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Album containing portraits of Sir Walter Scott, with papers of and concerning him.
File
Identifier: MS.23060
Dates:
1821-1827.
Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a letter of George Fothergill to Robertson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6659/1-6
Scope and Contents
James Logie Robertson was born in Milnathort, Kinross-shire in 1846 and educated at Orwell Parish School and Edinburgh University. He was assistant master at Heriot's Hospital and George Watson's College before joining the staff at Edinburgh Ladies' College in 1876. His
writings, some under the pen-name of 'Hugh Haliburton', include English text-books, essays and poetry. Robertson died in 1922.Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a...
Dates:
1896-1910, 1916-1917.
Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1813-1815
Scope and Contents
The material described here would appear to relate to further revision by John Philp Wood of his revised and corrected edition of 1813 of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’.
Dates:
19th century.