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"Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's writings and ana" by Isaac Watson Dyer (Portland, Maine, 1928), presented by the author to James A S Barrett, with pencil notes and other additions.
James A S Barrett contributed Section C (a list of the principal portraits, etc., of Carlyle, pages 533-542) to the work.
The volume contains Isaac Dyer's inscription to James Barrett, dated 1928, on the flyleaf, and pencil notes and amendments in Barrett's hand throughout. Press cuttings and a letter, 1930, of Robin Flower, Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, doubtless to Barrett, which were loosely enclosed at various places within the volume, have been tipped in.
Copy of John MacDougall Hay's poetic work ‘Their dead sons’ (London, 1918), with a presentation inscription to James McIntyre.
A covering letter to James McIntyre is inserted.
'Historical memoirs of his late Royal Highness William-Augustus, Duke of Cumberland' (London, 1767), with marginal notes of Thomas Carlyle.
‘Holiday house’ (Edinburgh, 1839) by Catherine Sinclair, stories for children, with watercolour illustrations by the author inserted.
The drawings appear to have been cut from the original manuscript: the names of the characters differ from those in the published version. There is an inscription by the author, dated 1838 [sic], on the title-page.
Imperfect copy, lacking the title page, of the libretto of ‘La Traviata’ by Verdi (Paris, 1865).
Inscribed presentation copy of ‘Hints to the sick, the lame, and the lazy: or Passages in the life of a hydropathist, by a Veteran’ by Thomas Dundas, (London, 1847) with a letter from Dundas to W T Bree, 1847, tipped in.
'Ocean, Stella, and other poems', 2nd edition (Edinburgh, 1830) by John Mackenzie, minister of Portpatrick, inscribed 'from the author', with an anonymous poem, 'The charming woman', tipped in at the end.
The poem, 'The charming woman', is addressed to Miss Agnes Mackenzie, probably by John Mackenzie to his daughter.