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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.
"The Scottish Regality, 1300-1455", an undergraduate essay by Archibald A M Duncan for the Honours Class of Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh, 1944.
File
Identifier: Acc.12305
Scope and Contents
Includes related letter, 1954, of Thomas Mackay Cooper, Baron Cooper of Culross.
Dates:
1944, 1954.
Typescript of 'The Knighthood of the Clergy' by Owen Chadwick, with associated correspondence.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14080
Content Description
One of several privately-distributed copies of Chadwick's unpublished essay, 1985, which investigates whether it is lawful for members of the clergy to be denied the right to use the title 'Sir' following their acceptance of a knighthood. Chadwick, himself a priest in the Anglican Church, was knighted in 1983. The essay also covers the situation in Scotland, as does the accompanying correspondence with the Very Rev. Dr. Hugh Douglas, St. Andrews.
Dates:
1981-1985