Letter book

• Reference:GB 1716 RSA1/8/1/2/5
• Dates of Creation:1840

• Scope and Content

  RSA Letters Book 1840 Exhibition. Volume of letters accompanying pictures sent in for exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, addressed to D.O. Hill as secretary

  Writers include:

  William Allan

  William Carse

  Andrew Geddes

  John Watson Gordon

  Sir Daniel Macnee

  Charles Lees

  A. Nasmyth, 23 Duke St.

  Mr Nasmyth, 47 York Place

  A. Perigal, elder and younger

  W.J. Thomas

  . Handwritten letters in pen and ink, tipped into brown sugar paper pages, bound in green marbled papered boards, with green faux leather spine with gilt lettering on the spine. A crude indexing system - index tabs applied to page edges.

• Note

  NRAS1464/20