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“A fortnight's cruise in the Ailsa from June 29 to July 13 1892”.
Item
Identifier: MS.9231
Scope and Contents
An account of a voyage in an RNYC yacht round the Western Islands, by an unidentified author, illustrated with photographs, water-colour drawings, and pen sketches of the party, crew and scenery.
The party includes Jessie, Rae, Fred and cousin A. Rintoul and others.
The crew were Captain Peter MacNichol, Jack MacMillan, John MacAllister, Ronald MacDonald, Malcolm Wilkie and Dugald MacGillivray.
Dates:
1892.
Album, containing notes taken by the father of Thomas Ross, the architect, of sermons preached by the Reverend John Caird, and drawings by Ross.
Item
Identifier: MS.3646
Scope and Contents
The sermons were preached in Errol Church in 1851 (folio 1).
Some of Thomas Ross's drawings bear dates from 1858 to 1919 (chiefly architectural sketches and designs), and some are evidently juvenile. Loose drawings and a sermon (folio 94) have been pasted in.
Dates:
1851, 1858-1919, undated.
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Item
Identifier: MS.3009
Scope and Contents
Hugh Scott of Draycott (Draycot, Draycote) House, a Captain in the East India Marine, was a son of Walter Scott of Raeburn (died 1830) and cousin of Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford. The album, compiled by Hugh Scott's descendants, contains letters of Sir Walter Scott and members of his family, printed matter relating to the subscription raised to purchase Abbotsford for the Scott family, drawings and photographs of Draycott, notes on family history by William Scott of Raeburn (died 1855),...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-1936.
Artwork by Alasdair Gray for his novel 'Old men in love'.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12915/1-4
Scope and Contents
This collection includes all of the original artwork for the novel 'Old men in love' (Bloomsbury, 2007).
Dates:
2007.
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3241-3243
Dates:
1796-1885, undated.
Letters and artwork proposals, including sketches and drawings, of Ian Hamilton Finlay, with related drawings, designs and papers of Michael Harvey, letter cutter.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13394
Scope and Contents
A substantial archive of letters, papers, drawings, designs and ephemera of Ian Hamilton Finlay, gathered by one of his major collaborators, the lettering artist and typographer Michael Harvey. The collection comprises over 200 letters, notes, proposals and designs of Ian Hamilton Finlay, and a quantity of material including drawings and plans by Michael Harvey created in response to Finlay`s proposals, with some copies of Harvey’s letters. Accompanying papers include a number of letters of...
Dates:
1970-2006
Manuscript of the English text of the `Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern` by Sir Robert Sibbald; with maps.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.15.1.1-15.1.1a
Dates:
1595-[Circa 1682.]
Microfilm of eight ledgers of Alasdair Gray, containing work notes for stories, poems, plays, and his last novel, with draft of letters and many diary entries.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2061-2062
Dates:
1945-2008.
Original artwork, including preliminary sketches and two versions of the front cover of Cam Kennedy`s graphic edition of Robert Louis Stevenson`s "Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde".
File
Identifier: Acc.12986
Dates:
circa 2008.
Papers of O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11310
Scope and Contents
Includes family correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, sketches, drawings, photographs and personal memorabilia.
Dates:
1899-1953 and undated.
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.
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.
Sketches, drawings, and designs for bookplates, letter heads and illustrations by Walter Reid.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8621
Dates:
circa 1860-1870.
Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.
Item
Identifier: MS.6299
Scope and Contents
There is an index on folio 1; the songs begin on folio 5.The Scottish songs appear to come mainly from Allan Ramsay's ‘Tea table miscellany’ and David Herd's ‘Ancient and modern Scottish songs’ (1776), though some of the songs may have been picked up by ear, as they include a very debased version of Henry Carey's 'Sally in our alley' (folio 17 verso) and "My heart's in the Highlands" in an apparently unknown version different from that of Burns (folio 81 verso)....
Dates:
18th century.