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Tytler, Alexander Fraser, Lord Woodhouselee (Historian and Lawyer)

 Person

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Commonplace book of Alexander Fraser Tytler., ?1778-1802.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11737/5
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: ?1778-1802.

Commonplace books of Alexander Fraser Tytler., ?1778-1812.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11737/5-6
Scope and Contents

Includes notes and observations on contemporary Enlightenment figures.

Dates: ?1778-1812.

Diary of Alexander Fraser Tytler., 4th quarter of 18th century.

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Identifier: Acc.11737/4
Scope and Contents

Marked as volume 4, but refers to volume 5; there are no other volumes present. Tytler visited Manchester where he was given a tour by Archibald Bell.

Dates: 4th quarter of 18th century.

Letter of Alexander Fraser Tytler to his publisher, William Davies, of Cadell and Davies.

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Identifier: Acc.10416
Scope and Contents

Concerns Tytler`s biography of Lord Kames.

Dates: 1808.

Notebook of Alexander Fraser Tytler., 4th quarter of 18th century.

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Identifier: Acc.11737/3
Scope and Contents

Records an account of a visit to a house of an unidentified lady. Includes sketches of the landscape.

Dates: 4th quarter of 18th century.

Notebook of Alexander Fraser Tytler containing transcriptions of Latin, Greek and English verse., 4th quarter of 18th century.

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Identifier: Acc.11737/2
Scope and Contents

Included in the notebook are financial calculations for repairs of buildings. There are several sketches relating to building design.

Dates: 4th quarter of 18th century.

Notebooks of Alexander Fraser Tytler., 4th quarter of 18th century.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11737/2-3
Scope and Contents

The notebooks contain Latin and Greek translations of English verse, miscellaneous sketches, and some financial notes on the cost of improving the estate at Woodhouselee.

Dates: 4th quarter of 18th century.

Papers of Alexander Fraser Tytler.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11737/1-8
Scope and Contents

Includes commonplace books, diaries, books of etchings, sketchbooks and a manuscript "Remembrances of Woodhouselee".

Dates: Late 18th century-early 19th century.

`Remembrances of Woodhouselee`., 1812, 1894-1914.

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Identifier: Acc.11737/8
Scope and Contents

The volume, 1812, contains descriptions of Woodhouselee and surrounding area. Includes sketches and engravings of the estate, poems, songs and music written by those who visited. A series of letters and poems, 1894-1914, have been added by family members at the end.

Dates: 1812, 1894-1914.

Sketchbook of Alexander Fraser Tytler., ?1770-?1813.

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Identifier: Acc.11737/1
Scope and Contents

Twenty one sketches of landscapes, including the Woodhouselee estate, and unidentified individuals.

Dates: ?1770-?1813.

'The Carver Choirbook', a sixteenth-century manuscript also known as the 'Scone Antiphonary'.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.15
Scope and Contents Choirbook produced in Scotland containing polyphonic settings for Masses, Magnificats, motets, with other various fragments. The manuscript contains works by Carver himself and by other composers of the period, including Dufay, Nesbett, Lambe, Cornysh (Senior), and Fayrfax. The volume was previously thought to have been copied by Carver at the Abbey of Scone, but scholars now agree that it was probably written at the Chapel Royal at Stirling. Not all of the compositions are complete and the...
Dates: 16th century

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