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22 postcards, 1933-1942, of William Soutar to William Montgomerie and his family.
On personal and literary matters, with a sketch of Soutar.
With five letters, 1977, to Montgomerie, concerning Soutar, and an associated letter of Montgomerie to Maurice Lindsay.
Also four letters of Sir John Stirling-Maxwell and 11 letters of Anne G Gilchrist, 1948-1952, to Montgomerie, on literary and musical matters.
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Album of the Reverend John Kirk.
Includes University of St Andrews certificates, letters of Thomas Chalmers and others, cut signatures, sketches and plans.
Autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine.
The majority of the works are unpublished, and those which are published present considerable divergences. All the plays were written for the stage, and in some cases the names of the actors appear in the list of dramatis personae. Adv.MS.5.1.16, (i) and (ii) seem to be unconnected with the remainder of the collection.
Composite volume made up in or about 1819 (the date of the watermark of the binder`s blanks) from five folio notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
Diaries, 1832-1865, chiefly of Colonel James Halkett (1822-1870), Coldstream Guards, son of Hugh, Baron von Halkett, describing his service in Britain, Mauritius, India and the Crimea; with correspondence and related material, 1847-1863, concerning several other members of the Halkett family.
James Halkett was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Mauritius, Sir William Gomm, from 1842 to 1847, and to the Commander-in-Chief of India from 1850 to 1854. He was severely wounded in action in November 1854 and the diary for that year gives particular accounts of the battles he witnessed during the Crimean War.
Diary, 1828-1830, of Major Douglas Cunninghame Graham.
Includes colour sketches and concerns hunting expeditions in India.
With a letter, 1839, of Graham from India to his sister, Mrs Anna Calderwood.
Diary kept by Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming during her journey to and stay in Fiji.
The diary commences in February 1875 and breaks off in July 1876, fourteen months before the writer left Fiji. The material in the diary is basically similar to that of Miss Gordon-Cumming's book, ‘At home in Fiji’ (Edinburgh, 1881), as far as volume ii, page 25, although the book is composed of a series of letters to the writer's friends in England. Occasional thumb-nail sketches or diagrams appear in the diary.
Dugald S MacColl, "Newdigate Prize Poem. The Fall of Carthage", with letter and sketch by the author.
Further papers of Captain Archibald D Cochrane
The papers relate to Captain Cochrane's career in politics and as Governor of Burma. They include letters from Cochrane to his wife, Julia Cochrane, 1936-1937; and correspondence between Cochrane and the British naval officers with whom he escaped in 1917 from a Turkish prisoner of war camp, 1921-1958.
Journal of a tour to Scotland by Clement Mansfield Ingleby.
Letter, 1870, of James Nasmyth to James Hodgkinson.
Includes sketch, 1849, of Nasmyth`s improvement for the reflecting telescope.
Letter of Alexander to James Ballantyne describing the last dinner of the writer with Sir Walter Scott.
Includes manuscript draft and cutting of letter of John Ballantyne on the same dinner with Scott, and a pencil and chalk study of Scott by John Ballantyne.
Letter of William Orpen to John Girdwood.
With a sketch of Orpen in military uniform.
Letters and artwork proposals, including sketches and drawings, of Ian Hamilton Finlay, with related drawings, designs and papers of Michael Harvey, letter cutter.
Letters and correspondence of Alexander Stuart Boyd to members of the Barr family, Woldingham, Surrey.
On social, artistic and literary matters, several of the documents illustrated with humorous sketches.