BIB_ID
106333
Accession number
MA 22682
Creator
Dempster, George, 1732-1818.
Display Date
Dunnichen, Scotland, 1813 August 28.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.4 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark: "John Pinkerton Esq / Care of Colin Gillies Esq in / Brechin."
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791); PML 9812-9815; volume I, page 213.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791); PML 9812-9815; volume I, page 213.
Summary
Discussing a financial matter; saying that he wishes Pinkerton would visit Dunnichen; mentioning some "precious stones" which Dempster plans to send to him; writing "l long to hear of your having begun the Vera Historia Scotiæ;" mentioning William Creech's comparison of Edinburgh in different time periods and recalling the changes he himself has seen in his lifetime.
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