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Album, containing notes taken by the father of Thomas Ross, the architect, of sermons preached by the Reverend John Caird, and drawings by Ross.
The sermons were preached in Errol Church in 1851 (folio 1).
Some of Thomas Ross's drawings bear dates from 1858 to 1919 (chiefly architectural sketches and designs), and some are evidently juvenile. Loose drawings and a sermon (folio 94) have been pasted in.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Album of drawings in pencil and watercolour, collected by Caroline, Marchioness of Queensberry, in 1833.
Many of the drawings are by E C Douglas, possibly Lady Queensberry's sister-in-law Elizabeth. The subjects include humorous sketches, animals and landscapes.
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Album of verses, riddles and drawings.
Most of the entries are dated from 1825 to 1828, and some were made at Newcastle- upon-Tyne. The book belonged to the donor's grandmother, Mrs Elizabeth Russell Davison, of the Wilson family of Roxburghshire.
Armorial coats-of-arms of the Scottish gentry, drawn first in pencil, then inked over, a very few being partially coloured.
At the beginning 30 folios have been left blank and the last drawings, on folio 47, have not been completed. From the watermark and the hand, the manuscript may be dated to the late 16th century; it is possibly an English production as many Scottish family names have been misspelt in a non-Scottish manner.
Autograph album with the name Jessie Begbie stamped on the cover; containing verses (originals and copies), prose extracts and drawings.
‘Beginning and the end of the Lewis Chemical Works', a detailed account written by D Morison, former foreman of the plant, of its operation from 1857 to 1874.
'Catalogue of Books belonging to Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Baronet, 1743.'
With a valuation, 1777, by John Bell, bookseller, Edinburgh, at £50 (folio vii); letters of Alexander Guthrie (presumably the Edinburgh bookseller) making the books over to Archibald Constable, and of Constable transferring the purchase to John Clerk, 1801 (folio i); and a drawing by Walter Geikie, 1825, from a portrait of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet, 1621.
The earliest catalogue hitherto known is that printed for the sale by J G Cochrane in 1816.
"Cinquant [sic] Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, dediez a tresillustre seigneur le conte de Shrewsbury, pour ses estrennes l'an 1607", being a calligraphic copy of the verses by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, first published anonymously in ‘Les Cantigues du Seigneur de Maisonfleur’.
Collection of sketches, etchings, engravings, etc., chiefly by James Nasmyth, the engineer, with several by his father Alexander Nasmyth and his brother and sister Patrick and Jane, and some collected by him.
Correspondence and proof-sheets of James J Guthrie (1874-1952), the artist and printer who established the Pear Tree Press.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Cowie collection of manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Allan Ramsay and others, made by Charles R Cowie of Glasgow.
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
Diary of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh.
Diary of the South African campaign of 1900-1901 kept by Second Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Herbert George Sotheby of the 4th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
The diary, though silent on the larger issues, is interesting for its first-hand accounts of the raids in which the battalion took part. A list of the battalion's officers and a drawing of Colonel Plumer (later Viscount Plumer) are also included.
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.
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.
Drawings and watercolours, chiefly of Scottish scenery and places.
The drawings and watercolours include a series of pencil and wash sketches, 1859, of scenes in Stirlingshire and Perthshire, probably from a sketchbook (folio 8), two pencil sketches of Mallara, New South Wales, 1859 (folio 29) and a watercolour, 1894, of two children by W E Lockhart, 1894 (folio 32).
Drawings by John Claude Nattes, chiefly of Scottish scenes and buildings.
The third volume, out of the original series of five, is missing.
The drawings have been bound rather haphazardly.
Drawings of Iona Cathedral and Nunnery by Thomas Ross.
Some of the drawings of the Cathedral were made in connexion with its restoration. Also included (numbers 47-49) are three drawings of Urquhart Castle by David MacGibbon, which were published in MacGibbon and Ross ‘Castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland’, volume iii, pages 92-96.
Drawings of masons' marks, made or collected by Charles S S Johnston, architect, with letters, notes, and excerpts on the subject; the whole arranged by Professor W B Stevenson..
Eleven monthly parts of the family magazine, 'The Star', written by the Bigg family of Carnwath.
The issues contain stories, verse, news of family affairs, and a few drawings, in the handwriting of the various contributors. The May issue is missing.
"Enquiry into the situation and circumstances of Horace's Sabine Villa, written during travels through Italy in the years 1775, 1776, 1777", by Allan Ramsay, the painter, with drawings.
The title and most of the manuscript are in Allan Ramsay's autograph.
Family magazine 'The Blue Bell', written by various members of the Gibb family of Carnwath.
The twelve issues cover intermittently the period October 1855-December 1856, and are written in various hands. The contents include stories, local news, a few photographs and drawings, and other 'newspaper' features.
Journal containing an account of a tour made by an English gentleman 'Among the Alps', probably in the middle of the nineteenth century.
The journal is profusely illustrated with pencil drawings of the scenery described and of places visited. Several of the drawings bear the initials R D.