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Robert
Burns
Address to Edinburgh, 1787
Burns visited Edinburgh in 1787-88, and was lionised by many of the
leaders of literature and society, including Professor Dugald Stewart
and Principal William Robertson. The "Address to Edinburgh"
is in Burns' own hand, and dated in a different hand. It came to the
Library with the large and important collection of manuscripts bequeathed
to the University by David Laing in 1878.
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La.III.586
fol 22r
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La.III.586
fol 22v
& 23r
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La.III.586 fol 23v
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An
Inquiry into the Principles of Political OEconomy, by Sir James Steuart
(2 vols, London, 1767)
Although now overshadowed
by Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" (1776), Steuart's "Inquiry"
was one of the foundation economic texts of the Scottish Enlightenment.
It was either purchased by the Library on publication or acquired on
legal deposit, and complements the Coltness papers, which were gifted
to the Library in 1988 by Mrs Katherine Fyfe.
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N*24.35-36
title-page
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