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Image	Title	Item Description
JSS0283	Concert Programme cover, 1923	Concert programme cover from a tour Skinner carried out in 1923.
JSS0284	Concert Programme, 1923	Programme from a Scott Skinner Tour of 1923.
JSS0285	Request to artist David Waterson	A request from Skinner to the artist David Waterson to create a publicity image for him. Skinner wanted the image to take the form of himself inside a fiddle. This idea may have been simmering for many years. Skinner's early mentor, the fiddler Peter Milne of Tarland, had once told Skinner that he loved his fiddle so much he could just curl himself up inside it. Skinner wished to use the image of himself in Highland dress set into the form of a fiddle as a publicity image for his concert programmes.
JSS0286	Page 1 of 2, Letter to David Waterson	Letter from Skinner to the artist David Waterson. He writes: My dear Waterson, I am of opinion that you will someday shine as a Painter of Animals, Sheep & dogs because you never fail to make the lifeless animate - Joseph Farquharson gets for a 20 x 30 £80 - I am truly sorry for an artist who labours incessantly on a picture & has to exist meanwhile. I have had terrible fights for bare existence. See my 'Life' now running in 'People's Journal' the third instalment is out yesterday. [My 'Life' refers to his autobiography, serialised in the People's Journal.]
JSS0287	Letter to David Waterson	Page 2 of 2 of a letter to the artist David Waterson. Continuation of a letter Skinner wrote to the artist David Waterson on 18th February 1923. 'I had two Tours last year & both were successful but I must take care of the Tax gatherer, as we have paid a big penny for government Tax so please tell any enquirers the 'King' is not rich enough tobe envied, nor poor enough to be pitied! I play in Dundee Jan:24th & in Usher Hall Edinburgh 26th & 27th then I retrace my steps north after 28th & play in Elgin an old haunt where I resided 12 years. One sad worry. Nasal and Bronchial Cattarh but I am within 5 months of 80 & as that is a disease in itself, I must grin & bear it. How's Lily lookin'? Yr ardent friend J Scott Skinner. ['Lily' refers to the portrait Waterson was making of Mrs Lily Richards' who Skinner refers to as his Secretary in JSS0276.]
JSS0288	Letter to David Waterson	Page 1 of 3 of a letter from Skinner to the artist David Waterson. He writes: My Dear Watersone I enclose a clipping which I think will amuse you. I have just finished a 3 months North Tour all but one week. We were snowed up on the Highest altitude in Scotland a fierce Blizzard at Tomintoul & Motors from there onto Strathdon & Tarland were impossible. So now we are all home to Aberdeen. My Manager is left with £30 worth of Government Tax Tickets. But we may get this sum refunded.
JSS0289	Letter to David Waterson	Page 2 of 3 of a letter from Skinner to the artist David Waterson. He continues: So now I take a rest. I am complimented on my 'Life' in 'People's Journal' which ran 9 weeks have you read it? The original ms & all my letters for 40 years were destroyed in Carnoustie by the Late John Henderson Glencoe while in his Cups & I had to re write the whole from Memory without notes!!!-
JSS0290	Page 3 of 3, Letter to David Waterson	Page 3 of 3 of a letter from Skinner to the artist David Waterson. He continues: In my new Home, I am trying to possess a Russell (Salmon) & a Farquharson (Sheep) but as yet, I have not been successful. I am now on the threshold of 80 & feeling young again! So poor MacKenzie Murdoch is gone a harmless Kindly soul & we were fast friends. Scotland will be the poorer. I trust you are propsering & Keeping in the pink Yrs ALways J. Scott Skinner. [Note: Russell was a local Aberdeen artist. Examples of his work exist at the Blairs Museum.]
JSS0291	Postcard to David Waterson	POstcard from Skinner to the artist David Waterson. He writes: Dear Artist & Friend, I had a great ovation here from a Huge Audience will be delighted to see you. Pettigrew Macgillivriay Edin sculptor has taken me in hand. Thine ever J Scott Skinner. [Note: Pittendreigh McGillvary, sculptor and artist.]
JSS0292	The Deil's Concert. A Skit.	Recto of a printed two-sided card.

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