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Scrapbook, 19th century, including letters of Sir Charles L Eastlake and Sir Richard Westmacott, with other unassociated papers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5295
Scope and Contents
Including:
1. "Dr Gordon`s Journal Overland from India", volume 2, 1828
2. Sketchbook, 19th century, of K Russell
3. three sketchbooks, 1881-1923 of Maggie Murray
4. valuation, 1881-1887, of Leith.
Dates:
19th century.
Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
File
Identifier: MS.3732
Scope and Contents
This version of the ‘Autobiography’, the same as that found in MS.3462 (folios 1-371), contains also the opening pages which are missing in that manuscript. Included (as far as folio 34 verso) are numerous excerpts from Thomas Carlyle's 'Recollections', some of which were printed for the first time, perhaps from MS.3463, in the form of footnotes in the 1910 edition of the ‘Autobiography’. Thereafter, apart from minor variations in arrangement and the omission of several paragraphs, the text...
Dates:
1765, 1800, 1819.
Typescript journal, undated, of a visit to Russia of Naomi Mitchison.
File
Identifier: Acc.10899
Scope and Contents
With a letter of Trevor Huddleston, Bishop of Mauritius, to Mitchison.
Dates:
1980 and undated.