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nalia of the Incorporated Trades is well represented ; an Andrea 

 Ferrara sword, with beautifully tinted blade (the property of Mr J. 

 J. Glover), ari'ests attention in a small collection of weapons ; Mrs 

 Gilchrist lends, among other things, an exact copy of the Lome 

 brooch ; Miss Richardson, Shakespeare Street, an impression of 

 the original burgh seal. But want of space forbids that we should 

 dwell at present on these or other exhibits. The autograph letters, 

 however, call for mention. There are two of Carlyle's. One, the 

 property of Mr Watson, Castlebank, was written to a friend in 

 Dumfries during the cholera visitation. The other is in the 

 possession of Mr J. C. M'Naught, Queen's Place, and is in these 

 terms : 



Craigenputtock, 11th March, 1834. 



Dear Sir, — Here are two boxes of old books, which still do not 

 exhaust iiiy stock : if you can change them for me into money, they will 

 be much more easily carried in that latter shape. 



Most of them are of very small value, and I have left you to dispose 

 of these according to your own judgment and opportunity : a few I have 

 marked as more notable, or hypothetically worth a Price, which is in 

 general some thirty per cent, less than I bought them at in the same 

 second-hand condition. You must do the best you can : I shall see you 

 again in a week or two. 



An Invoice is inclosed, which (tho' wrong ordered in the copying) 

 will, if you attend to my marginal directions, give you the books some- 

 what in their actual order and position from top to bottom of the boxes. 

 I keep the original of it here. 



The little Box is not my own : as there are but a small number of 

 books in it, perhaps you could get it emptied, and returned to-morrow 

 by the same cart. But at anyrate there will be other opportunities. 

 Only do not use that Box, for it suits a special purpose here. 



I remain (in great haste) yours truly, 



T. Carlyle. 



Mr M'Kie, Bookseller, 



, Dumfries, 



with two Boxes of Books. 



Mr M'Naught also shews two brief letters of Sir Walter Scott. 



Two of Allan Cunningham's are contributed by Mrs Gilchrist, 



Lin wood. 



Belgrave Place, 15th April, 1835. 



Dear Miss Gordon, — I enclose two letters, one to Archdeacon 

 Strachan, and another to the Hon. R. Jamesone, his Majesty's Attorney- 

 General. I have written a third to Mr Dunlojj, secretary to the Canada 

 Company ; but it would make more than Lord Dudley Stuart's frank 

 can carry ; it will therefore go to-day with some letters from my brother 



