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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.
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.
Interleaved presentation copy of ‘Memorabilia curliana mabenensia’ by Richard Broun (Dumfries, 1830), containing manuscript additions in verse and prose by the author's brother, William.
A few cuttings from the ‘Dumfries Times’ and the ‘Dumfries Journal’ are pasted in, and the annotations include a set of proposed rules for the Dumfries Curling Club, 1831 (folio 16).
‘Wizard Peter’ by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (Edinburgh, 1834), with notes and corrections by the author, and a presentation inscription to James Gibson Craig on the half title-page.
There are several manuscript insertions, including Charles Sharpe's draft of five verses, written on the back of a letter, 1832, from the printseller Hugh Paton (folio 2), and explanatory notes and variant readings by James Gibson Craig (folio 3).