Scope and Contents These are two well-presented French exercise books created by a twelve-year-old girl named Jane Hay Goodlet, who was under the guidance of Edinburgh's leading French teacher, Gabriel Jacques Surenne. The first exercise book contains twelve single-page essays on various subjects, including French historians, poets, geography, eloquence, and "Les beaux-arts", followed by similar essays in French on British historians, poets, authors, and the sciences. The second exercise book, dated 1843, is...

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Note about a teacher named Scott which reads 'Scott was teaching at Illanahairi no relation. In Gleann na h-aile.' [possibly Eilean na h-Àirigh, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist and Gleann an h-Iola/Glenahyle, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

Scope and Contents This subfonds contains: Diary no 1, from 15 January 1818 to 12 January 1819 Diary no 2, from 18 January 1819 to 1 November 1819 Notebook with handwritten considerations on various subjects, January 1813. Her father Robert Anderson wrote a few pages at the back. Approximately twenty letters from Euphemia Cargill Anderson to Anne Urquhart, 1840s ...

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Song beginning 'Tobar nam buadh, Tha shuas sa gleannan' with a note which follows reading 'A schoolmaster in S Kilda in print' [Hiorta/St Kilda]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Script or notes for a lecture, or an essay, or a draft for an article or textbook.