Letters. Correspondence.
Found in 14696 Collections and/or Records:
Walter Blaikie collection: letters containing Jacobite discourse.
Waltz, 1830, composed by John Thomson.
With a letter, 1834, of John Thomson, Minister of Duddingston.
War letters from family and friends of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1940-1944, also containing miscellaneous letters and papers of Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, 1980-1988., 1940-1944, 1980-1988.
Wardlaw manuscript: 'Polichronicon, seu Policratica Temporum. Many histories in one, or nearer, the true genealogy of the Frasers', by James Fraser of Phopachy, Minister of Wardlaw (Kirkhill), begun in 1666 and continued at least until 1699.
A letter, 1870, of Francis Harvey, the London bookseller, to Sir William Fraser, Baronet, offering the manuscript for sale, has been pasted in at the end.
Warrant, 1641, to Sir David Cunningham (possibly 1st Baronet, of Auchinhervie), signed by the 1st Duke of Hamilton and others.
With:
two letters, 1653, of Robert Lilburne
four letters, 1659, of General George Monck.
Will and testament with attached letters of administration of Jessie Anna Letitia Chalmers, wife of Patrick Chalmers, M.P., antiquary, deceased., 1840.
As well as charters relating to the Chalmers family itself, there are other items which are apparently unrelated but which came with the bulk of the papers. Only one document (Ch.12806) is of 15th century date, and only one (Ch.12776) is of the 16th century. The rest of the collection dates largely from the 17th and 18th centuries. A detailed list is available.
William Gallacher Memorial Library Archive Special Collections., 1920s-2017.
‘Wizard Peter’ by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (Edinburgh, 1834), with notes and corrections by the author, and a presentation inscription to James Gibson Craig on the half title-page.
There are several manuscript insertions, including Charles Sharpe's draft of five verses, written on the back of a letter, 1832, from the printseller Hugh Paton (folio 2), and explanatory notes and variant readings by James Gibson Craig (folio 3).
Women, education and literature: the papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1767-1849, part 3, reels 1-4 (Adam Matthew, 2001).
Wooden box containing letters of Lotte Glob to Peter Haining., [2008, or after].
Also included is a copy of 'Floating stones' (Aberfeldy : Watermill Books, 2008), by Lotte Glob.
Work by other authors collected by Hector MacIver., 1921-1954, undated.
Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.
Work entitled `Buchanan Revis`d [:] Annotations or Animadversions on Buchanan`s Historie and his Dialogue, etc.` consisting of criticisms of George Buchanan’s ‘Return Scoticarum historia’ (folio 7) and his ‘De Jure Regni apud Scotos’ (folio 64) by Sir James Turner, preceded by various items of introductory and explanatory matter.
Working autograph of ‘Rob Roy’ by Sir Walter Scott, with some associated papers., 1817.
Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.
The material described here would appear to relate to further revision by John Philp Wood of his revised and corrected edition of 1813 of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’.
Works of James Ramsay, volume IX: 'Prospects of Private Life'., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
A modern letter concerning the battle of Aboukir Bay has been inserted at folio 293.
Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott., 1762-1768, 1804-1807.
The sheets which Sir Walter Scott published in his edition of Anna Seward's ‘Poetical works’, 1810, were evidently taken out by him, and this collection consists of the unpublished remainder. These writings are described in her letter of 17 July 1807, sent to Scott posthumously (MS.870, folio 14, printed in her ‘Poetical works,’ volume i, page xxxiii).
Writings of James Hogg, with letters of Hogg's children to Robert Blackie., [1827, or after]-1873, undated.
Writings of Robert Lochore, cordiner, poet, and miscellaneous writer.
Writings of Sir Walter Scott and papers closely associated with him., 1753-1871.
Xerox copies of letters to Jean, Lady Hunter, from members of the family of Sir James Hall of Dunglass.
The contents comprise a series of letters from Captain Basil Hall and his wife Margaret (folios 1-72) and another series chiefly from Helen, Lady Hall (folios 73-209).