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Copy of "The Life and Acts of the most Victorious Conqueror Robert Bruce...", inscribed Berlin, by the Earl Marischal and James Boswell.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5117
Dates:
1764.
Correspondence and papers concerning figures of Scottish historical interest.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10742
Scope and Contents
Includes:
charter, 1316, of Robert the Bruce
royal letters, 1537-1645
contemporary description, 1587, of the death of Mary, Queen of Scots
letters, 1716-1821 and undated, of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and his family
letters, 1764 and 1793, of James Boswell
letters, 1810 and 1828, of Sir Walter Scott
letter, 1843, of Thomas Carlyle
Dates:
1316-1938.
Letter of James Boswell to Colonel John Walkinshaw Craufurd of Craufurdland Castle, Ayrshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11111
Scope and Contents
Concerns Boswell`s political ambitions and his disgust at the want of "public spirit" in the County of Ayrshire.
Dates:
1790.
Letter of James Boswell to his factor at Auchinleck, Andrew Gibb.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9819
Dates:
1792.
Letter of James Boswell to Mrs Grant.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5854
Scope and Contents
On the death of his wife and education of his daughters.
Dates:
1789.
Photocopies of 15 letters of James Boswell to William Julius Mickle.
File
Identifier: Acc.4879
Dates:
1768-1785.
Photocopies of five letters of James Boswell to John Johnston of Grange.
File
Identifier: Acc.7537
Dates:
circa 1760-circa 1786.
"The Rambler" (6th edition, 1763), each volume inscribed by Jenny Graham and volume I also containing James Boswell`s presentation note to her dated 1767.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7779
Dates:
1763-1767.