'Short Account of a Long Life’, being the narrative of Mrs Cockburn, 1784., 1784-1822.
File
Identifier: MS.915
Scope and Contents
The text includes the ‘Story of Felix’, i.e. of Robert Keith, ‘Ambassador-Keith’ (folio 22), and is in the autograph of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, according to a note signed T C B (Thomas Craig-Brown) on folio iii. On folio iii is written, in Sir Walter Scott’s hand, ‘Copy Manuscript of Mrs Cockburn’.
At the beginning is a letter of the Earl of Haddington to Scott, returning the manuscript, 1822.
Dates
- Creation: 1784-1822.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
34 Leaves ; Quarto.
Language of Materials
From the Series: Undetermined
Arrangement
v + 29 folios. The papers were received bound.
Bibliography
Printed in Mrs Cockburn's ‘Letters and Memoir of Her Own Life’, with notes by T Craig-Brown, (Edinburgh, 1900).
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
Contact:
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Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk