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Ramsay, Allan, poet, 1684-1758

 Person

Found in 10 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.

Literary papers of Alexander Law.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11490
Scope and Contents

Papers mainly concern studies of Scottish schools and school books, education in Edinburgh, and the works of Allan Ramsay. Includes correspondence and papers of Burns Martin and John Walter Oliver on earlier editions of the works of Ramsay.

Dates: circa 1930-1990.

Notes compiled by Burns Martin.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6737
Scope and Contents

Concerning his "A Bibliography of the Writings of Allan Ramsay" (1931), and also the songs in Ramsay`s "The Tea-Table Miscellany".

Dates: circa 1931.

Verse epistle, 1719, of Allan Ramsay, addressed to the Musical Club of Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9546
Scope and Contents

With a letter, 1792, of Henry Mackenzie to Thomas Cadell.

Dates: 1719, 1792.

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