Plans (drawings).
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
13 watercolour plans of military fortifications attributed to Charles Bisset.
‘Beginning and the end of the Lewis Chemical Works', a detailed account written by D Morison, former foreman of the plant, of its operation from 1857 to 1874.
Cartularies of the Sligo family of Inzievar and Carmyle
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the extension of building shelving in the library.
Daybook of David Wallace, fencing contractor, Grantshouse, and his family providing a detailed account of the day to day workings of a small business.
The daybook is incomplete.
Microfilm of sketchbook of water-colour drawings, notes and plans by Thomas Scott, Earlston, chiefly of Scottish buildings in the Border area.
Notebook of Alexander Drysdale, containing material on trigonometry with calculations of heights and distances illustrated with drawings in watercolours.
One example is taken from Leith (folio 26). Also included are some sketch plans of property near Fergus, Ontario, farm accounts and miscellaneous notes, 1835-1838.
Papers of and concerning the painter Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922).
A member of the Glasgow School and a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Arthur Walton exhibited regularly at both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours.
Papers of John Rennie (1761-1821), engineer, and his son, Sir John Rennie (1794-1874).
Papers of the family of Borthwick of Crookston.
Papers of William Laidlaw.
File includes:
Plans for the shrubbery west of the House and Gardens, Abbotsford, 1812.
Two Light Dragoon regulation books used for notes by Sir Walter Scott and William Laidlaw, 1818-1819.
Eight letters From William Laidlaw and others to Alexander Laidlaw, Bowerhope, Selkirk, 1817-1840.
Five payslips signed by William Laidlaw for a private account, 1841-1842.