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Includes observations and anecdotes on contemporary Enlightenment figures including Dugald Stewart, James Boswell, Tobias Smollett and Lord Kames, and an inventory of Fraser Tytler’s publications up to 1793. Also included are copies of letters sent by David Dalrymple (Lord Hailes), and a number of verses by William Shenstone, Allan Ramsay, James Beattie and William Shakespeare translated into Latin by Fraser Tytler.

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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

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Concerns the collection of Candlemas and Whitsunday rents in Kilmarnock.

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Concerns rent arrears of Boswell`s tenants.

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Concerns Boswell`s political ambitions and his disgust at the want of "public spirit" in the County of Ayrshire.

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On the death of his wife and education of his daughters.

Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Elsey, Elizabeth Theresa.Letter, 1898, of Elizabeth Theresa Elsey to John Murray IV. Folios 1-2.Elsmie, George Robert.Letters, 1898-1904 and 1907, of George Robert Elsmie to John Murray IV and Alexander Henry Hallam Murray. Folios 3-131.Folio 51. Galley proofs, 1899, of ‘Lumsden of the Guides’, published by John Murray in 1899. Sent as an...

Scope and Contents Elwin`s articles on Boswell and Johnson were published in the "Quarterly Review" in March 1854 and January 1859. The articles have been bound together in cloth covers and interleaved. Many of the pages have been marked with corrections and alterations. Certain passages have been re-worked on the interleaves. The articles were republished in Elwin`s, "Some XVIII century men of letters", under the following introduction :"Dr. Johnson was Whitwell Elwin`s...