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Two letters of Thomas Faed.

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Identifier: Acc.11362
Scope and Contents

One letter is illustrated with a sketch discussing his 1849 painting of Sir Walter Scott and his literary friends at Abbotsford.

Includes a sketch, with key, by John Faed of his picture of Shakespeare and his friends at the Mermaid Tavern.

Dates: circa 1849-1900.

‘Two Theban queens’ by Colin Campbell (London, 1909); the author's copy.

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Identifier: MS.9048
Scope and Contents The volume contains Colin Campbell’s signature on the flyleaf, a sketch at page 84, and a few pencil notes in his hand dispersed through the printed text. Inside the front cover are pasted a cutting from a bookseller's catalogue (folio 1) and a cutting from an unidentified newspaper containing a review of the book (folio 2).Two letters, 1925, to Campbell from Professor Francis Ll. Griffith in search of a copy of the book, which were formerly loosely enclosed at the title page,...
Dates: 1909.

Typescript copy of the journal, 1831-1832, of the Reverend James Robert Boyd.

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Identifier: Acc.7316
Scope and Contents

Kept during a visit to Edinburgh and the Borders.

With notes and comments by the transcriber John S B Pratt Junior, undated

photocopy of a charcoal sketch, circa 1838, of Dr Boyd

biographical note, 1882.

Dates: 1831-1882.

'Views in Scotland, from sketches by Thomas Oliphant . . . 1852.'

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Identifier: MS.10990
Scope and Contents

A volume of pencil sketches of landscapes and buildings in Orkney, Shetland, Caithness, Sutherland, Rossshire, Inverness-shire and Perthshire. The title is on a label pasted on the front cover. The first sketch is missing.

Dates: 1852.

War diaries of Lt David Black Barclay, Royal Artillery, in North Africa and Italy.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12181
Scope and Contents

Accession includes:

1. sketchbook, 1943-1944,

2. an earlier volume of poetry written by Barclay,

3. Barlcay`s wartime record kept by his wife, Annie.

Dates: 1943-1948.

Watercolour sketch of Duntulm Castle, by Constance Gordon Cumming.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7156
Scope and Contents

Drawn for an illustration of her "From the Hebrides to the Himalayas" (1876).

Dates: circa 1876.

Watercolours and sketches of scenes in Scotland.

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Identifier: MS.9842
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Watercolours of landscapes in Argyll, Bute (Loch Ranza), Dunbartonshire, Inverness-shire, Perthshire and Roxburghshire (Melrose), with three unidentified scenes (folio 1); (ii) Sepia sketches of a town (possibly Thurso) and three unidentified scenes (folio 25); (iii) A series of ink and wash sketches of landscapes in Argyll, Dunbartonshire, Inverness-shire and Perthshire, with seven unidentified scenes (folio 29); (iv) Pencil sketch, 1859, of Branklin Lynn,...
Dates: 19th century.

Watercolours of Mary Frances Wicksteed painted on tours of Scotland and Wales

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Identifier: Acc.13998
Content Description

64 watercolours, mainly landscapes, painted on tours of Scotland (1871) and North Wales (1876). Also 16 small watercolours of Charles Philips Trevelyn. Mary Frances Wicksteed was governess to the Philips and Trevelyan families.

Dates: 1871-1876

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Sketches 102
Sketches. 77
Letters. Correspondence. 38
Correspondence. 36
Manuscripts. 32
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Notes. 29
Photographs. 26
Poetry. 26
Diaries. 22
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 21
Watercolours. Paintings. 19
Notebooks. 17
Travel journals. 16
Typescripts. 16
Albums. 15
Drawings. Visual works. 14
Lists. 13
Copies. Derivative objects. 11
Maps. Cartographic materials. 11
Microfilms. 11
Engravings. Prints. 9
Publications. 9
Drafts. Documents. 8
Illustrations. Layout features. 8
Articles. 7
Photocopies. 7
Plays. 7
Diagrams. 6
Plans (orthographic projections). 6
Portraits. 6
Calligraphy. Visual works. 5
Paintings. Visual works. 5
Personal papers. 5
Speeches. Documents. 5
Accounts. 4
Architectural drawings. 4
Armorials. Reference sources. 4
Commonplace books. 4
Documents. 4
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Indexes. Reference sources. 4
Legal documents. 4
Novels. 4
Printed materials. Object genre. 4
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Short stories. 4
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Travel journals 4
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Treatises. 4
Anecdotes. 3
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Catalogues. 3
Certificates 3
Coats of arms. devices (symbols). 3
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 3
Essays. 3
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Memoirs. 3
Memorandums. 3
Pamphlets. 3
Plans. Maps. 3
Postcards. 3
Songs. Musical compositions. 3
Annotations. 2
Armorial bearings. 2
Arran, Island of. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - North Ayrshire. Island. Longitude: -5.2500. Latitude: 55.6000. 2
Ballads. 2
Biographies. 2
Charters 2
Commissions. Permissions. 2
Diplomas. School records. 2
Dissertations. 2
Edinburgh Castle. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh - Edinburgh. Castle. Longitude: -3.2000. Latitude: 55.9500. 2
Exhibition catalogues. 2
Financial records. 2
Folklore. 2
Forms. Documents. 2
Histories. 2
Journals. Accounts. 2
Katrine, Loch. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Stirling. Lake. Longitude: -4.5167. Latitude: 56.2500. 2
Lecture notes. 2
Lomond, Loch. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland. Lake. Longitude: -4.6000. Latitude: 56.0833. 2
London. Europe - United Kingdom - England - Greater London. Inhabited place. Longitude: -0.1667. Latitude: 51.5000. 2
Manuscript maps. Maps. 2
Memorandums. Legal documents. 2
Ness, Loch. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Highland. Lake. Longitude: -4.5000. Latitude: 57.2667. 2
Professional papers. 2
Registers (lists). 2
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Signatures. Names 2
Sketchbooks. 2
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Undetermined 59
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English, Middle (1100-1500) 2
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Names
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 4
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 3
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 2
Cumming, Constance Frederica Gordon-, travel writer, 1837-1924 2
Cuthbert, Walter Robertson, Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, husband of Gwendoline Emily Meacham, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1887-1970 2
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Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 2
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
Nasmyth, James Hall, engineer, 1808-1890 2
Reid, Walter, seal engraver in Paris and Edinburgh, fl 1838-1886 2
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, antiquary, 1781-1851 2
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
Waddell School of Music, Edinburgh 2
Aitken, Edward Hamilton, writer on India, 1851-1909 1
Allan, Robert Weir, 1852-1942 (painter) 1
Allan, William, Major-General, 1832-1918 1
Amelia, Hill, 1820-1904 (née Paton, Sculptor, wife of David Octavius Hill) 1
Anstruther, Mary Elma (née Hovell-Thurlow, wife of Arthur Wellesley, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, then Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce) 1
Bailey, James (vicar of Otley, Yorkshire.) 1
Ballantyne, Alexander Thomson, printer, 1776-1847 1
Ballantyne, James (printer) 1
Ballantyne, John, artist, 1815-1897 1
Bannerman, Helen Brodie Cowan, children's writer, née Watson, 1862-1946 1
Bannerman, Helen Brodie Cowan, children's writer, née Watson, 1862-1946: recipient 1
Barclay, Annie, wife of David Black, Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, fl 1943-1948 1
Barclay, David Black, Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, fl 1943-1946 1
Barr (family, Waldingham) 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Begg, Isabella Burns, sister of Robert Burns, poet, 1771-1858 1
Begg, Isabella, 1807-1886 (daughter of Isabella, sister of Robert Burns, poet) 1
Behan, John, sculptor, b 1938 1
Bell, Henry Glassford, 1803-1874 (writer and sheriff) 1
Bone, James, journalist, 1872-1962 1
Bone, Phyllis M, sculptor, 1897-1972 1
Boyd, Alexander Stuart, artist, 1854-1930 1
Boyd, James Robert, Principal of the Black River Literary and Religious Institute, 1804-1890 1
Braehead Secondary School, Buckhaven 1
Brown, John, 1784-1858 (minister of the United Presbyterian Church, Theologian) 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Calderwood, Anna, sister of Major Douglas Cunninghame Graham, fl 1839 1
Carnegie, Andrew, philanthropist, 1835-1919 1
Carr, Anna Margaret, artist, fl 1838-1859 1
Chalmers, Thomas (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780–1847 (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Clinton, Margery (ceramist) 1
Cochrane, Hon Sir Archibald Douglas, Knight, Captain, Royal Navy, Governor of Burma, 1885-1958 1
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 1
Cookesley, Margaret Deborah Murray, 1844-1927 (née Garland, artist, wife of Edward Murray Cookesley) 1
Coventry Sketching Club 1
Crosbie, William, artist, 1915-1999 1
Cumming, Constance Frederica Gordon-, 1837-1924 (travel writer) 1
Dick, Robert, c 1733-1824 1
Dundas, family, of Ochtertyre 1
Edinburgh International Festival 1
Faed, John, painter, 1819-1902 1
Fairlie, Francis Archibald, 1854-1939 (tea planter and golfer) 1
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Forsyth, Julia Selina, 1840-1874 (daughter of James Forsyth of Glengorm) 1
Gascoigne, John Henry, Senior Clerk, Scottish Office, 1856-1928 1
Gilchrist, Anne Geddes, musical antiquary, 1863-1954 1
Girdwood, John, correspondent of Sir William Orpen, painter, fl 1916: recipient 1
Gordon, Charles, Tain, fl 1867 1
Gourdie, Tom (calligrapher) 1
Graham, Douglas Cunninghame, Major, fl 1828-1839 1
Grant of Kilgraston, John, 1799-1873 1
Grant, Francis, Sir, Knight (portrait painter) 1
Gray, Alasdair (author) 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, 1892-1978 1
Hadfield, Jen (poet and artist) 1
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 1
Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane (Lord Chancellor) 1
Harvey, Michael, letter cutter and typographer, b 1931 1
Hassall, Joan, artist and wood-engraver, 1906-1988 1
Henry, William Stuart, artist, pseudonym Henry Stuart, fl 1942-1973 1
Hill, Ann, 1804-1841 (née Macdonald, wife of David Ocatvius Hill) 1
Hill, David Octavius, photographer, 1802-1870 1
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 1
Hodgkinson, James, correspondent of James Hall Nasmyth, engineer, fl 1870: recipient 1
Howard, Pamela, stage designer, b 1939 1
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 1
Hume, Elizabeth, Edinburgh, fl 1816 1
Hutchison, John, cartographer, fl 1736 1
Imlach, Archibald Francis, 1852-1903 (son of Francis Brodie Imlach) 1
Ingleby, Clement Mansfield (Shakespearean scholar) 1
Jacob, Julius, artist, the elder, 1811-1882 1
James Robertson and Sons, Edinburgh, jeweller 1
Jay, Ronald Louis Jack, cameraman and filmmaker, 1901-1979 1
Johnson, Nicholas, poet, editor and festival director, b 1963 1
Kay, Katharine Cameron, painter and etcher, née Cameron, 1874-1965 1
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 1
Kennedy, Campbell, artist, fl 1967-2011 1
Kerr, Lord Mark, Admiral, 1776-1840 1
Kirby, Henry G M, lawyer, London, d 1912 1
Kirk, John, Minister of Barry, d 1858. 1
Laing, David, Librarian of the Signet Library, 1793-1878: recipient 1
Leith, Alexander, of Glenkindie and Freefield, fl 1736-1756 1
Lemaire, Angela, artist, engraver, b 1944 1
Lindsay, Maurice, poet and writer, 1918-2009 1
MacColl, Dugald Sutherland, painter, 1859-1948 1
MacKenzie, Donald, illustrator, fl 1977 1
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