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Papers relating to William Wordsworth
Fonds — Box: Dk.2.23
Identifier: Coll-2156
Scope and Contents
Collection of newspaper cuttings, postcards, etc. relating to poet William Woodsworth. In folder, mounted on loose sheets. The postcards consist mainly of illustrations of places associated with Wordsworth.
Dates:
early 19th century
Parody of Ola Hansson ditty by H.H.B., Young Ofegs last ditty
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1624
Scope and Contents
Card with ms poem, in pen, entitled 'Young Ofeg's Last Ditty'... or 'Never say Die'.. with envelope bearing a 'post-it' with 'Parody by H. H. B.'. Said to be a parody of Ola Hansson's Ung Ofegs visor.
Dates:
late 19th - mid 20th century
Part-printed and ms receipts from Stonehaven sheriff officer and the debt collection company of Kinnear & Munro, Stonehaven
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1721
Scope and Contents
18 x part-printed and ms receipts from the Stonehaven sheriff officer and from the debt collection company of Kinnear & Munro form a small collection of Scottish local taxation and debt collection receipts, 1819-1868. Money is detailed for various Kincardineshire taxes and rents including road money, land tax, salmon fishing rents, feu duty, together with various parish tax assessments including amounts for poor relief, rogue tax, police assessment, prisons assessment, turnpike road...
Dates:
1819-1868
Patrick Geddes Collection
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1167
Scope and Contents
The collection contains original exhibits from Patrick Geddes' replacement Cities and Town Planning Exhibitions (which was constituted 1914-1924, after the original exhibition was lost at sea during transit to India in October 1914). Also included are items from Geddes' Survey of Edinburgh (which formed part of the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition as an illustration of Geddes' city and region survey). The Survey of Edinburgh includes over 250 glass plate negatives which were commissioned...
Dates:
1753-c 1985
Pen and ink sketches of William Stewart Watson, whilst on tour in Rome in 1840
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1432
Scope and Contents
Folio album of original pen and ink sketches compiled by the artist while on a tour of Rome in 1840. The album contains over 250 mounted drawings executed on tracing paper and these vary in size from a few inches square to full and half-page preparatory sketches for paintings. Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards. Signed Stewart Wilson, Rome 1840, on inner cover, above which is mounted the main section of the title page for the sale catalogue, March 1887, of the 'Collection...
Dates:
1840
Personal diary of Reginald Augustus Warren, February-December 1848
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1465
Scope and Contents
This manuscript diary begins on 18 February and ends 31 December 1848, though there is no extended entry for Sunday 31 December. The diary describes a variety of events, often rural, and including a visit to Scotland: 18 February, 'the hounds in Pasture woods did not find a fox till the afternoon'; 1 March, 'had a telegraph sight put to my rifle'; 7/8 March, 'mobs of young miscreants still doing damage to the shop windows - good for glaziers and no one else; 1 April, 'Chartists...
Dates:
1848
Petition by Edinburgh University medical students for more cadavers of anatomical study
Collection — Box: Coll-1615 (E2015.19)
Identifier: Coll-1615
Scope and Contents
Manuscript petition, ink on vellum (approx. 190 x 60cm in total, consisting of four joined membranes) with 248 signatures of medical students penned underneath text of the petition, also signed and dated by “J.Weatherspoon writer to the signet,” some light dustiness, several patches of discolouration, a few frayed areas at margins not affecting text.This huge vellum scroll bears the manuscript text of a petition dated 28 March 1828 signed by 248 medical students of the University...
Dates:
28 March 1828
Photograph album entitled "Sunny Memories", inscribed by Thomas Arthur Nelson
Item
Identifier: Coll-2955
Scope and Contents
This late nineteenth-century album contains 92 black-and-white photographs depicting family groups, individual portraits, and a small number of landscape views. An inscription on the front pastedown reads: "This book belonged to Arthur Nelson (for many years member of the Arts Club, Rutland Square)." This most likely refers to Thomas Arthur Nelson (1876-1917) of the publishing firm Thomas Nelson and Sons. If so, the individuals depicted in the album are likely to be members of the Nelson...
Dates:
Late 19th century
Photograph album of the Geikie family
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1777
Content Description
This is a fine photograph album with 38 albumen prints and one carbon print of portraits of the Geikie family. There is also a birthday card mounted on the front fly-leaf, dated 16 December 1882. Included is a useful later index to the photographs, which identifies the sitters. The oldest two photos must have been taken before the death of both John Geikie and his wife Eleanor in 1864. There are several portraits from the 1870s; and the most recent dated photo is from 1887. The album...
Dates:
1860s-1880s
Photograph album showing people and locations in Perthshire
Item
Identifier: Coll-2942
Scope and Contents
This is an album containing 63 mounted and 14 laid in albumen print photographs dating primarily to the late 1850s and 1860s, which mainly depict community life, people and locations in the Blair Castle area of Perthshire. It also include some portraits, and a few photographs of Funchal and Pico Fort (São João Batista Fort), in Madeira.A label on the inner front cover has the owner’s name, William Stewart Arnott, who might have been a merchant in Perth. The identity of the...
Dates:
1850s-1860s