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This scrapbook comprises over 300 items relating to theatrical and musical entertainment at Crichton Royal Institution and material produced by the hospital's printing press. The items are mostly fixed to the pages of the volume however some are loose and interleaved between pages. Material  comprises extracts from the hospital magazine and the local press relating to theatrical performances and reviews; material relating to the first theatricals staged and performed at Crichton Royal Institution with patient involvement and the organisation of these performances, including manuscript minutes from the Crichton Theatrical Committee; printed and manuscript theatre, dance and concert programmes for internal productions and for performances by visiting entertainers; extracts of poems from the New Moon and local press; a request by Dr W. A. F. Browne for shares to be purchased in the New Moon; an appeal for subscriptions to be pledged for the continuation of the 'musical corps' and to purchase new instruments; samples of material from the printing press including a sample admission ticket to a dramatic performance at Crichton Royal Institution and the contents page for a volume of annual reports; lecture tickets, including a ticket for Dr W. A. F. Browne's lectures on nursing delivered between October 1854 and May 1855; a plea for funds for the Institution's Instrumental Band by Dr J. Gilchrist in 1858; programmes for theatricals, lectures and entertainment at other asylums in Britain, including Millholme House Asylum in Musselburgh, York Asylum Royal Edinburgh Asylum, Durham County Asylum, Sunnyside in Montrose and Camberwell House Asylum in Surrey; and a manuscript verse about the death of Matron Ellen Softley.

The material is arranged chronologically from 1842 to 1861, with the occasional item out of date order and from 1861 to 1947 there is much less material and many items have not been fixed to the pages.

An itemised list of the contents is available for consultation in the Archive search room at the Ewart Library.

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