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Album of drawings and prints probably collected by James Drummond
Album of Walter Bowman.
Contains manuscript letters, prints, drawings and watercolours.
Antiquarian album of Adam de Cardonnel-Lawson.
Contains several hundred prints and drawings.
Collection of sketches, etchings, engravings, etc., chiefly by James Nasmyth, the engineer, with several by his father Alexander Nasmyth and his brother and sister Patrick and Jane, and some collected by him.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Letters and postcards, 1970-1980 and undated, of W.S. Graham to William Featherston, with a few letters of Nessie Graham and others; typescript, carbon typescript and photocopied typescript of draft sections of long poems, 1958 and undated, including `The Dark Dialogues` and `With the Dulle Griet in Canada`; silk screen print portrait of W.S. Graham by William Featherston; and CD and audio-cassette of BBC radio broadcast by W.S. Graham.
Original artwork by Alasdair Gray for novels and short stories.
Includes artwork for his books 'Lanark' (Canongate, 1981), 'Unlikely stories, mostly' (Canongate, 1983), '1982, Janine' (Cape, 1984) and 'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985; Abacus, 1987), as well as for Carl MacDougall's 'A scent of water' (Molendinar Press, 1975).
Papers concerning "The Naturalist`s Library", edited by Sir William Jardine.
Containing original drawings, watercolours, working proofs and prints.
Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.
Prints, signed by the artist, of drawings of Corstorphine Castle (as reconstituted) and Strathendry Castle, by Yvonne de Casabianca.
Typescripts of seven short stories by Mollie Hunter, with original cover artwork for "The Third Eye" (Glasgow, 1988).
Typescripts, with some manuscript corrections, of the following stories, all undated:
The Last Pict
Saint Columba and the Loch Ness Monster
How Loch Ness Got Its Name
The Very Weird Tale of Moon Eye
Tales from the Glen
The Tall Tale of Ten Frogs
The Story of Deirdre
Including original artwork by William Grandison for the cover of The Third Eye (Glasgow: Drew, 1988).