'Mss. relating to gipsies': letters of George Miller, Junior, Edinburgh, to William Smith, Writer and Baillie of Kelso, asking him, in the name of the Society of Friends, for information about the gipsies of Kirk Yetholm and elsewhere in Roxburghshire, with a draft and a final report of Smith, 1815., 1815.
File
Identifier: MS.175
Scope and Contents
George Miller and William Smith both refer to Walter Scott’s interest in the gipsies (folios 1, 14).
Dates
- Creation: 1815.
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Extent
18 Leaves ; Folio.
Arrangement
ii + 16 folios.
Bibliography
William Smith’s reports are printed in John A Fairley, ‘Bailie Smith of Kelso, gypsies of Kirk Yetholm in 1815’ (privately printed: Hawick, 1907).
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