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Copies. Derivative objects.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott., 1762-1768, 1804.

 File
Identifier: MS.879
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

Juvenile Letters, 1762-1768 (folio 1);

The remains of two volumes which originally contained Anna Seward's poems (folio 86), from which only the lists of contents (folios 86, 114) and copies of poems addressed to her by literary friends (folio 94) survive;

‘Last Lay of the Lichfield Minstrel’, 1804 (folio 117).

Dates: 1762-1768, 1804.

Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.3134-3185
Scope and Contents

Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.

Dates: 1552-19th century