Found 5 collections related to Authors, Scottish -- 19th century -- Correspondence

Robert Chambers, Scottish publisher and writer. · To "My dear Alexius" [i.e., Alexander Ireland, journalist] : 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday" [April 1866] : (HWD 08.038) : 2 pages (double sheet) : on embossed stationery of Union Club, St. Andrews : begins, "I am quite elated with the prospect of seeing you here on Monday next ...." In the Abraham Hayward Correspondence Files. less

William Anderson, Scottish journalist and author. To Richard Robert Madden, author and colonial administrator : 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Aug 1854 : (BLES 5.455j) : from Bengal Hill : begins, "There is nothing like striking the iron while it is hot. Therefore I send you the account of my first meeting with L. Byron, just as it occured." Mounted in v. 5 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Victorian author, biographer, and historian, author of Sartor Resartus. To a Mrs. Wilson : 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Nov 1863 : (MISC 0012) : suggesting the easiest way of "getting out of the affair" relating to "Kaiser Joseph.". less

Mary Somerville, Scottish science writer and mathematics expositor. · To Captain Hanchette, R. N., at 24 Rue Duphot : 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Apr 1833 : (MISC 3940) : 2 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I am truly sensible my dear Sir of your kind attention and am hapy to have a friend so near in time of need ..." Mounted in the Agatha Hogsbottom autograph album. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer. · To Jane, Lady Shelley, daughter-in-law of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : 2 items : -- 1 autograph memorandum unsigned : [1 Sep 1885] : (S'ANA 0196) : 1 ¹/₄ pages (double sheet) : [from Exeter] : begins, "How did you enjoy your drive? And where did you stop?" Within an envelope marked in Lady Shelley's hand: "Exeter / Sep.r 1st 1885 / Rob.t Louis Stevenson / When he was not / allowed to speak." -- 1 autograph letter signed : [between Oct 1887 and Apr 1888] : (S'ANA 0195) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Saranac Lake, Adirondacks, New York, U. S. A. : with thick mourning border; begins, "This is to let you hear some of our news: here we are in the extreme north of the state of New York ...". less