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Material relating to Learmont Drysdale, the composer.
File
Identifier: MS.6297
Scope and Contents
Included are Learmont Drysdale's certificates for drawing and musical composition, reports on his progress at the Royal Academy of Music, 1889-1890, some drawings (folios 6-7), and a photograph of Ladislao Zavertal with the Pollokshields Musical Society, 1875 (folio 10). There are two letters, 1927, 1949, concerning the material (folio 1); and the Lucas Memorial and Bronze medals of the Royal Academy (awarded 1890) are boxed with the collection.
Dates:
1875-1949.
Minutes, accounts, and miscellaneous papers of the Edinburgh Skating Club.
Series
Identifier: MSS.24641-24649
Scope and Contents
The Edinburgh Skating Club was clearly well-established in 1784 when the first minute book starts. Apart from a few years of inactivity the Club flourished until the early 1900's when combined figure-skating declined in popularity. It was finally dissolved in 1966. Although the Club attracted a large proportion of its members from the legal profession, the Edinburgh Skating Club was not socially exclusive and the membership lists include local noblemen, merchants, army offers and a slater....
Dates:
1784-1966, undated.
Missionary archive of G. Stewart (Estuardo) McIntosh and Janet McIntosh, including writings, reports, letters, photographs and other papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12903
Dates:
1964-1993.
Papers of the Bottomley and Barlow families.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11263
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin and papers on cable-laying and building bridges.
Dates:
1836-1924.