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Includes observations and anecdotes on contemporary Enlightenment figures including Dugald Stewart, James Boswell, Tobias Smollett and Lord Kames, and an inventory of Fraser Tytler’s publications up to 1793. Also included are copies of letters sent by David Dalrymple (Lord Hailes), and a number of verses by William Shenstone, Allan Ramsay, James Beattie and William Shakespeare translated into Latin by Fraser Tytler.

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Concerns the education of Lord Henry Petty.

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Concerns an American friend and connection of Francis Jeffrey, Mr Simmond.

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Concerns an American friend.

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Concerns the potential election of the recipient to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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Concerns social and cultural matters, and the death of Dugald Stewart.

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Concerns subscriptions for a bust of Dugald Stewart.

Scope and Contents Letter of Dugald Stewart to William Petty, c 1796, on the education available at Edinburgh University.Extract of the same letter.Copy of a letter of Dugald Stewart to Elizabeth Dunning, 1796, on her son, Richard Dunning`s, integration at Edinburgh University.Letter of Elizabeth Dunning to William Petty, 1796, on the good news that she has received about her son, in the previous letter.Copy of a letter of William Petty, 1796, on his intention to...