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Scott, Walter, 1729-1799 (Writer to the Signet, Father of the Scottish Writer)

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Clermiston Estate Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-720
Scope and Contents This archive relates to the Clermiston Estate and to the Dick family and includes papers particular to, and signed by, Sir Alexander Dick (1703-1785), a notable medical man of the time. The papers, mostly legal, include: instruments of sasine, heritable bonds, bonds of corroboration, documents of discharge and renunciation, searches of incumbrances, a plan of Cramond Muir Road, a sketch of parts of Cramond Moor, a description of Clermiston House, measurement of turnips sold on the Estate,...
Dates: 1741-1850

Satirical illustration, 'The balance of public favor', showing Sir Walter Scott

 Fonds — Box CLX-D-33, Folder: Coll-1770 / SC-Acc-2016-0126
Identifier: Coll-1770
Scope and Contents

Coloured lithograph, some marginal browning. 394 x 267 mm.

Dates: 1827