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No. IV
LETTERS TO MR. MACKENZIE, %Sc.
1. From Doctor Hugh Blair, Miuister in Edìnburgli^
dated Edinburgh, 20th December 1T97.
^NIy Dear Sir,
i\s you desired to receive from
me a particular account of the circumstances relating to the
first discovery and publication of the poems of Ossian, in
order to be communicated to the Highland Society, I shall
endeavour, as far as my memory serves at this distance of
time, to recollect the circumstances of that transaction in
which I had a principal hand.
About the year 1759, Mr John Home being occasion-
ally at Moffat, became for the first time acquainted with.
Mr James Macpherson, whom he met there, and who I
think was at that time a tutor, in the family of Mr Graham
>of Balgowan. In conversation with him, Mr Home hav-
LETTERS TO MR. MACKENZIE, %Sc.
1. From Doctor Hugh Blair, Miuister in Edìnburgli^
dated Edinburgh, 20th December 1T97.
^NIy Dear Sir,
i\s you desired to receive from
me a particular account of the circumstances relating to the
first discovery and publication of the poems of Ossian, in
order to be communicated to the Highland Society, I shall
endeavour, as far as my memory serves at this distance of
time, to recollect the circumstances of that transaction in
which I had a principal hand.
About the year 1759, Mr John Home being occasion-
ally at Moffat, became for the first time acquainted with.
Mr James Macpherson, whom he met there, and who I
think was at that time a tutor, in the family of Mr Graham
>of Balgowan. In conversation with him, Mr Home hav-
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| Description | Includes texts in Gaelic with translations into Latin and English. "Drawn up, according to the directions of the Committee, by Henry Mackenzie". |
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| Shelfmark | Blair.74 |
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| Description | Selected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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