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Manuscripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Archives of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, consisting of incoming correspondence, lectures and papers read to the Society; including the original manuscript, 1871, of the essay of Robert Louis Stevenson, 'Intermittent Lights'.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4534/1-183
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise two distinct yet related groups, giving in all quite a comprehensive account of the Society's history, and spanning more than a century of rapid scientific and technological achievement.

Dates: 1819-1940, 1946, undated.