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Album of Walter Bowman.
Contains manuscript letters, prints, drawings and watercolours.
Autobiography of Robert Douglas (1727-1809), Colonel of Marines in the Dutch Army and Lieutenant-General and Commander of the town of 's-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc).
Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Letter of Ensign Robert Hamilton Montgomerie, 24th Foot, whilst at Wazirabad, to James L Gordon, Brechin.
Describing his life in India, and containing a watercolour sketch of his house.
Letter of Walter Scott, illustrated with pen and wash drawings of Abbotsford and Melrose Abbey by Hugh William Williams.
Letters of Dr W B Bannerman and Mrs Helen Bannerman, written from India to their children in Edinburgh, and including watercolour illustrations by Helen Bannerman.
Miniature watercolour by A G Tompkins.
Includes letter gifting painting to the Advocates` Library.
Papers of Frank Whyte, civil engineer, including notebooks, watercolours and letters, with educational certificates of his sister, Mary Whyte, teacher.
Papers of the family of Scott Plummer of Sunderland Hall.
Two journal-letters, of Robert Michael Ballantyne from the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
Includes two watercolour paintings of the lighthouse, one showing the building from the reef, the other being an interior view; with two other letters of Ballantyne concerning lifeboats, and many later letters of R M Ballantyne, his family and friends.
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.