Portraits.
Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:
Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, and miscellaneous papers concerning him.
Letters, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.
The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.
Letters, newspaper-cuttings, and notes found loose in MSS.1813-1814: Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood., 19th century.
The material is chiefly of later date than 1813.
References to the items have been made at the appropriate places in MSS.1813-1814.
Letters of celebrities, some accompanied by transcripts (not wholly accurate), notes, printed matter, and portraits.
Letters of Duncan Forbes of Culloden to Lord Lovat, 7 November 1745, and to John Urquhart of Cromarty, 1746, on Jacobite movements and the general situation after the battle of Falkirk., 1726, 1745-1746.
Also included are precognitions taken by Forbes as Lord Advocate anent the murder of Captain James Moodie of Melsetter, 1726, and portraits of Forbes.
Letters of Richard Baird Smith to his sister Helen, his wife Florence, daughter of Thomas De Quincey, and other members of the family., 1843-1861, undated.
Letters of Sir Walter Scott to Longman, Rees and Company, publishers, London., 1803-1812.
Includes a portrait of Sir Walter Scott (folio 89).
Letters of Sir Walter Scott to Robert Southey, Charles Erskine and other correspondents., 1807-1830, undated.
Also included are some lines from 'Glenfinlas' (not in Walter Scott's hand), a spurious memorandum purporting to be by Scott and two portraits.
Part of the letter to John Clarke Whitfeld was published by Sir Herbert J C Grierson in ‘The letters of Sir Walter Scott’, volume iii, page 194.
Letters of Sir Walter Scott to William Laidlaw, his friend and secretary.
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to various persons, with some written to him., 1823-1875, undated.
Letters of various members of the Byron family, from Byron J to Byron, S; with letters of Ralph and Judith Milbanke-Noel to and concerning Lord Byron., 1788-1828.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Lee, S. to Leffingwell., 1808-1928.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Huhn to Humboldt., 1815-1916.
Letters (two copies and two holograph) of Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville, relating to Sir Home Popham, with portraits., 1802, 1806, undated.
'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', by Allan Cunningham, various editions, (London, 1830-1839), 6 volumes, interleaved, with original letters to the author and others (1829-1837), copies of letters (1710-1830) and notes in the autograph of his son Francis, printed cuttings, and portraits.
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).
'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', volume ii, 2nd edition (London, 1830) by Allan Cunningham., 1830.
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).
'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', volume iii, (London, 1830) by Allan Cunningham., 1830.
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).
'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', volume iv, (London, 1831) by Allan Cunningham., 1831.
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).
'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', volume v, 3rd edition (London, 1839) by Allan Cunningham., 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).
'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', volume vi, (London, 1833) by Allan Cunningham., 1833.
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).
Manuscript of a ‘Farewell address for Mrs Siddons’ by Sir Walter Scott., 1813.
Includes portraits of Sir Walter Scott and Mary Siddons, and two leters; one of Sir Walter Scott, and one of Mary Siddons to James Gibson Craig.
Manuscript of 'The Song of the Tower' by William Sydney Graham, a poem dedicated to Sven Berlin, with a pencil portrait of Graham by Berlin., 1946.
William Sydney Graham, who came from Greenock but spent much of his life in Cornwall, published several collections of poems between 1942 and 1977.
Material for a biography of Thomas Carlyle, part, at least, of which was collected by Frederick Martin., 1821-1877, undated.
Microfilm of a volume, 1859, concerning the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth gathered by the Boston Burns Club; and, letters and poems, 1785-1867, of and concerning, Robert Burns gathered by Adam Sim of Coulter.
The contents are as follows:
A volume, 1859, concerning the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth gathered by the Boston Burns Club (Acc.10847);
Letters and poems of, 1785-1867, and relating to, Robert Burns gathered by Adam Sim of Coulter; including letters of Allan Cunningham and of Robert Tannahil (MS.23150).