Archives and Manuscript Catalogue

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, poems, etc., of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet, to Peter Buchan, collector of Scottish ballads, Peterhead, 1828-1850, undated. The letters, which are in Laing's autograph, deal chiefly with literary matters of the day. Most of the poems (folios 4, 6, 10, 19, 23) appear later in published form.(ii) Poems and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell, in his autograph, with one letter to him, 1815-1865, undated. Several of...

Scope and Contents Folios 30 verso-36 recto are not in the hand of the author.The period covered is from 1770 to 1817.In this manuscript are to be found many passages, most of them short and of little significance, which do not appear in the 1875 edition of the ‘Autobiography’. Some of these passages, however, are longer and of more substance, namely those occurring at folio 31 verso, folio 53 verso, folio 56 verso, folio 62 recto, folio 63 recto, folio 68 recto, folio 69 verso, folio...