Albums.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Unpublished sets of pages, bound or loose-leaf, either intended to have, or assembled after having, material affixed to them or writing or other images made on them.
Found in 276 Collections and/or Records:
23 letters to Sir Walter Elliot of Wolfelee.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10141
Dates:
1865-1882.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
64 letters, 1899-1949 and undated, to John Purves, mostly on literary matters, from among others J M Barrie, John Davidson, Luigi Pirandello and Walter de la Mare.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7175
Scope and Contents
With literary and historical manuscripts, 1388, 1798-1911 and undated, collected by Purves, including single letters of D G Rossetti, John Ruskin, Sir Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth.
Also two albums, 1936-1952, of Purves, containing inscriptions in poetry and prose by various contributors.
Dates:
1388, 1798-1952.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
89 funeral letters to the family of Scott of Raeburn.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7516
Scope and Contents
Including three letters of Sir Walter Scott.
Dates:
1771-1840.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Airs, chiefly Scottish, in an album bearing the name of Adam Johnston, Ensign, Berwickshire Militia., 1814.
File
Identifier: MS.3342 [Ing.87]
Scope and Contents
A few leaves of a smaller format are inserted loose at the end.
Dates:
1814.
Album and ephemera of and relating to the Scottish Youth Hostels Association.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13373/1-3
Dates:
1930-1980, undated.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Album, compiled by a member of the Erskine family, containing sundry papers including one in hand of David Hume and papers of John Ramsay of Ochtertyre.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11353
Dates:
circa 1829.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Album compiled by Elizabeth S Haldane containing letters of condolence, obituaries and other appreciations of Richard Haldane extracted from newspapers and periodicals 1928-1929; and a few cuttings concerning the campaign of public abuse against him in 1915., 1915, 1928-1929.
Item
Identifier: MS.20067
Dates:
1915, 1928-1929.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Correspondence and papers of Mrs Mary E Haldane, her parents Richard and Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, her sister Jane, and her son Richard B Haldane, later Viscount Haldane.
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Correspondence and papers of, and concerning, Richard Burdon Haldane, who was created Viscount Haldane in 1911.
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Correspondence and papers chiefly concerning Richard Burden Haldane.
Album compiled by Florence Bankes of watercolours and photographs of Italy, Scotland and Cornwall.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13733
Scope and Contents
This album consists largely watercolours of places visited in Scotland, Italy, Switzerland, Devon and Cornwall between 1910 and 1924. Many are signed Florrie Bankes, or F.B. Places depicted include Loch Laggan, Loch Achray, Loch Katrine, Ackergill Tower, Balmacarra, the castle of Eilean Donan and Loch Duich, Taynuilt, Loch Etive, Ben Cruachan, Glenfinnan, Loch Shiel, the road to Mallaig, Gruinard, Tarbert, Loch Fyne, Lochaillort, Loch Feochan.The album also includes a number of...
Dates:
1910-1924, 1955.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Album compiled by George Daniel.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11649
Scope and Contents
Contains poetic note by Robert Burns, undated, with reply by Robert Riddell and engravings by Thomas Stothard and others.
Dates:
1850.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
‘Album', compiled by James Hopkirk, Dalbeth., 1826.
Item
Identifier: MS.3062
Scope and Contents
A collection of curious facts, comic anecdotes, verse, etc., chiefly of Scottish interest, including 'Manners of the inhabitants of Glasgow in former times' (folio 31) and a list of proverbs (folio 35).
Dates:
1826.
Album compiled by Katherine Jane Ellice, 1838-1864, entitled 'Scrabble Book Quebec, 1839', with notes 2013-2014 and undated, on Ellice family history in Canada and Glenquoich.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13651/1-3
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1838-1864, 2013-2014, undated.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Album compiled by Major J Stewart Reakes containing "Law and Orders relating to Defascism and Epuration" issued by the Allied Military Government, British-United States Zone, Free Territory of Trieste.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10445
Dates:
circa 1945-1950.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Album compiled by or for Richard Bell relating to the publication by Blackwood of, and the reception of, his "My Strange Pets and other Memories of Country Life" (1905).
Item
Identifier: Acc.12764
Dates:
circa 1905.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Album, compiled by Valda Grieve, of greetings cards and telegrams received by Christopher Murray Grieve on his 70th and 75th birthdays., 1962, 1967.
Item
Identifier: MS.27156
Album concerning Thomas Carlyle.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10484
Scope and Contents
Includes press cuttings, photographs and a portrait of Carlyle.
Dates:
late 19th century.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Album, containing autograph letters of celebrities, chiefly literary, dating chiefly from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with some portraits.
Item
Identifier: MS.948
Scope and Contents
Several of the letters are addressed to the two Thomas Cadells, publishers.
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Album containing chiefly full-length figures, posed for formal portraits, in contemporary historical or oriental dress, drawn by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe in pencil, ink and watercolours., [Circa 1813.]
File
Identifier: MS.19407
Dates:
[Circa 1813.]
Album containing copies of epitaphs in England., Late 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1885
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Album containing copies of epitaphs in England., Late 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1886
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Album, containing copies of orders, apparently compiled in the eighteenth century, after the campaigns in question., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2879
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Campaign of 1704. Order of march, probably for the troops commanded by Lieutenant-General Charles Churchill, from Bedburg to the Danube and Blenheim, and back to Weissemburg, 20 March-12 September. (Page 1.)(ii) Campaign of 1705. Order of march from the Maas to Herzogenrath, 15-16 May, and from the Moselle through the Eifel to the union with Overkirk's army near Haneff, 19 June-12 July; for movements connected with the attack on the...
Dates:
18th century.
Album containing copies of religious tracts, at least one of which is of John Livingstone, Minister of Ancrum, in the same hand as the 'Life' of Livingstone in Adv. MS.34.5.19.
Item
Identifier: MS.3858
Scope and Contents
The date 1673 (folio 53 verso) indicates that the manuscript was written after John Livingstone's death.The contents are as follows.(i) Livingstone's 'Memorable Characteristics' (folio 1); this is not one of the copies used for W K Tweedie's edition in ‘Select Biographies’ (Wodrow Society, 1845), volume i;(ii) 'The notes of some sermons knit together anent personall covenanting &c.' (folio 30);(iii) Questions on the duties of Christians,...
Dates:
1673.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Album containing correspondence, chiefly relating to Mary, Queen of Scots, with transcripts (not wholly accurate), portraits, and views.
File
Identifier: MS.3657
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Letter of Lethington to Mary, Queen of Scots, describing an interview with Elizabeth, 1562 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Lethington to Dudley, on Mary's attitude to negotiations, apparently for her marriage with Dudley, Stirling, 1563 (folio 5);(iii) Letter of Throckmorton to Lethington, on the prospects of the marriage, London, 1565 (folio 8);(iv) Letter of Randolph to Leicester, on the same subject, Edinburgh, 1565...
Dates:
1562-1586, undated.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Album containing drawings in various media, pasted in, some by Katherine Jane Ellice, but chiefly by friends and relatives., 1854-1855, 1858, 1870, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.15173
Scope and Contents
Most drawings depict scenes, both in Scotland and abroad.
Dates:
1854-1855, 1858, 1870, undated.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Collections of drawings consisting chiefly of watercolour and pencil sketches.
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Collections of drawings by Katherine Jane Ellice.
Album containing drawings pasted in, and some tipped in, drawn chiefly whilst cruising in the "Lotus" and the "Ladye" off the Scottish coast., 1846, 1854, 1856-1863, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.15172
Scope and Contents
Several leaves have been torn out at various places throughout the volume and folios 82-98 are blank.
Dates:
1846, 1854, 1856-1863, undated.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Collections of drawings consisting chiefly of watercolour and pencil sketches.
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Collections of drawings by Katherine Jane Ellice.
Album containing eight letters, 1833-1837, from Hugh Miller to Sir Thomas Dick-Lauder; and a transcript of a letter from Miller to Miss Dunbar of Boath, and of one from Miss Dunbar to Dick-Lauder, both of 1829.
Item
Identifier: MS.9654
Scope and Contents
The album contains (folios 13-18) a printed octavo prospectus for ‘The traditional history of Cromarty (Inverness, 1834).
Dates:
1829, 1833-1837.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts