Business letters.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Formal and usually succinct letters issued from a business or individual requesting or delivering information, applying for a job, or addressing any other topic excluding personal communication.
Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:
Letter-books and correspondence of the Secretary of the Bible Board for Scotland., 1839-1975.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11182/15-23
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
In the early 19th century there was much public complaint about the cost and quality of Bibles produced on both sides of the Border where the respective King's printers enjoyed monopoly rights to the printing of acts of Parliament, proclamations, the Authorised Version of the Bible, the metrical psalms, catechism, etc (in England the universities of Oxford and Cambridge also had the Bible printing privilige). When the existing Scottish patent expired in 1839, new letters patent were issued...
Dates:
1839-1975.
Letter books, being copies of the outgoing correspondence of the firm of John Richardson and Company., 1763-1817.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20801-20848
Scope and Contents
This extensive and remarkably complete series covers the whole range of the business activities of the firm with some mention of the family's private affairs and of the Pitfour estate. There are letters to tack holders, to individual fisherman, coopers, shipmasters, merchants and financiers, bakers and painters, providing a very detailed picture of the day to day running of the business.Although in the main these are general letter books, MS.20808 concerns the purchase of wheat...
Dates:
1763-1817.
Letter of James Keir Hardie on ‘Labour leader’ business, to David Lowe, later a biographer of Hardie., 1899.
Item
Identifier: MS.20670, folios 82-84
Letters to Francis Richards, Manufacturer, Gardiner, Maine, son of John Richards (died 1835), on family and business affairs., 1819-1858.
File
Identifier: MS.20352
Scope and Contents
Francis Richards began his career as an agent for the Baring interest in Calais, Maine. In 1832 he married Anne Hallowell Gardiner, daughter of Robert Hallowell Gardiner, the American Agriculturalist, and later he established a paper manufacturing business in Gardiner.
Dates:
1819-1858.
Microfilm of eight ledgers of Alasdair Gray, containing work notes for stories, poems, plays, and his last novel, with draft of letters and many diary entries.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2061-2062
Dates:
1945-2008.
Microfilm of four ledgers of Alasdair Gray., 1973-2008.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2061
Papers, chiefly correspondence, of Hugh Seton of Touch., 1775-1788.
File
Identifier: MS.19204
Scope and Contents
The papers chiefly consist of correspondence relating to the period after the death of Hugh Seton's wife, Elizabeth Seton, 12th of Touch, when Hugh removed to London and incurred debts which were to lead to his bankruptcy and the subsequent sequestration of his estates in 1788. Also included are letters concerning his visit to Turin of 1775 (folios 1-10), and his wine trade in Boulogne under the name of Charles and Hugh Smith (folios 27-28, 71-74).
Dates:
1775-1788.
Papers of and concerning the firm of William Wilson and Son., 1770-1886, undated.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.9662-9678
Scope and Contents
The papers, consisting of correspondence, account-books, and legal papers, form an addendum to the main Wilson collection (MSS.6660-7000).
Dates:
1770-1886, undated.
Surviving office books of the fishing, fish curing, and shipping enterprise of the Richardson family of Pitfour; with two ledgers of Pitfour estate and some Richardson family papers.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20801-20987
Scope and Contents
The firm of John Richardson and Company, of Perth, was already well established by 1760 with a wide business, chiefly in salmon, both locally and throughout Europe. The books consist of letter books and various account books, and show the whole process from the acquisition of the fish to its sale either raw at home or pickled as far afield as Italy and Spain. The salmon business was precarious, and to offset losses Richardson frequently entered into partnership with local merchants, notably...
Dates:
1760-1820.
Various business correspondence., 1967-1980.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11628/69b-72
Dates:
1967-1980.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
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Professional and business correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, containing some material on overseas travel.
Volume containing the catalogue of an auction sale of Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 13-15 January 1913, and papers concerning the lots won by Morrison., 1913.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14317/16
Scope and Contents
Morrison bought a continuous run of 101 historical books at this sale, marked as "the property of a gentleman". The volume bears Morrison's bookplate on the front paste-down.
Dates:
1913.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison, Gaelic scholar, including extracts from the diary of Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness.
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Papers concerning Hew Morrison's formal qualifications, his post as librarian and his own library.