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The artwork was a gift to Peter Haining.

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Fold-out map, 'Politique et itinéraire' chez Hyancinth Langlois, 522x505mm of Italy, Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia.

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Papers, 19th-20th century, relating to the family of the 7th and 8th Dukes of Argyll especially the circle of Joan Glassel, second wife of John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, and her children and grandchildren.

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The manuscript is watermarked 1806, and is dated page 24 (in S) 19th June 1810, page 237 (end of S) 14th September 1810, page 241 (beginning of T) 15th September 1810, page 347 (end of T) 6th October 1810, page 349 (beginning of UV) 19th October 1810.

2 folios at end have been torn out, thus leaving the text incomplete at Yerk. Contains a sheet of paper bearing the address in London of a John Stewart Esquire (non-scribal hand), and three pressed plants.

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Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, press-cuttings and related papers, 1903-1959, n.d., of and relating largely to the expeditions of polar exploration and scientific discovery, travel and mountaineering activities of Sir James Mann Wordie, Master of St John’s College, Cambridge (1889-1962).

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The journal is illustrated with small pencil sketches and contains pressed flowers inserted into the leaves. A leaf is cut out between folios 21 and 22. Press cuttings formerly loosely enclosed in the volume at folios 21 and 85 are pasted in at folio 79.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection consists of correspondence, publications and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie (1913–1998) and his family. Robert Blair Wilkie was the curator of the Old Glasgow Museum 1965-1998 (formerly known as the People’s Palace Museum). Active member of the Scottish Nationalist movement (joined Scottish Nationalist Association under John MacCormick in 1937), in 1945 he was the SNP candidate in West Renfrewshire, and in the following year he was appointed editor of the Scots Independent...

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Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...