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Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Item
Identifier: MS.10306
Scope and Contents
A draft title-page (folio 24) suggests that in 1850 Adam White was proposing to publish a work on 'Weeds and wild-flowers loved by Wordsworth', and the first part of the album contains a collection of materials towards this purpose: drawings and engravings of wild flowers with some specimens of pressed flowers, newspaper-cuttings, and copies of letters and poems of Wordsworth.The collection of information is then extended to include other poets: Coleridge, Cowper, Southey,...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-?late 19th century.
Microfilm of papers of and concerning James Augustus Grant.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.556-558
Dates:
[?1765]-1918.
Papers and letters of George Wade.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6666/1-3
Scope and Contents
Including:
circa 50 letters and other documents, 1736-1737, concerning the Porteous Riots and subsequent events, compiled by Wade
circa 200 letters to and copies of letters, 1745-1746, of Wade, concerning the Jacobite Rising.
Dates:
1736-1737, 1745-1746.