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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents distributed to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.

Found in 1006 Collections and/or Records:

Interleaved copy of the introduction to 'Border Antiquities of England and Scotland' (1817) by Sir Walter Scott, with the author’s manuscript annotations; and some additional, related content., 1823.

 Item
Identifier: MS.50704
Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter, 18 December 1793, of Scott to Robert Shortreed on collecting old ballads. Folios i-ii.

Note indicating that the corrections made by Scott to the text remained unpublished. Folios iii-iv.

Note containing the words 'This might perhaps be improved though not enlarged'. Folio v-viii.

Interleaved copy of the introduction of 'Border Antiquities of England and Scotland'. Folios 1-130.

Dates: 1823.

Interleaved copy of 'The universal Scots almanac, for the year of our Lord M.DCC.LIV' (Edinburgh, 1754), used by Alexander Carlyle's father William Carlyle, minister of Prestonpans, to record details of births and deaths of members of his family on the interleaves., 1754-1805.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23926
Scope and Contents

Following the death of his father, Alexander Carlyle used the almanack to record further details of his family, notes of his published writings, and details of the family of the Duke of Buccleuch. Most of the interleaves are blank.

Dates: 1754-1805.