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Autograph album of an unknown collector, containing verses, drawings, and photographs.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14322
Scope and Contents
The album contains poetry, prose extracts, drawings, painting, and photographs by various artists. Many of the entries relate to Edinburgh, including to Moray House.
Dates:
1918-1931.
Correspondence of Hilda D. Spear, with related prospectuses and photographs.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14022/1-5
Dates:
1954-1998.
Correspondence, papers, bromides and negatives of 'Chapman' literary magazine.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10684/1-46
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems, short stories, articles and reviews, together with editorial correspondence.
Dates:
1981-1988, undated.
Drawings by James Horsburgh of scenes on a visit to Tongue, Sutherland. With photographs of gamekeepers and other employees on the Sutherland Estates and views of places visited 'en route'.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14128
Dates:
Undated. circa 1850.
Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14390
Scope and Contents
This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates:
Circa 1925-2014.
Papers of Frank Whyte, civil engineer, including notebooks, watercolours and letters, with educational certificates of his sister, Mary Whyte, teacher.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14564/1-18
Dates:
1910-1967
Papers of James Stewart, missionary and principal of Lovedale College, South Africa, and his wife, Mina, along with research notes by Sheila Brock.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13862/1-5
Dates:
1863-2012.
Papers, photographs and medals of John Stewart Morrison and Angus Morrison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14288/1-4
Dates:
Circa 1914-1922, 1941.
Papers relating to the military service of Frederick Guthrie Tait.
File
Identifier: Acc.13814
Content Description
Includes certificates and other papers relating to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, a small number of letters to Tait, some photographs at Sandhurst, and a copy of the order of service for the unveiling of a Black Watch memorial in Perth in 1905.Tait was accepted into Sandhurst in September 1889, and on completion of his training the following year, was gazetted into the 2nd battalion, the Leinster regiment (109th foot). In 1894, Tait joined the 2nd battalion, the Black...
Dates:
1884-1905.
Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents
The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008
Photograph album containing photographic prints of the War Department Light Railways on the Western Front during the First World War.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13903
Content Description
Photograph album containing black and white photographic prints recording the work of the War Department Light Railways on the Western Front in March 1918. Subjects depicted include the construction and maintenance of tracks, locomotives and rolling stock, transportation of field guns to the front, and movement of troops. The album was compiled to accompany a written report on the operations of the War Department Light Railways.
Dates:
1918.
Photograph album of a visit to Egypt and Gibraltar, possibly of Bessie Hamilton Newlands, of Glasgow, daughter of Alexander Newlands, engineer.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14603
Dates:
1933
Photograph album of Dugald Christie, medical missionary, containing 238 photographs taken whilst in China and Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14196
Dates:
1882-1911.
Photograph album of Joseph Vaughan Russell, of Glasgow, containing 104 photographs taken whilst on active service in Egypt and Turkey during the First World War.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13824
Dates:
1914-1918.