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Letters chiefly of Scottish interest.
File
Identifier: MS.2524
Scope and Contents
Except one of Archbishop Leighton, the letters are of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Several are addressed to the Mures of Caldwell; others to Archibald Constable. Among the writers are Dr John Moore, Hugh Blair, David Hume, Bishop Percy, John Pinkerton, Dugald Stewart, Lord Jeffrey, Joanna Baillie, James Hogg (writing to 'M.L.', the anonymous author of two songs in ‘Jacobite relics’, second series (Edinburgh, 1821)), Mrs Grant of Laggan, Lord Cockburn, and John Gibson...
Dates:
[?1673], 18th century-early 19th century.
Microfilm of correspondence of Henrietta Rhodes concerning the ballad 'Oh Nanny wilt thou gang with me' by Thomas Percy, including printed texts of the ballad and the music for it and manuscripts of poems in imitation of it.
Item
Identifier: MS.15522 [Mf.MSS.2]
Dates:
1801, [1801, or after.]
Papers of the Rymour Club, Edinburgh, which existed from 1903 to 1947, its object being the collection of Scottish ballads, popular rhymes, proverbs, and the like.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3760-3770
Dates:
1903-1947.