Letter book

• Reference:GB 1716 RSA1/8/1/2/13
• Dates of Creation:1848

• Scope and Content

  RSA Letters Book 1848 Exhibition. Volume of letters accompanying pictures sent in for exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, addressed to D.O. Hill as secretary

  Writers include:

  C.H.W. Atkinson

  John and Thomas Faed

  J. Watson Gordon

  James Giles, Aberdeen

  George Harvey

  John Howie, sculptor

  R.S. Lauder

  J.E. Lauder

  F. Lloyds, scene painter in the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh

  Horatio MacCulloch

  Sir Daniel Macnee

  the four Misses Nasmyth

  W.Q. Orchardson

  A. Perigal

  J. Noel Paton

  William B. Scott

  Frederick Schenck

  W. Smellie Watson

  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

  NRAS1464/26