Miscellaneous items of family memorabilia

Date:
1869-1986
Reference:
PP/MIB/A/2
Part of:
Margaret Ida Balfour, CBE, MD, CM, FRCOG (1866-1945)
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Notebook containing "Recollections of James Francis Balfour by his mother", with ms poem "Yet oh stricken heart, remember, oh, remember"
Photograph of unidentified elderly man
Photograph of Barbara and Madge Balfour-Melville at Pilrig (with their dogs)
Terms for Board and Tuition at The Misses Geddes's, later the Miss Anderson's Establishment, 16 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh
Letter from Edith to Janie, including one from Ida to Bobby, on holiday at North Berwick, n.d. c. 1870s
Letter from Margaret Ida in Edinburgh to Edith, n.d. c. 1870s
Letters from Margaret Ida in Arcachon to Bobbie and Annie, n.d. c. 1880s
Letter from Margaret Ida to Janie from St Andrews, n.d. c. 1880s Small group of (blank) picture postcards, including several of Venice and a set marked "Ely", late C19th
2 cuttings from the Weekly Scotsman, 10 Aug 1946: "Homeless Families Living in Historic City Mansion" and "Pilrig House: Three Centuries of Family History" by W Forbes Gray
Cutting from The Times, 8 Aug 1986: Pilrig House was one of the properties on the RISC/Times Conservation Awards short-list

Publication/Creation

1869-1986

Physical description

1 file

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