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Letter from Sir David Dalrymple, Newhailes, to Rev. Thomas Percy, 1781 April 21 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
106826
Accession number
MA 9967
Creator
Dalrymple, David, Sir, 1726-1792.
Display Date
Musselburgh, Scotland, 1781 April 21.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.3 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks to "Reverend / Dean Percy / London / Northumberland-house."
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; vol. I, p. 210.
Summary
Discussing, at length and in some detail, issues surrounding historical research and a legal case concerning the Peerage of Sutherland and the passage of title and property under Scottish law; asking questions related to issues of heredity.