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Extracts, 19th century, of the journals, 1803-1820, of Lady Henrietta Liston.

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Identifier: MS.20350
Scope and Contents

Folios 2-25 are from the Constantinople journals of Henrietta Liston for 1815-1820, and contain material not included in MSS. 5708-5712: Journals of Lady Henrietta Liston. Folios 26-58 are extracts from MS. 5706: Journal of Lady Henrietta Liston kept during travels in Sweden and Denmark, pages 1-72 (1803-1804).

Dates: 1803-1820.

Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.

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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.