[Letter, from Robert Archibald Smith, to William Mo…]

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  • Reference
    • GB 247 MS Robertson 3/27
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1825
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 4 pp. In bound volume which belonged to David Robertson, bookseller, Glasgow, and bears his inscription

Scope and Content

Letter, from Robert Archibald Smith, to William Motherwell, 24th May 1825. Mentions George Thomson and David Laing - "I found Mr David in the Colledge Library poring over a parcel of musty Books that belonged to Drummond of Hawthornden." An excerpt from this letter was printed in Ramsay's Memoir of Smith, pp. li-lii

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