Photographs.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. (AAT) This heading was used in the NLS typescript manuscripts catalogue for all types of photographs, and for documents relating to photography. (NLS).
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
11 photographs of and relating to Robert Louis Stevenson and Swanston.
File
Identifier: Acc.13774
Scope and Contents
Includes 3 copies of earlier images of Stevenson and his parents.
Dates:
Circa 1900-1910.
Barbara Balfour-Melville, "The Balfours of Pilrig" (1907), with interleavings annotated by Sir Graham Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9458
Scope and Contents
With photographs and letters including five, 1870, 1887-1892, of Robert L Stevenson, and two, 1859, 1869, of Florence Nightingale.
Dates:
circa 1859-1907.
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13744/1-6
Scope and Contents
Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Stevenson’s tutor in that capacity. Stevenson showed little aptitude or interest in engineering but the two men became firm friends. After Jenkin’s sudden death in 1885, his widow Anne asked Stevenson to write a memoir of her husband and this correspondence arose from that connection.
Dates:
1885-1914, undated.
Photograph of manuscript poem of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7483
Dates:
circa 1870-circa 1890.