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Greeting cards. Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Cards often imprinted with messages and suitable illustrations, sent or given on special occasions or holidays.

Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

15 letters and cards of Annie French to Elinor Black.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8792
Scope and Contents

With an account by Dr Black of their meeting.

Dates: 1938-1952.

20 letters and cards, 1990-1996, of Ronald Stevenson to Michael Lister, on musical and personal matters.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11318
Scope and Contents

Includes:

copies of 23 letters, 1990-1996, of Lister to Stevenson

copy of letter, 1994, of Lister to Alasdair Gray

correspondence, 1989-1996, of Lister, concerning Ronald Stevenson.

Dates: 1989-1996.

46 letters and cards of John Bellany to Alan Bold.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11078
Scope and Contents

Concern artistic and personal matters.

Also includes six letters to Bold concerning Bellany.

Dates: 1979-1994 and undated.

50 letters and cards of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9758
Scope and Contents A collection of 50 letters and cards, 1900-1937, of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, to various persons as listed below.Rev P M Aldous, 26 January 1933.Sir J L Baird, Bart, 30 November 1922.Vernon Bartlett, 10 March 1936.Frederick Bason, 10 June 1929.J S Billingham, 16 May 1922; 20 July 1925; 30 April 1926.Miss ?Bourdillon, 13 October 1923.A Poyntz Bower, 6 February 1935.Curtis Brown, 7 March...
Dates: 1900-1937.

Card and letter of Constance Gordon-Cumming.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11040
Scope and Contents

Concerns Cumming`s support for Christian missions in China.

Dates: 1897-1901.

Circa 40 letters and cards of and concerning Private A Raeper.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7660
Scope and Contents

Including letters and cards to his mother whilst at camp at Plymouth, 1913-1914, and as a prisoner of war in Germany, 1914-1915. With five letters concerning his death in 1915.

Dates: 1913-1915.

Circa 500 letters of Florence M Russell to Norman McLaren.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10639
Scope and Contents

With cards, drawings and photographs.

Dates: 1951-1976 and undated.

Eighty-four letters and cards of Edwin Morgan to Richard Price; with manuscript of unpublished poem, "The Ropemaker`s Bride".

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13384
Scope and Contents The collection records the affectionate last years of a stimulating literary relationship between Edwin Morgan and the younger, ‘Informationist’ poet, Richard Price. They first met in the 1980s when Price, then a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University, went to visit Morgan. Both technophiles and both love poets, they struck up a lasting friendship, corresponding from then until the mid 2000s. This collection marks the last period of their correspondence, covering 2003-2006 (for earlier...
Dates: 2003-2006.

Fifteen drawings, 1941-1942, by Jacques Laudy, probably intended as illustrations for an unpublished edition of `Kidnapped`; with 23 original Christmas cards, c.1959-1992.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13291
Scope and Contents Drawings, 1941-1942, and original Christmas cards, c.1959-1992, by Jacques Laudy (1907-1993).The Belgian comic artist Jacques Laudy was one of the artists who worked on the early Tintin series with Hergé and others. Laudy was never as well-known as his Tintin contemporaries Hergé and Jacobs, but he worked as a painter and illustrator throughout a long and productive life.The National Library of Scotland acquired these drawings at auction because they were evidently...
Dates: 1941-1992

Golden Wedding Anniversary correspondence sent to Walter and Grete Simon, 1964

 File
Identifier: Acc.13772/30
Scope and Contents

File contains illustrated letters, cards, and telegrams. Identified correspondents include 'Susan'; possibly Annemarie Alfred; 'Willie'; Edith Simon and Eric Reeve; 'Alan'; possibly Lily Arthur; possibly Emil Marie; possibly Tina and Christopher Lucas; 'Len'; 'Hans and Ilse; 'Delno'; possibly 'Edel'; 'W.E. and I.V. Reeve'; 'Bella Kaufman'; 'Gwen and Cecil'; 'Gerda'; 'Gerd'; and 'Elizabeth'. File also contains a script for a video presentation by family members for the occasion.

Dates: 1964

Greetings card and letter of Mrs Fanny MacTaggart to Miss Margaret Morton.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14201
Scope and Contents

The greetings card has a print of 'Setting Sun' by Sir William MacTaggart, Fanny's husband. With two portrait photographs of Miss Margaret Morton.

Margaret Morton trained at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, qualifying as a physiotherapist in 1965. She worked at Gilmore Place, the Domiciliary Centre for Rehabilitation, where she met and treated Fanny MacTaggart. Her interests included animals, travel, and horse-riding.

Dates: 1980.

Letters and cards of Janet Adam Smith to David Alan Robertson on family and mountaineering matters,containing nine photographs in four sleeves., 1981-1998.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/124
Scope and Contents

Photographs contained are:

2 black and white photographs in letter dated 12 April 1985, inscribed Hermitage Castle, 1938;

2 colour photographs of exterior of a house and press cutting in letter dated 19 February 1986;

1 colour photograph of Didyma dated 6 May 1987;

4 black and white photographs of climbing in the Alps in letter dated 5 September 1995.

Dates: 1981-1998.