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Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.17901-17926
Scope and Contents James Augustus Grant joined the Bengal Army in 1848 and was at the siege of Multan, the battle of Gujerat, and the relief of Lucknow. From 1860 to 1863 he was seconded to the Royal Geographical Society's expedition under John Hanning Speke, when the source of the Nile was identified and Uganda and southern Sudan visited. After further service in Kashmir and secondment to Napier's Abyssinian expedition, he retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1868. He was awarded the Gold Medal of...
Dates: 1821-1892, undated.

Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.17929-17948

Papers of O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11310
Scope and Contents

Includes family correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, sketches, drawings, photographs and personal memorabilia.

Dates: 1899-1953 and undated.

Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5510-5721A
Scope and Contents After serving his apprenticeship as Secretary and Chargé d'Affaires at the courts of Munich, Ratisbon, Berlin, Turin and Madrid, Robert Liston was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid in 1784.After leaving Madrid he was the British Representative at Stockholm, Constantinople, Washington, The Hague, and again at Constantinople.Within each regional section there are two main categories, official and personal. The first contains documents, with instructions or...
Dates: 1756-1832.

Papers of William Stuart Henry.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6177
Scope and Contents

Including notebooks, sketches, poems, and correspondence concerning his work.

Dates: circa 1942-1967.

Papers relating to the military service of Lieutenant Walter R Cuthbert, RFA, in Mesopotamia and India.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12808
Scope and Contents

Includes a list of photographs taken in Mesopotamia, papers connected with Cuthbert`s post-war claims for arrears of pay and allowances, a receipt from British Empire Union and copies of sketches by Mrs Cuthbert (Wendy Wood) made during her husband`s RFA training.

Dates: 1918-1919.

Personal papers of William Crosbie.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13367
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1933-1972, of the artist William Crosbie (1915-1999), with related printed material, circa 1943-1990. This small collection of material was apparently cleared from his studio at 12 Ruskin Lane, Glasgow, many years after his death.

Dates: 1933-1972.

Photocopies of eight letters of Cecile Walton to Brenda Walton.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6569
Scope and Contents

With sketches and drawings.

Dates: circa 1905-circa 1910.

Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).

 File
Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated

Records of the Scots Club, London.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9943
Scope and Contents

Includes:

four minute books, 1911-1930, 1936-1938

sketches, including one by James McBey

ten letters of J M Barrie, and two of Viscount Haldane

a cartoon and a photograh, 1911, depicting members

two letters, 1961, of James Bone, concerning relics of the Club.

Dates: 1911-1961.

Sketch, 1831, by David Roberts of his design for a new drop scene for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10170
Scope and Contents

With a letter, 1863, of Roberts to a Mrs Jones.

Dates: 1831-1863.

Sketches and proof wood engravings of Joan Hassall for `The Collected Poems of Andrew Young` (1950).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13627
Scope and Contents

Sketches and proof wood engravings of Joan Hassall for `The Collected Poems of Andrew Young` (London: Jonathan Cape, 1950), bound in an album with 4 letters, 1949-1950, of Andrew Young and an undated commentary on the work by Joan Hassall.

Dates: 1938-1950.

Three examples of miniature handwriting by James McKay, with related correspondence.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12866
Scope and Contents

Includes an album of sketches and postcards from the First World War.

Dates: circa 1914-1946.

Two letters, a leaf of manuscript, and a watercolour sketch by Joyce Cary, inserted in a copy of her 'A house of children' (London, 1941).

 File
Identifier: MS.5318
Scope and Contents

The manuscript contains a passage from the novel corresponding to page 30 and notes for another work. The sketch illustrates the scene described on page 30.

Dates: 1941-1942.

Two letters of Thomas Faed.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11362
Scope and Contents

One letter is illustrated with a sketch discussing his 1849 painting of Sir Walter Scott and his literary friends at Abbotsford.

Includes a sketch, with key, by John Faed of his picture of Shakespeare and his friends at the Mermaid Tavern.

Dates: circa 1849-1900.

‘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.

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Letters. Correspondence. 38
Sketches 37
Correspondence. 36
Sketches. 33
Photographs. 17
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Manuscripts. 15
Notes. 13
Typescripts. 12
Diaries. 11
Notebooks. 11
Poetry. 11
Copies. Derivative objects. 8
Publications. 8
Drafts. Documents. 6
Articles. 5
Engravings. Prints. 5
Lists. 5
Personal papers. 5
Plans (orthographic projections). 5
Speeches. Documents. 5
Travel journals. 5
Albums. 4
Documents. 4
Drawings. Visual works. 4
Genealogies. 4
Illustrations. Layout features. 4
Legal documents. 4
Maps. Cartographic materials. 4
Plays. 4
Transcripts. 4
Calligraphy. Visual works. 3
Catalogues. 3
Excerpts. 3
Memorandums. 3
Microfilms. 3
Photocopies. 3
Short stories. 3
Watercolours. Paintings. 3
Accounts. 2
Annotations. 2
Biographies. 2
Certificates 2
Charters 2
Diplomas. School records. 2
Exhibition catalogues. 2
Financial records. 2
Memoirs. 2
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Novels. 2
Pamphlets. 2
Plans. Maps. 2
Postcards. 2
Printed materials. Object genre. 2
Professional papers. 2
Proofs. printed matter 2
Scripts. Documents 2
Transcripts 2
Translations. Documents. 2
Abbotsford House (historic house). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. 1
Advertisements. 1
Almanacs. 1
Anecdotes. 1
Birth certificates. 1
Bookplates. 1
Caricatures. 1
Charts. Graphic documents. 1
Commissions. Permissions. 1
Cookbooks. 1
Dedications. Documents. 1
Detached leaves. 1
Diagrams. 1
Dissertations. 1
Dried flowers. 1
Elevations. Orthographic projections. 1
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India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 1
India. Asia. Subcontinent. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 1
Inscriptions. 1
Interleaves. 1
Inventories. 1
Journals. Accounts. 1
Leaflets. 1
Leases. Contracts. 1
Lectures. 1
Lithographs. Planographic prints. 1
Magazines. periodicals. 1
Manuals. Instructional materials. 1
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Mesopotamia . Asia - Mesopotamia. General region. Longitude: 44.0000. Latitude: 34.0000. 1
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Language
English 43
Undetermined 26
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 2
English, Old (ca.450-1100) 1
Multiple languages 1
 
Names
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 2
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 2
Nasmyth, James Hall, engineer, 1808-1890 2
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 2
Amelia, Hill, 1820-1904 (née Paton, Sculptor, wife of David Octavius Hill) 1
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Ballantyne, Alexander Thomson, printer, 1776-1847 1
Ballantyne, James (printer) 1
Ballantyne, John, artist, 1815-1897 1
Barr (family, Waldingham) 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Begg, Isabella Burns, sister of Robert Burns, poet, 1771-1858 1
Begg, Isabella, 1807-1886 (daughter of Isabella, sister of Robert Burns, poet) 1
Bell, Henry Glassford, 1803-1874 (writer and sheriff) 1
Bone, James, journalist, 1872-1962 1
Bone, Phyllis M, sculptor, 1897-1972 1
Boyd, Alexander Stuart, artist, 1854-1930 1
Brown, John, 1784-1858 (minister of the United Presbyterian Church, Theologian) 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Calderwood, Anna, sister of Major Douglas Cunninghame Graham, fl 1839 1
Carnegie, Andrew, philanthropist, 1835-1919 1
Chalmers, Thomas (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780–1847 (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Clinton, Margery (ceramist) 1
Cochrane, Hon Sir Archibald Douglas, Knight, Captain, Royal Navy, Governor of Burma, 1885-1958 1
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 1
Crosbie, William, artist, 1915-1999 1
Cumming, Constance Frederica Gordon-, 1837-1924 (travel writer) 1
Cumming, Constance Frederica Gordon-, travel writer, 1837-1924 1
Cuthbert, Walter Robertson, Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, husband of Gwendoline Emily Meacham, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1887-1970 1
Dick, Robert, c 1733-1824 1
Faed, John, painter, 1819-1902 1
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Gilchrist, Anne Geddes, musical antiquary, 1863-1954 1
Girdwood, John, correspondent of Sir William Orpen, painter, fl 1916: recipient 1
Gourdie, Tom (calligrapher) 1
Graham, Douglas Cunninghame, Major, fl 1828-1839 1
Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane (Lord Chancellor) 1
Harvey, Michael, letter cutter and typographer, b 1931 1
Hassall, Joan, artist and wood-engraver, 1906-1988 1
Henry, William Stuart, artist, pseudonym Henry Stuart, fl 1942-1973 1
Hill, Ann, 1804-1841 (née Macdonald, wife of David Ocatvius Hill) 1
Hill, David Octavius, photographer, 1802-1870 1
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 1
Hodgkinson, James, correspondent of James Hall Nasmyth, engineer, fl 1870: recipient 1
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 1
Ingleby, Clement Mansfield (Shakespearean scholar) 1
Johnson, Nicholas, poet, editor and festival director, b 1963 1
Kay, Katharine Cameron, painter and etcher, née Cameron, 1874-1965 1
Kirk, John, Minister of Barry, d 1858. 1
Lemaire, Angela, artist, engraver, b 1944 1
Lindsay, Maurice, poet and writer, 1918-2009 1
MacColl, Dugald Sutherland, painter, 1859-1948 1
Macdonald, Ian H, fl 1968-1974 1
Macdonald, Jane, fl 1840-1853 1
Macrae, John Duncan Graham, actor, 1905-1967 1
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 1
Maxwell, Sir John Maxwell Stirling-, 10th Baronet, of Pollok, 1866-1956 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
McBey, James, painter and etcher, 1883-1959 1
McCandlish, John (Manager of the Scottish Union Insurance Office, Edinburgh) 1
McKay, James, calligrapher, 1895-1968 1
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 1
McTaggart, William, painter, 1835-1910 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Millais, John Everett, Sir, 1st Baronet, 1829–1896 (painter) 1
Milne, Sir Alexander, 1st Baronet, of Inveresk, Admiral, 1806-1896 1
Milne, Sir David, Knight, Admiral, 1763-1845 1
Moffat, Robert, missionary, 1795-1883 1
Montgomerie, William, poet and editor, 1904-1994 1
Montgomerie, William, poet and editor, 1904-1994: recipient 1
Orpen, Sir William Newenham Montague, Knight, painter, 1878-1931 1
Parker, Agnes Miller, wood engraver and book illustrator, 1895-1980 1
Perryman, Kevin Alan, Editor of "Babel", b 1950 1
Rafferty, Séan Dickson Kerr, poet, 1909-1993 1
Rafferty, Séan Dickson Kerr, poet, 1909-1993: recipient 1
Roberts, David, painter, 1796-1864 1
Royal Scottish Academy 1
Ruthven, Mary Hamilton, 1789-1885 (née Campbell, wife of 7th Lord Ruthven) 1
Scots Club, London 1
Shakespeare, William, playwright, 1564-1616 1
Smith, Hazel Elizabeth Simpson Goodsir, 2nd wife of Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, née Williamson, 1928-2004 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Soutar, William (poet) 1
Soutar, William, poet, 1898-1943 1
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton, Knight, explorer, formerly Rowlands, 1841-1904 1
Stuart, John Sobieski Stolberg, Count D'Albanie, (Jacobite Pretender) 1
Thomson, Joseph, 1858–1895 (explorer in Africa) 1
University of St Andrews 1
Walton, Brenda, cousin of Cecile, painter, fl 1905-1910. 1
Walton, Cecile, painter, 1891-1956 1
Young, Andrew John, poet, 1885-1971 1
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