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Album of playbills, Theatre Royal, Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2115
Scope and Contents
This is a press-cutting album containing a large number of Theatre Royal playbills, covering the years 1825 to 1848. Each of the 35 (thirty-five) itemised playbills bears the printed heading Theatre Royal Edinburgh.List of publication numbers as they appear on the top right of each sheet, and dates where given:N.84 (23/02/1825)
N.71 (04/02/1837)
N.72 (06/02/1837)
N.73 (07/02/1837)
N.74 (08/02/1837)
N.75 (09/02/1837)
N.77...
Dates:
Publication: 1808, 1825-1848
Album of preserved samples of Scottish mosses, c.1828
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1398
Scope and Contents
Probably Scottish (c.1828). Album bearing mounted moss specimens, each specimen with accompanying contemporary ink annotations, interleaved with additional blanks, modern notes on the album contents on pastedown and flyleaves. Original vellum. Borders with gilt foliage roll.
Dates:
1800-1850
Album of silver gelatin prints featuring 'Mr Wu' and 'Much Ado About Nothing', British Empire Shakespeare Society, Reading
Fonds — Folder: SC-Acc-2016-0119
Identifier: Coll-1763
Scope and Contents
There are 11 gelatin silver prints, ranging from approximately 15.2 x 9.4 cms to 14.6 x 18 cms, of which 10 are album mounted. 1 loose print is signed 'Yours lovingly, Marjorie'. The prints are held in an album with beige-coloured card wrappers and the top cover states, 'Mr Wu / And / Much Ado About Nothing / 1930'.There are 2 programme cut-outs which have been pasted into the album...: The Mary Hay Players in conjunction with the Reading Branch of the British Empire Shakespeare...
Dates:
1930
Album of sketches by James Skene of Rubislaw
Fonds — Box: Coll-2019
Identifier: Coll-2019
Content Description
This is an album of sketches by James Skene of Rubislaw (1775-1864), comprising approximately 420 sketches. A talented amateur artist, James Skene of Rubislaw was a close friend of Sir Walter Scott who accompanied him on riding excursions to localities that Scott planned to feature in his novels and poems. There, at Scott’s suggestion, Skene made sketches of landscapes and buildings that Scott then used as an inspiration and aide-memoire for his own work. Many of the sketches in this album...
Dates:
c 1804-c 1830
Album of sketches by Mary Boott
Item — Box: CLX-A-388
Identifier: Coll-2063
Content Description
This album dating from 1823 to 1857 contains accomplished drawings of landscape and town views across England and Scotland by the amateur artist Mary Boott. Most sketches are signed by her, dated, and inscribed with locations.Mary Boott (née Hardcastle) was married to American botanist Francis Boott (1792-1863) and would often accompany him on his field collecting trips, and while he went off looking for plant specimens she drew the landscapes they visited. The drawings are...
Dates:
1824-1857
Album of verses, sketches, etc. presented to Mary Goudy
Fonds — Volume: Dk.8.1
Identifier: Coll-2243
Scope and Contents
Album of verses, sketches, etc. Inscribed 'Presented to Mary Goudy by her affectionate uncle John Carson'. Watermark dated 1833.
Dates:
1833
Album of watercolor and pen-and-ink designs for embroidery
Fonds — Box: CLX-D-39
Identifier: Coll-2904
Scope and Contents
This is a large portfolio of carefully executed designs for embroidery or needlework. The designs include floral borders, swags and sprigs, spot and corner designs, repeating motifs, curlicues, and some abstract designs. About 60% are in watercolor. The uncolored designs are in pen and ink and/or gray wash. Various laid and wove papers are used, with watermarks of the makers S. Wise & Co.; Whatman; Hall, Whatman & Balston; and John Hayes, with dates ranging from 1819 to 1824; with...
Dates:
1819-c 1830
Albums containing autograph letters to Sir Charles Lyell and family, and portraits of the writers, compiled by Leonard Lyell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1997
Content Description
This collection consists of two albums compiled by Leonard Lyell, nephew of Charles Lyell and son of Katharine Murray Lyell. The volumes contain letters sent by many leading scientists and scholars of the 19th century to Sir Charles Lyell and others in his family, such as his wife Mary, the elder Charles Lyell, Mary’s father Leonard Horner, and his brother Francis Horner. In both albums, most of the letters are accompanied by a facing photograph or portrait print of the letter’s...
Dates:
1805-1899
Albums containing correspondence and photographs related to Sir William Muir
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2252
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two albums containing correspondence sent to Sir William Muir, and photographs of the senders (some photographs are missing, or never existed in the first place, especially in the second volume). The albums were possibly compiled by one of the daughters of William Muir, as mentioned in a letter written by himself to "Dear Sir Henry" (vol. 2, p. 9): "I enclose the only two letters I happen to have preserved of Lord Canning's & shall be glad to get them back, as...
Dates:
1853-1893
Albums of Very Rev James Nicoll Ogilvie, minister of New Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: MS OGI
Scope and Contents
Papers of James Nicoll Ogilvie, minister of Greyfriars Kirk 1905-1919 and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1918.MS OGI 1:
Indexed scrapbook from year of moderatorship (May 1918 - May 1919). Newspaper clippings and ephemera pasted in. Also bound in: Orders of Service, St Giles' Cathedral [Edinburgh], 21 November 1918; St Andrew's Day (Order of the Thistle) 1918.MS OGI 2.1-2:
Albums of postcard pictures and photographs of...
Dates:
c.1918-1919
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections