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A few leaves of a smaller format are inserted loose at the end.

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Small quantities of letters and papers of other members of Mary E Haldane's family are contained in different parts of the collection. Also contained is a small quantity of letters and papers to Anne, wife of General Sir David Baird, and her sister Catherine Campbell Preston.

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A collection of curious facts, comic anecdotes, verse, etc., chiefly of Scottish interest, including 'Manners of the inhabitants of Glasgow in former times' (folio 31) and a list of proverbs (folio 35).

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The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.

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The portraits have been cut out of larger sheets or sketchbooks and mounted in albums. Most of the sitters are unidentified. In accordance with Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's practice (see ‘Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe’, volume i, pages 21, 40) the heads are completed in watercolours but the rest of the figure and any background are usually only sketched in pencil.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Campaign of 1704. Order of march, probably for the troops commanded by Lieutenant-General Charles Churchill, from Bedburg to the Danube and Blenheim, and back to Weissemburg, 20 March-12 September. (Page 1.)(ii) Campaign of 1705. Order of march from the Maas to Herzogenrath, 15-16 May, and from the Moselle through the Eifel to the union with Overkirk's army near Haneff, 19 June-12 July; for movements connected with the attack on the...

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Most drawings depict scenes, both in Scotland and abroad.

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Several leaves have been torn out at various places throughout the volume and folios 82-98 are blank.

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The plates and woodcuts were deposited with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by the Trustees of David Laing, 1881 (see folio i).

Loose photographs of seals, some bearing numbers corresponding with those in Henry Laing, ‘Supplemental descriptive catalogue of ancient Scottish seals’ (Edinburgh, 1866), have been pasted in at the end.

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The papers consist of notebooks containing notes on and for lectures and essays chiefly on philosophy (MSS.20213-20219), a quantity of writings on various topics (many incomplete) written on loose sheets (MSS.20220-20222) and press cuttings concerning the death and funeral of Richard B Haldane (MS.20223).

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The contents are as follows: (i) A letter of T G N Haldane and telegrams of congratulation from various people to Mary E Haldane on her ninety-ninth birthday in 1924 (folio 1);

(ii) Press cuttings concerning celebrations marking her hundredth birthday in 1925 (folio 56);

(iii) Telegrams of condolence to her children on her death in 1925 (folio 72).

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A small number of items relate to formal and ceremonial occasions at which Aylmer Haldane was present, and to his published writings.

Also pasted in are a few items, 1943, 1945, undated, concerning Haldane’s sister Alice (numbers 164-168), and obituary notices, 1950, of him (numbers 192-194).

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A few cuttings found loosely enclosed have been pasted in at folio 60 verso-62. The indexed leaves at the front of the volume have not been used.

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The cuttings, collected chiefly through a press-cutting agency, apparently by Richard Haldane, are from British, French and German papers. A few cuttings found loosely enclosed have been pasted in at folios 39 verso-50. Also enclosed are three photographs (folios 2-4) and an invitation card (folio 30). The indexed leaves at the front of the album contain no entries.

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As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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Album consisting largely of letters, press-cuttings and printed notices on lectures on ornithology given by John P. Ritchie and letters concerning his film of the evacuation of St Kilda. With family invitations, notices and press cuttings.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The caricatures, which date from about 1870 to 1932, the year before the artist's death, depict many celebrities of the artistic, musical, and literary worlds, by whom the house of his father, Alfred James Hipkins, the musical antiquary, was much frequented.At the beginning of MS.2919 is a biographical notice of Hipkins by his sister; there are portraits of him by her, 1879, at the beginning of MSS.2923-2924, 2926; and his own caricatures of himself appear in MSS.2919 (page 25),...

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The album contains sketches of Frederic Leighton, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the pre-Raphaelites, etc.

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The caricatures are chiefly of Dr A J Ellis and Charles Keene, particular friends of the Hipkins family.