Miscellaneous transcripts, chiefly copies of letters to Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, from Viscount Townshend, Professor Hugh Blair, John Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury, Professor Adam Ferguson, and Tobias Smollett., 1747-1806, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3464
Scope and Contents
The transcripts were probably intended to be included by Alexander Carlyle in his ‘Autobiography’. A comparison of the characters of Professor Blair and Principal Robertson and some unpublished letters of Alexander Carlyle on the militia are also included.
Dates
- Creation: 1747-1806, undated.
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Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
139 Leaves ; Quarto.
Language of Materials
From the Fonds: Undetermined
Arrangement
139 folios.
Bibliography
Extracts from the letters of Tobias Smollett are printed in E Noyes, ‘The letters of Tobias Smollett, M.D.’ (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1926), but apparently not from these transcripts.
The whole text of the letters was published by H W Meikle in ‘The Times Literary Supplement’, 24 and 31 July 1943.
'Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle' (Edinburgh, 1860).
The whole text of the letters was published by H W Meikle in ‘The Times Literary Supplement’, 24 and 31 July 1943.
'Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle' (Edinburgh, 1860).
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