Albums.
Found in 148 Collections and/or Records:
Anonymous album of a visit to Scotland entitled `Oban, 1919`.
This album records a visit to Scotland by three women, Winnifred, Joan and Mona in August 1919. The friends visited Oban, Dunollie, Dunstaffnage, Staffa, Glencoe and Edinburgh. The album consists of photographs and postcards with observations on their experiences.
Antiquarian album of Adam de Cardonnel-Lawson.
Contains several hundred prints and drawings.
Archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach.
The archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach, consisting of minutes, financial records, commemorative volumes and scrapbooks, and a miscellany of music and prose. Most of the contents of the archive date from the foundation of An Comunn Gàidhealach in 1891 to the 1970s, with a few sections dating from more recent times.
"Autograph Letters of Sir Walter Scott"
Contains letters mainly to Charles Erskine and James Curle, with associated documents, all as described in printed index bound in.
Copies of dispatches and correspondence of Charles Pasley.
Concerning his part in Sir John Malcolm`s mission to Persia.
Correspondence and other papers concerning the Buchanites, collected by Joseph Train.
Correspondence and papers of Charles Forrester.
Charles Forrester (1895-1980), a graduate of Heriot Watt College, Edinburgh, was Professor of Chemistry 1926, Vice-Principal 1932 and Principal 1936-1948 of the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. After his retirement he worked in the Chief Scientist's Division, Minister of Power, 1949-1960, and the British Coal Utilisation Research Association 1960-1963. The papers largely concern Forrester's position as Director of the Indian School of Mines.
Correspondence and papers of James Connell and Sons.
Includes:
420 letters, 1897-1934, of Sir David Y Cameron to James Connell and Sons, concerning his etchings and paintings
letters, 1912-1941, to James Connell from correspondents including Sir Muirhead Bone, Jacob Epstein and Sir Alfred Munnings
three volumes of press cuttings, 1890-1952, concerning James Connell and Sons
associated document and photographs.
Correspondence concerning a projected biographical work by William Forsyth junior on the nurserymen working near London.
Drawings and watercolour sketches of bridges, lockgates, and other machinery mostly connected with the Caledonian Canal, by Joseph Mitchell.
Extracts by William Bell Scott from the correspondence, journals, and memorandums of David Scott.
"Field Marshal Earl Haig K T Letters 1920 to 1927".
Contains 41 letters to James Curle with associated printed material and a photograph.
Four albums of press cuttings, 1878-1964, collected by members of the Craig-Brown family.
Concerning military matters and Selkirkshire antiquities.
Four Scottish genealogical manuscripts.
Including, "The Genealogie of the Famalie of Ruthven" and "A Breviat of the Genealogie of ... the Leslies Earles of Rothes".
Game Book compiled by William Lockett Agnew, recording shooting parties on the Altyre Estate, at Aldourie and elsewhere. With numerous illustrations of sporting activities and daily life
Genealogical papers mostly concerning the Sandilands family, Aberdeenshire.
Genealogical research compiled by James Hunter Macgregor.
'In Mermoriam Sir James Matheson, Bart', memorabilia concerning Sir James Matheson of Achany and the Lews.
Includes a letter, 1952, of James Anderson, Culloden, to Miss Augusta Lamont of Knockdow.
Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.
Legal papers, maps and prospectuses, largely concerning a Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh canal, and the Slamannan Railway, Stirlingshire.
Letters, 1819-1884, to Robert and Thomas Stevenson, in an album of Thomas Stevenson.
The volume also contains remarks on the raising of the continuation of Dysart pier, by John Smeaton, 1758 (folio 7), and a note of John Howard, the philanthropist, 1780 (folio 18). The correspondents, who are chiefly scientific celebrities, include J M W Turner, 1819 (folio 9), and Sir Walter Scott, sending a proposed alteration in the preface of Robert Stevenson’s ‘Account of the Bell Rock Light-house’, 1824 (folio 3).
Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount, together with some letters written by them.
The subjects of the letters include the Peninsular War, East India Company affairs, and matters relating to many European countries.
Letters and parts of letters of celebrities of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, pasted in two albums.
The letters are unconnected except some addressed to the editor of 'Good Words' and others addressed to Professor George Buchanan, Glasgow.