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Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Dates:
1799-1853, undated.
Papers of George Renfrew Wilson relating to his unpublished biography of David Young Cameron.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13488 Box 1(1)-Box 6(3)
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises research papers and typescripts of a biography of Sir David Young Cameron which seemingly was close to publication, probably by Paul Harris, Edinburgh in the early 1980s. The anecdotal evidence is that some kind of disagreement stopped publication.
The papers include typescripts, correspondence, exhibition catalogues and press cuttings.
Dates:
c 1944-1980.
Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents
The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008