Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1786).
Scope and Contents
The extracts are taken from periodical publications, especially the ‘Caledonian Mercury’ and the ‘Edinburgh Courant’, largely recording English legal cases, and from books on a wide variety of topics, especially history, medicine, law, literature, husbandry, travel, science, theology and biography.
The notes and other writings relate to various topics and include a few examples of letters of and to Young.
The earliest extract is dated 13 December 1794 (Adv.MS.31.5.6, folio 5 verso) and they continue until Young`s death in 1828 (Adv.MS.31.5.9, folio 8 verso).
The extracts and notes in all four volumes appear to have been written on loose sheets or gatherings of paper from different sources in a number of different hands, presumably those of clerks, and subsequently bound up as quarto volumes.
Dates
- Creation: 1794-circa 1855.
Extent
0.00 Linear metres (4 volumes. Quarto.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
After Young’s death, the writings were in the possession of Charles Baxter.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Date
- 13 07 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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