Chambers, Robert (publisher and writer)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1802-1871. - 1871
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of "Traditions of Edinburgh" (1825), by Robert Chambers, with double pages replacing cancelled leaves and the original text (concerning Hugo Arnot) supplied in manuscript.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12417
Scope and Contents
Includes tipped in notes of Arnot`s son, and an anecdote, of Walter Scott to Robert Chambers which was incorporated into "Traditions of Edinburgh".
Dates:
circa 1825.
Letter-books, stock-books, publication day-books and cash-books of Messrs W and R Chambers, publishers.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.341
Dates:
Circa 1900-1950.
Letter of Robert Chambers.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11432
Scope and Contents
Concerns arrangements for an admirer to meet Sir Walter Scott.
Dates:
1829.
Letter of Robert Chambers to Robert Cole.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14401
Scope and Contents
Letter concerning Cole's assistance with Chambers' work on Robert Burns, and mentioning letters of Smellie and Black in Cole's possession.
Dates:
1850.
Letters of Robert Chambers, Allan Cunningham, James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart and Sir Walter Scott to members of the Laidlaw family.
File
Identifier: Acc.14203
Dates:
First half of 19th century.
Manuscript of Robert Chambers, "History of the Rebellion in Scotland in 1745".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8164
Dates:
1826-1827.
'Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect' (1787), by Robert Burns; with a letter, 1791, of Burns to Thomas Sloan, two letters of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and a letter, undated, of Robert Chambers.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14167
Dates:
1787, 1791, undated.
Two letters, 1823, of Robert Chambers to William Wilson.
File
Identifier: Acc.9699
Scope and Contents
Includes:
letter, 1868, of Robert Chambers to Alexander Wilson
letter, 1870, of William Chambers.
Dates:
1823-1870.
Two letters, 1843-1859, of Robert Chambers.
File
Identifier: Acc.7877
Scope and Contents
With unassociated letters of Walter B Blaikie, 1909, Robert Buchanan, undated, Sir Alexander Cochrane, 1810, and Sir Roderick I Murchison, 1855.
Dates:
1810-1859 and undated.
Verse letter, ? 1787, of Robert Burns to John Renton of Lamerton.
File
Identifier: Acc.8574
Scope and Contents
With a letter, ? 1851, of Robert Chambers to J C Renton concerning the manuscript.
Dates:
? 1787, ? 1851
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