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Printer’s copy of the text of Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’, the Gaelic and Latin each divided into three volumes as printed.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.4.1-73.4.6.
Scope and Contents The Gaelic text is in the hand of the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of Lochbroom (1768-1843), then a tutor in Edinburgh. It is his adaptation (into the orthography of the Gaelic Bible) of the manuscripts left by James Macpherson in 1796 as the ‘originals’ of his ‘translations’ of Ossian’s poems. These were written partly by Macpherson, partly by another hand (Adv.MSS.72.3.11, folio 50 verso; 72.3.13, folio 80 recto). They are now lost. Sinclair describes the circumstances of the work in ‘Poems of...
Dates: [Circa 1798.]

'Proceedings [of the] Home Department [of the] Government of India: Legislation for the purposes of assuming some degree of control over the newspaper press in India' ([Simla], 1907), with correspondence and other papers., 1907.

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Identifier: MS.12632
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Miscellaneous correspondence and papers relating to sedition and to the control of the press, 1907-1911 (folio 1); (ii) Papers relating to the resignation of Sir Bampfylde Fuller as Lietenant-Governor of East Bengal and Assam, 1906 (folio 149); (iii) Transcripts of letters and a petition against the partition of Bengal, 1906 (folio 190).

Dates: 1907.