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Included are Learmont Drysdale's certificates for drawing and musical composition, reports on his progress at the Royal Academy of Music, 1889-1890, some drawings (folios 6-7), and a photograph of Ladislao Zavertal with the Pollokshields Musical Society, 1875 (folio 10). There are two letters, 1927, 1949, concerning the material (folio 1); and the Lucas Memorial and Bronze medals of the Royal Academy (awarded 1890) are boxed with the collection.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letter of John Smeaton to William Hall of Whitehall concerning Eyemouth harbour, 1769 (folio 1); (ii) Letters, 1787-1874, undated, and other papers, 1768-1853, undated, addressed to the Stevenson family on engineering matters (folio 3); (iii) Two letters of Robert Stevenson, 1808, from the Bell Rock Light; a certificate signed by Stevenson with an accompanying medallion giving George Milne, a seaman in the service of the Northern Lighthouse Commissioners,...

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A member of the Glasgow School and a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Arthur Walton exhibited regularly at both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours.

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Includes field diary, memoirs and photographs concerning di Falco`s service in the Italian Army, 1918-1921. Also includes Italian war service medals (framed) and material concerning Gabriele d`Annunzio`s seizure of Fiume, 1919.

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With his RSPCA Special Service Medal and citation, 1953.