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Miscellaneous documents concerning heraldry, many by officials of the English College of Arms; including designs for a union flag, ca. 1604.
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Nine letters of George Manson to John Blair.
With pend drawings.
Nine letters of John Brown.
With two drawings by Brown, four letters from his sister, and associated photographs.
Nine letters (two incomplete) of James W Herald to J D Mackay.
Mostly concerning Herald`s paintings, with associated drawings.
Notebook, compiled by a student at Glasgow United Free Church Training College.
Containing drawings and notes on nature study, architecture, and other subjects.
Notebook of James Steuart, Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe.
Notebook of Susan Marjoribanks containing brief notes of botanical and common names of plants observed, with dates, and drawings of selected specimens.
The compiler is presumably the youngest daughter of Sir John Marjoribanks, 2nd Baronet, of Lees.
Notebook of William Wallace.
Containing verses and drawings.
With some unconnected letters.
Notes of the lectures of Sir James Young Simpson, titled, "Midwifery by Dr. Simpson, Edinburgh, Nov. '52", taken, partly in shorthand, by Frederick Cock.
Pages 120-134 deal with Chloroform, its history, discovery, effects, and the rules for its use. On pages 240-241 there are drawings of apparatus for the use of chloroform.
Original artwork by Alasdair Gray for novels and short stories.
Includes artwork for his books 'Lanark' (Canongate, 1981), 'Unlikely stories, mostly' (Canongate, 1983), '1982, Janine' (Cape, 1984) and 'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985; Abacus, 1987), as well as for Carl MacDougall's 'A scent of water' (Molendinar Press, 1975).
Original artwork, including preliminary sketches and two versions of the front cover of Cam Kennedy`s graphic edition of Robert Louis Stevenson`s "Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde".
Original drawing of Robert Burns.
Based on the ballad of Helen of Kirkconnel.
Original water-colour drawings of Scottish legal robes, insignia, seals, etc., including those pertaining to courts now abolished.
One drawing was executed by James Drummond, Member of the Royal Scottish Academy. They were ‘first arranged and bound from an old collection’ in 1889.
Papers concerning the lands of Kermuck and Ellon, and the family of Gordon of Ellon.
Papers concerning "The Naturalist`s Library", edited by Sir William Jardine.
Containing original drawings, watercolours, working proofs and prints.
Papers of Alexander Huchison.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and translations, correspondence and artwork.
Papers of and concerning Norman Douglas.
Includes letters, 1917-1951 and undated, and photographs, 1943-1971 and undated, of Norman Douglas, and papers, 1954-1957, of John Davenport concerning a proposed biography of Douglas. These papers formerly formed part of the collection of John Sanderson.
Papers of Charles d`Orville Pilkington Jackson.
Including sketchbooks, drawings, correspondence, and accounts, mainly concerning Jackson`s sculptures.
Papers of Dr Harold John Taylor, Vice-Chancellor of Gauhati University, India.
Includes letters, drawings and photographs.
Papers of Gavin Maxwell and of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises Limited.
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.
With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.
Papers of Iain Macnab.
Including engravings, drawings, and sketchbooks.
Papers of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, containing diaries, drawings, paintings, photographs, newspaper cuttings and other related material.
Includes diaries and photographs.
Papers of Jessie M King.
Comprising drawings, sketchbooks, manuscripts of books and articles, diaires, and correspondence, with letters of Gordon Bottomley and Cecile Walton.
Papers of O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.
Includes family correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, sketches, drawings, photographs and personal memorabilia.