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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 7222 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence, 1968-1972, of Charles King with the University of London Press.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11686
Scope and Contents

Concerns King`s edition of "Twelve Modern Scottish Poets" (1971).

Includes letter of Iain Crichton Smith to Charles King, 1994.

Dates: 1968-1972, 1994.

Correspondence about the family of Christie, chiefly between the Reverend Dr Charles Rogers and Captain J E Christie, Governor of the Calton Jail,, 1876-1878, 1900.

 File
Identifier: MS.167
Scope and Contents

Also included are pedigrees of the Christie family and newspaper-cuttings relating to Captain Christie, to whom the correspondence belonged.

Dates: 1876-1878, 1900.

Correspondence, accounts and legal papers of the Grahams of Airth concerning Jamaica and the estate of Ardoch Penn., 1775-1834, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.10924-10925
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1775-1834, undated.

Correspondence, accounts and miscellaneous papers of Alexander Turnbull Christie., 1825-1838, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.9497
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Letters, 1827-1832, to Alexander Turnbull Christie, with a few copies of his own letters (folio 1);

(ii) Financial papers, 1825-1831, undated (folio 59);

(iii) Design for a house, circa 1830 (folio 69);

(iv) 'De membranae mucosae pathologia', circa 1828 (folio 71);

(v) Miscellaneous scientific papers, 1831, 1838, undated, of Christie and John Turnbull of Abbey St Bathans (folio 99).

Dates: 1825-1838, undated.

Correspondence, accounts and other papers chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn., 1698-1853, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.2890
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Correspondence, 1823-1853, undated, of William Scott, the sixth laird. Many of the letters are written by or relate to Sir Walter Scott, and they include several of John Gibson Lockhart. (Folio i.) (ii) Accounts, 1698-1747. (Folio 202.)(iii) Miscellaneous material, apparently collected by the sixth laird, including a song, '"Eh", quo the tod, "It's a braw light night"', being a version of 'The fox jumped up on a moonlight...
Dates: 1698-1853, undated.

Correspondence, accounts and petitions of and concerning Hugh Elliot., 1803-1806.

 File
Identifier: MS.13052
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence and accounts of Hugh Elliot with Vallin, Routh and Company, bankers in Naples, 1804-1806, concerning British subsidies to the Neapolitan government (folio 1); (ii) Petitions addressed to Elliot, 1803-1804, chiefly from French and Corsican emigrés (folio 115).

Dates: 1803-1806.

Correspondence, accounts, rentals, and other papers relating to the Murdostoun estate, Lanarkshire., 1831-1854.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2304-2308
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates: 1831-1854.

Correspondence, almost entirely of the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville.

 File
Identifier: MS.3841
Scope and Contents The principal correspondent is Admiral Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane. His letters, and others accompanying them, deal with smuggling (folios 1-11), the disposition of military and naval forces while Cochrane was blockading Ferrol in 1804-1805 (folios 18-25), matters relating to Cochrane's commands, 1806, 1810, 1814, in the West Indies and on the North American station (folios 26-41, 46-55), and the court-martial, 1823, of a Captain George Harris, in which Cochrane was involved...
Dates: 1792-1824.

Correspondence and academic and literary papers of Prof A N Jeffares.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10594
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with publishers, lectures, articles and drafts of books, especially on Yeats.

Dates: 1950-1992.

Correspondence and accounts of and concerning the Earl of Gifford., 1839-1857.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14455-14456
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Unless specified otherwise, letters are addressed to, and correspondence is of, George, Marquess of Tweeddale (1787-1876), or his wife Susan, Marchioness of Tweeddale (1797-1870).

Dates: 1839-1857.