Boswell, James, of Auchinleck, author, 1740–1795
Person
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Commonplace book of Alexander Fraser Tytler., ?1778-1802.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11737/5
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
?1778-1802.
Letter of James Boswell to Andrew Gibb., 1792.
Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 24-25
Scope and Contents
Concerns the collection of Candlemas and Whitsunday rents in Kilmarnock.
Dates:
1792.
Letter of James Boswell to Andrew Gibb., 1793.
Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 26-27
Scope and Contents
Concerns rent arrears of Boswell`s tenants.
Dates:
1793.
Letter of James Boswell to John Walkinshaw Crawfurd concerning Boswell`s intention to stand in Ayr as a candidate at the General Election., 1790.
Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 22-23
Letters of James Boswell to John Walkinshaw Crawfurd and to Andrew Gibb., 1790-1793.
Series
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 22-27
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Elsey to Elton., 1809-1912.
File
Identifier: MS.40379
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...
Dates:
1809-1912.
Two articles on James Boswell and Samuel Johnson by Whitwell Elwin, each extracted from the "Quarterly Review"., ? 1857-? 1900.
File
Identifier: MS.42210
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...
Dates:
? 1857-? 1900.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning Whitwell Elwin.
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Manuscript, notebooks, proofs and copies of published articles by Whitwell Elwin, and relating to his work as an editor.
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