Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of typescript and manuscript letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Joanne Soroka discussing tapestries
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1261
Identifier: Coll-1665
Scope and Contents
The tapestries referred to were shown at exhibitions, including the ICA in London. The correspondence illustrates the creative process behind some of the very few tapestries Ian Hamilton Finlay had made. The collection is composed of:- 18 x ts letters and 9 x ms letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Joanne Soroka discussing tapestries commissioned from Ivory Tapestries by Finlay, and written between 20 September 1989 and 7 September 1997 (one is undated).- 26 x carbon...
Dates:
1988-1997
Correspondence between an astronomer, David Little of Granton, Edinburgh, and the instrument maker William Horn, of Allan Park, Stirling, and correspondence between Horn and instrument makers Thomas Morton of Kilmarnock, and T. Cooke & Sons, York
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1555, Folder: SC-Acc-2016-0164
Identifier: Coll-1784
Scope and Contents
The collection of letters is divided into a group dating from 1850 which includes receipts, costs and correspondence between William Horn and David Little, Granton, Edinburgh.
Another group of in the collection is correspondence between William Horn and Morton and Cooke.
There is also a sketch of a comet drawn in 1838 (Encke's Comet).
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1850-1870
Correspondence, papers, photographs of William Charles Chapman-Mortimer, which include letters to his wife, illustrated stories and poems
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1789
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of letters between Mortimer and his first wife Frances, dating from 1940 to 1945. These are often illustrated with pen and ink illustrations. Among the letters from Mortimer are a few manuscript poems and stories including a hand-sewn typescript booklet, The Poet and the Hippopotamus. And Other Works. There are also letters to R. M. Rice, 1960s.There are 4 x bound manuscripts, news-clippings extracted from an...
Dates:
1940-1945
Correspondence relating to Elmslie William Dallas
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1556, Folder: Coll-1814 / SC-Acc-2017-0064
Identifier: Coll-1814
Content Description
The collection is a bundle of Dallas correspondence, often to 'My Dear Aunt' or 'My Dear Lilly'. His aunt may have been Mrs. Sweetland.
Dates:
c 1840-1860
Five signed letters from Bonamy Dobrée to Sir Herbert Grierson relating to a planned Oxford History of English Literature
Fonds — Box CLX-A-373
Identifier: Coll-1873
Scope and Contents
Three autograph and two typed letters signed, nine pages in total, written in Leeds from 25 December 1937 to 14 May 1939. Sent from Bonamy Dobrée to Sir Herbert Grierson, suggesting a commission for a collaboration with Edmund Blunden to produce a volume on the late 18th century for a planned Oxford History of English Literature and subsequently discussing aspects of its progress.
Dates:
25 December 1937-14 May 1939
Four autograph letters signed by Allan Cunningham
Collection — Box CLX-A-375
Identifier: Coll-1889
Content Description
A small group of four unrelated letters from Allan Cunningham to various correspondents, dating from 1826 to 1833 when dated.
Letter to Jerdan (presumably William), 1 page 8vo, 29 November 1826, sending a 'Scots Almanack with the respects of our friend George Bagot the Bookseller'.
Letter to Thomas ?Gaspay at Walnut Tree Walk, Lambeth, 1 page 4to, 27 Belgrave Place, 15 May 1828,...
Dates:
1826-1833
Letter, 1959, from Alexander Gray to Archibald H. Campbell
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1261
Identifier: Coll-1662
Scope and Contents
The letter, dated 21 May 1959, is to "My dear Archie", Archibald H. Campbell. It accompanied a copy of Selected poems "put together by Maurice Lindsay" in Gray's "pre-Danish Days". The letter also refers to a copy of Sir Halewyn, and to various of his "signature tunes".
Dates:
1959
Letter Book of Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch
Collection — Volume Gen.721
Identifier: Coll-1676
Scope and Contents
Volume containing summaries of outgoing correspondence from Lord Lynedoch for 1830. A typed sheet inside the front cover lists recipients as: Beford (Duke of), Beresford (Lord), Cathcart (Earl of), Dacre (Lord), Dacre (Lady), Farquhar (Sir T.), Fleming (Admiral), Gardiner (Sir R.), Graham (Robert), Haddington (Earl of), Hare (Colonel), Harrington (Lord), Hill (Lord), Hill (Sir Rowland), Hope (Sir A.), Hope (Sir J.A.), Keith (Lady), Macdonald (General), MacGrigor (Sir J.),...
Dates:
01 Feb 1830 - 20 Sep 1830
Letters from Charlotte Auerbach to Raphael and Ruma Falk
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1605
Identifier: Coll-2116
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of six letters sent from Charlotte Auerbach to Raphael and Ruma Falk from 1987 to 1992, as well as two postcards. The letters still have their original envelopes, and were sent from Auerbach's home in Grange Loan, Edinburgh to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The correspondence is mostly about exchanging news and small talk, in Auerbach's "old age".There is also a typed letter from Prof. Geoffrey Beale to "all old friends of Lotte", dated 16 August 1994...
Dates:
1987-1994
Letters from Edwin and Willa Muir to Morley and Flora Jamieson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2061
Content Description
This fonds consists of friendly letters and cards from Edwin and Willa Muir to their wartime lodgers Morley and Flora Jamieson: an autograph letter signed from Edwin and Willa to Flora, two autograph letters signed from Willa to Morley and Flora, a carbon-copy typed letter from Edwin to Morley and Flora, a Christmas autograph correspondence card signed from Willa to the Jamiesons' dog Jinty, and a Christmas autograph picture postcard signed from Willa. The letters were sent from Edinburgh,...
Dates:
1944-1963