Albums.
Found in 148 Collections and/or Records:
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Album of Eliza Boothby containing verses and drawings by various hands.
Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".
Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.
Album of Evelyne Radford, daughter of Jack Radford of Hale End Manor, Walthamstow, Essex, relating to country house parties in England and at Kildonan Lodge, Sutherland, to a cruise and a holiday in the South of France.
Album of letters, notes, accounts, parish records, printed notices, and political cartoons of Duncan Campbell, Minister of Moulin, and his son Duncan Campbell, Minister of St. Matthews, Edinburgh; with original binding.
Album of miscellaneous autographs, chiefly of the nineteenth century, including, among the more substantial items, letters of Scott, Raeburn, Cockburn, and Jeffrey; with original binding.
Album of miscellaneous printed and manuscript matter.
The printed items are mostly newspaper cuttings, from the period circa 1780-circa 1830; they have not been indexed. The manuscript items, a list of which has been added at the beginning of the volume, are mostly Scottish, several relating to Bo`ness and Linlithgow, and date from 1562 to 1826. On folio 44 is a note signed `A.E.N.`
Album of newspaper cuttings collected by Alexander Hutcheson concerning the haunted tower of St Andrews, the cathedral, the castle, and the abbey wall.
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.
Album of occasional verse, verse epistles, etc., apparently by Lady Frances Scott, afterwards Baroness Douglas.
Album of pencil and water-colour sketches, titled, ‘Sketches on the East Coast of Scotland by Edward Duncan’.
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'.
Album of poetry compiled by Isabella Farquharson Will.
Containing lithographs of Frederick Schenck, Edinburgh.
Album of press cuttings from Labour and other newspapers, largely relating to socialism, compiled by Alexander Dalrymple, Kingseathill, Fife.
Album of sketches in watercolour and in pencil and wash, made during a tour in Scotland from July to September 1823.
The sketches have not been mounted in chronological sequence, and appear to have come from two sources. The wash drawings are probably from a sketchbook, and the watercolours have been cut from a journal of the tour. The artist, who was English, travelled from Loch Lomond and the Trossachs to Inveraray, Staffa, Glencoe, Killin, and back to Loch Lomond. Inserted at the end are sketches of Edinburgh and Carlisle, a drawing, 1820, of Killarney and other unrelated material.
Album of sketches of Anna Margaret Carr illustrating Scottish scenery and buildings.
Album of sketches produced by the Coventry Sketching Club at `Mr N Troughton`s meeting`, when the subject for illustration was Sir Walter Scott`s "The Fortunes of Nigel".
Album of the Reverend John Kirk.
Includes University of St Andrews certificates, letters of Thomas Chalmers and others, cut signatures, sketches and plans.
Album of Thomas Constable, publisher, containing the names of subscribers to ‘Memorial of the Royal Progress in Scotland’ by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, among which are signatures, 1842, of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.
Album of topographical views and figure studies of a tour in Scotland and England, of Revd. George Ernest Howman. Places visited in Scotland include Bridge of Fyers, Blair Atholl, Killicrankie, Dunkeld, Killin, Callendar, the Trossachs, Stirling, Dunblane, Scone Palace, Perth, Castle Huntly, Dundee, Leuchars, St Andrews, Loch Leven, Linlithgow, Craigmillar Castle, Roslin Chapel and Melrose.
Album of verses, riddles and drawings.
Most of the entries are dated from 1825 to 1828, and some were made at Newcastle- upon-Tyne. The book belonged to the donor's grandmother, Mrs Elizabeth Russell Davison, of the Wilson family of Roxburghshire.
Album of Walter Bowman.
Contains manuscript letters, prints, drawings and watercolours.
Album owned by Private W J Little.
Containing, "Seaweed from Lord Kitchener`s Grave off Marwick Head, Orkney".
Albums compiled by John P. Ritchie and related material.
Two albums of and relating to John P. Ritchie largely concerning ornithology especially of Saint Kilda. With a bronze plaque for 1st Prize in Beginners Lantern Slides, 1930, awarded to John P Ritchie by the Paisley Philosophical Institution and his inscribed copy of John Morrell McWilliam`s `The Birds of Bute`, 1927.
Albums of caricatures by John A Hipkins, wood-engraver, with scrap-books containing material collected by or associated with him.
The volumes, which have been arranged and provided with biographical notes and lists of contents by John A Hipkins's sister, Miss Edith J Hipkins, the painter, illustrate the cultivated life of London in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. Since Hipkins himself was deaf, there is much material relating to the artistic and other activities of the deaf.