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Incomplete manuscript of 'Waverley'.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.0
Scope and Contents

The manuscript comprises the greater part of `Waverley`. Of the parts not included in the manuscript some exist as fragments in the Library`s manuscript collection, fifteen folios are in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, and others are missing.

The first fifty folios of the manuscript are on quarto paper, watermarked 1805, the rest on folio paper, watermarked 1813.

Dates: ?1805-1814.

"The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" (1812, 5th edition) by Walter Scott, with three tipped-in letters of Scott to Charles Erskine of Shielfield.

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Identifier: Acc.11706
Scope and Contents

The tipped-in letters of Scott are 1803, 1816 and undated.

Dates: 1803-1816 and undated.