Biographies.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Written accounts of the lives of individuals.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts of the life of William Tytler., 1793-1798.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11737/7
Scope and Contents
Full transcript of Henry Mackenzie’s ‘A short account of the Life and Writings of William Tytler’.
Full transcript of the ‘Short characteristical notices of the late William Tytler’.
Two copies of engravings of William Tytler which accompanied the pieces are included.
Dates:
1793-1798.
Literary papers and correspondence of Henry Mackenzie.
File
Identifier: Acc.10686
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript of, notes for and letters, circa 1810, 1812-1821, concerning Mackenzie`s "Life of Home". With manuscript page, undated, of "Douglas" by John Home and a diary, circa 1803, of Home`s journey to Bath with David Hume in 1776.
Dates:
circa 1803-1821.