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Rolt, L. T. C., Victorian Engineering (London: Penguin, 1988).
Scott, P. H., 1707: The Union of Scotland and England (Chambers, 1979).
Smiles, Samuel, Lives of the Engineers – Smeaton and Rennie (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1905).
Smout, T. C., A Century of the Scottish People 1830-1950 (London: Fontana Press, 1987).
Smout, T. C., A Century of the Scottish People 1560-1830 (London: Fontana Press, 1985).
Smout, T. C., Scotland and the Sea (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1992).
Straub, Hans, A History of Civil Engineering (Leonard Hill, 1952).
Sutton-Jones, Kenneth, Pharos: The Lighthouse Yesterday Today and Tomorrow (Salisbury: Michael Russell, 1985).
Taylor, E. G. R., The Haven-Finding Art: A History of Navigation from Odysseus to Captain Cook (Hollis & Carter, 1971).
Talbot, Frederick, Lightships and Lighthouses (J. B. Lippincott Co., 1913).
Thrower, Norman, J. W., Maps & Civilisation (Chicago University Press, 1996).
Uden & Cooper, A Dictionary of British Ships and Seamen (Allen Lane, 1980).
Walthew, Kenneth, From Rock and Tempest (Geoffrey Bles Ltd, 1971).
Warner, Oliver, The Lifeboat Service (London: Cassell & Co., 1974).
A list of archival material and its location.
NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE BOARD
Minute Books (1786 onwards), Scottish Records Office.
General Order Books (1844 onwards), Scottish Records Office.
Annual Reports, Scottish Records Office.
Northern Lighthouse Journal, the magazine of the NLB, NLB.
Returns and Statutes on Lighthouses (George III onwards), Scottish Records Office.
Letterbooks (1896 onwards) Scottish Records Office
Notices to Mariners (1896 onwards) Scottish Records Office
Shipwreck Returns, Scottish Records Office
Bell Rock Bible, Scottish Records Office
STEVENSON FAMILY PAPERS (ACC. 10706)
Letterbooks (outgoing) 1799-1847, National Library of Scotland.
Letterbooks (incoming) 1786-1891, National Library of Scotland.
Publications and ms of the Stevensons
Robert Stevenson
Travelling Journal 1789-1804, National Library of Scotland ms.
Travelling Journal 1826-1842, National Library of Scotland ms.
Corrected copy of Account of the Bell Rock Lighthouse (Edinburgh: Constable, 1824).
Travelling letterbooks, 1826-1842, National Library of Scotland ms.
Notebooks: 1811, 1812-1813, 1811-1812, National Library of Scotland ms.
Cuttings books: 1823-1853, 1853-1901, National Library of Scotland ms.
English Lighthouse Tours 1801, 1813, 1813, 1818 (Thos. Nelson, 1946).
Reminiscences of Sir Walter Scott, Bt., National Library of Scotland ms.
Alan Stevenson
Notebooks of visits to Northern Lights 1844-1849, National Library of Scotland ms.
Biographical Sketch of the late Robert Stevenson, (Edinburgh: A & C Black, 1851).
Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse (Edinburgh: A & C Black 1848).
The Ten Hymns of Synesius, Bishop of Cyrene AD410 (1865).
Encyclopaedia Brittanica, entry on Lighthouses, (Chambers, 1864(?)).
The British Pharos (W. Reid & Son, 1831).
David Stevenson
Diaries 1830-1837, National Library of Scotland ms.
Lighthouse Inspection notebook 1860, National Library of Scotland ms.
Notebook of North American Tour, Sketch of the Civil Engineering of North America (London, 1838).
Life of Robert Stevenson, Civil Engineer (Edinburgh, 1878).
Lighthouses, from ‘Good Words’, (Edinburgh: A & C Black, 1865).
D. Alan Stevenson
The World’s Lighthouses before 1820, (London: Oxford University Press, 1959).
Improvements in Seamarks before 1940: An Assessment, AISM Bulletin, 1961.
Thomas Stevenson
Skerryvore Diary 1843, National Library of Scotland ms.
Journal of a voyage around the Northern Lights 1847, National Library of Scotland ms.
Experiments and correspondence on the force of waves 1844-1853, National Library of Scotland ms.
Notebooks 1863-1879, plus 5 undated notebooks, National Library of Scotland ms.
Miscellaneous papers, undated, National Library of Scotland ms.
Lighthouse Illumination (London, 1859).
The Design and Construction of Harbours (Edinburgh: A & C Black, 1864).
Robert Louis Stevenson
Memories