Albums.
Found in 276 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of the Cottam and Ironside families.
Comprising:
album, 1825, of Eliza Letitia Cottam
album, after 1812, of John Tatham Cottam
correspondence, 1814, 1832-1833, 1838, 1846, of Ralph Anthony Ironside, of Fennochside, including four letters of the 10th Duke of Hamilton.
Papers of the Earls of Minto and other members of the family., 1791-1888, undated.
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.
Papers of W Oliver Brown.
Mostly concerning the Scottish Nationalist movement.
Includes an essay, press cuttings, and correspondence from amongst others, C M Grieve and Sir Compton Mackenzie.
Pen and ink drawings of views in Edinburgh and vicinity.
Possibly made for engraving.
Photocopies of preliminaries and introduction by Sidney Roscoe to his and R A Brimmell`s bibliography of James Lumsden and Son, corrected by the author.
With photocopies of Lumsden title pages mounted in a loose leaf binder.
Photographs, maps and watercolours, compiled by Nikolai Vasilievich Poggenpol.
Concerning mountaineering expedition to Digoria, Balkaria, and Bezingi, in the Caucasus.
Photographs of Charles Murray., Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.
Portraits drawn by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe in pencil, ink and watercolours.
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.
"Prayers and Religious Meditations", 1733-1736.
With engineering notes and sketches, circa 1824, loosely inserted.
Presentation photo albums and papers of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, mostly relating to his role as Chief Scout.
Press cutting album containing letters, 1927-1930, undated, to W B Moonie tipped in, and press cuttings concerning Moonie pasted in., 1907, 1919-1950, undated.
Apart from a fragment of a printed programme, 1907, pasted inside the front cover the items appear to date from 1919 to 1950, but many of the press cuttings are undated and the sources unidentified (though presumably from Edinburgh newspapers). Almost half of the volume is unused.
Press cutting album containing reviews of 'Shakespeare - and that crush' and 'The hilarious universe' by Richard Dark., 1931-1932.
Press cuttings and typescripts, with manuscript corrections, of articles of Seton Gordon.
Mostly on Scottish birds.
Press cuttings collected by John Purves., 1899-1960, undated.
Press cuttings concerning Richard B Haldane (later Viscount Haldane)., 1885-1912, 1924, undated.
There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.
Press cuttings of reviews of published works of Seton Gordon.
Press-cuttings relating to Sir Walter Scott, in an album., 1920-1937.
Prospectus and subscribers` letters of Alexander MacDonald edition of A Mylne, "Vitae Episcoporum Dunkeddensium".
"Records of the Literary Society of Glasgow, 1764-79. Transcribed from the Society's Minutes, 1830", by William James Duncan.
Records of the Scottish Youth Hostels Association
Saltire Society presscutting albums and loose presscuttings., 1937-1980s.
Records of the Saltire Society including minutes, reports and correspondence. The Society's aims are the strengthening and preservation of Scottish culture and tradition, and its archives reflect its numerous activities in these fields.