Archives and Manuscript Catalogue

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Includes cuttings from newspapers and magazines, portraits, broadsides, genealogical tables and notes. Also includes notes on cases on which Maidment was working.

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The first 70 folios are in manuscript while the latter half of the volume consists of a collection of printed broadsides of the 18th century. Several of the manuscript items appear in print and a list of them is inserted at the beginning of the volume.

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The papers are bound with the broadside poem 'The Hollander'.

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The notebook has some miscellaneous early 19th century newspaper cuttings posted in (folios i-v) and a notice of the death of Sir Thomas Reid, Baronet, written 1823, probably by William Ferguson (folio 183 verso). An article by A I B Stewart, ascribes the volume to Peter Stewart and gives family details (loosely enclosed at back, folio 190-196).

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A modern transcript from the Harleian MS.3865. Prefixed are five leaves of notices respecting the manuscript and the transcriber John Dougall, London, 1821.

Scope and Contents i). Two typescript drafts, 1946, undated, of `Olympus and a Mortal Spirit : sonnet to a servant of the Gods, in memory and pressage ; (1854-1932), Patrick Geddes` , by Arthur Geddes, with incomplete comments on the sonnet and Patrick Geddes by Arthur Geddes.ii). Printed `Brief Guide to the Scotland Room, The Outlook Tower, Castlehill, Edinburgh`, undated, with annotations by Arthur Geddes.iii). Typescript, undated, of `Patrick Geddes as Sociologist`, a lecture given...