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Album compiled by Katherine Jane Ellice, 1838-1864, entitled 'Scrabble Book Quebec, 1839', with notes 2013-2014 and undated, on Ellice family history in Canada and Glenquoich.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Album of letters to and printed items collected by William Ford, bookseller, Manchester, through his involvement in the Edinburgh book trade.
Album of Walter Bowman.
Contains manuscript letters, prints, drawings and watercolours.
'Catalogue of Books belonging to Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Baronet, 1743.'
With a valuation, 1777, by John Bell, bookseller, Edinburgh, at £50 (folio vii); letters of Alexander Guthrie (presumably the Edinburgh bookseller) making the books over to Archibald Constable, and of Constable transferring the purchase to John Clerk, 1801 (folio i); and a drawing by Walter Geikie, 1825, from a portrait of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet, 1621.
The earliest catalogue hitherto known is that printed for the sale by J G Cochrane in 1816.
Circa 500 letters of Florence M Russell to Norman McLaren.
With cards, drawings and photographs.
Correspondence and papers of Ruari McLean with Cynthia and David Pettiward.
Concerning McLean`s introduction to "The Last Cream Bun" (London, 1984) with drawings by Roger Pettiward, pseudonym Paul Crum.
Correspondence and proof-sheets of James J Guthrie (1874-1952), the artist and printer who established the Pear Tree Press.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Cowie collection of manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Allan Ramsay and others, made by Charles R Cowie of Glasgow.
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
Diaries, letters and miscellaneous papers, 1944-1989, of and relating to John Armstrong.
John Armstrong studied at the Edinburgh College of Art where he was a contemporary of Eduardo Paolozzi who is mentioned in his diaries. After leaving college he worked as an artist and displays manager, then went on to work for the DHSS, Register Generals Office and elsewhere in Edinburgh. He later ran his own business. He continued painting throughout his life and also wrote fiction inspired by his bohemian lifestyle.
Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Drawings of masons' marks, made or collected by Charles S S Johnston, architect, with letters, notes, and excerpts on the subject; the whole arranged by Professor W B Stevenson..
Fifteen drawings, 1941-1942, by Jacques Laudy, probably intended as illustrations for an unpublished edition of `Kidnapped`; with 23 original Christmas cards, c.1959-1992.
Five leaves from an autograph album.
Including letters, receipts, drawings and engravings.
With items of Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Francis Chantrey and Benjamin Haydon.
Further papers of and relating to the Douglas of Cavers family.
Family papers including correspondence, formal documents, commonplace book, genealogical notes, miscellaneous writings, photographs, and estate papers