Shortreed, Robert (Sheriff-Substitute of Roxburghshire)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1762-1829. - 1829
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Interleaved copy of the introduction to 'Border Antiquities of England and Scotland' (1817) by Sir Walter Scott, with the author’s manuscript annotations; and some additional, related content., 1823.
Item
Identifier: MS.50704
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter, 18 December 1793, of Scott to Robert Shortreed on collecting old ballads. Folios i-ii.
Note indicating that the corrections made by Scott to the text remained unpublished. Folios iii-iv.
Note containing the words 'This might perhaps be improved though not enlarged'. Folio v-viii.
Interleaved copy of the introduction of 'Border Antiquities of England and Scotland'. Folios 1-130.
Dates:
1823.
Letters to Robert Shortreed., 1797, 1819.
Item
Identifier: MS.23118, ff 76, 142-143
Dates:
1797, 1819.