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No. XVIII.
LETTER
FROM LORD BANNATTNE TO MR. MACKENZIE,
MY»EAR SIR,
In the Report you are preparing for the
Highland Society From their Committee appointed to en-
quire into the nature and authenticity of the Poems given to
the public by Mr. M'Pherson under the name of Ossian's,
there will be occasion to refer to a set of Gaelic manu-
scripts, part of a collection which belonged to the M'Lach-
lans of Kilbride in Argyllshire, which I had accidentally
been enabled to make known, and in part to bring into the
possession of the Society.
Judging it might be material in that Report to make the
Society acquainted with the history of that 'collection, and
of the manner in which it fell under my observation, I
gladly comply with your request in stating the little I know
oi ts history, and the very accidental manner in which I
came to be acquainted with its existence, and to be the
instrument of preserving from oblivion what appears to be

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Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the poems of Ossian
DescriptionDrawn up, according to the directions of the Committee, by Henry Mackenzie ... ; with a copious appendix, containing some of the principal documents on which the report is founded.
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Ossian Collection
DescriptionSelected 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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