Portraits.
Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence of various members of the Brown family., 1862-1880, undated.
At the end of the volume are cuttings from the ‘West India Committee Circular’, 1927 and 1933, relating to Major-General John Brown, and portraits and photographs of members of the Brown family. Also included is a lock of horse hair from the tail of 'Alma', the horse ridden by George Brown in to the Battle of Alma, 21 September 1854.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Engraved portraits of governors of the Dutch East Indies, with historical notes.
Fifteen letters from Sir Walter Scott to Mrs Pascoe, thanking her for gifts and discussing her novel, ‘Coquetry’, which was published anonymously. , 1811-1822.
There is a photograph of a portrait of Mrs Pascoe by an anonymous artist on folio 30 (folio 1).
Five leaves from an illuminated copy, dated 1665, of the diploma awarded by the University of Padua in 1658 to Jacobus Pasquali on his graduation as Doctor of Laws., 1658, 1665.
Four letters, 1828-1829, 1832, of Thomas Campbell, bound with a copy of his ‘Inaugural discourse ... on being installed Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow’ (Glasgow, 1827).
There are also two portraits of Thomas Campbell.
‘Gem selection: Scottish songs’ edited by Alfred W Tomlyn, 7th edition (Edinburgh, undated); signed, with an autograph portrait sketch, Perth, 1928, of himself by Sir Harry Lauder; with other signatures inside the front cover.
Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
Grangerized copy of R H Cromek’s 'Reliques of Robert Burns', 4th edition, (London, 1817), part I (pages [i]-186)., 1st quarter of 19th century.
Part of the correspondence belongs, in date and subject, to the previous volume. The greater part belongs to the years 1805-1819, and deals with R H Cromek's scheme for an edition of Burns illustrated by Thomas Stothard, (Member of the Royal Academy of Arts), and with the preparation of the 8th edition of James Currie, edited by Gilbert Burns. Among the illustrations are several original sketches by Stothard, of scenes and objects associated with Burns.
Grangerized copy of ‘Scottish men of letters of the eighteenth century’ (London, 1901) by Henry Grey Graham, volume I, bound in with which are proofs of David Hume’s ‘History of England’, volume ii, pages 49-64, with autograph corrections by Hume. , [1759, circa 1770], 1901.
Grangerized copy of 'Scottish men of letters of the eighteenth century’ (London, 1901) by Henry Grey Graham, volume II., 1901.
‘Innes of Drumgask, Balnacraig, and Ballogie’, Aberdeenshire, 'a family history', by the Reverend John Stirton., 1942.
A typewritten work, dealing in particular with Lewis Innes, Principal of the Scots College in Paris, and his brother Thomas, the historian, and containing accounts of the Scots College, of Jacobite activities in France, and of the founding of the Roman Catholic Seminary at Scalan, Banffshire. Copies of correspondence from the Stuart Papers at Windsor are included.
‘Innes of Drumgask, Balnacraig, and Ballogie’, Aberdeenshire, 'a family history', by the Reverend John Stirton., 1942.
A typewritten work, dealing in particular with Lewis Innes, Principal of the Scots College in Paris, and his brother Thomas, the historian, and containing accounts of the Scots College, of Jacobite activities in France, and of the founding of the Roman Catholic Seminary at Scalan, Banffshire. Copies of correspondence from the Stuart Papers at Windsor are included.
Jâmi‘ al-Kamâlât, being a short treatise intended for the guidance of kings., 1584.
Leaves found loose in MSS.1836-1841: 'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, bound together., [1783-1797.]
References have been made from the loose leaf to the place where it was found and vice versa.
Included is a printed memoir of Colonel Drinkwater (folio 1).
Lectures on Aristotle delivered by Robert Balfour at the College of Guyenne, Bordeaux.
Letter, 1829, of David Macbeth Moir to Robert Macnish, the surgeon, concerning the latter's work on dreams, with a transcript, a portrait of Moir, and printed matter., 1829.
Letter, 1846, of Thomas Carlyle to William Nichol, mounted on card, along with a pencil portrait, 1843, of Carlyle by Bessie Fletcher., 1843, 1846.
Letter of Lieutenant-General David Baird at Copenhagen to Lieutenant-Colonel James Willoughby Gordon concerning the invasion of Denmark, with a printed engraved portrait of Baird., 22 September 1807.
Letter of Sir Walter Scott to James Gibson Craig., 1831.
Includes two portraits of Sir Walter Scott (folios 7-8).
Letters and a holograph manuscript of Thomas Campbell, with transcripts and portraits., [1806, or before], 1829, 1844.
Contains a letter to Jeffrey, 1829, recommending Miss Crumpe, the novelist; another letter, 1844; and holograph manuscript of 'Ye Mariners of England', differing slightly from the earliest and final versions.
Letters and other papers, some of which are printed, originally found inside MS.21248: ‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler, but now kept separately., 1719, 1929-1933, undated.
Letters and papers collected from 'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', 6 volumes, various editions, (London, 1830-1839) by Allan Cunningham., 1830-1839.
This material was collected by the author, Allan Cunningham, and his son with a view to a new edition. Loose papers have been pasted into the interleaved volumes or collected in a separate volume (MS.832).
Letters and papers, some printed, including a few photographs, formerly loosely enclosed throughout MSS.20087-20205 which could not be pasted or tipped in where they were found., 1901-1929, undated.
A list of the volumes where the various items were formerly located is placed at the beginning (folio i).