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Blair, Hugh, Professor, 1718-1800

 Person

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Letter of Hugh Blair on personal and political matters.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12405
Scope and Contents

Includes a description of Blair`s portrait by Raeburn and an account of his sitting for it.

Dates: 1794.

Letter of Hugh Blair to William Strahan., 1782.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 13-15
Scope and Contents

Concerns the forthcoming publication of Hugh Blair`s `Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres`. Included with the letter is an engraving of Blair.

Dates: 1782.

Letters of Alexander Carlyle and Hugh Blair.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7223
Scope and Contents

On ecclesiastical appointments.

Dates: 1788.

Letters of William Creech., 1773-1794.

 File
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 62-66
Scope and Contents

Letter of William Creech to John Nourse, 1773, concerns a set of books on natural history which Creech may have sold to Nourse.

Letter of William Creech to Mr Bell, 1793, concerns Creech`s approval over Mr Bell`s unstated course of action.

Letter of William Creech to Thomas Cadell, 1794, concerns the literary works of Hugh Blair and the publication of more volumes of Sir John Sinclair`s, `The Statistical Account of Scotland`.

Dates: 1773-1794.

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Letters. Correspondence. 8
Engravings. Prints. 3
Correspondence. 1