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Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Item
Identifier: MS.3009
Scope and Contents
Hugh Scott of Draycott (Draycot, Draycote) House, a Captain in the East India Marine, was a son of Walter Scott of Raeburn (died 1830) and cousin of Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford. The album, compiled by Hugh Scott's descendants, contains letters of Sir Walter Scott and members of his family, printed matter relating to the subscription raised to purchase Abbotsford for the Scott family, drawings and photographs of Draycott, notes on family history by William Scott of Raeburn (died 1855),...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-1936.
Further papers of Captain Archibald D Cochrane
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14119
Scope and Contents
The papers relate to Captain Cochrane's career in politics and as Governor of Burma. They include letters from Cochrane to his wife, Julia Cochrane, 1936-1937; and correspondence between Cochrane and the British naval officers with whom he escaped in 1917 from a Turkish prisoner of war camp, 1921-1958.
Dates:
1921-1958.
Microfilm of papers of and concerning James Augustus Grant.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.556-558
Dates:
[?1765]-1918.
Papers of George Thomson, chiefly concerning Robert Bums.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20438-20439
Dates:
1798-1851.
‘Two Theban queens’ by Colin Campbell (London, 1909); the author's copy.
File
Identifier: MS.9048
Scope and Contents
The volume contains Colin Campbell’s signature on the flyleaf, a sketch at page 84, and a few pencil notes in his hand dispersed through the printed text. Inside the front cover are pasted a cutting from a bookseller's catalogue (folio 1) and a cutting from an unidentified newspaper containing a review of the book (folio 2).Two letters, 1925, to Campbell from Professor Francis Ll. Griffith in search of a copy of the book, which were formerly loosely enclosed at the title page,...
Dates:
1909.