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Album entitled 'Military autographs', containing fourteen photographs of British and French generals and two signatures pasted in; together with a collection of autographs chiefly concerning the 1st Duke of Wellington, which were tipped in or loosely enclosed in the album, but have now been removed and are kept separately.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15351-15352
Dates:
19th century.
Album of the Reverend John Kirk.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11146
Scope and Contents
Includes University of St Andrews certificates, letters of Thomas Chalmers and others, cut signatures, sketches and plans.
Dates:
circa 1814-1855.
Album of Thomas Constable, publisher, containing the names of subscribers to ‘Memorial of the Royal Progress in Scotland’ by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, among which are signatures, 1842, of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.
Item
Identifier: MS.3052
Dates:
1842-1843.
Miscellaneous autograph letters, official documents, signatures, etc., pasted into an album.
File
Identifier: MS.3873
Scope and Contents
There are a number of letters to David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan (succeeded 1767), which relate largely to his antiquarian interests. Most of the other letters are also of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the writers include noblemen, churchmen, public servants, and prominent literary figures.
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Two albums, titled 'Autographs and Portraits', and labelled 1 and 3, of a collection apparently formed by Thomas Thompson, Liverpool, to whom several of the letters are addressed, from about 1820 to about 1840.
Series
Identifier: MSS.967-968
Scope and Contents
The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.
Dates:
1820-1840.