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Commonplace Book containing drawings of scenery, characters, flora and fauna and miscellanous verse.
This volume contains numerous illustrations including the `Costume of the Ladies of Edinburgh, Spring 1828`, a drawing of the Water of Leith, a man in Albanian costume in southern Italy, the ruins of a Roman temple in Palmyra in Syria, together with flora and fauna. There are also verses from Shakespeare, Byrone, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton and James Thomson.
Copies of registration books and related documents of three Merchant Navy seamen.
Papers mostly document work for shipping companies based or registered in Leith.
Legal papers concerning property in Newhaven and Leith belonging to Marion Evanson and her Paterson descendants.
Legal papers of the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers.
Concerning Leith Links.
Letter of John Ellington to Thomas Pengelly in London.
Concerns ships in Leith.
Log of the barque 'Emily', including a record of expenses, for a voyage from Leith to San Francisco and South America.
Manuscript resolution of Leith workmen against Incorporation of Weavers.
Papers concerning persons named Thomson.
Comprising marriage contracts, 1690, 1781, bond, 1690, and two other papers, 1798, 1804 (Leith and Musselburgh).
Pocketbook of Sir John Werden, Diplomat and Politician.
Receipt of the Edinburgh and Leith Shipping Company.
For shipment of a box from London to Leith to Messrs J Smith and Son.
Scrapbook, 19th century, including letters of Sir Charles L Eastlake and Sir Richard Westmacott, with other unassociated papers.
Including:
1. "Dr Gordon`s Journal Overland from India", volume 2, 1828
2. Sketchbook, 19th century, of K Russell
3. three sketchbooks, 1881-1923 of Maggie Murray
4. valuation, 1881-1887, of Leith.