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William Frend: Correspondence and Transcripts.
William Henry Playfair: Memoranda
The volume contains notes on bridge construction and on watercolour painting (fos 2-12); a journal of an excursion from Edinburgh to Arran and back, 1-9 May 1811, with notes of expenses (fos 13-20 and 44r-43r); undated notes of other travelling expenses (fo. 47r); pencil sketches, one of a crane at Bell Rock Lighthouse (fos 47v and 45); and addresses of London tradesmen (fo. 42v). Fos 42-47 are entered from the back of the book. Fos 20v-42r are blank. Administrative / Biographical History
William Silver: Letters by him
Extracts from letters written while travelling with the Duke of Bedford and others on the continent, between 1 December 1813 and June 1827, written in a contemporary hand, 182 folios: p. iii: portrait of Silver; p. vi: dedication to his wife; p. ix: list of places from which the letters were sent; p. x: extracts from obituary notices regarding Silver.