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Sketch by John Francis Campbell, thought to be made with peat. The sketch shows a vision of many different characters that appear in Gaelic folktales, from the medieval heroes (at the back) to mythical and supernatural beings, such as witches, cats, water creatures etc. Campbell later developed this

Sketch by John Francis Campbell, thought to be made with peat

Old moon rising and curious Aurora Borealis above Dun na Cuaich, Inveraray Wednesday 24 August 1870. From a journal kept by John Francis Campbell while travelling the West of Scotland, 1870–1871.

Old moon rising and curious Aurora Borealis

Photo of John Francis Campbell in Highland dress, 1868, when Campbell was age 46.

From a volume labelled

Photo of John Francis Campbell in Highland dress, 1868

From a journal and scrapbook kept by John Francis Campbell mainly during his visit to Paris at the time of the Siege in 1871, and while travelling round the west coast of Scotland.

View of Tarbert

Hills near Ullapool with two people in the foreground seen from behind, one of them labelled John Fowler, the person with whom John Francis Campbell stayed at that time. From a journal kept by John Francis Campbell and illustrated with watercolours and photographs describing his activities for the l

Hills near Ullapool

Sketch by John Francis Campbell of himself lying on the floor and writing down a story. From a journal kept by John Francis Campbell written while he was travelling in the West of Scotland collecting Gaelic folklore, 1870–1871.

John Francis Campbell - sketch of himself

Acclaimed literary author Tendai Huchu made his debut as a fantasy author last year under the pen name T.L. Huchu with The Library of the Dead – featuring a magical library beneath Calton Hill in Edinburgh

T.L. Huchu

Letter of Mary Ann Evans signed George Eliot 1857

George Eliot letter

James Leslie Mitchell Lewis Grassic Gibbon advert 1933

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Vincent Deighan wrote and drew ‘The Greens’ for underground comic ‘Electric Soup’. Fearing that the adult humour might offend his family he signed his work as Frank Quitely, a spoonerism of 'quite frankly'.

Frank Quitely

Wife and husband duo Dr Marisa Haetzman and Chris Brookmyre write crime novels set in 19th-century Edinburgh as Ambrose Parry

Ambrose Parry