Peter Buchan, printer, writer and ballad-collector: papers Personal papers of and relating to Peter Buchan and his family, 1811 - 1915. The collection was assembled by William Walker (1840 - 1931), who drew extensively upon it for his work, 'Peter Buchan and Other Papers on Scottish and English Ballads and Songs' ' (Aberdeen: Wyllie, 1915). It comprises 251 letters addressed to Peter Buchan and others, relating mainly to his literary activities, 1816 - 1854 (with index, compiled by William Walker); a further series of 27 letters from members of Peter Buchan's family, especially his son, James Buchan, relating mainly to domestic matters and to trading ventures by James and his brother John Buchan, in Antigua, St Thomas and Tobago in the West Indies, 1845 - 1847; volume containing autobiographical account of Peter Buchan, lyrics written and collected by him, miscellaneous illustrations, verses, papers and correspondence, 1812 - 1854; volume containing poems, notes on Scottish song and notes on voyage from Peterhead to Greenland by Patrick Buchan, together with cuttings of printed poems of Rev. C.F. Buchan (alias Presbuteros), and comments on same, by William Walker, 1831 - 1841; volume containing miscellaneous letters and papers relating to Peter Buchan, many being annotated copies made by William Walker, 1816 - 1912; volume containing extracts of the Peter Buchan manuscript in the British Museum (Add. MSS 29408 - 9: see Related Units of Description for further details), made for William Walker and annotated by him, n.d., c 1912; papers relating to the composition of 2 poems by Patrick Buchan, later published anonymously as ' The Guidman o' Inglismill' and 'The Fairy Bride', in the series "Legends of the North" (Edinburgh and Peterhead, 1873), n.d., pre-1873; folder of miscellaneous and ephemeral material relating to Patrick Buchan and his sons, Peter Buchan and David Buchan, 1811 - 1853. 1811-1915