Letters addressed mostly to Dr Robert Anderson, editor of ‘The Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain’, ‘The Edinburgh Magazine’, etc. (there are a few to Bishop Thomas Percy and the Earl of Buchan).
Scope and Contents
Anderson`s correspondents include many of the prominent men of his time, especially in the literary and antiquarian worlds; and the main topic is literature. The arrangement of the letters is due to Anderson’s son-in-law, Dr David Irving (Keeper of the Advocates’ Library): it is first of all by size, quarto letters in Adv.MSS.22.4.10-22.4.16, octavo in Adv.MS.22.4.17 (for the folio letters, see Adv.MS.22.3.11), then the writers are roughly grouped according to their origin or occupation, and finally the letters of each writer are arranged chronologically (not always with complete accuracy).
Dates
- Creation: 1760-1830.
Extent
0.00 Linear metres (8 volumes.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
The letters were presented to the Advocates’ Library in 1898 by Surgeon-General James Irving.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.
Separated Materials
Adv.MS.22.3.11.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Date
- 08 05 2015
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
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