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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters.

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Letter, 1820, and note, undated, of Walter Scott to John Ballantyne.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11746- is now MS.23141, ff 143-145.
Scope and Contents

Concerns their financial arrangements.

Dates: 1820 and undated.

Literary manuscripts and notes of William M Parker.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5893
Scope and Contents

Concering Sir Walter Scott, John Scott, and other subjects.

Dates: circa 1930-circa 1970.

Miscellaneous items of or concerning Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.308
Scope and Contents

Framed declaration, 1786, by Elizabeth Paton regarding her child by Robert Burns;

Exciseman`s notes by Robert Burns;

Four letters, 1816-1829, of Sir Walter Scott to Joseph Train;

Volume containing a manuscript copy, 1896, of `Brief sketch of a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott commencing in the year 1814` by Joseph Train;

Printed book, `The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott` (1897) by George G Napier.

Dates: 1786-1897.

Papers of and relating to Sir Walter Scott and his literary property.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13422
Scope and Contents

Agreements, memoranda, letters, notes and drafts of Sir Walter Scott with his publishers Archibald Constable and Robert Cadell, and his printers, James Ballantyne, concerning Scott`s literary property. Included are a draft of the deed of 1819 selling the copyright of Scott`s novels and poems to Constable, and a letter of John Gibson Lockhart to Archibald Constable concerning his proposal for a Scott edition of Shakespeare, 1823.

Dates: 1817-1826

Seven letters of Eric Linklater.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6756
Scope and Contents

On literary matters.

With typescript notes of Linklater, for a projected television programme on Sir Walter Scott.

Dates: 1954-1966.

Transcripts of letters of Joanna Baillie to Sir Walter Scott in the collection of the National Library of Scotland.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11484
Scope and Contents

Includes introduction and notes by Judith B Slagle.

Dates: circa 1997.

Two letters of J G Lockhart to James Ballantyne.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11556
Scope and Contents

Letters concern Ballantyne`s relationship with Sir Walter Scott and memoranda of Scott to be supplied by Ballantyne for the use of Lockhart in his projected biography.

Includes notes on the letters by Alexander Ballantyne and transcripts of three letters of Scott to James Ballantyne.

Dates: 1832.