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Autograph albums.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books, loose-leaf binders, or other volumes containing blank leaves, on which persons have written sentiments, quotations, or signatures.

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Miscellaneous papers relating to the Blythe family., 1859-1978, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11021/219-223
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Correspondence, accounts, diaries, and miscellaneous papers, 1861-1993, largely of and relating to Barberfield Farm, near Haddington, East Lothian. With personal correspondence, accounts, and photographs of Charles Blythe, Farmer, and his family, 1861-1993.Charles Blythe became tenant of Barberfield Farm in 1904 in partnership with his brother-in-law, William Millar, Draper, Tranent. In 1928, Blythe took on the lease of the neighbouring Heatheryhall Farm. Previously, he had been...
Dates: 1859-1978, undated.

Notebooks and diaries of A E Borthwick, Mary S V Borthwick, and her mother Ann Pringle., 1887-1954, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.10407-10469
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates: 1887-1954, undated.

Older and loose papers and bound volumes., 1796-1958, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.7548/D/1-117
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

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.

Dates: 1796-1958, undated.

Papers, 1882-1947 and undated, of Sir Edward L Durand, 1st Baronet, and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10838
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, 1787-1884 and undated, of the Percy and other related families.

Dates: 1787-1947 and undated.

Small autograph book., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/49
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: Undated.

Two blank centenary autograph books., 1937.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10903/58
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: 1937.