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Material relating to Learmont Drysdale, the composer.
File
Identifier: MS.6297
Scope and Contents
Included are Learmont Drysdale's certificates for drawing and musical composition, reports on his progress at the Royal Academy of Music, 1889-1890, some drawings (folios 6-7), and a photograph of Ladislao Zavertal with the Pollokshields Musical Society, 1875 (folio 10). There are two letters, 1927, 1949, concerning the material (folio 1); and the Lucas Memorial and Bronze medals of the Royal Academy (awarded 1890) are boxed with the collection.
Dates:
1875-1949.
Miscellaneous correspondence relating to engineering, much of it addressed to Robert Stevenson or his family, and apparently at one time part of the Stevenson family papers.
File
Identifier: MS.19988
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Letter of John Smeaton to William Hall of Whitehall concerning Eyemouth harbour, 1769 (folio 1);
(ii) Letters, 1787-1874, undated, and other papers, 1768-1853, undated, addressed to the Stevenson family on engineering matters (folio 3);
(iii) Two letters of Robert Stevenson, 1808, from the Bell Rock Light; a certificate signed by Stevenson with an accompanying medallion giving George Milne, a seaman in the service of the Northern Lighthouse Commissioners,...
Dates:
1769-1874.
Papers of and concerning the painter Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922).
Series
Identifier: MSS.19245-19250
Scope and Contents
A member of the Glasgow School and a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Arthur Walton exhibited regularly at both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours.
Dates:
1891-1925.