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Sketchbooks by R. M. Ballantyne, including seven autograph letters
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-327
Identifier: Coll-1838
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of two sketchbooks by Scottish writer R. M. Ballantyne:1. The first sketchbook is made of approximately 85 leaves, almost all of which bear original drawings (pencil, ink and ink-and wash), cartoons, sketches and preliminary ideas. Some are
highly finished images intended for a subsequently abandoned book of his fishing trip
to Norway, as well as material for the published 'Freaks on the Fells'. On the first
blank is Ballantyne's presentation inscription to the...
Dates:
1860s
Sketchbooks containing drawings and notes by John Williamson for the illustration of works by Sir Walter Scott
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1301
Scope and Contents
One of the two sketchbooks is titled on the front board, 'Sketches made at Edinburgh, Melrose and Craigmillar, etc, for drawings illustrating Sir Walters Scott's novels The Monastery and The Abbot'. There are several loose leaves and fragments in the second sketchbook.
The sketchbooks contain drawings in pencil and ink and some are coloured or washed. There are notes from lectures in the history of art.
The sketchbooks contain drawings in pencil and ink and some are coloured or washed. There are notes from lectures in the history of art.
Dates:
1888-1892
Symbolae Scoticae
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-10
Scope and Contents
The Symbolae Scoticae [= ‘Scottish contributions’] is a set of eight purpose-bound scrapbooks containing more than 2000 items relating to Scottish history, geography and culture.The bulk of this material consists of 18th and early 19th century prints illustrating Scottish topography and antiquities; but the collection also includes original historical documents, printed maps, portrait engravings, newspaper and magazine clippings, two calotypes, and original...
Dates:
circa 1850 (spine-dated 1849)
The Allinson Papers
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-39
Scope and Contents
The collection of Allinson Papers consists of a mixed box of small printed items and pamphlets, posters, photographs, and bundles of newspaper and magazine cuttings; a number of scrapbook albums containing mainly newspaper cuttings relating to Allinson, and dating variously from 1881 to 1918; and, folders containing scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings, handbills, and lecture posters from the 1880s to 1918.For more details on the contents of the collection, see the box list. You can also see a...
Dates:
1881-1928; 1984
Two photograph albums of views from Shantung and Shanghai, and from Jehol and Beijing, to Yunnan
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1879
Content Description
Two albums containing black and white photographs of landscapes in a variety of locations, as well as portraits and street scenes, each with accompanying text. The first album is entitled '"China 1920-1930 - From Shantung and Shanghai to Yunan [sic]" (119 pages), and the second album is entitled "China 1920-1930 - From Jehol and Peking to Yunnan" (136 pages). Many of the photos are grouped into sets of up to ten images on a particular province or theme, such as: Futoshan/Putuoshan, near...
Dates:
late 1920s- early 1930s
Victorian family photograph album with sixty-one photographs of Russian vendors and tradesmen by William Carrick
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1309
Scope and Contents
This is a first quality Victorian family photograph album of the family of Eliza Murphy, daughter of Calvert Toulmin who was a shipowner holding the monopoly of postal carriage to Australia.
In addition to 196 'carte de visite' photographs of family members including Calvert Toulmin, of holiday destinations and of sentimental group poses, the album contains 57 photographs of Russian tradesmen and street vendors taken by William Carrick.
In addition to 196 'carte de visite' photographs of family members including Calvert Toulmin, of holiday destinations and of sentimental group poses, the album contains 57 photographs of Russian tradesmen and street vendors taken by William Carrick.
Dates:
1857-1878
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- Allinson, Thomas Richard, 1858-1918 (physician, businessman and journalist) 1
- Arbuthnot, Doreen, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
- Ato Printing Association (fl 1922-1944) (Japanese photography company) 1
- Ballantyne, Robert Michael, 1825-1894 (Scottish writer) 1
- Boott, Mary, fl 1824-1857 (née Hardcastle | artist) 1
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- Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 1
- Carrick, William, 1827-1878 (artist and photographer) 1
- Carvalho, Caroline-Marie, 1827-1895 (French opera singer) 1
- Cialdini, Enrico, 1811-1892 (Italian soldier, politician and diplomat) 1
- Colquhoun, E. M. G., fl 1837-1838 (advocate) 1
- Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 (English military and political leader) 1
- Czarnecki, Louisa Agnes, fl 1861 (Scottish poet) 1
- Drake, Frederick Seguier, 1892-1974 (English Baptist priest; Dean of the School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong) 1
- Drummond, Frances A, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
- Drummond, Jean, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
- Drummond, Victoria A, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
- Edinburgh University Dramatic Society 1
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- Henry VIII, 1491-1547 (King of England) 1
- Hjort, Johan, 1869-1948 (fisheries scientist, marine zoologist, oceanographer) 1
- Houstoun, Caroline Elizabeth , 1840-1926 (granddaughter of General Sir Robert Houstoun KCB) 1
- Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 (French writer and political activist) 1
- Jackson, Ellen Julia, fl 1876-1919 (wife of Sir John Jackson) 1
- Jackson, John, Sir, 1851-1919 (civil engineer; engineering contractor) 1
- John, Henry Craven St, 1837-1909 (Royal Navy Officer) 1
- Kendall, Sheena Lilian Grant, 1883-1974 (composer) 1
- Lumsden, Susy F, fl 1910s (treasurer of 'The Cavalier club') 1
- Lyell, Leonard, 1st Baron Lyell, 1850-1926 1
- Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 1
- Mare, Violet de la, 1874-1962 (sister-in-law of Walter de la Mare) 1
- Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 1
- Mortimer, William Charles Chapman-, 1907-1988 (novelist; pen-name Chapman Mortimer) 1
- Pender, Iain McAllister Moffatt-, 1896-1961 (Scottish writer and Gaelic revivalist) 1
- Pugh, Derek Salman, 1930-2015 (Psychologist, business theorist, and Emeritus Professor) 1
- Skene, James, 1775-1864 (lawyer and artist) 1
- Smythe, Barbara E, b 1899 (editor of The Cavalier) 1
- Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901 (mathematician and physicist) 1
- The Royal National Mòd (1892-) 1
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- Victoria, 1819-1901 (Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Empress of India) 1
- Watson, James Kenneth, fl.1885-1896 (surgeon) 1
- Watson, William Stewart, 1800-1870 (Scottish painter and artist) 1
- White, Adam, 1817-1879 1
- Williamson, John, fl. 1888-1894 (novelist, playwright and poet) 1
- Zaharoff, Basil, 1849-1936 (arms-dealer, industrialist) 1 ∧ less
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