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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 presentation copy of ‘Memorabilia curliana mabenensia’ by Richard Broun (Dumfries, 1830), containing manuscript additions in verse and prose by the author's brother, William.

 File
Identifier: MS.9226
Scope and Contents

A few cuttings from the ‘Dumfries Times’ and the ‘Dumfries Journal’ are pasted in, and the annotations include a set of proposed rules for the Dumfries Curling Club, 1831 (folio 16).

Dates: 1830-1831.

‘James Hogg’ by Sir George Douglas (Edinburgh, 1899), with a few annotations by the author.

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Identifier: MS.10500
Scope and Contents

A letter, 1920, to George Douglas from Adam Scott, concerning portraits of Hogg, and a copy of a letter of Hogg, 1835, are inserted.

Dates: 1835, 1899, 1920.

John Philp Wood’s frequently annotated copy of ‘A view of the political state of Scotland at the late General Election’ (Edinburgh, 1790), containing his signature dated 1790 at the half-title page, amendments and notes, mainly of deaths of electors, and names of later electors added in the margins and on the endpapers, with various dates from 1790 to 1804.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.37.2.12
Scope and Contents

Marginal notes in Wood’s hand at page 41, and what follows, denote those who were freeholders in 1811, and some of the notes (for example at pages 2 and 3) appear to have been added between 1824 and 1829. No significant marks have been added to the pages of either the Advertisement or the Introductory Treatise.

Dates: 1790.