Sketches.
Found in 343 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook of Professor Thomas Stewart Traill relating to Orkney, with illustrated accounts of Orcadian history and geography., 1833-1838.
Notebook of Professor Thomas Stewart Traill relating to Orkney, with illustrated accounts of Orcadian history and geography., 1833-1838.
Notebook of Robert G Sutherland senior, containing estimates, sketches and miscellaneous notes., 1929-1931.
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.
Notebook of Robert Louis Stevenson containing drafts of poems, sketches, notes for ‘The black arrow’ and other jottings., ?1883.
The notebook includes 'Lord Nelson and the tar' (folio 2), as well as three other published and several unpublished poems. The sketches may be designs for woodblocks to illustrate the 'Moral emblems'.
Notebook of Ruthven Todd containing shopping lists, addresses, sketches and other miscellaneous jottings., 1967.
Notebook of Sir James Hall entitled "Chemical Experiments made with a view to obviate some of the difficulties in Dr Hutton's 'Theory of the Earth'"., 1798-1802.
The notebooks give a day to day account, with sketches, of experiments made between 1798 and 1806. Most of the material is embodied in a paper read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 3rd June 1805, entitled 'Account of a series of experiments, showing the effects of compression in modifying the action of heat'.
Notebook of Sir James Hall entitled "Chemical Experiments made with a view to obviate some of the difficulties in Dr Hutton's 'Theory of the Earth'"., 1803-1806, 1809.
The volume also contains a letter, 1805, from Josiah Byerley, who helped James Hall in some of his experiments (folio 180); and two letters, 1809, to Edward Blore, possibly about the illustrations to Hall's ‘Essay on the origin, history and principles of gothic architecture' (London, 1813) (folios 191, 193).
Notebook of the 3rd Earl of Minto containing pencil sketches., 1859.
Notebook, undated, of John Gibson Lockhart., Early 19th century.
The notebooks contain sketches of German students and other subjects, notes of autobiographical allusions in the Waverley Novels, notes of law-cases, etc.
Notebook, undated, of John Gibson Lockhart., Early 19th century.
The notebooks contain sketches of German students and other subjects, notes of autobiographical allusions in the Waverley Novels, notes of law-cases, etc.
Notebook, undated, of Ruthven Todd containing shopping lists, addresses, sketches and other miscellaneous jottings., 3rd quarter of 20th century.
Notebooks of Sir James Hall entitled "Chemical experiments made with a view to obviate some of the difficulties in Dr Hutton's 'Theory of the Earth'".
The notebooks give a day to day account, with sketches, of experiments made between 1798 and 1806. Most of the material is embodied in a paper read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 3rd June 1805, entitled 'Account of a series of experiments, showing the effects of compression in modifying the action of heat'.
Notebooks, undated, of John Gibson Lockhart., Early 19th century.
The notebooks contain sketches of German students and other subjects, notes of autobiographical allusions in the Waverley Novels, notes of law-cases, etc.
Notes and sketches for pottery designs., 1976-2001, undated.
Recipes, tests, firing schedules, samples, sketches, and other papers of Margery Clinton relating to the production of pottery, her masters' thesis, and her book, 'Working with lustres'.
Notes of the characters and major scenes, sketch map of Kinraddie, and a manuscript draft of some of the scenes by Bill Craig, of the BBC television production of 'Sunset song', by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'., 1970.
Notes on various subjects by Mrs Mary Graham., 1780-1791, undated.
'On Monograms' by John Sliegh, criticizing John E Hodgkin, 'Monograms'., Late 19th century.
The volume contains monograms devised by John Sliegh, postcards written by him, 1871-1874, a notice of him by Miss Hipkins (folio iii), and sketches of him by John A Hipkins (folio 11).
Original sketch by Sir George Reid for the menu of the dinner given in the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle on the occasion of the first meeting of the Franco-Scottish Society in Edinburgh., 15 July 1897.
Original sketch for Faculty of Advocates Library book-plate.
Papers and sketch maps relating to conferences organised by the Scottish Association for Mental Health., Circa 1972-1974.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Papers concerning town planning and geographical matters., 1924-1953, undated.
Papers formerly loosely enclosed in MSS.21072-21095: Diaries of John Chisholm., 1889-1925.
The papers consist of diaries of John Chisholm for January-March 1908, December 1908-January 1909, 11 November 1918, and June-September 1925; a translation of Horace, 'Odes' III 30, 1889; a postcard, 1915, of Walwyn Tyson from internment in Germany; a photograph of Jedburgh Abbey; two sketches, one dated 1920; and press cuttings, 1889-1928, chiefly obituaries.
Papers in the hand of Lady Elliot (wife of Sir Gilbert, 3rd Baronet)., 1758-[?Circa 1777], undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Memorandum of family and political events, 1758 (folio 1); (ii) Biographical sketches of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, ?ca. 1777 (folio 5); (iii) Satirical notes on some of Lady Elliot's friends, undated (folio 13); (iv) Devotional papers, 1766, undated (folio 15).
Papers, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, sketches and correspodence, of William McArthur.
Including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, and sketches, and circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.