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GB |
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Repository code |
234 |
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Organisation |
NAS |
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Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
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Reference |
GD170/3009 |
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Title |
Letter from Cosmo Innes to Sir Alexander Campbell concerning difficulties in transcribing and printing the 'Black Book of Taymouth' published by the Bannatyne Club in 1855 |
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Dates |
1853-1856 |
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Access status |
Open |
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Description |
Dated at London, Edinburgh, etc.
1853, February 20. Intends to get on with `The Black Book'; `in the mean time Mr. Shaw is noting - extracting - and copying from the books and letters we brought from Taymouth. His transcript will form a very curious record of old Breadalbane life and manners, much more minute than we shall have room to print'.
1853, March 13. `Did you know that that household book of inventories which gave us the curious lists of arms under the charge of the "portar of Finlarig" and "the Portar of Balloch" has at its commencement - or end - a fragment of an unknown Romance? What a romance reader must have [?been] the lord (or the lady) of Breadalbane at the end of the 16th century! I have taken upon me to allow Mr. David Laing to see this'.
(1853) April 19. London. 'I lead a good kind of life here - in the Museum or one of the Record Offices all morning and dining out every day - the latter part the heavier duty'.
8 letters, with two from Francis Shaw, the transcriber, to Cosmo Innes, protesting about the inadequate remuneration for his work, 19, 20 April 1853, and an enclosure listing the contents of the work. |
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