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'Some terrible letters from Scotland communicated by The Ettrick Shepherd.’
File
Identifier: MS.3810
Scope and Contents
Descriptions, in the hand of James Hogg, of real or imaginary incidents of the cholera plague of 1832 in Lothian, on the West Coast, and in Fisherrow, in letters purporting to have been written to him by Andrew Ker, alias Clapperton, Alexander McAlister, mate of the ‘Jane Hamilton’ of Port Glasgow, and James McL-- respectively.
Also printed proofs of an article by James Douglas, titled, 'The three plagues of Bombay' (folio 11).
Dates:
1832, 1899.