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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notes added as comment or explanation, such as those accompanying an entry in a bibliography, reading list, or catalogue intended to describe, explain, or evaluate the publication referred to.

Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:

Scribal copy of letter, 1643, of Oliver Cromwell to Lawrence Crawford

 File
Identifier: Acc.5003
Scope and Contents

With annotated transcript and notes, circa 1840-circa 1845, of Thomas Carlyle.

Dates: 1643-circa 1845

Seven letters of John Claudius Loudon to John Milne, Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10709
Scope and Contents

On subjects connected with architecture, gardening, natural history and publishing in these fields.

Together with copy letter, 1832, of Milne to Loudon, and an annotated prospectus for Loudon`s "Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture" (1832).

Dates: 1829-1832.

Short book of verses and caricatures by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepdaughter, Mrs Strong.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8791
Scope and Contents The book describes Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepdaughter's famous visit, paid in company with the Countess of Jersey, to the rebel king Mataafa at Malie (see ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’, volume iv, pages 223-234). Three letters, 1892, of Stevenson are also included. One, apparently unpublished, is addressed to Mataafa and the other two (see ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’, volume iv, pages 216-217) to 'Amelia Balfour', a pseudonym for Lady Jersey. All these items...
Dates: 1892.

Society of Writers to Her Majesty`s Signet manuscripts.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4245
Scope and Contents

Including mediaeval vellum fragments, facsimiles of letters and documents (with some original manuscripts), and annotated printed items.

Dates: circa 1200-circa 1900.

Testimonials and other notices, 1837, concerning the election of David Laing as Librarian of the Signet Library.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.8543
Scope and Contents

With two annontated copies (one a proof), 1890, of "History of the Society of Writers to... [the] Signet".

Dates: 1837-1890.

"The Course of Hannibal over the Alps Ascertained" (London, 1794) by John Whitaker and annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12456
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript [laid in] of "Hannibals [sic] Passage thro` the Alps, According to, Gen[era]l Melville", watermarked 1801-1802 and endorsed by A F Tytler. Not in the hand of General Robert Melville.

Dates: 1794-1802.

Transcripts, circa 1806, of letters, 1746-1758, of James Hervey made for the Reverend John Brown.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9900
Scope and Contents

With annotations by Brown.

Dates: 1746-circa 1806.

Two home-produced magazines and related printed books (annotated) of George Henry Nettle.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11805
Scope and Contents

The 1914 magazine "The Rambler" contains many pastel/pencil drawings and photographs of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison`s funeral procession, 1913.

Dates: circa 1894-1939.

Typescript copy of "Country Magazine", nos 25-50, a series of BBC Home Service broadcasts, 1943-1944, annotated by Francis Collinson, and a typescript copy of a Scottish Home Service broadcast, 1955.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11745
Scope and Contents

The Scottish Home Service broadcast typescript is of "A Scottish Journey", in which Collinson makes a musical journey of Scotland.

Dates: 1943-1955 and undated.

Typescript, undated, of 'Tarravore', a play in three acts by James Shaw Grant (born 1910), director of Grampian Television and author of books on the Highlands.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26489
Scope and Contents

The typescript is annotated for a production by the Park Theatre, Glasgow.

Dates: Mid 20th century.

"Virgil's Æneis", translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh, 1710); the glossary is heavily annotated by John Jamieson.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14240
Scope and Contents

There are some notes by O K Schram inside the front cover concerning this edition of Gavin Douglas's text.

Dates: 1710, [1808, or before.]

Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1813-1815
Scope and Contents

The material described here would appear to relate to further revision by John Philp Wood of his revised and corrected edition of 1813 of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’.

Dates: 19th century.