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Album of miscellaneous autographs, chiefly of the nineteenth century, including, among the more substantial items, letters of Scott, Raeburn, Cockburn, and Jeffrey; with original binding.
Album of newspaper cuttings collected by Alexander Hutcheson concerning the haunted tower of St Andrews, the cathedral, the castle, and the abbey wall.
Also pasted into the album are two pamphlets by David Henry about the cathedral and the castle, 1910, and three letters, 1894, 1911, of David Hay Fleming.
Album of occasional verse, verse epistles, etc., apparently by Lady Frances Scott, afterwards Baroness Douglas.
Album of pencil and water-colour sketches, titled, ‘Sketches on the East Coast of Scotland by Edward Duncan’.
The sketches are chiefly undated but where dated range in year from 1863 to 1876. Although most of the sketches are of St Abb's Head, the Bass Rock, Tantallon, Holy Island, etc., there are some views of Perthshire, Jedburgh, Roxburgh, and other places inland. The collection also contains an unfinished drawing of Fernilee, subscribed 'The house were (sic) the "Flowers of the Forest" was written'.
Album of sketches in watercolour and in pencil and wash, made during a tour in Scotland from July to September 1823.
The sketches have not been mounted in chronological sequence, and appear to have come from two sources. The wash drawings are probably from a sketchbook, and the watercolours have been cut from a journal of the tour. The artist, who was English, travelled from Loch Lomond and the Trossachs to Inveraray, Staffa, Glencoe, Killin, and back to Loch Lomond. Inserted at the end are sketches of Edinburgh and Carlisle, a drawing, 1820, of Killarney and other unrelated material.
Album of Thomas Constable, publisher, containing the names of subscribers to ‘Memorial of the Royal Progress in Scotland’ by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, among which are signatures, 1842, of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.
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.
Album, probably compiled by David Macdonald, printer, Edinburgh, containing letters and signatures of his correspondents; together with some letters formerly placed loosely amongst the pages of the album.
The letters are of interest only as autographs, and it is clear from the mutilated state of the album, as well as from the index found in it, that many other letters are missing, the pages on which they had been pasted having been clumsily cut out.
Albums of autographs and letters addressed to or collected by Mrs Isabella Bishop, nee Bird.
Albums of caricatures by John A Hipkins, wood-engraver, with scrap-books containing material collected by or associated with him.
The volumes, which have been arranged and provided with biographical notes and lists of contents by John A Hipkins's sister, Miss Edith J Hipkins, the painter, illustrate the cultivated life of London in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. Since Hipkins himself was deaf, there is much material relating to the artistic and other activities of the deaf.
Albums of letters and documents, almost entirely of Scottish interest, written by or relating to historical celebrities, and dealing with public and private affairs.
Albums of photographs of Highland Railway locomotives, compiled and annotated circa 1950.
“Alexander Cummings’s narrative”, a contemporary manuscript, containing copies of letters and other memorials of Sir Alexander Cuming, 2nd Baronet of Culter, Advocate, and Chief of the Cherokee nation, who died in 1775.
Alexander Skinner's Manuscript of Piobaireachd, so-called from the inscription 'Presented to Mr. Duncan Campbell, Piper to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe, by Alex. Skinner, Teacher of Dancing ... London, June 15, 1855'.
Alphabetical index to ‘Annals of Scotland’, 3rd edition, by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Alphabetical index to the Acts of the Faculty of Advocates contained in their register.
Alphabetical list of advocates, 1532-1800, and chronological lists of Lord Advocates, Lord Chancellors, Lord Presidents, Lord Justice Clerks, and Lords of Session to circa 1911.
Amalgamation of Durie’s ‘Decisions’ and Hope’s, Balfour’s, Spottiswoode’s, and Haddington’s ‘Practicks’.
‘Ancient Scottish poems’ (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun.
Anderson's catalogue of law manuscripts in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Anderson's catalogue of manuscripts in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Anderson's catalogue of manuscripts in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Anecdotes of dogs, in William Laidlaw's hand, with additions by Sir Walter Scott.
Angus MacArthur’s manuscript of piobaireachd music.
This is the earliest known manuscript of pipe-music in which modern staff notation is used. It is now known as the Highland Society of London's manuscript and is described in Book I (1925) of the Piobaireachd Society's publications (page ii, number 2).
At the beginning of the volume is a note on the manuscript by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society (folio iii verso).
Angus Mackay's four untitled manuscripts of bagpipe music.
The first two manuscripts are of piobaireachd; the second two, of marches, strathspeys, reels, jigs, and other dance music.
According to Angus Mackay's inscription in his Seaforth Manuscript (MS.3744) he was at work on these manuscripts between 1826 and 1840, taking the tunes down from his father's canntaireachd.