A Scottish postbag: 8 centuries of Scottish letters
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| adam_text | A Scottish Postbag
Eight centuries of Scottish letters
edited by
George Bruce and Paul H Scott
Published in association with the Saltire Society
Chambers
Contents
page
Introduction xv
Acknowledgements xvu
William Wallace/Andrew Moray
1 The recovery of the Kingdom 1
The Declaration of Arbroath
2 For freedom alone 2
The Chancellor and Thrie Estatis
of the Realme of Scotland
3 Reply to an ultimatum 1522 4
George Buchanan
4 Writyng of our historie 5
James V
5 The royal bastards 6
Mary, Queen of Scots
6 The last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots 7
John Knox
7 An apology for The Blast 9
8 Epistle to a mother-in-law 10
Ninian Winzet
9 A great impediment 11
James VI
10 Yon unhappy fact 12
11 Dolorous and cruel death 12
12 My pilgrimage 13
The Covenanters
Alexander Leslie
13 The death of Gustavus Adolphus 14
Robert Baillie
14 That old, little, crooked souldier 15
Samuel Rutherford
15 The breath of faith 16
Janet Lintoun
16 The faith of a Covenanter 17
Michael Young
17 The education of Scottish gendemen 18
Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty
18 Fair warning 19
v
Alexander Miinro
19 The metropolis of Golfing* 20
Archibald Pitcairne
20 Murder, adult erie amp;c 21
21 The best of bur ow ne 22
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun and his nephew
22 A prisoner in Stirling Castle 22
23 Fletcher s last ietter 23
24 My poor Countrey 24
The Parliamentary Union of 1707
Duke of Argyll
25 An offer of a reward 25
Earls of Seafield and Glasgow
26 Burn when read 26
Earl of Mar
27 Wearie of the Union 27
Allan Ramsay
28 Prelude to the Porteous Riot 29
29 The poet in oid age 30
30 A braw new House for the players 31
The Forty-Five
John Murray
31 Bonnie Prince Charlie at twenty-one 33
Charles Edward Stuart
32 Charles Edward Stuart to his father 34
Mrs Anne Dott
33 Such a Loving Prince 35
Writer Unknown
34 A publick calamity 35
The Rev R P
35 Din d plentifully at North Ferry 36
The Rev George Innes
36 After Culloden 38
Flora MacDonald
37 Farewell to good natured bidable Johnie 39
David Hume
38 The indispensable requisites of life 41
39 The People most distinguish d for Literature in Europe 42
40 Fury and Combustion 43
41 The Barbarians who inhabit the Banks of the Thames 43
42 Am I an Englishman? 44
43 Invitation to Adam Smith 44
44 The philosopher as cook 45
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David Hume (continued)
45 Restoration of the Government 46
46 Recourse to America 47
Mrs Alison Cockburn
47 The boy Walter Scott 48
48 Robert Burns in Edinburgh 49
49 The ball * 49
Tobias Smollett
50 Exile in London 50
Alexander Carlyle
51 The old age of the literati 51
Adam Ferguson
52 The character of the Highlander 52
Adam Smith
53 Smith on Hume 53
54 Smith on himself 54
James Hutton
55 A bag of gravel is a history to me 56
56 Mediterranean Nature 57
Robert Adam
57 Water Gondolas and Voluptuousness 58
John Ramsay of Ochtertyre
58 The Jacobites 59
59 A country wedding 60
60 Mere Englishes 61
61 Our Doric dialect 62
James Watt
62 Watt s contribution to the steam engine 63
John Robison
63 Sir Isaac Newton of that Ilk 64
64 The death of Joseph Black 65
James Boswell
65 Overture to Rousseau 68
66 The misfortune of drink 70
67 With Johnson at Forres 70
68 A complaint against the Lord Mayor 72
Margaret Montgomerie
69 Resignation in everything 74
Benjamin Forbes
70 If it be mine 76
Hary Fergusson
71 The American Revolution 77
Col Alan Cameron of Erracht
72 In defence of the kilt 78
Lady Anne Barnard
73 Christian Hottentots 80
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Alexander MacDougall
74 The campaign against Hyder Ally 81
Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster
75 The StatisticalAccount 83
Ann Grant
76 Highland old age 84
Robert Burns
77 Caledonia, and Caledonia s Bard 86
78 Landlowper-like stravaguin 87
79 The story of Wallace 88
80 The old Scotch songs 90
81 My national prejudices 91
82 Scots, wha hae 92
83 Burns s last letter 94
Lord Daer
84 The cause of Scotland s misfortunes 95
William Lyon/George Lyon
85 Two Scottish craftsmen write home from Russia 96
Mrs Calderwood of Polton
86 As for London 98
General Sir John Malcolm
87 John Leyden 100
James Hogg/Margaret Hogg
88 A living miscellany of old songs 101
89 A thing of no consequence 103
90 Hogg in London 104
91 Warm drawers 105
92 Such flummery 105
93 A question of knighthood 107
94 No such titles 107
95 My beloved Margaret 108
Sir Walter Scott
96 Ossian 109
97 A valiant Jacobite 110
98 The bloodhound, Maida 111
99 Malachi 111
100 My Scottish feelings 113
101 Scott s meeting with Burns 114
102 Anecdotes of Dr Johnson 116
Mungo Park
103 An explorer s love-letter 117
Robert Stevenson
104 The Bell Rock lighthouse 118
Lord Jeffrey
105 A walking tour 119
106 All my recollections are Scottish 120
107 The poverty of Robert Burns 120
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Thomas Scott
108 A Mohawk chief 121
109 A literary Red Indian 122
John Leyden
110 I have not been idle* 123
John Gait
111 The foundation of Guelph • 124
Lord Cockburn
112 Cocky 126
113 Breakfast at Habbies How 126
114 Thomas Chalmers 128
115 The Royal Scottish Academy 129
The Disruption and Science
Thomas Chalmers
116 On the necessity for an independent Scottish Church 131
Sir David Brewster
117 The calotype and the Free Church of Scotland 132
David Octavius Hill
118 Calotypes 133
James Nasmyth
119 Photography, steam hammers and the moon 134
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
120 An old empty throne 136
Sir David Wilkie
121 Do spare yourself* 137
Lord Byron
122 Swimming the Hellespont 138
123 Byron to Scon 140
124 Byron on Scott 141
Thomas Carlyle/Jane Welsh Carlyle
125 The nonsensical suitor 143
126 Alas poor Byron! - 145
127 Why don t you write? 146
128 Thomas proposes 147
129 Jane accepts 148
130 Messages from Edinburgh 150
131 The move to London 152
132 The lost manuscript 153
Hugh Miller
133 Journey to Loch Maree 155
Marjorie Fleming
134 The first letter 156
135 The longings of a child 157
John Stuart Blackie
136 Home rule all round 158
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Dr John Brown
137 Two portraits - Thomas Edward and The Macnab 158
Charles Reeves
138 The good postman 159
Robert Dick
139 Cheer up, my bonnie sister
140 A humble individual under Providence
Sir James Young Simpson
141 Chloroform
142 Brambles in the hair
The Highland Clearances
Donald Ross
143 Aunty Kate s Cabin 166
144 Highland hospitality and Mrs Stowe 167
Father Coll Macdonald
145 A regular system of starvation 168
Thomas Maclauchlin
146 The promised land 169
David Livingstone
147 The noble river called Zambesi 170
148 Conscience and Sechele 171
149 Slavery 171
150 Hardships and trials 172
Thomas Edward
151 Poverty and the will to learn 173
William Melrose
152 Lasswade in China 174
Allan Octavian Hume
153 The freedom of India 175
James Clerk Maxwell
154 Hedrons 177
155 Professor at Aberdeen 177
156 The Royal Society of Edinburgh 178
Andrew Carnegie
157 First steps in America 180
158 Laird of Pittencrieff 181
Madeleine Smith
159 Love and murder 182
Robert Gardner
160 Bring your ball 183
James A H Murray
161 We were mien at 19 184
John Muir
162 Return to Scotland 187
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Alexander Graham Bell
163 Get it 188
164 The future of the telephone 189
Mary Slessor
165 Converting the heathen 190
R L Stevenson
166 Four Great Scotsmen 191
167 O for ten Edinburgh minutes 192
168 When I was young and drouthy 193
169 Saxon and Celt 194
170 Say a prayer for me 195
171 Robert Fergusson and the Edinburgh Edition 196
R B Cunninghame Graham
172 Perverted sentiment 199
173 The real enemies 199
Sir Patrick Geddes
174 New York 200
175 The loss of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 201
James Keir Hardie
176 Not party politicians 203
Sir James Barrie
177 London that eternally thrills me 204
William Bannerman
178 St Andrew s Day in India (1) 205
Helen Bannerman
179 St Andrew s Day in India (2) 206
The Creation of the Scottish Office
180 Approaching to Arch-angelic 207
181 Quite unnecessary 207
182 Wounded dignities 208
183 Dover House 208
James Ramsay MacDonald
184 I a Bolshevist! 209
185 Back, old and broken 210
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
186 Artistic success must be your first aim 211
George Douglas Brown (George Douglas)
187 Bletherin awa 212
188 A brutal and bloody work 213
J D Fergusson
189 The coalman and the sculptor 214
190 Praise for the maker of haggis 215
John Buchan
191 Wood Bush - a kind of celestial Scotland 216
XI
A Thresh
192 A soldier in a foreign field 217
John Fraser
193 Inferno let loose 218
Francis George Scott
194 Mature Art 220
Tom Johnston
195 Weary of London 221
James Maxton
196 Stick to teaching 222
Edwin Muir
197 Scotland worth living in 223
198 All great art is a wresding with life 224
199 The elimination of Scotland 225
200 God and Communism 227
201 Happy Birthday 228
Willa Muir
202 Edwin Muir 229
James Bridie (O H Mavor)
203 Bridie bristles 230
204 Glasgow will not be patronised 231
205 Rabelaisian decency 231
A Fly ting of Novelists
Neil M Gunn v Naomi Mitchison
206 Beyond revolution 233
207 Bloody centralising 234
208 Dehydrated potato 236
Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve)
209 His early life
210 The death of Lewis Grassic Gibbon
211 The literati in war-time
212 Not only flame, but a lot of rubbish
213 Objectives for Scotland
214 Nothing popular
Joe Corrie
215 Hewers of Coal
John Grierson
216 A Scottish film industry
William Soutar
217 Essentially communal
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
218 Horrors do haunt me
Moray Maclaren
219 The power of television
Xll
Eric Henry Liddell
220 A good Samaritan 251
Robert Garioch (Robert Garioch Sutherland)
221 Unwillingly to school 252
222 I like being in Edinburgh 253
223 The invite 254
Sorley Maclean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain)
224 A unit of the British Imperial forces 255
George Campbell Hay (Deorsa Marfan Deorsa)
225 Army recruit 257
Sydney Goodsir Smith
226 Under the sign of Scorpio or Venus 260
James Kennaway
227 Proposal and Shaw s riposte 262
Sources 263
Index 269
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