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Personal papers.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Private documents belonging to an individual. For records kept by public officials or other persons for their private or personal use but relating to their official duties, use "office files."

Found in 302 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1799-1803.

 File
Identifier: MS.11271
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence of the 1st Earl with the Foreign Secretary concerning his emoluments, 1800-1803 (folio l); (ii) Personal financial papers of the 1st Earl concerning his Vienna Embassy 1799-1801 (folio 49); (iii) Letters of Innocenzo della Lena and the Abbé della Lena, 1802, concerning paintings bought by the 1st Earl in Vienna (folio 138); (iv) "Catalogue of Lord Minto's Books at Vienna, sent to England 1801" (folio 156).

Dates: 1799-1803.

Correspondence and papers of the Duke of Cleveland, 1858-1874, undated, and letters of condolence addressed to the Duchess of Cleveland on the Duke's death in 1891., 1858-1891, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.10206
Scope and Contents

The papers are arranged as follows: (i) Letters of condolence addressed to the Duchess of Cleveland on the Duke's death in 1891 (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence and papers of the Duke of Cleveland, 1858-1874, undated (folio 16).

70 folios.

Dates: 1858-1891, undated.

Correspondence and papers of the Grey and Farquhar families., 1834-1932, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.13181-13186
Scope and Contents This section contains chiefly correspondence and papers of Caroline Eliza Grey (died 1890), daughter of Sir Thomas Harvie Farquhar, 2nd Baronet, wife of General the Honourable Charles Grey, and mother of Mary Caroline, wife of the 4th Earl of Minto. Caroline Eliza Grey was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria, and her husband was private secretary to Prince Albert and to Queen Victoria. Most of the correspondence in this section consists of family material; but there is also some...
Dates: 1834-1932, undated.

Correspondence of Alexander Low Bruce, master brewer, with some personal and financial papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11777/1-41
Scope and Contents

Includes papers concerning Bruce's directorships of the African Lakes Company and the Imperial British East Africa Company, and to Liberal Unionist organisations and activities in Scotland.

The papers, originally contained in a mahogany filing cabinet with alphabetically labelled drawers, is mostly, but not exclusively, Bruce’s personal, rather than his business correspondence, mainly from 1885-1893 and largely concerned with his political and African interests.

Dates: 1858-1893, undated.

Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9736/1-161
Scope and Contents Born in Dalavich, Argyll and resident for most of his life in Paisley and Elderslie where he was in business as a surveyor, MacFarlane was a notable Gaelic activist and writer from the late 1880s. He played a prominent part in the early years of An Comunn Gaidhealach (particularly in the production of its magazine, An Deò-Gréine, later An Gaidheal) while, as a radical in politics, taking issue with what he regarded as the An Comunn leadership's over-deference to aristocratic patronage and...
Dates: 1882-1930, undated.

Correspondence, sketches, notebooks and other papers of and concerning Sir David Young Cameron, Katharine Cameron Kay, and her husband Arthur Kay.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8950/1-41
Scope and Contents

Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.

Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.

Dates: 1895-1965, undated.

Diaries of Agnes Chisholm, with letter books.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7437/1-54
Dates: 1888-1936.
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