Letters. Correspondence.
Found in 14698 Collections and/or Records:
3 letters to George Chalmers (from Joseph Ritson, Alexander Luders, and Christoph Friedrich Freudenreich) concerning the Bern manuscript of English and Scots laws, together with a calendar of the burgh laws and leges Scotie contained in it and a transcript of the memorandum on folio 61 verso.
4 letters of David Livingstone, missionary, 2 of which are copies.
5 letters concerning a fire at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh.
8th Marquess of Tweeddale papers., 1808-1875.
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
11 letters, 1967-1983, to and copies of two letters, 1970-1971, of W R Aitken
With inscribed copies of Robert Bain, "James the First of Scotland" (1921), and William Montgomerie, "A Selection of Three Poems" (1965), each with letters, 1921 and 1965, from the authors.
11 letters and notes of David, 11th Earl of Buchan, to Julius Griffiths.
11 letters of George Douglas Brown to Tom Smith.
Mostly on personal matters and mentioning his own academic and literary work.
Including:
letter, 1901, of Brown to John Smith, concerning "The House with the Green Shutters"
manuscript copy, 1902, of Brown`s will.
11 letters of George Mackay Brown.
With typescripts of his "Lifeboat and Other Poems".
11 letters of John Buchan to Donald and Catherine Carswell.
Mainly concerning their literary work.
11 letters of Richard Hotchkiss to John Strother Ker of the Scots Greys.
Concern Ker`s personal, legal and estate affairs and also local politics.
11 letters of Robert Graves to C K Scott Moncrieff.
Discussing his own literary works, commenting on Scott Moncrieff`s work, and sending news of his military career and duties.
11 letters (one incomplete) of James Loch to Admiral George Keith Elphinstone, Viscount Keith, his daughter Margaret Mercer, Viscountess Keith, and her husband the Comte de Flahault.
Letters concern Keith financial and estate business.
11th Marquess of Tweeddale papers., 1905-1959.
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
12 Charters, 1648-1847, of Stonecroft, Queensferry.
With photocopies of letters, accounts and papers, 1666-1768, of John Weir, Auchengillan.
12 letters, 1892-1897, of Beatrix Potter to Charles McIntosh.
With three letters, 1887, of Rupert Potter.
12 letters of Basil Hall.
Mostly on artistic, literary and social matters.
12 letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Robert Nye.
On literary matters.
12 letters of James VI and I to Patrick Galloway, Moderator of the General Assembly.
12 letters of Joseph Hume.
Letters concern political matters and reform.
12 letters of Lieutenant John Macleod, written while serving in America.
12 letters of Lord Randolph Churchill to Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
With notes, 1887 and 1892-1893, by Rosebery of conversations with Randolph Churchill.