'Private notices' of Thomas Murray, author of 'The literary history of Galloway'., 1840, 1849.
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) ‘Reminiscences of a Journey’ to London, 19 May 1840. Murray went from Edinburgh via Glasgow to Liverpool by coach and thence by rail to London, where he visited J R McCulloch, the economist. Pages 35-51 (the end) contain a long account of his friend.
(ii) ‘Personal Narrative, with a collateral account of some eminent and interesting men’ (including Thomas Carlyle), 1849 (other end of the volume, with an alternative version of the beginning at folio 22).
Dates
- Creation: 1840, 1849.
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
86 Leaves ; Quarto.
Language of Materials
From the Series: Undetermined
Arrangement
ii + 84 folios (folios 28-58 are blank).
Separated Materials
See also MS.188.
Bibliography
Murray, Thomas. 'Literary history of Galloway' (Edinburgh, 1832).
Genre / Form
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