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Sir James Melville : Memoirs

Saturday, 10 March 1827: 'About three o'clock I got to a meeting of the Bannatyne club [...] Thomson is superintending a capital edition of Sir James Melville's Memoirs. It is brave to see how he wags his Scots tongue and what a difference there is in the force and firmness of his language compared to the mincing English edition in which he has hitherto been alone known.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      

Sir James Melville : Memoirs

Friday, 8 June 1827: 'I was fatigued and sleepy when I go[t] home [from business meetings] and nodded, I think, over Sir James Melville's Memoirs.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      

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