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Leith. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.1667. Latitude: 55.9500.

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Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Commonplace Book containing drawings of scenery, characters, flora and fauna and miscellanous verse.

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Identifier: Acc.13650
Scope and Contents

This volume contains numerous illustrations including the `Costume of the Ladies of Edinburgh, Spring 1828`, a drawing of the Water of Leith, a man in Albanian costume in southern Italy, the ruins of a Roman temple in Palmyra in Syria, together with flora and fauna. There are also verses from Shakespeare, Byrone, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton and James Thomson.

Dates: 1828-1847, undated.

Copies of registration books and related documents of three Merchant Navy seamen.

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Identifier: Acc.11555
Scope and Contents

Papers mostly document work for shipping companies based or registered in Leith.

Dates: 1937-1981.

Legal papers of the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers.

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Identifier: Acc.9323
Scope and Contents

Concerning Leith Links.

Dates: 1803-1805.

Letter of John Ellington to Thomas Pengelly in London.

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Identifier: Acc.10685
Scope and Contents

Concerns ships in Leith.

Dates: 1667.

Papers concerning persons named Thomson.

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Identifier: Acc.4310
Scope and Contents

Comprising marriage contracts, 1690, 1781, bond, 1690, and two other papers, 1798, 1804 (Leith and Musselburgh).

Dates: 1690-1804.

Receipt of the Edinburgh and Leith Shipping Company.

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Identifier: Acc.4556
Scope and Contents

For shipment of a box from London to Leith to Messrs J Smith and Son.

Dates: 1809.

Scrapbook, 19th century, including letters of Sir Charles L Eastlake and Sir Richard Westmacott, with other unassociated papers.

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Identifier: Acc.5295
Scope and Contents

Including:

1. "Dr Gordon`s Journal Overland from India", volume 2, 1828

2. Sketchbook, 19th century, of K Russell

3. three sketchbooks, 1881-1923 of Maggie Murray

4. valuation, 1881-1887, of Leith.

Dates: 19th century.

Sketchbook of Thomas Henry Graham of views recording a tour in Scotland and northern England

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Identifier: Acc.13510
Scope and Contents Thomas Henry Graham`s sketchbook provides a visual record of a tour in Scotland of 1812. The sketchbook opens with several drawings of views of and near to his home Edmond Castle, in Cumbria. Graham travelled to Scotland via Northumberland and there are drawings of Newcastle, Alnwick, Belford Castle, Bamburgh Castle and the Farne Islands. Drawings in Scotland include views of Dunbar, Edinburgh, the firth of Forth, Holyrood House, Leith Harbour, Glasgow, Dumbarton Castle, the Cairndow Inn at...
Dates: 1812