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Copy of Robert Law, "Memorials" (Edinburgh, 1818), with annotations by editor Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
Includes letters of James Ballantyne to Sharpe concerning the printing of "Memorials".
Letter of Alexander to James Ballantyne describing the last dinner of the writer with Sir Walter Scott.
Includes manuscript draft and cutting of letter of John Ballantyne on the same dinner with Scott, and a pencil and chalk study of Scott by John Ballantyne.
Letter of James Ballantyne to Hurst and Robinson negotiating terms for "The Novelists Library" and "Don Quixote" on behalf of Sir Walter Scott.
Letter of John Ballantyne to John Aitken.
Letter concerns his health and Walter Scott`s concern for himself and his health; includes an undated letter of James Ballantyne to Miss Corbett on printing matters.
Letters, 1829-1833 and undated, of James Ballantyne to John Hughes.
Letters of Ballantyne to Hughes concern printing and publishing and also the health of Ballantyne and Sir Walter Scott.
Includes:
six letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1822 and undated,
two letters of Walter Scott, WS, father of Sir Walter Scott, undated,
three letters of John A Ballantyne, 1837-1838.
Letters and documents to and concerning Sir Walter Scott.
Includes papers concerning the affairs of the Trust after 1826, including letters of Robert Cadell, James Ballantyne and John Gibson, papers on copyrights, the Magnum edition, the arbitration by Lord Newton, and a report by the Trustees to creditors, 1831. There are also earlier papers concerning plantations at Abbotsford and household records.
Letters of various artists, musicians and men of letters to Alexander Ballantyne.
Includes Ballantyne family documents and a letter of James Ballantyne, 1822, offering his brother Alexander employment with the Press in Edinburgh.
Publishing agreement between Archibald Constable and Co and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo for a new edition of the works of James Beattie, to be accompanied by Forbes`s "An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, including Many of his Original Letters" then in the course of composition.
Includes a letter of James Ballantyne to Archibald Constable on the printing of "The Life of Beattie" and on other printing work.
Two letters, 1824, of George Ticknor and George Huntly Gordon.
Letters concern portraits of Sir Walter Scott. Also includes:
1. unrelated letter, 1812, of Sir David Wilkie
2. autograph note, 1816, of Walter Scott to James Ballantyne about "The Antiquary"
3. printed letter, 1829, of Scott
Two letters of J G Lockhart to James Ballantyne.
Letters concern Ballantyne`s relationship with Sir Walter Scott and memoranda of Scott to be supplied by Ballantyne for the use of Lockhart in his projected biography.
Includes notes on the letters by Alexander Ballantyne and transcripts of three letters of Scott to James Ballantyne.
Volume of correspondence of James Nairne, WS, and papers of, and concerning, the Bannatyne Club.
Includes letters of Sir Walter Scott, James Ballantyne and David Laing.