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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

Copy of William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (Edinburgh, 1753), with additional papers bound in to the book.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9932
Scope and Contents

Additional papers include:

printed proposals for the work

printed and manuscript papers concerning alterations to the text

papers concerning defamation of James Coutts and Mrs Little of Liberton.

Dates: 1753 and undated.

Manuscript entitled "Collections towards a history of tolbooths, bridewells and prisons in Edinburgh", compiled by John A Fairley.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12721
Scope and Contents

Includes related printed papers, and historical notes by Fairley on this and other topics of Edinburgh history and biography.

Dates: circa 1900.

Typescript copy of the journal, 1831-1832, of the Reverend James Robert Boyd.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7316
Scope and Contents

Kept during a visit to Edinburgh and the Borders.

With notes and comments by the transcriber John S B Pratt Junior, undated

photocopy of a charcoal sketch, circa 1838, of Dr Boyd

biographical note, 1882.

Dates: 1831-1882.