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Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.

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Identifier: MS.10306
Scope and Contents A draft title-page (folio 24) suggests that in 1850 Adam White was proposing to publish a work on 'Weeds and wild-flowers loved by Wordsworth', and the first part of the album contains a collection of materials towards this purpose: drawings and engravings of wild flowers with some specimens of pressed flowers, newspaper-cuttings, and copies of letters and poems of Wordsworth.The collection of information is then extended to include other poets: Coleridge, Cowper, Southey,...
Dates: Mid 19th century-?late 19th century.

Album of drawings in pencil and watercolour, collected by Caroline, Marchioness of Queensberry, in 1833.

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Identifier: MS.10784
Scope and Contents

Many of the drawings are by E C Douglas, possibly Lady Queensberry's sister-in-law Elizabeth. The subjects include humorous sketches, animals and landscapes.

Dates: 1833.

Album of drawings of `An eight week`s tour in Scotland taken by ten Douglas`s`.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13363
Scope and Contents

Drawings made on a tour in Scotland in 1845. Places visited include Dalkieth, Edinburgh, Roslin chapel, the Trossachs, Glencoe, Tyndrum, Ballahulish, Kinlochmore, Loch Leven, Dunolly Castle, Inverary, Newbattle and Hoddam Castle.

Dates: 1845

Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.

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Identifier: MS.3009
Scope and Contents Hugh Scott of Draycott (Draycot, Draycote) House, a Captain in the East India Marine, was a son of Walter Scott of Raeburn (died 1830) and cousin of Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford. The album, compiled by Hugh Scott's descendants, contains letters of Sir Walter Scott and members of his family, printed matter relating to the subscription raised to purchase Abbotsford for the Scott family, drawings and photographs of Draycott, notes on family history by William Scott of Raeburn (died 1855),...
Dates: Mid 19th century-1936.

Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".

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Identifier: Acc.8493
Scope and Contents

Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.

Dates: 1898-1902.

Album of Evelyne Radford, daughter of Jack Radford of Hale End Manor, Walthamstow, Essex, relating to country house parties in England and at Kildonan Lodge, Sutherland, to a cruise and a holiday in the South of France.

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Identifier: Acc.13196
Scope and Contents The album is a record of the weekend and holiday social life of the Radford family, friends of the Drummond family, the Viscounts Strathallan. Evelyn Radford was the spinster daughter of Mrs and Mrs Jack Radford of Hale End Manor, near Walthamstow, Essex. Places visited include: Swaylands House, Penshurt, Kent; West Garty Lodge and Kildonan, Sutherland; Hale End Manor, Essex; Alderwasley, Matlock, Derbyshire; Fornham Park, Bury St Edmunds; The Briars, Byfleet, Surrey; Cranborne Hall, Windsor...
Dates: 1893-1898.

Album of Jean Meldrum Barns-Graham containing photographs recording family life in Craigallian, Stirlingshire, and her family's emigration to New Zealand.

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Identifier: Acc.14112
Scope and Contents

Photograph and scrap album containing c.250 snapshots and fragments of poetry, and covering life at the Barns-Graham family's estate; the emigration of several members of the family to New Zealand in 1896; and life on the North Island, where the Barns-Grahams established the 'Strathblane Sheep Station' with the Guthrie Smith family.

Dates: 1896-1898.

Album of miscellaneous printed and manuscript matter.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.20
Scope and Contents

The printed items are mostly newspaper cuttings, from the period circa 1780-circa 1830; they have not been indexed. The manuscript items, a list of which has been added at the beginning of the volume, are mostly Scottish, several relating to Bo`ness and Linlithgow, and date from 1562 to 1826. On folio 44 is a note signed `A.E.N.`

Dates: 1562-circa 1830.

Album of newspaper cuttings collected by Alexander Hutcheson concerning the haunted tower of St Andrews, the cathedral, the castle, and the abbey wall.

 File
Identifier: MS.9608
Scope and Contents

Also pasted into the album are two pamphlets by David Henry about the cathedral and the castle, 1910, and three letters, 1894, 1911, of David Hay Fleming.

Dates: 1894-1911.

Album of pencil and water-colour sketches, titled, ‘Sketches on the East Coast of Scotland by Edward Duncan’.

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Identifier: MS.3245
Scope and Contents

The sketches are chiefly undated but where dated range in year from 1863 to 1876. Although most of the sketches are of St Abb's Head, the Bass Rock, Tantallon, Holy Island, etc., there are some views of Perthshire, Jedburgh, Roxburgh, and other places inland. The collection also contains an unfinished drawing of Fernilee, subscribed 'The house were (sic) the "Flowers of the Forest" was written'.

Dates: 1863-1876.

Album of photographs of illuminated manuscripts by Phoebe Anna Traquair

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Identifier: Acc.13537
Scope and Contents

The compiler of the album is unknown.

Dates: Undated, late 19th century

Album of poetry compiled by Isabella Farquharson Will.

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Identifier: Acc.6844
Scope and Contents

Containing lithographs of Frederick Schenck, Edinburgh.

Dates: 1852.

Album of sketches in watercolour and in pencil and wash, made during a tour in Scotland from July to September 1823.

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Identifier: MS.10989
Scope and Contents

The sketches have not been mounted in chronological sequence, and appear to have come from two sources. The wash drawings are probably from a sketchbook, and the watercolours have been cut from a journal of the tour. The artist, who was English, travelled from Loch Lomond and the Trossachs to Inveraray, Staffa, Glencoe, Killin, and back to Loch Lomond. Inserted at the end are sketches of Edinburgh and Carlisle, a drawing, 1820, of Killarney and other unrelated material.

Dates: 1820, 1823

Album of the Reverend John Kirk.

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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.

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Chinese 1
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Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 5
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 4
Smith, Chilton Lind Addison-, Writer to the Signet, 1875-1955 3
Wilson, George Washington, miniature painter and photographer, 1823-1893 3
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 2
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Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 2
Malcolm, family, of Burnfoot 2
Reid, Walter, seal engraver in Paris and Edinburgh, fl 1838-1886 2
Scottish Mountaineering Club 2
Scottish Youth Hostels Association 2
Valentine, James, engraver and photographer, 1815-1879 2
Agnew, William Lockett, art dealer, 1858-1918 1
Allan, Andrew, artist, 1863-1942 1
An Comunn Gàidhealach 1
Anderson, James, Culloden, fl 1952 1
Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers 1
Anstruther-Gray, Clayre Jessie Tennant, 1872-1958 (justice of the peace and wife of William Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, Monica Helen Lambton, 1915-1985 (justice of the peace and wife of William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William John St Clair, Baron Kilmany, 1905-1985 (soldier and politician) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William, 1859-1938 (soldier and politician) 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 5th (Service) Bat 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 1
Baird, James, of Little Fiddes and Byth, Advocate, d 1655 1
Bankes, Florence, 1854-1947 (artist) 1
Barns-Graham, Jean Meldrum, 1870-1948 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Baxter, William Edward, traveller and author, 1825-1890 1
Bell, Richard, author of "My Strange Pets and other Memories of Country Life", 1833-1909 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: recipient 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: transcriber 1
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, art collector, 1818-1880 1
Blackie, John Stuart (Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh) 1
Blackwood, William (publisher, and founder of "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine") 1
Bone, Sir Muirhead, Knight, painter and etcher, 1876-1953 1
Book of Me Group 1
Boothby, Eliza, compiler of an album of verses and drawings, fl 1835 1
Boothby, Robert John Graham, Baron Boothby, politician, 1900-1986. 1
Bowman, Walter, tutor and antiquary, 1699-1782 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC Scotland 1
Brown, Alexander, medical missionary, Livingstonia, fl 1900-1930 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Brown, James, Minister of New Greyfriars, Edinburgh, ? 1724-1786 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976: recipient 1
Browne, John Hutton Balfour-, barrister, 1845-1921 1
Bruce, William Speirs, explorer, 1867–1921 1
Buchanites, Irvine, Scotland, religious sect 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Cameran Photographic Society (fl. 1894-1917) 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Cameron, Una May (mountaineer) 1
Campbell, Jean Davidson, missionary in India, fl 1900-1940 1
Campbell, Jean Helen St Clair, Baroness Stratheden of Cupar and Campbell of St Andrews, nee Anstruther-Gray, d 1956 1
Campbell, family 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Carr, Anna Margaret, artist, fl 1838-1859 1
Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Prime Minister) 1
Chalmers, Thomas (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Charlotte Chapel Sabbath School, Edinburgh 1
Christie, Dugald (Medical missionary) 1
Church of Scotland 1
Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Board 1
Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, Knight, bibliographer, 1867-1962: recipient 1
Cocozza, Enrico (filmmaker) 1
Cookesley, Margaret Deborah Murray, 1844-1927 (née Garland, artist, wife of Edward Murray Cookesley) 1
Corbett, Thomas Godfrey Polson, 2nd Baron Rowallan (succeeded 1933), Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire, 1895-1977 1
Corrie, Anna, singer, wife of Haydn Corri, pianist and composer, née Adams (Adami), 1800-1867. 1
Cottam, Eliza Letitia, née Ironside, fl 1825-1845 1
Cottam, John Tatham, relative of Eliza L, née Ironside, fl 1812 1
Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-, Knight, novelist and literary scholar, 1863-1944 1
Coventry Sketching Club 1
Craig-Brown, family : collector 1
Cubie, Donald G, Mininster of Carfin, b 1902: recipient 1
Cummings, family, of Altyre 1
Curle, James, of Morriston, WS, 1862-1944: recipient 1
Curle, James, writer, Melrose, fl 1812-1826: recipient 1
Currie, Jenny M B, Gaelic singer, 1892-1974 1
Dalrymple, Alexander, Kinseathill, fl 1894-1906 1
Daniel, George, compiler of album including note by Robert Burns, fl 1850: collector 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Davidson, James Lauder, forester, 1916-1992 1
Davidson, John, poet, 1857-1909 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949: collector 1
Douglas, family 1
Dreschfeld, Violet Jennie, 1890-1975 (sculptor) 1
Dundas, Robert James (Anglican clergyman) 1
Durand, Sir Edward Law, 1st Baronet, colonial administrator, 1845-1920 1
Durris Red Cross Hospital, Kincardineshire 1
Edinburgh Northern Hockey Club 1
Ellice, Edward (landowner and politician) 1
Ellice, Edward (statesman) 1
Ellice, James, descendant of Edward Ellice, Statesman, 1901-1983: author 1
Ellice, Katherine Jane, of Invergarry, née Balfour, 1813-1864 1
Elliot, George Francis Scott, botanist, 1862-1934 1
Elliot, James Scott, Calcutta merchant, d 1880 1
Elliot, Sir Walter, Knight, East India Company servant and archaeologist, 1803-1887 1
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