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Papers of Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, of Dunglass.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10065
Scope and Contents

Includes rough drafts of essays, notes and drawings of Hall`s work on perspective.

Dates: 1812-1816.

Papers of the Duchess of Atholl.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4714
Scope and Contents

Concerning the Scottish National War Memorial.

Dates: 1920-1958.

Papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.7.14
Scope and Contents The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates: 16th century-1924.

Papers of the Gall and Inglis families.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6437
Scope and Contents

Including music, drawings and notes.

Dates: 19th century to 20th century.

Pen and ink drawings of views in Edinburgh and vicinity.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9401
Scope and Contents

Possibly made for engraving.

Dates: 1826.

Pen and wash drawings of the processions at the opening of Parliament in 1685 (numbers 2-4), and at the funeral of the Duke of Rothes in 1681 (numbers 5-8).

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.22
Scope and Contents According to a note by Thomas Sommers, dated 1803 (number 1), they are by Roderick Chalmers who was appointed a Herald Painter in 1724. Sir Thomas Innes in `The Riding of Parliament’, pages 95-103, suggests that Chalmers was working from an earlier set of drawings, probably contemporary with the processions. The second drawing in the set of the Riding of Parliament (number 3) is an unfinished pencil sketch, made (according to Sommers`s note) in 1768 by Horace Walpole to replace a...
Dates: Before 1769.

Pen drawings and Latin quotations illustrative of death, compiled in Flanders.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.33
Scope and Contents

This volume containing a collection of pen drawings, with mottoes and verse (chiefly extracts from the Roman poetry) emblematical of death, bears the following title ‘Admodum Reuerendo Patri Jacobo Stratio per Prouinciam Flandro-Belgicam Præposito Prouinciali Tranfactor in Religione vitæ fuæ suinquagefimum annum Deo Opt. Max. inter communes omnium acclamationes consecranti post placatam Mortam Suinquaginta de morte Emblematis Applaudebat Poësis Aldenardensis’.

Dates: 17th century.

Photocopies of eight letters of Cecile Walton to Brenda Walton.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6569
Scope and Contents

With sketches and drawings.

Dates: circa 1905-circa 1910.

Photographs of the leaves of the Glenquoich visitors' book containing the names of friends and relatives who visited the Ellices' estates at Invergarry during the late summer and autumn of each year from 1846 to 1863.

 File
Identifier: MS.15197
Scope and Contents The book appears to have belonged to Katherine Jane Ellice, first wife of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1880), who died in April 1864. Each visitor was asked to sign the book, adding the dates of arrival and departure, his profession, his object in coming and any remarks or complaints. Several took the opportunity to write in verses or poems or to make drawings, which range in size from thumbnail sketches to full-page drawings. Latterly, small photographs of many of the visitors...
Dates: 1846-1863.

Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5843-5896
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 19th century-mid 20th century.

'Poetical Souvenir and Cabinet of Music and Drawing: Andrew Kippen, Edinburgh, 1840' containing poetry, mottoes, songs with music, and drawings of Scottish scenery, finely written in a variety of calligraphic hands.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8934
Scope and Contents

The choice of shorter poems and the type of ornament suggests some affinity with the work of James Cargill (see MSS.8931-8932), of which it presents a considerable refinement.

Dates: 1840.

"Rambling Thoughts on a Highland Ramble" by L.L. Joseph.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13706
Scope and Contents Illustrated journal of a tour in Scotland with watercolours and sketches and pasted in photographs and printed cards. The writer travelled by train from St Pancras, London, to Dumfries, Melrose, Galashiels and Edinburgh. He travelled north over the newly opened Forth Bridge to Pitlochry. From Pitlochry, he visits notable landmarks including the Falls of Bruar and the Pass of Killiekrankie. There is a detailed account of the process of making tweed following a visit to the Pitlochry Tweed...
Dates: 1890

Scrapbook of Lady Isobel Scott

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13515
Scope and Contents Scrapbook compiled by Lady Isobel Scott, consisting largely of autographs, drawings and photographs of places visited. Most are country houses including Monteviot, Woodburn, Beaulieu, Newbattle Abbey, Kiplin in Northumberland, Fountains Abbey, Bishop`s House, Kennington, Boughton House, Kettering, Falconhurst in Kent, Drumlanrig Castle and Douglas Castle. In addition, there are a number of entries relating to visits to Admiralty House, Devonport, a series of photographs taken on visit to...
Dates: 1899-1904

Sketch book of Major-General John Brown, containing drawings in pen, pencil and watercolour of buildings and landscapes in Scotland and Ireland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8026
Scope and Contents

The artist made most of his sketches in August and September 1791, when he travelled from Elgin to Fort Augustus, Aviemore, and Cullen. There are also sketches of Edinburgh and of a few scenes in Ireland, and architectural drawings with measurements, mostly of Elgin Cathedral.

Dates: 1784-1792.

Sketchbook containing drawings in pencil and water-colour of scenes in the Allied camp during the Crimean campaign, 1854-1856.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9489
Scope and Contents

The sketchbook also includes two sketches of officers at a court martial in 1850 (folio 29) and a plan of a battery near Sebastopol, 1855-1856 (folio 31 verso).

Dates: 1850-1856.

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Drawings. Visual works. 192
Letters. Correspondence. 42
Photographs. 33
Poetry. 27
Manuscripts. 26
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Watercolours. Paintings. 24
Correspondence. 21
Albums. 20
Notes. 19
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 15
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 15
Diaries. 13
Typescripts. 11
Copies. Derivative objects. 10
Drafts. Documents. 9
Travel journals 9
Microfilms. 8
Notebooks. 8
Sketches. 8
Engravings. Prints. 7
Lists. 7
Sketchbooks 7
Accounts. 6
Drawings. Visual works 6
Photograph albums. 6
Plans (orthographic projections). 6
Prints. Visual works 6
Sketchbooks. 6
Sketches 6
Travel journals. 6
Books 5
Maps. Cartographic materials. 5
Printed materials. Object genre. 5
Prints. Visual works. 5
Proofs. printed matter 5
Songs. Musical compositions. 5
Trossachs. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Stirling. General region. 5
Account books. 4
Essays. 4
Magazines. periodicals. 4
Paintings. Visual works. 4
Photocopies. 4
Plays. 4
Visitors' books. 4
Architectural drawings. 3
Articles. 3
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 3
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Commonplace books. 3
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Greeting cards. Correspondence. 3
Illustrations. Layout features. 3
Inventories. 3
Legal documents. 3
Leith. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.1667. Latitude: 55.9500. 3
Novels. 3
Programmes 3
Proofs. Printed matter. 3
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 3
Scrapbooks 3
Stirling. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Stirling. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.9500. Latitude: 56.1167. 3
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Transparencies. 3
Annotations. 2
Argentina. South America. Nation. Longitude: -64.0000. Latitude: -34.0000. 2
Ballads. 2
Biographies. 2
Callander (inhabited place). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Stirling. Longitude: -4.2333 . Latitude: 56.2500 . 2
Cartoons. Humourous images. 2
Catalogues. 2
Charters 2
Coats of arms. devices (symbols). 2
Commissions. Permissions. 2
Compact discs. 2
DVDs. 2
Diplomas. School records. 2
Dunblane. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Stirling. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.9833. Latitude: 56.2000. 2
Family papers. 2
Financial records. 2
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Gardening. 2
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Illuminated manuscripts. 2
Indexes. Reference sources. 2
Journals. Accounts. 2
Juvenilia. 2
Lecture notes. 2
Manuscript maps. Maps. 2
Melrose Abbey. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Ruins. Longitude: -2.7500. Latitude: 55.6167. 2
Oban. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Argyll and Bute. Inhabited place. Longitude: -5.4667. Latitude: 56.4167. 2
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Perth. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Perth and Kinross. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.4333. Latitude: 56.4000. 2
Plans. Maps. 2
Portraits 2
Recipes. Instructions (document genre) 2
Reports. 2
Short stories. 2
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Language
English 140
Undetermined 54
Latin 2
English, Middle (1100-1500) 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 5
Gray, Alasdair (author) 4
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 3
Taylor, Jessie Marion, illustrator and designer, née King, 1875-1949 3
Ellice, Katherine Jane, of Invergarry, née Balfour, 1813-1864 2
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Hall, Sir James, 4th Baronet, geologist and chemist, 1761-1832 2
McLaren, William Norman, film director, 1914-1987 2
Russell, Florence M, correspondent of W Norman McLaren, film director, fl 1936-1992 2
Walton, Cecile, painter, 1891-1956 2
Abbot, Ian, poet, 1947-1989 1
Adair, John (surveyor and map maker) 1
Agnew, William Lockett, art dealer, 1858-1918 1
Allan, David, painter, 1744-1796 1
Anderson, Marshall (artist, and curator of the Attic Archive, Dundee) 1
Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers 1
Angus, David, civil engineer, 1855-1926 1
Armstrong, John , Artist and Author, d. 2003 1
Beeton, David Nicholson, costume designer, 1952-2013 1
Behrens, Reinhard, artist, b 1951. 1
Beith, William, artist, fl 1800-1850 1
Blackie, John Stuart (Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh) 1
Blair, John, painter, 1850-1934: recipient 1
Blore, Edward (architect) 1
Boothby, Eliza, compiler of an album of verses and drawings, fl 1835 1
Boothby, Robert John Graham, Baron Boothby, politician, 1900-1986. 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Bowman, Walter, tutor and antiquary, 1699-1782 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician, 1810-1882 1
Bruce, James, of Kinnaird, traveller in Africa, 1730–1794 1
Bruce, William Speirs, explorer, 1867–1921 1
Burns, Robert, painter, 1869-1944 1
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) 1
Camberg, Sarah Elizabeth Maud, teacher of pianoforte, mother of Muriel Spark, author, née Uezzell, 1888-1974 1
Campbell, John Francis, of Islay, folklorist, ? 1821-1885 1
Campbell, family 1
Carmichael, Sir Thomas Gibson, 7th Baronet, of Skirling, 1774-1849 1
Carnegie, Andrew (philanthropist) 1
Casabianca, Yvonne de, artist, fl 1992 1
Chantrey, Sir Francis Leggatt, Knight, sculptor, 1781-1841 1
Charlton, Edward (physician, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, son of William John Charlton of Hesleyside) 1
Clerk, Sir John, 2nd Baronet, of Penicuik, 1676-1755 1
Coia, Emilio, caricaturist, 1911-1997 1
Cowan, family 1
Cowburn, Elizabeth (tourist in Scotland) 1
Crozier, Margaret "Biddy", friend of W. S. Graham, 1915-2004: recipient 1
Cummings, family, of Altyre 1
Custer, Elizabeth Bacon (author and public speaker, wife of George Armstrong Custer, née Bacon) 1
Davenport, John, writer, fl 1954-1957 1
Davison, Emily Wilding, suffragette, 1872-1913 1
Deane, Sir Thomas Newnham , Irish Architect, 1828-1899 1
Douglas, George Norman, travel writer, 1868-1952 1
Douglas, family, of Cavers 1
Ellice, Edward (landowner and politician) 1
Ellice, Edward (statesman) 1
Ellice, James, descendant of Edward Ellice, Statesman, 1901-1983: author 1
Featherston, William, artist, 1927-2009: former owner 1
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Gall, family 1
Geddes, Sir Patrick, Knight, sociologist, 1854-1932 1
Gordon, family, of Ellon 1
Gower, Cromartie Sutherland Leveson, 4th Duke of Sutherland, 1851-1913 1
Gower, Elizabeth Leveson, Duchess of Sutherland, nee Sutherland, 1765-1839 1
Gower, George Granville Leveson, 1st Duke of Sutherland, 1758-1833 1
Gower, George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-, 2nd Duke of Sutherland 1
Gower, George Granville William Sutherland Leveson, 3rd Duke of Sutherland , 1828-1892 1
Gower, George Sutherland Leveson, 5th Duke of Sutherland, 1888-1963 1
Graham, Agnes, wife of William Sydney, née Kilpatrick, 1909-1999 1
Graham, Thomas Henry (of Edmond Castle, Cumbria) 1
Gray, Alasdair, author, b 1934 1
Gray, William, Pipe Major, City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band, pseudonym Shamateur, 1883-1962 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
Halkett, Madeline (daughter of Sir Peter Arthur Halkett, 8th Baronet of Pitfirrane) 1
Halkett, Peter Arthur, Sir (Baronet of Pitfirrane) 1
Hall, James, painter, 1800-1854 1
Harvey, Ada Margaret Leech, wife of Charles Harvey, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Bristol, fl.1882-1891: author 1
Harvey, Charles Octavius (wine and spirit merchant, Bristol) 1
Harvey, Michael, letter cutter and typographer, b 1931 1
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, painter, 1786-1846 1
Henderson, Ebenezer, the elder, missionary, 1784-1858 1
Henderson, Ebenezer, the younger, author and historian, 1809-1879 1
Herald, James Watterson, painter, 1859-1914 1
Hill, David Octavius, photographer, 1802-1870 1
Howman, Revd. George Ernest, c.1797-1878 1
Hutchison, Alexander, poet, b 1943 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Inglis, family 1
Irving, Washington, American Author, 1783-1859. 1
Jackson, Charles d'Orville Pilkington, sculptor, 1887-1973 1
James II, King of Great Britain and Ireland 1
Jardine, Sir William, 7th Baronet, of Applegirth, naturalist, 1800-1874 1
Jolly, Samuel, writer of travel journal, fl 1827 1
Kennedy, Campbell, artist, fl 1967-2011 1
Kirk, family 1
Laudy, Jacques, comic book artist, 1907-1993 1
Lawson, Adam Mansfeldt de Cardonnel-, antiquary, formerly Cardonnel, ? 1746-1820 1
Lear, Edward, poet, 1812-1888 1
Leyden, John, poet, 1775-1811 1
Loch, James, Advocate, 1780-1855 1
Lockhart, William, administrator of San Jacinto sugar plantation, fl. 1876-1895 1
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