party in Stornoway...
Dates:
1938, 1945, 1952.
Political correspondence of John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, successively Secretary of State for the Colonies, for India, and for Foreign Affairs, with the 5th Earl of Rosebery and others.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10242-10249
Dates:
1881-1901, undated.
Political correspondence of Lord James Douglas Hamilton, mainly as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West, 1974-1997, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians, 1999-2007.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.252
Dates:
1972-2010.
Political papers and newscuttings of Tam Dalyell concerning Scottish devolution.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12918
Dates:
1965-1989.
Political papers of Sam Ghibaldan.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13669
Scope and Contents
Papers of Sam Ghibaldan chiefly relating to the Liberal Democrats in Westminster (1995-1997), including the Cook-Maclennan talks which led to the Blair government’s constitutional reform agenda; ‘Make Votes Count’, which was the pro-AV+ campaign in the electoral reform referendum that Blair’s government ultimately failed to hold; and the two Scottish coalitions (1999-2007).
Dates:
1996-2007
Political papers of William Hannan.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13391
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises photographs and correspondence, c.1945-1974, concerning Hannan’s political career and his time in Clement Attlee’s cabinet, with several letters of two British Prime Ministers: Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson. Furthermore, it includes Hannan’s ministerial despatch box and an illustrated edition of ‘The Dolly Ballads’ by Robert Blatchford, inscribed by Herbert Morrison, MP, to Helen Hannan, William’s daughter.
Dates:
c.1945-1974.
Press cuttings, pamphlets and correspondence of Robert Duncan MacLeod.
File
Identifier: Acc.11874
Dates:
1932-1933.
Printed edition of the metrical Psalms (Edinburgh, 1615), (Aldis 480.5), with contemporary manuscript additions of musical parts for the Psalms, probably by Edward Millar.
File
Identifier: Acc.12805
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and papers on the item, 1913-1962.
Dates:
1615.
Printed menu of the dinner given for James Maclehose, as editor of the 'Scottish Historical Review', with associated correspondence inserted at the back.
File
Identifier: MS.9592
Scope and Contents
The letters are to James Maclehose and George Neilson from various people, including Peter Hume Brown, the historian, and Sir Herbert Maxwell. There is also a page of verse by W P Ker, written for the occasion (folio 5).
Dates:
1909.
Professional and personal correspondence and papers of Sir Alastair MacTavish Dunnett, newspaper editor and businessman.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9179/1-244
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence and papers concerning personal and business matters, including papers of several Thomson Organisation companies, and of many Scottish public bodies including the Edinburgh Festival Society, the Scottish Tourist Board and the Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Dates:
Circa 1955-1985.
Proof copy of Andrew L Drummond, "German Protestantism Since Luther" (1951), and annotated copy of "The Story of American Protestantism" (1st [British] edition, 1949) by the same author.
File
Identifier: Acc.10076
Scope and Contents
With associated letters and papers.
Dates:
1949-1963.