Notebook containing 56 silhouette portraits, mainly of Scots, cut from black card, with sitters including Solomon Caesar Malan, Admiral Robert Wauchope, General Sir John Slade, General Edward Bannerman Ramsay, Admiral Sir Houston Stewart.

All the silhouettes are cut from black card, and all but one are head and shoulder portraits. 52 are laid down on the rectos of the 17 leaves of a landscape 8vo (23 x 14 cm.) notebook of Whatman paper, stitched with grey wraps. They range from two to eight silhouettes to a page, and with the silhouettes ranging in height from 5.5 cm. to 10 cm. Two others are loosely inserted within makeshift mounts on the last leaf. Two more silhouettes are loosely inserted: the first (9 cm. high), and only half-length portrait, is laid down on a piece of 13.5 x 10.5 cm white paper, captioned in a contemporary hand 'Cr. Malan D.D.' [Solomon Caesar Malan (1812-1894), divine and orientalist], inscribed 'To my dear Mary.' and dated 'Geneva, 28th August 47'; the second (6.5 cm. high), laid down on a piece of 9 x 12 cm. card, is an uncaptioned silhouette of a moustachoed individual. All silhouettes in good condition; notebook of worn and aged paper, with stubs where three leaves have been removed, and squares cut out from two leaves where three silhouettes have been removed. Most of the silhouettes are captioned in pencil in a contemporary hand, as follows: Mrs. Elliot; W. Marshall Esq. M.P.; W. Marshall Esq. MP; Admiral Wauchope [Robert Wauchope, (1788-1862), Admiral of the Blue]; Major Burroughs; Mrs Hay; Capt Macdonald [Captain Macdonald, Royal Engineers, of Sandside]; The Lady Ramsay Macdonald; S. Wilson Esq.; Mrs. Wilson; General Slade C.B. [General Sir John 'Black Jack' Slade (1762-1859)]; W. Marshall Esq. M.P.; Laird of H

; Mrs. Dobrée; Revd Dobrée [probably Rev. Nicholas Pierre Dobree (c.1759-1843)]; Major Dowbiggin [Montagu Hamilton Dowbiggin (1832-1866), promoted to Major in 1856]; S[inclair]. Fraill Esq.; Mrs. Wood; George Smith Esq. M.P.; Mrs. Huddleston; Sir John Sinclair; Lady Sinclair; Capt. J. Agnew; Mrs Agnew; Fon. Ramsay Esq.; Miss P. Ramsay; Lord Caithness; Lady Caithness; J. Macdonald Esq. (x2); G. Sinclair Esqr.; Major Dowbiggin; Miss Slade; G. Marshall Esq.; S. Marshall Esq.; Capt E. B. Ramsay [General Edward Bannerman Ramsay (1826-1888), General Madras Staff Corps]; Mrs. Douglas; Capt. Douglas; Sinclair Fraill Esq.; William Fraill Esq.; Dudley W. Macdonald; Sir Houston Stewart [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Houston Stewart (1791-1875), GCB]; James Macdonald.