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:
Small collections of correspondence, with some papers, chiefly of J B S Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MS.20655
Dates:
1912-1936, undated.
Subscription sheets, correspondence and a programme concerning instrumental music at the Annual Riding of Linlithgow Marches.
File
Identifier: Acc.10142
Dates:
1909.
Surviving incoming correspondence of the Colonial, Continental and Jewish Mission Committees of the Free Church of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21329-21397
Scope and Contents
Apart from one volume from Australia and New Zealand in the 1850s (MS.21329), all date from approximately 1892 to 1900 and represent the correspondence of the single secretary of the three Committees, the Reverend Dr George Milne Rae, from his taking office to immediately prior to the union of the majority of the Free Church with the United Presbyterian Church in November, 1900. They were discovered in 1968 behind the false back of a cupboard in a classroom in the Free Church College,...
Dates:
1851-1854, 1891-1900.
Taylor Collection: papers relating to Scottish affairs.
File
Identifier: MS.68
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Notarial copy of the proceedings in the case of the magistrates of Elgin v the Procurator of the Church of Scotland, 1713. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Memorial concerning the opposition offered by the Bank of England to the draught of a warrant for a charter to incorporate the proprietors of the Scots Equivalent Debentures', 1719. (Folio 12.)(iii) Correspondence, 1719, of the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, on the prosecution of the...
Dates:
1713-1790.
"The David Hume Archive".
File
Identifier: Acc.9254
Scope and Contents
Material sent in to National Library of Scotland in response to Prof D F Norton`s appeal for location of Hume material.
Dates:
circa 1986.
The Graham Brown Collection.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4338/1-247
Scope and Contents
Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.
Dates:
1877-1962.
The Scottish Library Association (SLA) and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) Archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13656/1-129
Scope and Contents
The archive contains the minutes, correspondence, committee papers, working group papers and reports produced by the Scottish Library Association (SLA) from 1912-2005, before it became the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) in 2005. Also included are photographs from various SLA conferences, video cassette tapes and CD-ROMs produced by the AV Scot Archive which is the Scottish branch of the Library Association Audio Visual Group. The...
Dates:
1912-2006.
"The Wellmer Correspondence", letters of Thomas Carlyle and family to Meta Wellmer.
File
Identifier: Acc.9207
Scope and Contents
With associated papers.
Dates:
1865-1879.
Theological writings and letters of James Tayes, written chiefly at Bo'ness.
Item
Identifier: MS.5165
Scope and Contents
Internal evidence suggests that James Tayes, if not actually a Quaker, subscribed to some Quaker doctrines; a summary of this evidence will be found on folio i.
There are copies of correspondence with John Brand, minister of Bo'ness (page 94); and with James Aird, minister of Torryburn (page 160).
Dates:
1688-1703.
Thesis, "Paths to Wholeness" by W Graham Monteith.
File
Identifier: Acc.11569
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence.
Dates:
1997.
Thomas Guthrie, "The Gospel in Ezekiel" (Edinburgh, 1856), with notes by Guthrie and correspondence between him and A. and C. Black.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.3327
Dates:
1855-1856.
Three commonplace books of Andrew Douglas, paymaster to the navy, father of George of Cavers (born 1753), consisting chiefly of philosophical reflections, poetry, notes on current affairs and medical receipts, mostly taken from printed sources.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.17.1.10-17.1.12
Dates:
1772-1785.
Three examples of miniature handwriting by James McKay, with related correspondence.
File
Identifier: Acc.12866
Scope and Contents
Includes an album of sketches and postcards from the First World War.
Dates:
circa 1914-1946.
Three letters of John Hamilton Gray to J. H. Bohte.
File
Identifier: Acc.13963
Content Description
Concerning a list of books that Hamilton Gray wishes to purchase from Bohte.
Dates:
1821-1822.
Three manuscripts relating to Field-Marshal George Wade, bound in one volume, apparently that formerly in the Junior United Service Club.
File
Identifier: MS.3076
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Poem by a Scottish author, describing the roads, bridges, etc., built by Wade in the Highlands and referring to the manners and resources of the country, 1737. It is followed by notes on allusions and meanings of words, and preceded by a preface in which the author discusses the difficulty which a Scottish writer finds in composing English poetry. It is quoted by J B Salmond, ‘Wade in Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1938), page 204. (Folio 1.)...
Dates:
1737-1744.
Three notebooks of William Findlay.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8310
Scope and Contents
Containing:
ballads collected by William Findlay
lectures, 1861-1862, of the Reverend Robert Buchanan on logic and rhetoric
correspondence, 1952-1958, of William Montgomerie.
Dates:
1861-1958.
Titles, financial records and papers of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11812/1-208
Scope and Contents
The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates:
1624-1972.
Transcript of correspondence, memorials, and other documents regarding the Irish Bible printed at the expense of the Honourable Robert Boyle, its distribution in the Scottish Highlands, and the creation there of libraries and schools, with reference to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
File
Identifier: MS.821
Scope and Contents
With an original letter from the Society for the Reformation of Manners, London, to the similarly named society in Edinburgh, 1708. The writers include the chief leaders of the movements in question.
Dates:
1678-1708.
Transcripts, circa 2007, of correspondence, 1939-1943, between Private David MacKenzie and his wife, Elizabeth, during his service as an army clerk in Northern Africa in the Second World War; with related ephemera.
File
Identifier: Acc.12870/1-29
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies of souvenir programmes and "The Torch" newsheet.
Dates:
1939-1944.
Transcripts, late 19th century, of correspondence, 1825-1828, concerning Thomas Drummond`s claim to the Earldom of Perth.
File
Identifier: Acc.5680
Dates:
1825-circa 1899.
Transcripts of correspondence and papers relating to the presentation of a Jacobite medal to the Faculty of Advocates by the Duchess of Gordon and the subsequent proceedings.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.20
Dates:
1711-1712.
Transcripts of correspondence between John Hill Burton and his first wife, Isabella Lauder.
File
Identifier: Acc.9557
Dates:
1843.