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Sketches.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Rough or summary art works; less finished than studies. Though sketches are often in the drawing medium, the term ""drawings"" in general implies more finished works than does ""sketches"" .

Found in 266 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook of Robert G Sutherland senior, containing estimates, sketches and miscellaneous notes., 1929-1931.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26669
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: 1929-1931.

Notebook of Robert Louis Stevenson containing drafts of poems, sketches, notes for ‘The black arrow’ and other jottings., ?1883.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19637
Scope and Contents

The notebook includes 'Lord Nelson and the tar' (folio 2), as well as three other published and several unpublished poems.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'.

Dates: ?1883.

Notebook of Ruthven Todd containing shopping lists, addresses, sketches and other miscellaneous jottings., 1967.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26869
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Ruthven Todd was born and educated in Edinburgh, and from 1932 to 1934 worked as a farm labourer in Mull before moving to London where he joined the Bohemian world of writers and artists in Fitzrovia. In 1947, he left for the United States where he eventually settled in Martha's Vineyard and became an American citizen. From 1960 until his death, he lived in the Balearic island of Majorca.Most of the papers date from Todd's Majorcan period, but because he based much of his work on...
Dates: 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.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5019
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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'.

Dates: 1798-1802.

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.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5020
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1803-1806, 1809.

Notebook of the 3rd Earl of Minto containing pencil sketches., 1859.

 Item
Identifier: MS.12323
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Hugh Elliot Murray Kynynmound was the eldest surviving son of the 2nd Earl of Minto, who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1814 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1859. He was Member of Parliament for Hythe, 1837-1841, for Greenock, 1847-1852, and for Clackmannan and Kinross, 1857-1859; served as chairman of the Lunacy Commission, Scotland, 1857. As an active back-bench MP and peer, who was closely related to some of the leading political figures of his time - he was, for example, the...
Dates: 1859.

Notebook, undated, of John Gibson Lockhart., Early 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1623
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The notebooks contain sketches of German students and other subjects, notes of autobiographical allusions in the Waverley Novels, notes of law-cases, etc.

Dates: Early 19th century.

Notebook, undated, of John Gibson Lockhart., Early 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1624
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The notebooks contain sketches of German students and other subjects, notes of autobiographical allusions in the Waverley Novels, notes of law-cases, etc.

Dates: Early 19th century.

Notebook, undated, of Ruthven Todd containing shopping lists, addresses, sketches and other miscellaneous jottings., 3rd quarter of 20th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26870
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Ruthven Todd was born and educated in Edinburgh, and from 1932 to 1934 worked as a farm labourer in Mull before moving to London where he joined the Bohemian world of writers and artists in Fitzrovia. In 1947, he left for the United States where he eventually settled in Martha's Vineyard and became an American citizen. From 1960 until his death, he lived in the Balearic island of Majorca.Most of the papers date from Todd's Majorcan period, but because he based much of his work on...
Dates: 3rd quarter of 20th century.

Notebooks, undated, of John Gibson Lockhart., Early 19th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1623-1624
Scope and Contents

The notebooks contain sketches of German students and other subjects, notes of autobiographical allusions in the Waverley Novels, notes of law-cases, etc.

Dates: Early 19th century.

Notes and sketches for pottery designs., 1976-2001, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12879/91-92
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

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'.

Dates: 1976-2001, undated.

Notes on various subjects by Mrs Mary Graham., 1780-1791, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3634
Scope and Contents The contents, on cards, are as follows.(i) Notes of a tour, starting from Balgowan in August 1780, mentioning capture by an American privateer, and covering the journey described in MSS.3628-3629 and return to Great Britain (folio 1);(ii) Notes of Mary Graham's movements in Great Britain, 1790 (folio 2);(iii) Notes on plants, 1791 (folio 3);(iv) Notes on poultry, 1791 (folio 6);(v) Notes from books (folio 8);(vi) Sketch...
Dates: 1780-1791, undated.

'On Monograms' by John Sliegh, criticizing John E Hodgkin, 'Monograms'., Late 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2930
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: Late 19th century.

Papers formerly loosely enclosed in MSS.21072-21095: Diaries of John Chisholm., 1889-1925.

 File
Identifier: MS.21096
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1889-1925.

Papers in the hand of Lady Elliot (wife of Sir Gilbert, 3rd Baronet)., 1758-[?Circa 1777], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.12822
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1758-[?Circa 1777], undated.

Papers of and concerning Sir Walter Scott., [?1622-?1844], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1583
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Writings and notes of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly in his autograph. They include letters to James Bailey, 1812, 1817, 1825, with Bailey's annotations, 1837; fragments of the essay on Pepys published in the ‘Quarterly Review’ for March 1826; two drafts of an address from the Magistrates and Freeholders of Selkirkshire to the House of Commons (see the 'Journal', 7-10 March 1831); a draft letter on the political situation, undated; epitaphs on Colonel...
Dates: [?1622-?1844], undated.

Papers relating to Inveraray, especially the building of the Castle and the New Town., 1757.

 File
Identifier: MS.17687
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Lord Milton was responsible for the 3rd Duke of Argyll's personal and household expenses in Scotland; and had a general oversight of his Scottish estates, collaborating with his Edinburgh lawyer, Archibald Campbell of Succoth, Writer to the Signet. The earlier papers are mainly personal and household accounts, and papers concerning the property of The Whim in Peeblesshire; after his succession to the Dukedom in 1743 the family estates in Argyllshire, Stirlingshire, and Dumbartonshire are...
Dates: 1757.

Papers relating to 'The house of Elrig', by Gavin Maxwell, containing typed transcript of audio tapes, photographs and a sketch., [?Circa 1965], undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10555/35-37
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Dates: [?Circa 1965], undated.

Papers relating to the publication of works of Mollie Hunter., 1973-1992, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11073/17-121
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Includes editorial correspondence, typescripts and proofs of novels, and some book jackets and illustrations.

Dates: 1973-1992, undated.