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64 letters, 1899-1949 and undated, to John Purves, mostly on literary matters, from among others J M Barrie, John Davidson, Luigi Pirandello and Walter de la Mare.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7175
Scope and Contents

With literary and historical manuscripts, 1388, 1798-1911 and undated, collected by Purves, including single letters of D G Rossetti, John Ruskin, Sir Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth.

Also two albums, 1936-1952, of Purves, containing inscriptions in poetry and prose by various contributors.

Dates: 1388, 1798-1952.

89 funeral letters to the family of Scott of Raeburn.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7516
Scope and Contents

Including three letters of Sir Walter Scott.

Dates: 1771-1840.

Album compiled by Florence Bankes of watercolours and photographs of Italy, Scotland and Cornwall.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13733
Scope and Contents This album consists largely watercolours of places visited in Scotland, Italy, Switzerland, Devon and Cornwall between 1910 and 1924. Many are signed Florrie Bankes, or F.B. Places depicted include Loch Laggan, Loch Achray, Loch Katrine, Ackergill Tower, Balmacarra, the castle of Eilean Donan and Loch Duich, Taynuilt, Loch Etive, Ben Cruachan, Glenfinnan, Loch Shiel, the road to Mallaig, Gruinard, Tarbert, Loch Fyne, Lochaillort, Loch Feochan.The album also includes a number of...
Dates: 1910-1924, 1955.

Album compiled by George Daniel.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11649
Scope and Contents

Contains poetic note by Robert Burns, undated, with reply by Robert Riddell and engravings by Thomas Stothard and others.

Dates: 1850.

Album concerning Thomas Carlyle.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10484
Scope and Contents

Includes press cuttings, photographs and a portrait of Carlyle.

Dates: late 19th century.

Album containing miscellaneous autograph letters, signatures, etc.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3719
Scope and Contents A number of the letters are addressed to members of the family of William Blackwood the publisher (died 1834), and the correspondents include literary celebrities and eminent soldiers of the nineteenth-century. It includes: two pages of a manuscript by Fitzgerald Ross (no. 15) and letters of Roderick Murchison (no. 17), Elizabeth Gaskell (no. 50), Agnes Strickland (no. 52) and George Henry Lewes (no. 53). It also includes a certificate appointing George Frederick Blackwood a lieutenant in...
Dates: 19th century.

Album kept by Helen Kelly.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8320
Dates: circa 1826-circa 1830.

Album of drawings of `An eight week`s tour in Scotland taken by ten Douglas`s`.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13363
Scope and Contents

Drawings made on a tour in Scotland in 1845. Places visited include Dalkieth, Edinburgh, Roslin chapel, the Trossachs, Glencoe, Tyndrum, Ballahulish, Kinlochmore, Loch Leven, Dunolly Castle, Inverary, Newbattle and Hoddam Castle.

Dates: 1845

Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8493
Scope and Contents

Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.

Dates: 1898-1902.

Album of Evelyne Radford, daughter of Jack Radford of Hale End Manor, Walthamstow, Essex, relating to country house parties in England and at Kildonan Lodge, Sutherland, to a cruise and a holiday in the South of France.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13196
Scope and Contents The album is a record of the weekend and holiday social life of the Radford family, friends of the Drummond family, the Viscounts Strathallan. Evelyn Radford was the spinster daughter of Mrs and Mrs Jack Radford of Hale End Manor, near Walthamstow, Essex. Places visited include: Swaylands House, Penshurt, Kent; West Garty Lodge and Kildonan, Sutherland; Hale End Manor, Essex; Alderwasley, Matlock, Derbyshire; Fornham Park, Bury St Edmunds; The Briars, Byfleet, Surrey; Cranborne Hall, Windsor...
Dates: 1893-1898.

Album of Jean Meldrum Barns-Graham containing photographs recording family life in Craigallian, Stirlingshire, and her family's emigration to New Zealand.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14112
Scope and Contents

Photograph and scrap album containing c.250 snapshots and fragments of poetry, and covering life at the Barns-Graham family's estate; the emigration of several members of the family to New Zealand in 1896; and life on the North Island, where the Barns-Grahams established the 'Strathblane Sheep Station' with the Guthrie Smith family.

Dates: 1896-1898.

Album of miscellaneous printed and manuscript matter.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.20
Scope and Contents

The printed items are mostly newspaper cuttings, from the period circa 1780-circa 1830; they have not been indexed. The manuscript items, a list of which has been added at the beginning of the volume, are mostly Scottish, several relating to Bo`ness and Linlithgow, and date from 1562 to 1826. On folio 44 is a note signed `A.E.N.`

Dates: 1562-circa 1830.

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Albums. 112
Photograph albums. 77
Correspondence. 35
Letters. Correspondence. 34
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 31
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Photographs. 30
Diaries. 20
Drawings. Visual works. 16
Autograph albums. 13
Manuscripts. 13
Notes. 12
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 10
Poetry. 10
Sketches 9
Typescripts. 9
Notebooks. 8
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 8
Watercolours. Paintings. 8
Essays. 7
Postcards. 7
First World War (1914-1918). 6
Articles. 5
Books 5
Genealogies. 5
Histories. 5
Maps. Cartographic materials. 5
Minute books. 5
Accounts. 4
Annotations. 4
Copies. Derivative objects. 4
Drafts. Documents. 4
Lectures. 4
Legal documents. 4
Plans (orthographic projections). 4
Prints. Visual works 4
Reports 4
Travel journals 4
Certificates 3
Commonplace books. 3
Egypt. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 30.0000. Latitude: 27.0000. 3
India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 3
Memoirs. 3
Newsletters. Serials. 3
Novels. 3
Programmes 3
Scrapbooks 3
Second World War (1939-1945). 3
Sermons 3
Visitors' books. 3
CD-ROMs. 2
Devon. Europe - United Kingdom - England. County. Longitude: -3.8167. Latitude: 50.7333. 2
Drawings. Visual works 2
Extracts. 2
Game Books. 2
Guide Books. 2
Indexes. Reference sources. 2
Inscriptions. 2
Journals. Periodicals. 2
Kelso. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Inhabited place. Longitude: -2.4167. Latitude: 53.6000. 2
Lists. 2
Magazines. periodicals. 2
Memorandums. 2
Menus. 2
Minutes. Administrative records. 2
Mountaineering. 2
Oban. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Argyll and Bute. Inhabited place. Longitude: -5.4667. Latitude: 56.4167. 2
Obituaries. 2
Palestine. Middle East. Historical region. Longitude: 35.3333. Latitude: 31.9167. 2
Pencil drawings. 2
Photocopies. 2
Programmes. 2
Prospectuses 2
Reviews. Document genre 2
Scores 2
Short stories. 2
Sketches. 2
Songs. Musical compositions. 2
South Africa. Africa - South Africa. Nation. Longitude: 26.0000. Latitude: -30.0000. 2
Speeches. Documents. 2
Stirling. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Stirling. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.9500. Latitude: 56.1167. 2
Sutherland. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland . County. 2
Testimonials. 2
Trossachs. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Stirling. General region. 2
Account books. 1
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Administrative records. 1
Africa. Continent. 1
Alps (mountain system). Europe. Longitude: 010 00 00 E. Latitude: 46 25 00 N. 1
Andes. South America. Mountain system. Longitude: -70.0000. Latitude: -2.0000. 1
Annual reports. 1
Architectural drawings. 1
Argentina. South America. Nation. Longitude: -64.0000. Latitude: -34.0000. 1
Armorials. Reference sources. 1
Athens (inhabited place). Europe - Greece - Periféreia Protevoúsis. Longitude: 23.7333. Latitude: 38.0000. 1
Audiovisual materials. 1
Bhutan. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 90.5000. Latitude: 27.5000. 1
Bindings. Binding components. 1
Birth certificates. 1
British Columbia. North and Central America - Canada. Province. Longitude: -125.0000 . Latitude: 55.0000 . 1
Calcutta (inhabited place). Asia - India - West Bengal. Longitude: 88.3333. Latitude: 22.5000. 1
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Language
Chinese 1
Multiple languages 1
 
Names
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 5
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 4
Smith, Chilton Lind Addison-, Writer to the Signet, 1875-1955 3
Wilson, George Washington, miniature painter and photographer, 1823-1893 3
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 2
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Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 2
Malcolm, family, of Burnfoot 2
Reid, Walter, seal engraver in Paris and Edinburgh, fl 1838-1886 2
Scottish Mountaineering Club 2
Scottish Youth Hostels Association 2
Valentine, James, engraver and photographer, 1815-1879 2
Agnew, William Lockett, art dealer, 1858-1918 1
Allan, Andrew, artist, 1863-1942 1
An Comunn Gàidhealach 1
Anderson, James, Culloden, fl 1952 1
Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers 1
Anstruther-Gray, Clayre Jessie Tennant, 1872-1958 (justice of the peace and wife of William Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, Monica Helen Lambton, 1915-1985 (justice of the peace and wife of William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William John St Clair, Baron Kilmany, 1905-1985 (soldier and politician) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William, 1859-1938 (soldier and politician) 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 5th (Service) Bat 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 1
Baird, James, of Little Fiddes and Byth, Advocate, d 1655 1
Bankes, Florence, 1854-1947 (artist) 1
Barns-Graham, Jean Meldrum, 1870-1948 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Baxter, William Edward, traveller and author, 1825-1890 1
Bell, Richard, author of "My Strange Pets and other Memories of Country Life", 1833-1909 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: recipient 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: transcriber 1
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, art collector, 1818-1880 1
Blackie, John Stuart (Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh) 1
Blackwood, William (publisher, and founder of "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine") 1
Bone, Sir Muirhead, Knight, painter and etcher, 1876-1953 1
Book of Me Group 1
Boothby, Eliza, compiler of an album of verses and drawings, fl 1835 1
Boothby, Robert John Graham, Baron Boothby, politician, 1900-1986. 1
Bowman, Walter, tutor and antiquary, 1699-1782 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC Scotland 1
Brown, Alexander, medical missionary, Livingstonia, fl 1900-1930 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Brown, James, Minister of New Greyfriars, Edinburgh, ? 1724-1786 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976: recipient 1
Browne, John Hutton Balfour-, barrister, 1845-1921 1
Buchanites, Irvine, Scotland, religious sect 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Cameran Photographic Society (fl. 1894-1917) 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Cameron, Una May (mountaineer) 1
Campbell, Jean Davidson, missionary in India, fl 1900-1940 1
Campbell, Jean Helen St Clair, Baroness Stratheden of Cupar and Campbell of St Andrews, nee Anstruther-Gray, d 1956 1
Campbell, family 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Carr, Anna Margaret, artist, fl 1838-1859 1
Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Prime Minister) 1
Chalmers, Thomas (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Charlotte Chapel Sabbath School, Edinburgh 1
Christie, Dugald (Medical missionary) 1
Church of Scotland 1
Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Board 1
Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, Knight, bibliographer, 1867-1962: recipient 1
Cocozza, Enrico (filmmaker) 1
Cookesley, Margaret Deborah Murray, 1844-1927 (née Garland, artist, wife of Edward Murray Cookesley) 1
Corbett, Thomas Godfrey Polson, 2nd Baron Rowallan (succeeded 1933), Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire, 1895-1977 1
Corrie, Anna, singer, wife of Haydn Corri, pianist and composer, née Adams (Adami), 1800-1867. 1
Cottam, Eliza Letitia, née Ironside, fl 1825-1845 1
Cottam, John Tatham, relative of Eliza L, née Ironside, fl 1812 1
Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-, Knight, novelist and literary scholar, 1863-1944 1
Coventry Sketching Club 1
Craig-Brown, family : collector 1
Cubie, Donald G, Mininster of Carfin, b 1902: recipient 1
Cummings, family, of Altyre 1
Curle, James, of Morriston, WS, 1862-1944: recipient 1
Curle, James, writer, Melrose, fl 1812-1826: recipient 1
Currie, Jenny M B, Gaelic singer, 1892-1974 1
Dalrymple, Alexander, Kinseathill, fl 1894-1906 1
Daniel, George, compiler of album including note by Robert Burns, fl 1850: collector 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Davidson, James Lauder, forester, 1916-1992 1
Davidson, John, poet, 1857-1909 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949: collector 1
Douglas, family 1
Dreschfeld, Violet Jennie, 1890-1975 (sculptor) 1
Dundas, Robert James (Anglican clergyman) 1
Durand, Sir Edward Law, 1st Baronet, colonial administrator, 1845-1920 1
Durris Red Cross Hospital, Kincardineshire 1
Edinburgh Northern Hockey Club 1
Ellice, Edward (landowner and politician) 1
Ellice, Edward (statesman) 1
Ellice, James, descendant of Edward Ellice, Statesman, 1901-1983: author 1
Ellice, Katherine Jane, of Invergarry, née Balfour, 1813-1864 1
Elliot, George Francis Scott, botanist, 1862-1934 1
Elliot, James Scott, Calcutta merchant, d 1880 1
Elliot, Sir Walter, Knight, East India Company servant and archaeologist, 1803-1887 1
Elliot, William Scott, Lieutenant Colonel, 1873-1943 1
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