Scope and Contents A number of the letters are addressed to members of the family of William Blackwood the publisher (died 1834), and the correspondents include literary celebrities and eminent soldiers of the nineteenth-century. It includes: two pages of a manuscript by Fitzgerald Ross (no. 15) and letters of Roderick Murchison (no. 17), Elizabeth Gaskell (no. 50), Agnes Strickland (no. 52) and George Henry Lewes (no. 53). It also includes a certificate appointing George Frederick Blackwood a lieutenant in...

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The letters are of interest only as autographs, and it is clear from the mutilated state of the album, as well as from the index found in it, that many other letters are missing, the pages on which they had been pasted having been clumsily cut out.

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The letters are of interest only as autographs, and it is clear from the mutilated state of the album, as well as from the index found in it, that many other letters are missing, the pages on which they had been pasted having been clumsily cut out.

Scope and Contents The correspondents are political, literary, and clerical celebrities, chiefly English, of the nineteenth century. A number of letters are addressed to Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, physician, to whom the collection was presented by Mrs Bishop in 1886 (MS.7178, number 1). Most of the letters are of interest only as autographs but a few have further biographical or other interest, especially those of Thomas Arnold, Lord Byron, Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, Harriet Martineau, and Hannah More, in...

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Three books containing signatures of members of the International Brigades and of some members of the future Labour Cabinets of 1945 and thereafter.

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The album contains copies of verses, children's drawings, sketches of marine subjects by Charles Hutcheson himself, and other material. The watermark date is 1824.

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Autograph album, 1918-1920, of Alison E. Fraser, Birchwood, Inverness. The album contains many sketches, poems and handwritten notes from those who had stayed in or passed through Birchwood during this period. Many entries are by American and Canadian servicemen based in the area, including at Invergordon and Inverness.

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With inscriptions by, among others, Duncan Grant, Hugh MacDiarmid and Francis George Scott.

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Signatories include Elizabeth Schumann, John Ireland, Rosalyn Tureck, Yehudi Menuhin, Archie Camden, Barry Tuckwell, Cecil Aronowitz, and others, including members of the London Symphony Orchestra, 1931, and of the Cleveland Orchestra, 1967.

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Contains sketches, watercolours and verses.

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Much of the material is from letters to H F Lloyd written between 1838 and 1850 by members of the theatrical profession.

Scope and Contents Autograph album of the composer and accompanist of singers Jacca R A McLaren Hay, who lived in Stirling. Dated entries range from 1926 to 1986, and include photographs, signatures, drawings and some letters. Among those who signed are American pianist Martha Baird Rockefeller, the English contralto Clara Butt-Rumford, the English composer and pianist Percy Benedict Kahn, the Scottish tenor Joseph Hislop, the German mezzo-soprano singer Elena Gerhardt, the English pianist Ivor Newton, the...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...

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The autograph book contains a few entire letters sewn, pasted, or loosely tipped in.

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The George Adam Smith Archive, comprising correspondence and papers, 1859-1949, of the Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942), theologian, Moderator of the United Free Church General Assembly, 1916, and Principal of Aberdeen University, 1910-35; of his wife Lilian, née Buchanan (1866-1949) and her family; and of their family, particularly George Buchanan Smith (d.1915) and Robert Dunlop Smith (d.1917).