Found 2 collections related to Editors%20--%20Scotland%20--%2019th%20century%20--%20Correspondence

To Thomas De Quincey, English essayist : 1 autograph letter signed : [ca. 1837?] : (MISC 0356) : [no place] : begins, "Accept my best thanks for your very kind Note. I have been kept all this week from seeing you by my wife's illness ..." Lockhart's wife, Sir Walter Scott's daughter, Sophia, died in 1837. less

Alexander Chalmers, Scottish biographer and literary editor. In addition to serving as editor of the Morning Herald and producing various editions of the works of great authors, he published A General Biographical Dictionary in 32 volumes (1812-1817), to which he contributed over 4000 biographical entries. To unidentified recipient : 1 autograph letter : 11 Sep 1833 : (MISC 1561) : begins: "I have delayed..." [Note: it is not entirely certain that the author of this letter is Chalmers -- his hand was suggested by the auction house through which the letter was purchased.]. less