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Edinburgh Sketches and Memories

Edinburgh Sketches and Memories

by David Masson

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Author
Masson, David, 1822-1907
Title
Edinburgh sketches & memories
Original Publication
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1892.
Credits
Richard Tonsing, Susan Skinner, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
Subject
Edinburgh (Scotland)
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 71958
Release Date
October 30, 2023
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.EDINBURGH SKETCHES & MEMORIES
  2. 2.PREFATORY NOTE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.QUEEN MARY’S EDINBURGH [1] — I.—QUEEN MARY’S RETURN TO SCOTLAND, AUGUST 1561 — II.—PLAN AND FABRIC OF THE TOWN IN 1561 — III.—THE EDINBURGH POPULATION IN 1561
  5. 5.ROBERT ROLLOCK AND THE BEGINNINGS OF EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY [2]
  6. 6.KING JAMES’S FAREWELL TO HOLYROOD [3]
  7. 7.PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN. [4]
  8. 8.ALLAN RAMSAY [5]
  9. 9.LADY WARDLAW AND THE BARONESS NAIRNE [6]
  10. 10.EDINBURGH THROUGH THE DUNDAS DESPOTISM [7]
  11. 11.THE LAST YEARS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT [8]
  12. 12.CARLYLE’S EDINBURGH LIFE [9] — PART I.—1809–1818 — PART II.—1818–1822 — PART III.—1822–1828
  13. 13.CHARLES KIRKPATRICK SHARPE [46]
  14. 14.JOHN HILL BURTON [49]
  15. 15.DR. JOHN BROWN OF EDINBURGH [50]
  16. 16.LITERARY HISTORY OF EDINBURGH — A GENERAL REVIEW [51] — I — II.

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