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Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
Album of photographs, autographs, press cuttings and other memorabilia concerning the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., [Circa 1896]-1950.
Item
Identifier: MS.21617
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
[Circa 1896]-1950.
Album of the Reverend John Kirk.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11146
Scope and Contents
Includes University of St Andrews certificates, letters of Thomas Chalmers and others, cut signatures, sketches and plans.
Dates:
circa 1814-1855.
Autograph book of William Scott of Raeburn, labelled "W. Scott's Vol. 2", including some complete letters and the signatures of Queen Anne, King George III, Queen Victoria, Pitt, Palmerston and Gladstone., 1843-1854.
Item
Identifier: MS.6315
Autograph transcripts of 15 of Hugh MacDiarmid`s poems.
File
Identifier: Acc.10095
Scope and Contents
Includes letter of MacDiarmid to W Gordon Smith concerning a recording of the poems.
Dates:
1962.
Bound copy of the acting text of "The Satire of the Three Estates", prepared by Robert Kemp for production at the Edinburgh International Festival.
File
Identifier: Acc.10112
Scope and Contents
With stage photographs, sketches and signatures of the actors, musicians and singers.
Dates:
1948.
Circular letter, signed and with postcript in the hand of Captain R F Scott.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7685
Scope and Contents
Acknowledging a subscription to the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910.
Dates:
1910.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.25
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Latin legal abbreviations, 16th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Speech in Latin addressed to `domine doctissime coeterique commilitones mei suavissimi`, in praise of modesty. Late 16th or early 17th century. (Folio 2.)(iii) Transcript, 19th century, of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3 February, 1590, concerning the slaughter of David Taillor by William Spottiswood of that Ilk and others. Cf. ‘The...
Dates:
16th century-1793.
Copy of G A Furse, "Military Expeditions beyond the Seas", with signature and numerous markings by Douglas Haig.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7132
Dates:
1897.
Copy of G K Chesterton, "George Bernard Shaw" (London, 1914), with author`s signature.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4183
Dates:
1914.
Diary of an American Civil War soldier.
File
Identifier: Acc.6883
Scope and Contents
With a signature of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Dates:
1862.
Five leaves from an autograph album.
File
Identifier: Acc.5623
Scope and Contents
Including letters, receipts, drawings and engravings.
With items of Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Francis Chantrey and Benjamin Haydon.
Dates:
1755-1830 and undated.
Letter, 1875, of Cardinal Newman to James Thin.
File
Identifier: Acc.6651
Scope and Contents
With:
letter, 1948, of Anna Buchan
signature, 1845, of George Cruickshank.
Dates:
1845, 1875 and 1948.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of eight poems of David Morrison.
File
Identifier: Acc.4719
Scope and Contents
With signed copy of Morrison`s "The White Hind and other Poems" (1968).
Dates:
1965-1968.
Manuscript of poem of Hercules Rollock, "De Peste Edinburgi Grassante, anno 1585".
File
Identifier: Acc.4373
Scope and Contents
With contemporary copy, signed by Rollock.
Dates:
circa 1585.
Menu from dinner in honour of Dr Janet Adam Smith, on the occasion of the opening of the De Quincey exhibition in NLS.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9101
Scope and Contents
With signatures of participants.
Dates:
1985.
Papers of Scottish interest.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.3948
Scope and Contents
Including an Edinburgh burgess ticket, 1710, to Allan Ramsay and papers, 19th century, of George Hardiman.
Dates:
17th century to 19th century.
Photocopies of front endpapers of a copy of Robert Moffat, "Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa" (London, 1842).
Item
Identifier: Acc.9078
Scope and Contents
Contains:
signatures of Robert Moffat and his family
presentation by Moffat to John W Sheldon
signatures of David Livingstone and H M Stanley
pamphlet on Sarah Roby, an African girl brought to England by Moffat
photograph of Stanley.
Dates:
1842.
Photocopy of the first page of the indictment at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, inscribed with the signatures of the prosecuting counsel.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9061
Dates:
1945.
Signatures of judges and advocates of the Court of Session, chiefly of the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, cut from letters, etc.
File
Identifier: MS.2957
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Signatures, undated, of Sir Alexander Carnegy of Balnamoon, Mr George Haliburton, Minister of Menmuir (afterwards Bishop of Dunkeld), and other subscribers in the parish of Menmuir, appended to ‘A solemne league and covenant’ (Edinburgh, 1643).
Item
Identifier: MS.3279
Dates:
[1643, or after.]
Signed photographs of Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and Sir John Mills.
File
Identifier: Acc.11251
Dates:
circa 1950.
Signed typescript of talk of the Most Reverend Gordon J Gray, to the Representative Church Council meeting.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4336
Dates:
1967.