Sketches
Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Joseph Pentland., 1850-1859.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Mary Frere (1845-1911)., 1867-1902
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of William Knight., 1891.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of William Knight., 1895-1914.
Literary papers of Séan Rafferty.
Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of poems, short stories, sketches and ???, typescripts of poems by Ted Hughes, and correspondence with Nicholas Johnson and Kevin Perryman.
Logbook of Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, the geologist, containing accounts of two journeys made by him when he was a youth of eighteen and nineteen.
Manuscript contributions to "The Peripatetic: a Quarterly Magazine"
Manuscript of an English work entitled `A Compendious explication of all coats of armes in apt termes of Blazon`, intended for the amateur, in two parts, Blazoning and Marshalling.
The text breaks off in the second part. The author refers to works by Nicholas Upton and Gerard Legh. There are several pen sketches and shields are drawn in trick.
Manuscript poems and sketches of Sir William Quiller Orchardson.
With associated photographs.
Manuscripts and corrected typescripts of twenty-four short stories, articles and sketches by John M Reid.
Manuscripts by David Livingstone in which are recorded his journeys and experiences in Africa; with related proofs, sketches, a photographic print and a printed portrait., ? 1852-before 1874.
Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871., 1859-1862, 1870-1871.
The terms, `Gaelic version` or `English version` refer to the original manuscript texts produced by (`transcribed by` or `told to`) one of his team of collectors or by Campbell. Unless stated otherwise, all English versions of the tales and textual notes are the work of Campbell.
Manuscripts with translations from Sanskrit, folk tales and sketches.
Material of Sir James Balfour on the Irish nobility.
Miscellaneous material of John Francis Campbell, including interleaved copies of his `Popular Tales of the West Highlands`, volumes 1 and 2 (Edinburgh, 1860)., 1858-1884.
`M.S. West Highland Tales. Vol. I. Aug.1860`., 1859-1860.
`M.S. West Highland Tales. Vol. I. Aug.1860`; with original binding., 1859-1860.
‘M.S. West Highland Tales, Vol. II’., 1859-1860.
‘M.S. West Highland Tales, Vol. II’, consisting almost entirely of original materials and proofs for Volume 2 of the ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’., 1859-1860.
Notebook of Elizabeth Hume.
Containing poems by Hume and others, sketches, and journal of a trip to England and Wales.
`Notes about tartans` of John Francis Campbell, written between 1871 and 1873, ‘while seeking for the real Campbell Clan Tartan’., 1871-1873.
Correspondence, notes and a few sketches, 1871-1873, 1884, are interspersed throughout the volume. The majority of the letters are from members of the Sobieski Stuart family.
One or two samples of tartan have been bound in at the beginning of the volume.
Notes and sketches made on voyages from Jamaica to London and back.
Notes on astronomy, from the lectures of Professor William Law at Edinburgh University, by John Erskine.
The notes consist of commentaries on Ptolomy`s ‘Almagest’ and descriptions of the rotations of the planets, with several sketches. There is also part of a lecture on biology (‘De Corpore Animato`, folio 79); some pages are missing at the end of the latter lecture.
Notes on funerary trappings and the order of a funeral procession, by Sir James Balfour., 1633.
This is a continuation of the notes at the end of 34.4.16(iii), which became detached. There are two sketches of hearses.
Notes on the Romans, and on a Greek author, written by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, probably from the lectures of his Regent, Andrew Burnet, at Glasgow University.
The volume contains part of a series of lectures on the social, religious, and cultural life of the Romans (folios 1-38), very incomplete due to missing pages. An inverted series of notes contains a glossary or vocabulary to the oration of Isocrates to Demonicus, sections 1-9, also very incomplete (inverted folios 1-12). Two pages (inverted folios 13-14) contain an ink sketch of a man training a horse.