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Six letters of Myles Birket Foster, the painter, to James Tait Black, the publisher, inserted in a copy of "Black's picturesque guide to the Trosachs" by John H Burton (Edinburgh, 1853).

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Identifier: MS.6403
Scope and Contents

The letters concern the sketches and wood-engravings made by Foster for the illustrations to the 'Guide', and to other work that he was engaged on at the time. There is also an account for the work in connection with the 'Guide'.

Dates: 1852-1853.

Two journal-letters, of Robert Michael Ballantyne from the Bell Rock Lighthouse.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11962
Scope and Contents

Includes two watercolour paintings of the lighthouse, one showing the building from the reef, the other being an interior view; with two other letters of Ballantyne concerning lifeboats, and many later letters of R M Ballantyne, his family and friends.

Dates: circa 1864-1865.

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Accounts. 174
Correspondence. 130
Letters. Correspondence. 80
Legal documents. 40
Journals. Accounts. 32
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Manuscripts. 29
Minutes. Administrative records. 27
Copies. Derivative objects. 26
Notes. 26
Poetry. 19
Lists. 18
Photographs. 18
Diaries. 17
Financial records. 16
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 16
Typescripts. 16
Drafts. Documents. 15
Speeches. Documents. 15
Estate records. 14
Reports 14
Inventories. 13
Microfilms. 13
Notebooks. 12
Administrative records. 10
Publications. 10
Articles. 9
Business records. 9
Genealogies. 9
Printed materials. Object genre. 8
Reports. 8
Charters 7
Documents. 7
Family papers. 7
Invoices. 7
Memorandums. 7
Minute books. 7
Receipts. Financial records. 7
Translations. Documents. 7
Account books. 6
Excerpts. 6
Petitions. 6
Warrants. Permissions. 6
Abstracts. Summaries. 5
Catalogues. 5
Commissions. Permissions. 5
Plans (orthographic projections). 5
Plays. 5
Rentals. Records (documents). 5
Bonds. Legal instruments. 4
Booksellers and bookselling 4
Histories. 4
Ledgers. Account books. 4
Photocopies. 4
Proofs. printed matter 4
Publishers and publishing. 4
Scripts. Documents 4
Agreements. Legal instruments. 3
Assignations. Legal Instruments. 3
Claims. Legal documents. 3
Contracts. Agreements. 3
Declarations. 3
Instructions. Document genre. 3
Leases. Contracts. 3
Legal instruments. 3
Letter books. 3
Literature (writings). 3
Memoirs. 3
Memorandums. Legal documents. 3
Memorials. Legal documents. 3
Minutes. Legal documents. 3
Orders. Records (documents). 3
Plans (drawings). 3
Printers. 3
Receipts. Financial records 3
Sermons. 3
Short stories. 3
Songs. Musical compositions. 3
Travel journals. 3
Albums. 2
Annual reports. 2
Autobiographies. 2
Bankbooks. 2
Bills of lading. 2
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Book industries and trade 2
Cashbooks. 2
Certificates. 2
Cheques. 2
Circulars. Fliers. 2
Daybooks. Bookkeeping records. 2
Deeds. Legal documents. 2
Discharges. Legal Documents. 2
Documentaries. 2
Drawings. Visual works 2
Drawings. Visual works. 2
Estimates. Financial records. 2
Extracts. 2
Financial statements. 2
Fragments. 2
Indexes. Reference sources. 2
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Language
English 126
Undetermined 76
Multiple languages 5
Latin 3
Scots 2
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Names
Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh, booksellers and publishers 3
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 3
Cadell, Robert, publisher, 1788-1849 2
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 2
Christie, family, of Cowden Castle, Clackmannanshire 2
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Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Gibson, John, WS (adm 1819), agent of Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1877 2
James Ballantyne and Co, Edinburgh, printers 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
Lockhart, John Gibson (biographer of Scott) 2
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, publishers and printers 2
Saltire Society 2
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 2
Stewart, family, of Murdostoun 2
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 2
A and C Black Ltd, Edinburgh, publishers and booksellers 1
Akros Publications 1
Akros, literary magazine 1
Anderson, David, Staff Surgeon, ? 1821-1854 1
Anderson, Marshall (artist, and curator of the Attic Archive, Dundee) 1
Archibald Constable and Co, Edinburgh, publishers 1
Attic Archive (Dundee) 1
Ayrshire Miners' Union, -1944 1
Ballantyne (family, of Holylee ) 1
Ballantyne, James (printer) 1
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, novelist, 1825-1894 1
Barret, John 1
Beazley, Samuel, architect and playwright, 1786-1851 1
Beecher, Charles (minister, composer and author) 1
Berwickshire Liberal Association 1
Bethune, Sir Henry Lindsay, 1st Baronet, Major-General, 1787-1851 1
Blythe, Charles, farmer, d 1949 1
Britain-Russia Centre, Scotland 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Bruce, Edward, 1st Earl of Kincardine, d 1662 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Calder, family, Airdens, Bonar Bridge, Sutherland 1
Cameron, Robert, Park Hill plantation worker 1
Cameron, Verney Lovett, explorer, 1844-1894 1
Campbell, Archibald, 3rd Duke of Argyll, 1682-1761 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Carnegie, family, of Craigo 1
Cauvin, Joseph, Writer to the Signet, d 1815 1
Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Prime Minister) 1
Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1649 1
Christie, family, of Stenton 1
Church of Scotland Overseas, Continent of Europe - Holland - Rotterdam 1
Clark, Robert (printer, Edinburgh) 1
Clifford, Bertram, electrical engineer, 1877-1954 1
Clifford, Jo, playwright, b 1950 1
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 1
Conference of Scottish Medieval Historical Research 1
Conference of Scottish Medievalists 1
D and W Auchterlonie, St Andrews, golf club makers 1
Democracy for Scotland, political pressure group 1
Douglas, family, of Cavers 1
Dunbar, family, of Mochrum 1
Dundas, family, of Dundas 1
Duvau, Auguste, author, 1771-1831: recipient 1
Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society 1
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society 1
Elder, Adam, Sanitary Inspector of Port Glasgow and emigrant to Australia, b 1876 1
Ewing, Winifred Margaret, politician, SNP MP, MSP, b. 1929 1
Findhorn Foundation 1
Fowler, Thomas 1
Franco-Scottish Society of Scotland 1
Fraser, Alexander Campbell (philosopher) 1
Galbraith, family, of Blackhouse 1
Galt, John (novelist) 1
Gibson, John, WS (adm 1819), agent of Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1877: recipient 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Graham, Ann, of Airth, fl 1762-1820 1
Graham, James, of Airth, d 1806 1
Graham, family, of Airth 1
Grant, Margaret Gordon Macpherson, of Aberlour, fl 1848-1878 1
Gray, family, of Carntyne and Anstruther 1
Gray, family, of Kilmany 1
Haining, Peter (artist, and curator of the Attic Archive, Dundee.) 1
Halkett, John Cornelius Craigie, of Cramond, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1830-1912 1
Henderson, James (physician, New York) 1
Henderson, family, of Stemster, Bower 1
Hignett, Sean, playwright and novelist, fl 1971-1987 1
Holms, William, spinner and politician, b 1827 1
Hope, Hugh, Bengal Civil Service, 1782-1822 1
Hope, Sir John, 11th Bart., of Craighall and Pinkie, 1781-1853 1
Horobin, Peter (artist) 1
Jackson, Charles d'Orville Pilkington, sculptor, 1887-1973 1
John Grant Ltd, Edinburgh, booksellers and printers 1
Johnstone, George, Dumfries, bookseller, fl 1809-1821 1
Kinross-shire Liberal Association 1
Kintail Estate, Ross and Cromarty 1
Lambert Brothers (Edinburgh) Ltd, wine and spirit merchants 1
Linlinlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt 1
Lothian, Andrew, Minister at Port Glasgow, 1763-1831 1
MacLeod, Daniel 1
MacLeod, Norman (22nd Chief of Clan MacLeod) 1
MacMurdo, family, Dumfries 1
Macadam, Robert, Gifford, baker, fl 1836-1907 1
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