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The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...

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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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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.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The correspondents are political, literary, and clerical celebrities, chiefly English, of the nineteenth century. A number of letters are addressed to Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, physician, to whom the collection was presented by Mrs Bishop in 1886 (MS.7178, number 1). Most of the letters are of interest only as autographs but a few have further biographical or other interest, especially those of Thomas Arnold, Lord Byron, Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, Harriet Martineau, and Hannah More, in...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The correspondents are political, literary, and clerical celebrities, chiefly English, of the nineteenth century. A number of letters are addressed to Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, physician, to whom the collection was presented by Mrs Bishop in 1886 (MS.7178, number 1). Most of the letters are of interest only as autographs but a few have further biographical or other interest, especially those of Thomas Arnold, Lord Byron, Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, Harriet Martineau, and Hannah More, in...

Scope and Contents 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 manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

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Many of the poems are repeated.

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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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The album contains photographs and details of climbs and skiing activities in Scotland (including Aviemore, Braemar, Corrour, Crianlarich, Dalmally, Glencoe, Killin, Loch Awe, Skye and Tyndrum) and Switzerland.

There are many blank folios at the back of this album.

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The album contains photographs and details of climbs in Scotland (including Arran, Arrochar, Ben Nevis, Crianlarich, Fort William, Lochearnhead and Skye), France, Italy and Switzerland.

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The album contains photographs and details of climbs in Scotland (including Arran, Arrochar, Aviemore, Ben Lomond, Braemar, Crianlarich, Fort William, Glencoe, Killin, Tyndrum), Italy, Switzerland and Wales.

This album covers a climbing trip to the Alps during the summer of 1914, which was cut short by the declaration of war.

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The album contains photographs and details of climbs chiefly in Scotland (including Arran, Arrochar, Ben Nevis, Edinburgh, Glen Coe, Skye and Tyndrum), with some details of from climbs in Switzerland.

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The album contains photographs and details of climbs in Scotland (including Aaron, Arrochar, Aviemore, Ben Nevis, Blair Atholl, Braemar, Crianlarich, Fort William, Killin, Kinlochewe, Newtonmore, Skye and Torridon) and Switzerland.

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The album contains photographs and details of climbs in Scotland (including Arran, Arrochar, Ben Nevis, Fort William, Glencoe, Killin, Lochinver, Skye, Tyndrum), the Lake District and Switzerland.

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Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

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The notes, which are arranged alphabetically in order of families, include extracts from early official records, but consist chiefly of notices of marriages, deaths, etc., taken from modern newspapers. The compilation is incomplete, and there are many blank pages.

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The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

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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.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.