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Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Dates:
1799-1853, undated.
Microfilm and photographic slide copies of the correspondence, papers and drawings of James Bruce of Kinnaird.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4490/1-12
Dates:
1757-1854, undated.
Microfilm of drawings of Sir Robert Sibbald, correspondence of Robert Adam, architect, and designs of interior decoration and furniture.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.543
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Collection of original drawings, 2nd half of 17th century, by Sir Robert Sibbald, of fish, birds, plants, etc. (Adv.MS.6.1.14);
Correspondence, 1789-1791, of Robert Adam the architect and his Edinburgh clerk of works, John Paterson (MS.19992);
Book, late 18th century, of designs of interior decoration and furniture, in the classical style. (MS.2876).
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century-late 18th century.