Three commonplace books of Andrew Douglas, paymaster to the navy, father of George of Cavers (born 1753), consisting chiefly of philosophical reflections, poetry, notes on current affairs and medical receipts, mostly taken from printed sources.

Series

Identifier: Adv.MSS.17.1.10-17.1.12

Dates

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0.00 Linear metres (3 volumes. Folio.)

English

The volumes are not in chronological order, which would be:

Adv.MS.17.1.11 (1772-1775);

Adv.MS.17.1.10 (1776-1780);

Adv.MS.17.1.12 (1781-1785).

Adv.MS.17.1.11 includes a loose envelope which suggests that the manuscript came to the Advocates’ Library no earlier than 1850 (folio i).

Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.

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