Archives and Manuscript Catalogue

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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.

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The sketches are chiefly undated but where dated range in year from 1863 to 1876. Although most of the sketches are of St Abb's Head, the Bass Rock, Tantallon, Holy Island, etc., there are some views of Perthshire, Jedburgh, Roxburgh, and other places inland. The collection also contains an unfinished drawing of Fernilee, subscribed 'The house were (sic) the "Flowers of the Forest" was written'.

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Contains sketches, watercolours and verses.

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Contains watercolours and pen and pencil sketches, mostly grotesques and cartoons but with some landscape and architectural drawings.

Scope and Contents A friendship or confession album in which are illustrated the likes and dislikes of various contributors. Several of the identifiable contributors are Scottish and others have links to Liverpool. Only 13 of the pre-printed album pages have been filled in. Contributors include:A M Brancker, probably Anne Mary Harrison (fl 1845-1901), née Brancker.D M Brancker, probably Dorette Maude Harris (1852-1924), née Brancker H J Brancker, probably Helen...

Scope and Contents Diary of Mary Elma Cumming Bruce (later Anstruther) from September 1889 to February 1890, which contains details of family, friends and parties during the time she spent mainly in Forres and Dunphail.There are numerous illustrations of members of her circle, local people, landscapes and sketches of various scenes including dancing, women with umbrellas, a game of tiddlywinks, a woman playing the piano and men waiting to vote entitled 'Morayshire voters'.Some of the...

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The author was one of a party who made a tour of inspection of Gottland in connection with a scheme, promoted by Robert Chambers, the publisher, to settle British farmers there. Their report was entirely adverse. The volume includes a printed prospectus of the scheme, relevant newspaper articles, and correspondence with Chambers, 1850, and is illustrated with several water-colour sketches.

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The contents are as follows: Journal of John Francis Campbell describing his time in Spain during a Mediterranean tour Campbell made while he was still a student at Eton, between 1841 and 1842 (Adv.MS.50.3.14, folios 18-86, 287-440);

Journal, 1831, of Matthew Boulton Rennie of a visit to Spain (MS.19949).

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The contents are compiled from official and other documents, and consist of: rolls of service of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who went to the Crimea; rolls of promotions, honours, and awards; detailed returns of the state and strength of the battalion, including medical reports; a journal of the campaigns and battles in which the battalion took part.

The notebook is illustrated with occasional sketches, ink and watercolour, and with two military poems.

Scope and Contents James Augustus Grant joined the Bengal Army in 1848 and was at the siege of Multan, the battle of Gujerat, and the relief of Lucknow. From 1860 to 1863 he was seconded to the Royal Geographical Society's expedition under John Hanning Speke, when the source of the Nile was identified and Uganda and southern Sudan visited. After further service in Kashmir and secondment to Napier's Abyssinian expedition, he retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1868. He was awarded the Gold Medal of...

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Includes architectural drawings, sketches, watercolours and photographs.

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Scottish scenes set at Forsinard, Sutherland, the English at Bradwell Grove, Oxon, and London and Cambridge; with scenes also in France and Egypt.

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According to a note inside the back cover, John Black was aged from 15 to 19 when he wrote the verses (1793-1797). There are a number of pen and ink and watercolour sketches.

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The manuscript contains a passage from the novel corresponding to page 30 and notes for another work. The sketch illustrates the scene described on page 30.

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

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,...

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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.