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Small collections of correspondence and manuscripts of the author and essayist Thomas De Quincey, acquired at different times.
File
Identifier: MS.21239
Scope and Contents
Thomas De Quincey's own letters are written to his family and friends about his work and other activities, finance, and family matters. Letters addressed to him include one from an unnamed American admirer, 1853, (folio 18) which was published in ‘Thomas De Quincey’, pages 103-105, the catalogue of an exhibition held at Dove Cottage and the National Library of Scotland.Most of the manuscripts are fragmentary drafts of unidentified essays, but they include parts of "The English...
Dates:
1800-1855, undated.
Small collections of correspondence and papers of and to members of the Haldane family.
Series
Identifier: MS.20260 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Dates:
[Circa 1735]-1948, undated.
Transcripts, chiefly, of letters and papers of Sir Hew Campbell of Cessnock and his descendants, and of a few other letters, all of which seem to be connected with the Hamiltons of Silvertonhill.
File
Identifier: MS.1671
Scope and Contents
All are transcripts except drafts of a clause to be added to the Act of Security, circa 1711, and a letter of John Hamilton, 1775, which are originals.
Dates:
1666-1775, undated.
Transcripts, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of four mediaeval manuscripts relating to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, the originals of which were in the Advocates’ Library.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.2.1-22.2.4
Dates:
?12th century-1st half of 16th century.
Two collections of writings of Allan Ramsay, in his hand.
File
Identifier: MS.2233
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Drafts of poems, of a prose treatise in defence of the theatre (fragmentary, but not ‘Some Few Hints in Defence of Dramatic Entertainments’), and of a letter to a lady, containing a poem. Some of the poems appear to be unpublished; others differ greatly from the printed version. On folio 10 there are marginal references, apparently contemporary, to the pages of ‘Poems by Allan Ramsay’ (Edinburgh, 1728), volume ii. Some of the leaves are paginated,...
Dates:
Early 18th century.