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“A fortnight's cruise in the Ailsa from June 29 to July 13 1892”.
An account of a voyage in an RNYC yacht round the Western Islands, by an unidentified author, illustrated with photographs, water-colour drawings, and pen sketches of the party, crew and scenery.
The party includes Jessie, Rae, Fred and cousin A. Rintoul and others.
The crew were Captain Peter MacNichol, Jack MacMillan, John MacAllister, Ronald MacDonald, Malcolm Wilkie and Dugald MacGillivray.
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'.
Autograph album of Frances M Stevenson.
Contains sketches, watercolours and verses.
Drawings and watercolour sketches of bridges, lockgates, and other machinery mostly connected with the Caledonian Canal, by Joseph Mitchell.
Four scrapbooks of Admiral Lord Mark Kerr.
Contains watercolours and pen and pencil sketches, mostly grotesques and cartoons but with some landscape and architectural drawings.
Friendship album in which are illustrated the likes and dislikes of various contributors.
Illustrated diary of Mary Cumming Bruce.
‘Journal of a trip to the Island of Gottland, Sweden, Denmark, &c., &c., with Some Correspondence, and Remarks upon the Capabilities of that Island as a Field for Emigration, by John Shedden Dobie'.
The author was one of a party who made a tour of inspection of Gottland in connection with a scheme, promoted by Robert Chambers, the publisher, to settle British farmers there. Their report was entirely adverse. The volume includes a printed prospectus of the scheme, relevant newspaper articles, and correspondence with Chambers, 1850, and is illustrated with several water-colour sketches.
Microfilm of journals of John Francis Campbell, 1841-1842; and, Matthew Boulton Rennie, 1831, describing visits to Spain.
The contents are as follows:
Journal of John Francis Campbell describing his time in Spain during a Mediterranean tour Campbell made while he was still a student at Eton, between 1841 and 1842 (Adv.MS.50.3.14, folios 18-86, 287-440);
Journal, 1831, of Matthew Boulton Rennie of a visit to Spain (MS.19949).
Notebook containing a record of the campaigns of the 1st Battalion, Scots Fusilier Guards in the Crimea.
The contents are compiled from official and other documents, and consist of: rolls of service of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who went to the Crimea; rolls of promotions, honours, and awards;
detailed returns of the state and strength of the battalion, including medical reports; a journal of the campaigns and battles in which the battalion took part.
The notebook is illustrated with occasional sketches, ink and watercolour, and with two military poems.
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Papers of Stewart Sim.
Includes architectural drawings, sketches, watercolours and photographs.
Six albums of pen and watercolour sketches by H G M Kirby depicting a history of his sporting life and his friends.
Scottish scenes set at Forsinard, Sutherland, the English at Bradwell Grove, Oxon, and London and Cambridge; with scenes also in France and Egypt.
'Tom: 2d of the juvenile poetic works of John Black’, containing drafts of verse dramas and other poems including fragments of ‘The Falls of Clyde, or the fairies’ by John Black, minister of Coylton.
According to a note inside the back cover, John Black was aged from 15 to 19 when he wrote the verses (1793-1797). There are a number of pen and ink and watercolour sketches.
Two letters, a leaf of manuscript, and a watercolour sketch by Joyce Cary, inserted in a copy of her 'A house of children' (London, 1941).
The manuscript contains a passage from the novel corresponding to page 30 and notes for another work. The sketch illustrates the scene described on page 30.
Watercolour sketch of Duntulm Castle, by Constance Gordon Cumming.
Drawn for an illustration of her "From the Hebrides to the Himalayas" (1876).
Watercolours and sketches of scenes in Scotland.
Watercolours of Mary Frances Wicksteed painted on tours of Scotland and Wales
64 watercolours, mainly landscapes, painted on tours of Scotland (1871) and North Wales (1876). Also 16 small watercolours of Charles Philips Trevelyn. Mary Frances Wicksteed was governess to the Philips and Trevelyan families.