Scope and Contents From the Series: The collections is supplemented by a large number of finished drawings (some in colour), a few maps, and some architectural plans and elevations, professionally drawn for Hutton by others, or done as favours by some of his correspondents, together with a number of separately acquired prints, and engraved views cut out from contemporary printed booksThe collection, which was previously bound in two large volumes, was subsequently dismounted and the items individually attached to...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Aberdeenshire (8a) Drawing, undated, in ink with areas of wash, of Undy Chapel, ‘by Mr Grimm’ (?1794 if by S H Grimm). (8b) Drawings, 1809, ‘Cape stones on the garden wall of, Inverugie, Castle. The letters GB and date 1670 appear to have been done at a much later period than the sculptured coach, which is probably three or four hundred years older. 9th Novr. 1809.’ (8c) Drawing, undated, ‘Fyvie [Castle] by Mr Cordiner [probably James Cordiner]’. (9a) Sketch,...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Dumfriesshire (30d) Drawing, [1811], of bell from Holywood Abbey, Dumfriesshire. (30e) Drawing, [1811], of bell, and its inscription, from Holywood Abbey, Dumfriesshire. See also Adv.MS.30.5.23 (187a)-(188b) for rubbings of the bell. (30f) Note, 1811, concerning drawings of bells (30d-30e) from Holywood, Abbey. (30g) Sketch, ‘Stone lying at the west door of the church of Holywood, Oct. 27 1811.’ Berwickshire (31) Plan, 1816, ‘Remains of the old church...

Scope and Contents The collections is supplemented by a large number of finished drawings (some in colour), a few maps, and some architectural plans and elevations, professionally drawn for Hutton by others, or done as favours by some of his correspondents, together with a number of separately acquired prints, and engraved views cut out from contemporary printed booksThe collection, which was previously bound in two large volumes, was subsequently dismounted and the items individually attached to...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (a) Letters to Robert Chalmers, solicitor, Edinburgh, from his niece Katherine Forbes Crauford, 1768; from the portrait painter Anne Forbes and her mother and sister, 1772-1773, concerning her work in London and including a list of portraits by her; from the Countess of Dumfries, 1788, and from David Rae (later Lord Eskgrove), undated, concerning admission to the Select Society (folio 118); (b) Epigram, 1747, on, and letter and poems, 1770-1777, undated, of, Mrs...

Scope and Contents The diaries cover the period between 18 September 2013 and 22 March 2015, and contain thoughtful and detailed descriptions of the pro-Independence campaigning activities of John McCurdy and his partner Joan Skinner, including notes on canvassing and letter-writing for Yes Scotland; notes on public meetings including those of the Edinburgh Active Citizenship Group, Radical Independence Campaign, and Women for Independence; reports on panel discussions, literary events, and political speeches...

Scope and Contents Sketch in pencil and ink, ‘Castle Stewart [i.e. Stuart] near Inverness the property of the Earl of Murray [i.e. Moray], Sepʳ. 30 [1799]’. (Folio 1.)Sketch in pencil and ink, ‘Castle Stewart [i.e. Stuart], Sep. 30 [1799]’. (Folio 2.)Sketch in pencil and ink, ‘View of Inverness from the Edinburgh road, Octʳ. 1 (1799)’. (Folio 3.)Sketch in pencil and ink, ‘The pier and part of the Firth of Cromarty, Oct. 3 [1799]’. Reproduced in ‘Scotia Depicta’ by J C...

Scope and Contents The manuscript was written during 1784-1785 (see pages iii, 198) by William Owen Pughe (1759-1835), co-editor of ‘The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales’. For further transcripts of the work in his hand see the following National Library of Wales manuscripts: 13240 B; 21281 E, page 231, column a; Erfyl Fychan papers.The contents are as follows.(i) Line from an ‘awdl’ ascribed to Casnodyn: ‘Cyn glas ved cyn glassu vyggran’. ‘The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales’, volume 1,...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Ruthven Todd was born and educated in Edinburgh, and from 1932 to 1934 worked as a farm labourer in Mull before moving to London where he joined the Bohemian world of writers and artists in Fitzrovia. In 1947, he left for the United States where he eventually settled in Martha's Vineyard and became an American citizen. From 1960 until his death, he lived in the Balearic island of Majorca.Most of the papers date from Todd's Majorcan period, but because he based much of his work on...