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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Scope Note: Unpublished sets of pages, bound or loose-leaf, either intended to have, or assembled after having, material affixed to them or writing or other images made on them.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:

Album of newspaper cuttings collected by Alexander Hutcheson concerning the haunted tower of St Andrews, the cathedral, the castle, and the abbey wall.

 File
Identifier: MS.9608
Scope and Contents

Also pasted into the album are two pamphlets by David Henry about the cathedral and the castle, 1910, and three letters, 1894, 1911, of David Hay Fleming.

Dates: 1894-1911.

Album of pencil and water-colour sketches, titled, ‘Sketches on the East Coast of Scotland by Edward Duncan’.

 File
Identifier: MS.3245
Scope and Contents

The sketches are chiefly undated but where dated range in year from 1863 to 1876. Although most of the sketches are of St Abb's Head, the Bass Rock, Tantallon, Holy Island, etc., there are some views of Perthshire, Jedburgh, Roxburgh, and other places inland. The collection also contains an unfinished drawing of Fernilee, subscribed 'The house were (sic) the "Flowers of the Forest" was written'.

Dates: 1863-1876.

Album of poetry compiled by Isabella Farquharson Will.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6844
Scope and Contents

Containing lithographs of Frederick Schenck, Edinburgh.

Dates: 1852.

Album of press cuttings, undated, collected by John Purves chiefly on literary topics., [?1913-?1960.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.15896
Scope and Contents

The cuttings include reviews of a series of six lectures which John Purves gave to the Helensburgh Lecture Association, an article by Purves on Italian contemporary writers and a group of articles on Thomas Hardy.

Dates: [?1913-?1960.]