Copy of letter from Thomas Blaikie to Mr Mackenzie
- GB 235 BLT/2/13
- Item
- 1828-08-17
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Copy of a letter from Thomas Blaikie to Mr Mackenzie regarding funds and compensation.
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Copy of letter from Thomas Blaikie to Mr Mackenzie
Parte deThomas Blaikie collection
Copy of a letter from Thomas Blaikie to Mr Mackenzie regarding funds and compensation.
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Parte deThomas Blaikie collection
Note in French detailing losses Thomas Blaikie incurred as a result of the French Revolution and total losses up to 1821.
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Note in French with 25 centimes franking mark. May possibly be signed by Laurarguais.
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Print of Marie-Anne Charlotte Corday
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Print of Marie-Anne Charlotte Corday entitled, 'Marie Anne Charlotte Corday, ci-devat Darmans Agée de 25 ans'. Portrait of Charlotte Corday, half-length, sitting at desk in her cell, holding a letter to her parents; in circle, with below a small figurative scene showing her assassinating Marat in his bath-tub. The portrait is in a black and gold painted wooden frame with a glass panel.
Another copy is held in the British Museum collection: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3599824&partId=1&searchText=Massol&page=1
(Box 4)
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Mairi Planner's Downie, Laird and Laing Research
Collection consists of Mairi Planner's research into the Edinburgh nurserymen Downie, Laird and Laing, including material used in exhibiting the research. Mairi's great great grandfather Andrew Robertson Annan worked for the firm in the 1860s before moving to the Ravelston Estate in Edinburgh where he became Head Gardener - in researching him, Planner became interested in the nurserymen he worked for.
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Wood samples from the International Forestry Exhibition held in Edinburgh in 1884
Seven samples of wood displayed at the International Forestry Exhibition held in Edinburgh in 1884 - all are labelled with "Sierra Leone, Edinburgh Forestry Exhibition, 1884" - additional markings are as follows:
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Scottish Natural History Society Photograph Album
1 photograph album showing the range of activities of the Scottish Natural History Society at the end of the 1890s.
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List produced on RBGE embossed paper, bound together to form a book; beginning with Ranunculaceae, there are 330 pages of plants growing in the Garden in 1883 (though the 3 could also be interpreted as a 5); the book has an index at the back.
Monty A. Faithfull's Botanical Society of Scotland Botany of the Lothians survey papers
10 folders of papers, and survey sheets relating to Monty Faithfull's survey work on Bass Rock (square 6087), Birk Cleugh Hill (square 6665) and Dunglass / Bilsdean (squares 7671 and 7672). Includes maps and was donated to RBGE in August 2022 by Monty's son John Faithfull along with Monty's herbarium specimens. Unfortunately, some of the herbarium specimens had to be destroyed as they were in a degraded state- there are scans of these amongst the papers, taken by RBGE Herbarium assistant Lesley Scott who transferred the papers to the Archives in March 2023.