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Account of a voyage to New South Wales on the ‘Neptune’ by James Mitchell (1792- ), ship’s surgeon

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Identifier: MS MIT3
Scope and Contents See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates: 1820

Action sermons by John Nimmo (c.1705-1784), minister of Johnstone, Annandale

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Identifier: MS NIM1
Scope and Contents See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates: c.1749-1755

Admission tickets to General Assemblies (1840-1843)

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Identifier: MS BOX 7.2
Scope and Contents See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates: 1840-1843

Affleck, James Whigham

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Identifier: GD1-64
Scope and Contents Papers regarding rehabilitation 1957-1988; membership of Boards 1969-1981; miscellaneous papers 1969-1988; published papers 1947-1989; slides; Royal Medico-Psychological Association material 1927
Dates: 1927-1989

Album amicorum of Tokyo artists Japanese art

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Identifier: Coll-1625
Scope and Contents The album contains 22 paintings by various artists, and these include: an illustration of a swallow, a peony, a waterfall, a monkey, autumn leaves, a mandarin duck, a chrysanthemum, a sparrow on a flowering twig, a lobster, heavy rain, a flock of sparrows, a tea bowl and camellia, a shrimp, houses in the snow, a fan and handscroll, a white rabbit, and a basket.
Dates: 1820-1920

Album and scrapbook collected by Jessie Aitken Wilson

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Identifier: Coll-1504
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: 1 x book of photographic portraits containing portraits of Albrech Duerer, Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, George Sand, Matthew Arnold, and cardinal newman, and others. The album was given to Jessie Aitken Wilson by novelist Mrs. Oliphant and is inscribed, 'This Book was the gift of Mrs. Oliphant'. 1 x packet of (4) loose photographic portraits:...
Dates: 1850-1870

Album of cuttings relating to dreams, c.1840-1970

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Identifier: MS DRE
Scope and Contents See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates: c.1840-1970

Album of operatic programmes, Dresden, 1911-1918

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Identifier: Coll-1590
Scope and Contents The scrap-album contains postcards showing the exterior of the Koenigliches Opernhaus in earlier years, and opera-singers or performers in their various roles. There are also circa 19 programmes of the operatic programmes at Dresden Opera House, 1911. Also within the album are three letters to 'Eleanor W. Dolie' (Dollie?) addressed to a Paris address.

The album holds the signature 'Eleanor W. Dolie' (Dollie?) facing inside cover, and was presented by 'Miss Eleanor Hughes'.
Dates: 1911-1918

Album of photographs and ephemera of 'The Eves', a Home Front theatrical group, 1916-1917

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Identifier: Coll-1668
Scope and Contents Quarto album of platinum print photographs, printed on highly prepared vellum-style leaves, with associated ephemera, including five printed programmes.

The album is unsigned but 'is most likely to have been produced by James A. Sinclair Ltd' (founded London, 1903). The snapshots and formal group photographs, posters and newspaper cuttings have been reproduced in the permanent platinum process on thick vellum card.
Dates: 1916-1917

Album of preserved samples of Scottish mosses, c.1828

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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

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