Scotland
Collection of manuscripts, letters and documents
£630
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
comprising:
Volume of original letters to Alexander Dingwall, Aberdeen merchant, 18th century, folio album, 19th-century blue half roan with marbled sides, containing approx. 70 letters in total, from various family members and other associates, on family, social and business matters, Dingwall's marriage, family illnesses, etc., and including 3 from John Douglas as Bishop of Carlisle, dated Windsor Castle, 1789-91, signed ‘J. Carliol’, one of which concerning the appointment of one Mr Gordon to the Exuma Mission, Bahamas, all mounted rectos and versos, most with address panel mounted below, later annotations identifying authors, with a pictorial board game in watercolour loosely inserted, probably 19th century, the volume inscribed on front blank ‘To John Drysdale Esq of Castellan House Dunbar, E. Lothian, Old Family Letters chiefly addressed to his Great Grandfather Alexander Dingwall, Merchant, Aberdeen. From his affection Uncle A. Dingwall Fordyce, Fergus, Ontario, Canada, 1892’. Together with: Alexander Dingwall Fordyce, Family Record of the Name of Dingwall Fordyce, in Aberdeenshire, 1885-8, first edition, the author's copy, with original photographs, annotations and newspaper cuttings mounted to interleaves and presentation inscription from him to John Drysdale (q.v.), 2 volumes, 8vo, bindings defective;
Volume of commentaries on Bible verses, 19th century, 4to, contemporary half calf (binding loose), approx. 550 pp., in double column, in a neat italic hand;
Fair copy manuscript journal, late 19th century, recent note laid in identifying author as ‘the Rev. George Gilfillan’;
2 commonplace books, 19th century, including poems by Coleridge, Wordsworth, William Motherwell, etc., bindings broken;
Large collection of approx. 100 letters and documents, 19th century, mainly relating to the Carruthers family of Moffat and the Rogerson family variously of Pearsbyhall (Ecclefechan), Fingland (Moffat), and elsewhere, including 2 documents with Quebec relevance (both appointing James Rogerson, merchant of the City of London, attorney to James Whyte, ‘purveyor of hospitals on half pay, residing in the city of Quebec’, copies of the Dumfries and Galloway Advertiser, etc.;
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