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Photographs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. (AAT) This heading was used in the NLS typescript manuscripts catalogue for all types of photographs, and for documents relating to photography. (NLS).

Found in 758 Collections and/or Records:

Letter, 1832, of Thomas Carlyle to Allan Cunningham.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11477
Scope and Contents

Carlyle praises and analyses Cunningham`s poem "The Maid of Elvar" and obliquely criticises the poetry of Sir Walter Scott.

Includes engravings and photographs of Carlyle, Carlyle-related locations, and one of Jane Welsh Carlyle inscribed by Thomas Carlyle in 1873.

Dates: 1832-1873.

Letter, 1841, of the Reverend John Hamilton.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6162
Scope and Contents

Concerning Wesleyan influence in Parliament.

With photograph, undated, of Hamilton.

Dates: 1841 and undated.

Letter and Christmas cards of Edith Simon to Dr Joan Basden, with two photographs.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14192
Scope and Contents Edith Simon [Mrs Edith Reeve] and Dr Joan Basden were housed at Mortonhall House, Edinburgh, with their husbands, Dr Eric Reeve and Eric Basden, who were attached to the National Animal Breeding and Genetics Research Organisation in the Institute of Animal Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. The folder contains five 'paper-cut' Christmas cards, 1967-1969 and n.d., handmade by Edith Simon for Joan Basden and her family; letter, 30 August 1957, on the occasion of Joan and Eric...
Dates: 1948-1969.

Letter of Duncan MacMillan, Auchnafad, Kintyre, and his wife Ann Ferguson (Anna NicFhearghais), Gaelic poet, to their daughter and son-in-law in Australia.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14333
Content Description Letter written by Duncan MacMillan, farmer in Achnafad, Kintyre, and husband of Ann Ferguson (Ann NicFhearghais), Gaelic poet. It is dated "Auchnafad May 26th 1856", and signed "Duncan and Ann Mac Millan". The letter is addressed to their daughter Margaret and son-in-law Angus Gilchrist, Australia, and contains family news. 4 pages.With three photographs showing: (i) a modern memorial stone for Duncan and Ann, erected by their grandson Hugh McMillan in Killean graveyard; ...
Dates: 1856.

Letter of Jane Welsh Carlyle to Catherine Hunter.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9185
Scope and Contents

With a photograph of Carlyle and three other Welsh family letters.

Dates: circa 1850-1865.

Letter of Joseph Stanley, Brighton to J. Greig, London.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12596
Scope and Contents

Includes photograph of Grove Lodge, Brighton.

Dates: 1907.

Letter of Siegfried Sassoon to Alice V. Stuart.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13350
Scope and Contents

Letter, 1961, of Siegried Sassoon to Alice V. Stuart concerning his collection `Paths to Peace` (Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1960), with A. V. Stuart`s copy of the book (number 152 of a limited edition of 500); with a photograph of John Masefield, signed and dedicated to A. V. Stuart.

Dates: 1961.

Letter of Thomas Carlyle to Mrs Stanley.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10385
Scope and Contents

With a photograph of Carlyle.

Dates: 1844.

Letter of William Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock, to Marie Gilroy, Pennart Publications.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9933
Scope and Contents

Concerns an enclosed photograph.

Dates: 1986.

Letters, 1841-1851, and photographic copies thereof, of the Earl of Crawford, styled Lord Lindsay, to James Dennistoun, and letters of Sir Coutts Lindsay and John Murray; with letters, 1951-1954, of Lord Crawford to Lindsay Fleming.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.5526/1-4
Scope and Contents

With photographs of Dennistoun`s letters, and 12 letters, 1951-1954, of Lord Crawford to Lindsay Fleming.

Dates: 1841-1851, 1951-1954.

Letters and other papers, 1887-1920, of the Reid and King families, relating to the First World War and life in Australia.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13540
Scope and Contents Letters and other papers, 1887-1920, of the Reid and King families. The papers consist of an Army pay book, 1887-1893, of Private James Reid, 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; a letter from Andrew Reid to his parents, 16 December [1916], describing his experiences on the Somme front during the First World War; 2 letters, 6 January 1918, of Mary King (nee Reid) to her mother, and to her sister, sent from New South Wales, Australia; a photograph of Mary with her husband, Andrew...
Dates: 1887-1920

Letters of and relating to Douglas Young. The recipient was Lord Robertson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12914
Scope and Contents

The letters mainly date from shortly after Douglas Young`s death in 1973. Correspondents include David Murison and Wilfred Taylor concerning a memorial publication. With related papers, one photograph and an inscribed copy of Young`s "Auntran Blads" (1943).

Dates: 1944-1976.

Letters of and to Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10909
Scope and Contents

With typescripts, undated, of prose pieces and verse including "Prisoners at War", photographs and press-cuttings.

Dates: 1943 and undated.

Letters of Captain Alexander Lindsay to his brother, Thomas Lindsay, merchant, Montrose. With a photograph of a portrait of Alexander Lindsay.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13230
Scope and Contents

27 letters and one bill of lading of Alexander Lindsay to Thomas Lindsay. The letters are written from ports visited by Alexander Linsday during his career as a sea captain. Places visited include Calcutta, Madras, the Cape of Good Hope, Havre de Graca, Hamburg, as well as Portsmouth and London. One letter tells of his imprisonment by the French and an attack by pirates. With a photograph of a portrait of Alexander Lindsay.

Dates: 1789-1799.

Letters of Chrissie Jamieson, emigrant in New Zealand, to Peggy Greig, and a related photograph.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13114
Scope and Contents

Chrissie and Walter Jamieson lived at Dover and Torquay during WWI. Walter was in the army during the Great War. In March 1919 they sailed on the KMS `Tanui` through the Panama Canal to New Zealand. By 1926 they lived at 42 Calgary St, Auckland. They had four sons, two of whom, Eric and Ian, born March 1926, were twins. After demob Walter Jamieson went back to housebuilding, because the farms being offered to former servicement were poor land.

Dates: 1917-1926.

Letters of Dot and Biddy, emigrants in New Zealand, to Peggy Greig, and related photographs.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13113
Scope and Contents

Dot and Biddy appear to have been teachers in New Zealand. Their first address in 1908 was Anderson`s Bay, Dunedin. In 1909 they were living at 9 Draper Rd, Richmond, Christchurch and then at 49 Worcester St, Linwood, Christchurch.

Dates: 1908-1910.

Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, with some related literary papers and photographs.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13344/1-14
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, including enclosures of poems, cuttings and other notes. Many of the poems and acrostics were written by Brown as gifts for special occasions, including one for Crawford's wedding in 1991 to Graham McGirk.

The collection also includes the uncorrected typescript of 'The ballad of the golden bird', published as 'The golden bird' (John Murray, 1987), which Brown dedicated to Kenna Crawford.

Dates: 1985-1995.

Letters of Isobel Field, née Osbourne, (`Teuila`), step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, to Charles Paine.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12014
Scope and Contents

Includes Isobel Field`s "Precious Book" containing notes on art technique and a photograph of her in old age.

Dates: 1936-1948.

Letters of Jemima Barr, emigrant to Rhodesia, to her friend Margaret Proudfoot Greig, and a photograph album.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13102
Scope and Contents Correspondence, 1914-1933, and photographic album, c. 1910s-1920s, of Jemima Barr (b. circa 1888, Kinleith, Currie) largely from Salisbury, now Harare, and other locations in Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, to her friend Margaret Proudfoot Greig.Jemima Barr, also known as Jimmie, emigrated to Zimbabwe around 1913 to work as a teacher in Salisbury High School. She married Andrew Carroll, probably a farmer or businessman, on 18 December 1917 in Scots Church in Salisbury....
Dates: 1914-1933.