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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 53 Collections and/or Records:

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.

Letters and cards of Jonathan Williams to Ian Gardner. , 1997-1998.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13751/2
Scope and Contents

Included with the correspondence are some press cuttings and photographs.

Dates: 1997-1998.

Letters and papers of Robin Spark to his mother, Muriel Spark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11620
Scope and Contents

Includes cards and juvenile drawings, copies of Muriel Spark`s replies and letters of her mother to her.

Dates: 1943-1996.

Letters of Ian Caddy, Circa 1979-2009

 File
Identifier: MS.50713
Scope and Contents

Letters, postcards, greeting cards and ephemera of Ian Caddy to Lucinda Mackay regarding significant life events including Mackay's engagement; Ian Caddy's professional life and news of his work; his upcoming productions and travels; news of family life; shared cultural interests across music, art and literature; painting purchases; and painting commissions and exhibitions being undertaken by Mackay.

Dates: Circa 1979-2009

Letters to Ian Rankin of correspondents with surnames and corporate names beginning F-L., 1985-2008.

 File
Identifier: MS.50303
Scope and Contents The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by the surname or corporate name of the correspondents, and chronologically under each name.Farmer, Tom.Print-out of an email, 2003, of Tom Farmer to Ian Rankin relating to character names in his novels. Folio 1.Feetenby, John.Letter, 1996, of John Feetenby, Waterstone’s, Aberdeen, to Ian Rankin regarding personal matters. Folio 2.Fesperman, Dan.Letter, 1998, of Dan...
Dates: 1985-2008.

Letters to Ian Rankin of correspondents with surnames and corporate names beginning P-R., 1984-2018, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.50308
Scope and Contents The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by the surname or corporate name of the correspondents, and chronologically under each name. Pappu, Phyllis.Letter, 2000, of Phyllis Pappu to Ian Rankin regarding Rankin’s novel ‘The Hanging Garden’. Folios 1-2.Pelicula Films. See Yule, John.Penzler, Otto.Letters and fax, 1993, 1996-1997, of Otto Penzler to Ian Rankin regarding publishing of Rankin’s novels (1993) and Rankin's novella...
Dates: 1984-2018, undated.

Letters to John Murray VI, of correspondents with surnames from Dann-Doyle, 1949; 1988-1991

 File
Identifier: Acc.14349/7
Scope and Contents The letters are arranged chronologically under each correspondent, with additional enclosures itemised. Where possible, undated letters have been dated through context. Where this has not been possible, letters are filed at the end of the sequence.Dann, Patty.Card of Patty Dann to John Murray VI, [circa 1988]. Folio 1.Davies, Gwen Lucy Ffrangcon-.Letter of Gwen Lucy Ffrangcon-Davies to John...
Dates: 1949; 1988-1991

Miscellany of papers of Ronald Center and his wife, Evelyn., Mid 20th century-1988.

 File
Identifier: MS.22194
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Snapshots of Ronald Center and his wife (folio 1);

(ii) Letters and cards written to them between 1945 and 1988 (folio 3);

(iii) Press-cuttings and photocopies of press-cuttings concerning Center and his music (folio 17)

(iv) Photographs of musicians playing his works (folio 13).

Dates: Mid 20th century-1988.

Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents

The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.

Dates: Mid 20th century-1988, undated.

Papers for the Designations Taskforce of SNH., 1992.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/891
Scope and Contents

Taskforce was to provide a checklist of all statutory and non-statutory designations relevant to the work of SNH prepared to provide background information.

Dates: 1992.

Papers of David Torrance relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13670/1-17
Scope and Contents Papers relating to the activities of David Torrance surrounding the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014. As well as publishing numerous newspaper, magazine and online articles on the subject of the Referendum, Torrance has also written a number of books on the subject, including The Battle for Britain: Scotland and the Scottish Independence Referendum (2013), Scotland’s Referendum: A Guide for Voters (2014) and 100 Days of Hope...
Dates: 2012-2014

Papers of John Rennie concerning mills., 1786-1821.

 File
Identifier: MS.19807
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i)-(ix) Cornmills. (i) Albion Mill, street plans, circa 1795, circa 1814, showing the position of the mill, and the letter, 1786, in which John Rennie described to his brother George the first starting of the mill, with miscellaneous notes and calculations relating to the mill, and to corn-milling in London, 1796-1798 (folio 1); (ii) Cork, letters, 1816-1820 (folio 16); (iii) Barsloisnoch in Kilmartin, letter, 1797 (folio 49); (iv) Lingard and Sadler's Mill,...
Dates: 1786-1821.

Papers of Samuel Robin Spark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13443
Scope and Contents Family and personal papers, circa 1900-2007, of Samuel Robin Spark. Comprising mainly letters of his mother, Muriel Spark, to her son and to her mother, Sarah Camberg. The correspondence includes some letters of Penelope Jardine; also letters of Martin Stannard, Muriel Spark`s biographer. In 1981, Robin Spark began keeping copies of his outgoing letters to his mother; these are filed into the chronological sequence. With family papers, correspondence and documents gathered by Robin Spark in...
Dates: 1961-2006.

Personal papers concerning William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn and his family; with miscellaneous literary papers., After 1916-1959, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.50246
Scope and Contents The papers are arranged chronologically. Where material concerning a particular subject spans two or more years the papers are placed by the earliest date.1927-1936.Papers relating to the children of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.Commemorative offprint, 1927, of the notice in the ‘Scotsman’, 23 June 1927, of the birth of Ellinor Fairbairn. Folio 1.Manuscript and typescript notes, 1932-1936, of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn recording...
Dates: After 1916-1959, undated.

Photographs, postcards, letters and cards and other miscellaneous papers collected by Rose Ethel Bassin., 1945-1950, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14938
Scope and Contents

Includes the following: postcards and photographs (folios 1-29), a poem by Rose Ethel Bassin (folio 34), and letters and cards from Elizabeth Maclachlan, dance teacher, London, 1945-1950 (folios 38-46).

Dates: 1945-1950, undated.

Programmes, photographs, scripts, press cuttings and other papers concerning the career of Edith Macarthur in theatre., 1945-2004.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13182/1-66
Scope and Contents

The productions covered in this section should not be taken as a comprehensive listing of every play in which Miss Macarthur performed – this is far from being the case.

Dates: 1945-2004.