Letter books.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Books of blank or lined paper on which letters to be sent have been written; also manuscript copies of letters, originally on loose sheets, bound together, usually in chronological order. Not to be confused with letterpress copybooks where the copies are created through a mechanical process.
Found in 1557 Collections and/or Records:
Letter books of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm., 1836-1851.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12150/31-36
Scope and Contents
Abstract of letters of Sir Charles Malcolm., 1843-1850.
Dates:
1836-1851.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Diaries and letter books of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm and other members of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family including his sons, George and Pulteney Malcolm.
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Diaries, letter books and commonplace book of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm.
Letter-books of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm, containing copies of his correspondence, 1819-1837, most of it from the period 1827-1837 when he was Superintendent of the Bombay Marine (Indian Navy).
Series
Identifier: MSS.5899-5900
Scope and Contents
Among the topics dealt with in the official correspondence are the administration of the Navy, hydrographical surveys in Indian seas and rivers, and the use of steamships in the same region and between India and Europe.
Dates:
1819-1837.
Letter-books recording dispatches received from the Foreign Secretary by the 2nd Earl of Minto in Berlin., 1832-1834.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12027-12037
Scope and Contents
The letter-books are chiefly copies 'for information' of Palmerston's official correspondence with other British envoys in Austria, Belgium, France, the German states, the Netherlands, Russia, Turkey and some other states.
Dates:
1832-1834.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Political and diplomatic correspondence and papers of and concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers relating to the 2nd Earl of Minto's period as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia at Berlin.
Letter-books, sales-books and ledgers of and concerning Alexander Houston and Company, merchants, bankers, and shipowners in Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8793-8800
Scope and Contents
Houston's acted as an ‘entrepôt’ importing sugar, rum, cotton and tobacco from the British West Indies and distributing them to merchants throughout Britain. The return trade consisted of provisions, largely herrings and plantation stores, drawn in from various parts of Britain and occasionally from Western Europe. The papers, especially the letter-books and sales-books, offer a detailed picture of the organisation and price structure of the trade.
Dates:
1729-1798.
Letter-books, stock-books, publication day-books and cash-books of Messrs W and R Chambers, publishers.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.341
Dates:
Circa 1900-1950.
Letter-books, titled 'Squadron letters sent', with indexes, from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane’s service at the East India Station., 1842-1847.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2466-2471
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:
1842-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Various logbooks, order-books, returns, and other material concerning the naval careers of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Sir Thomas John Cochrane.
Letter-books, warrant book and correspondence of the Commanders-in-Chief in Scotland., 1747-1753.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.304-309
Scope and Contents
Copies of letters addressed mainly to regimental officers in Scotland, to the Secretaries of State, and to the Lord Justice Clerk and other officials in Scotland. They are concerned with the administration of the Highlands after the ’Forty-five, and the subjects dealt with include movements of troops, desertions, courts- martial, enforcement of the Disarming Act and of the laws against Non-Jurors and the wearing of the Highland Dress, suppression of thieves, reported movements and capture of...
Dates:
1747-1753.
Letter copy book of George Combe, used while in America., 1838-1839.
Item
Identifier: MS.7396
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
MSS.7201-7375 is a large group of original letters sent to George Combe. They show the trends which Combe's career took. The first few years are occupied with chiefly family and legal matters, including frequent correspondence from his brother, Dr Andrew Combe, who was also a fervent worker in the cause of phrenology. From 1820, the letters are from figures prominent in the struggle either to reject or to accept its truth. After 1845, writers include men outstanding in the field of...
Dates:
1838-1839.
Letter copy book of George Combe, used while in America., 1839-1840.
Item
Identifier: MS.7397
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
MSS.7201-7375 is a large group of original letters sent to George Combe. They show the trends which Combe's career took. The first few years are occupied with chiefly family and legal matters, including frequent correspondence from his brother, Dr Andrew Combe, who was also a fervent worker in the cause of phrenology. From 1820, the letters are from figures prominent in the struggle either to reject or to accept its truth. After 1845, writers include men outstanding in the field of...
Dates:
1839-1840.
Letter copy book of George Combe, used while in England and Germany., 1824-1837.
Item
Identifier: MS.7394
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
MSS.7201-7375 is a large group of original letters sent to George Combe. They show the trends which Combe's career took. The first few years are occupied with chiefly family and legal matters, including frequent correspondence from his brother, Dr Andrew Combe, who was also a fervent worker in the cause of phrenology. From 1820, the letters are from figures prominent in the struggle either to reject or to accept its truth. After 1845, writers include men outstanding in the field of...
Dates:
1824-1837.
Letter copy book of George Combe, used while in Germany and America., 1837-1838.
Item
Identifier: MS.7395
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
MSS.7201-7375 is a large group of original letters sent to George Combe. They show the trends which Combe's career took. The first few years are occupied with chiefly family and legal matters, including frequent correspondence from his brother, Dr Andrew Combe, who was also a fervent worker in the cause of phrenology. From 1820, the letters are from figures prominent in the struggle either to reject or to accept its truth. After 1845, writers include men outstanding in the field of...
Dates:
1837-1838.
Letter copy book of George Combe, used while in Germany and Edinburgh., 1841-1844.
Item
Identifier: MS.7398
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
MSS.7201-7375 is a large group of original letters sent to George Combe. They show the trends which Combe's career took. The first few years are occupied with chiefly family and legal matters, including frequent correspondence from his brother, Dr Andrew Combe, who was also a fervent worker in the cause of phrenology. From 1820, the letters are from figures prominent in the struggle either to reject or to accept its truth. After 1845, writers include men outstanding in the field of...
Dates:
1841-1844.
Letter copy books of George Combe., 1824-1844.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7394-7398
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
MSS.7201-7375 is a large group of original letters sent to George Combe. They show the trends which Combe's career took. The first few years are occupied with chiefly family and legal matters, including frequent correspondence from his brother, Dr Andrew Combe, who was also a fervent worker in the cause of phrenology. From 1820, the letters are from figures prominent in the struggle either to reject or to accept its truth. After 1845, writers include men outstanding in the field of...
Dates:
1824-1844.
Letterbook of Dugald Bremner's Trust compiled by Dr Bruce Allan Bremner as Trustee to his dead brother., 1863-1880.
Item
Identifier: MS.19232
Scope and Contents
A copy of the text of Dugald Bremner's marriage settlement with Miss Maria Louisa Redd of the Breach, Bombay, appears on folios 7-10 and accounts of the Trust on folios 22-29. Much of the correspondence is with legal and financial advisors, but there are some letters to and from Maria Louisa Bremner and her son Bruce G L Bremner in Ceylon.
Dates:
1863-1880.
Letterbook of General Alexander Hay, kept by his aide-de-camp, Captain Alexander Tayler, during Hay`s command at Aberdeen.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.30
Scope and Contents
The correspondence concerns orders and equipment, and reviews by Hay of the regular troops, fencibles and militia.
Dates:
1797-1801.
Letterbooks and other outgoing letters and correspondence., 1888-1964.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7548/A/1-186
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
The archive of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, 1929-64, together with much 19th and earlier 20th century material, and some items relating to Jewish and Continental Missions.
Dates:
1888-1964.
Letters and letter books of John W and Frederick L M Moir, of the African Lakes Company.
File
Identifier: Acc.9371
Dates:
1879-1940.
Letters and letter-books of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale., 1660-1696, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7024-7030
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
MSS.7003-7022, Letters to the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale, with a few letters concerning them, 1661-1713, forms a separate sequence but because of the way some of the manuscripts have been bound this distinction could not be represented exactly in the hierarchy of the descriptions.Of the letters written before 1697 (the year of his death), by far the greater number are addressed to the 1st Marquess; but occasionally it is not certain whether the addressee is the 1st...
Dates:
1660-1696, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale.
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Letters and papers concerning the 1st Earl of Tweeddale; and correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale.
Letters-book of the 2nd Baron Dunfermline as British Minister at Turin, containing copies of his dispatches to the Foreign Secretary., 1848.
Item
Identifier: MS.13174
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This section contains correspondence of Mary Elizabeth, Baroness Dunfermline (died 1874), eldest daughter of the 2nd Earl of Minto and wife of Ralph Abercromby, 2nd Baron Dunfermline, of her only child, the Honourable Mary Catherine Elizabeth ('Mimi') Trotter of Colinton (died 1908), wife of Lieutenant-Colonel John Moubray Trotter, and of other members of the Abercromby family. Most of it is family and personal; but there is some material concerning the later part of the public career of...
Dates:
1848.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence of the Abercromby family.
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Correspondence of the 2nd Baron Dunfermline and of his parents, the 1st Baron Dunfermline and Marianne, Baroness Dunfermline.
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Letters-books of the 2nd Baron Dunfermline as British Minister at Turin, containing copies of his dispatches to the Foreign Secretary.
Letters-book of the 2nd Baron Dunfermline as British Minister at Turin, containing copies of his dispatches to the Foreign Secretary., 1850-1852.
Item
Identifier: MS.13175
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This section contains correspondence of Mary Elizabeth, Baroness Dunfermline (died 1874), eldest daughter of the 2nd Earl of Minto and wife of Ralph Abercromby, 2nd Baron Dunfermline, of her only child, the Honourable Mary Catherine Elizabeth ('Mimi') Trotter of Colinton (died 1908), wife of Lieutenant-Colonel John Moubray Trotter, and of other members of the Abercromby family. Most of it is family and personal; but there is some material concerning the later part of the public career of...
Dates:
1850-1852.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence of the Abercromby family.
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Correspondence of the 2nd Baron Dunfermline and of his parents, the 1st Baron Dunfermline and Marianne, Baroness Dunfermline.
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Letters-books of the 2nd Baron Dunfermline as British Minister at Turin, containing copies of his dispatches to the Foreign Secretary.
Letters-books of the 2nd Baron Dunfermline as British Minister at Turin, containing copies of his dispatches to the Foreign Secretary., 1848-1852.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13174-13175
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This section contains correspondence of Mary Elizabeth, Baroness Dunfermline (died 1874), eldest daughter of the 2nd Earl of Minto and wife of Ralph Abercromby, 2nd Baron Dunfermline, of her only child, the Honourable Mary Catherine Elizabeth ('Mimi') Trotter of Colinton (died 1908), wife of Lieutenant-Colonel John Moubray Trotter, and of other members of the Abercromby family. Most of it is family and personal; but there is some material concerning the later part of the public career of...
Dates:
1848-1852.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence of the Abercromby family.
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Correspondence of the 2nd Baron Dunfermline and of his parents, the 1st Baron Dunfermline and Marianne, Baroness Dunfermline.
Letters of Robert Pearse Gillies to Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, and others.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11453
Scope and Contents
Letters concern literary, antiquarian and social matters.
Includes a file on the provenance of these letter books and their significance.
Dates:
1811-1827.
Letters of William Sanderson and Anna Berger bound in ten volumes (with volume seven in the series missing).
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12947
Scope and Contents
With a file of their loose letters and cards.
Dates:
1889-1930.
Manuscript containing minutes, 1804-1807, of the tutors of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy (succeeded 1804) and letter book, 1816-January 1817, of a lawyer named Maclean, probably Donald Maclean of Drimnin, Writer to the Signet, and father-in-law of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy).
File
Identifier: MS.20758
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Minutes, 1804-1807, of the tutors (guardians, curators) of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy (succeeded 1804). As well as the record of their discussions on estate business, the minutes include copies of letters, a report, 1806, by Robert Reid, surveyor, Perth (folio 13 verso), and statement of accounts, 1806 (folio 21 verso).
(ii) Letter-book, May, 1816-January, 1817, of a lawyer named Maclean, probably Donald Maclean of Drimnin, Writer to the Signet...
Dates:
1804-1817.