| Description | Volume bound in maroon cloth with leather spine; requires repair; at least 6 folios have been removed; labelled by William Walker 'Watson's Colls. Poetry in Aberdeen Magazines 1786-1800'; contains notes on poems in 'Watson's Collection' [James Watson, 'Comic and serious Scots poems', 1706-1713]; contributions to 'Aberdeen Magazine' and to 'Caledonian Magazine' or 'Aberdeen Repository'; miscellaneous jottings by William Walker on other subjects, including list of manuscripts of Earl of Buchan which has been examined by R.M. Lawrence, notes on manuscripts said to have belonged to Thomas Ogilvie, M.A., King's College, 1684, manuscript of Poems of J. Skinner (1721-1807), etc. 19th Century - 20th Century |