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Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5510-5721A
Scope and Contents After serving his apprenticeship as Secretary and Chargé d'Affaires at the courts of Munich, Ratisbon, Berlin, Turin and Madrid, Robert Liston was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid in 1784.After leaving Madrid he was the British Representative at Stockholm, Constantinople, Washington, The Hague, and again at Constantinople.Within each regional section there are two main categories, official and personal. The first contains documents, with instructions or...
Dates: 1756-1832.

Papers of Stewart Sim.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11125
Scope and Contents

Includes architectural drawings, sketches, watercolours and photographs.

Dates: 1913-circa 1975.

Papers of William Stuart Henry.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6177
Scope and Contents

Including notebooks, sketches, poems, and correspondence concerning his work.

Dates: circa 1942-1967.

Papers relating to the military service of Lieutenant Walter R Cuthbert, RFA, in Mesopotamia and India.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12808
Scope and Contents

Includes a list of photographs taken in Mesopotamia, papers connected with Cuthbert`s post-war claims for arrears of pay and allowances, a receipt from British Empire Union and copies of sketches by Mrs Cuthbert (Wendy Wood) made during her husband`s RFA training.

Dates: 1918-1919.

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.

Pencil and ink sketches by Wendy Wood, Scottish Nationalist, of children performing at concerts of the Waddell School of Music, Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12877
Scope and Contents

Includes press cutting and printed "Memories of the Waddell School of Music" (1988).

Dates: 1969-1977.

Pencil sketches, 1894-1897, by the Edinburgh artist Murray Macdonald throughout the trade catalogue, 1892, of Winsor and Newton Ltd., London.

 File
Identifier: MS.20348
Scope and Contents

Almost all the sketches are unidentified portraits and caricatures.

Dates: 1892, 1894-1897.

Personal papers of William Crosbie.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13367
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1933-1972, of the artist William Crosbie (1915-1999), with related printed material, circa 1943-1990. This small collection of material was apparently cleared from his studio at 12 Ruskin Lane, Glasgow, many years after his death.

Dates: 1933-1972.

Photocopies of articles and press cuttings concerning Braehead School, Buckhaven.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12295
Scope and Contents

Includes sketches and ephemera of the school.

Dates: 1964-2001.

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.

Photocopies of sketches by John Behan.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8457
Scope and Contents

Made at the opening of the "Broadsheet" exhibition at National Library of Scotland on 5 February 1983.

Dates: 1983.

Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).

 File
Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated

Plan of the estate of Freefield, Aberdeenshire, belonging to Alexander Leith, by John Hutchison.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7755
Scope and Contents

Including various measurements and statistics concerning the estate, and a sketch of the south east prospect of Freefield House in 1756.

Dates: 1736-1756.

Poem of John MacTaggart.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13658
Scope and Contents

Poem by John MacTaggart, brother of the painter William MacTaggart, on unrequited love.

A sketch of an old man with a lantern marked `Uncle Willie` is attached on the sheet.

Dates: 1878.

Portfolio of W A Hall, apprentice cartographer at John Bartholomew and Son Ltd.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11281
Scope and Contents

Includes art, calligraphy and illustrating stages of map production.

Dates: 1938-1946.

"Prayers and Religious Meditations", 1733-1736.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6062
Scope and Contents

With engineering notes and sketches, circa 1824, loosely inserted.

Dates: 1733-1736, circa 1824.

Records of the Scots Club, London.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9943
Scope and Contents

Includes:

four minute books, 1911-1930, 1936-1938

sketches, including one by James McBey

ten letters of J M Barrie, and two of Viscount Haldane

a cartoon and a photograh, 1911, depicting members

two letters, 1961, of James Bone, concerning relics of the Club.

Dates: 1911-1961.

Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)-(vi)
Dates: 13th century-17th century.

Shooting diary kept at Lude House, Blair Atholl.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7051
Scope and Contents

Including notes and sketches.

Dates: 1883-1884.

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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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