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Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
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Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and relating to James Hogg.
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Identifier: MS.2245
Scope and Contents
The contents include: letters of James Hogg, 1814, 1820, 1826, 1831, 1835; an unpublished poem, 'The Fall of Idumea', written by him shortly before his death; letters and verses of his literary acquaintances in Scotland and London and his family; information supplied to his daughter and biographer, Mary Garden; portraits of Hogg; and a receipt, 1819, for duty paid by him on 'one work horse', on which someone has written, 'Mr. Hogg has no Horse nor never had one' (folio 333).
Dates:
1813-1905, undated.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
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Identifier: MS.10279
Scope and Contents
The material is predominantly literary and is chiefly confined to the 19th century. Among the more notable items are:Seven letters of Allan Cunningham, 1828-1840, chiefly to Captain Charles Gray of the Royal Marines, with an undated manuscript of the poem 'The standard bearer' published in ‘Poems and songs’ (London, 1847) by Cunningham, under the title 'The Cavalier' (folios 43-59);Papers of James Hogg, including manuscripts of his poems 'A Scottish ballad', circa...
Dates:
1592, 1723-1891, undated.