Autograph albums.
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Album, probably compiled by David Macdonald, printer, Edinburgh, of letters and signatures of his correspondents, mainly Edinburgh personalities of the nineteenth century., 19th century.
The letters are of interest only as autographs, and it is clear from the mutilated state of the album, as well as from the index found in it, that many other letters are missing, the pages on which they had been pasted having been clumsily cut out.
Autograph album, lettered on the spine 'Ch. Hutcheson. Sketches', probably Charles Hutcheson, a well-known Glasgow citizen, a member of the Society of Dilettanti, who died in 1860., [1824, or after.]
The album contains copies of verses, children's drawings, sketches of marine subjects by Charles Hutcheson himself, and other material. The watermark date is 1824.
Autograph album of distinguished visitors to the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, many of whom used their premises for rehearsal., 1927-1967.
Signatories include Elizabeth Schumann, John Ireland, Rosalyn Tureck, Yehudi Menuhin, Archie Camden, Barry Tuckwell, Cecil Aronowitz, and others, including members of the London Symphony Orchestra, 1931, and of the Cleveland Orchestra, 1967.
Autograph album of Mary Borthwick, inscribed 1894, containing several entries of verse and drawings, 1895-1900., 1894-1900.
Autograph book inscribed 'Charles Dalrymple from Aunt Agnes, Sept. 25th 1856', consisting chiefly of pasted in signatures removed from letters., 1807-1887, undated.
The autograph book contains a few entire letters sewn, pasted, or loosely tipped in.
Autograph book of J J Kirchheim containing a collection of chiefly German autographs., 1773-1776.
Autograph book of J J Kirchheim containing a collection of chiefly German autographs., 1773-1776.
Correspondence and papers of George Buchanan Smith., 1901-1917.
The George Adam Smith Archive, comprising correspondence and papers, 1859-1949, of the Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942), theologian, Moderator of the United Free Church General Assembly, 1916, and Principal of Aberdeen University, 1910-35; of his wife Lilian, née Buchanan (1866-1949) and her family; and of their family, particularly George Buchanan Smith (d.1915) and Robert Dunlop Smith (d.1917).
Correspondence, including autograph letters, photographs and pictures., 1732-1958, undated.
Miscellaneous papers relating to the Blythe family., 1859-1978, undated.
Notebooks and diaries of A E Borthwick, Mary S V Borthwick, and her mother Ann Pringle., 1887-1954, undated.
Older and loose papers and bound volumes., 1796-1958, undated.
The archive of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, 1929-64, together with much 19th and earlier 20th century material, and some items relating to Jewish and Continental Missions.
Papers of Jessie Meikle née McLetchie., 1893-1927, undated.
Including notebooks, lectures, poetry and personal papers.
Small autograph book., Undated.
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Two blank centenary autograph books., 1937.
Chiefly relating to links with Women's Guilds at home and centenary celebrations, but also with material relevant to the history of Women's Forrign Missions. There is also a large number of play scripts in this accession.