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William Smellie FRSE, FSA (Scot) (1740-1795) Library Special Collections William Smellie F.R.S.E., F.S.A. (Scot) (1740-1795) Manuscript papers in the National Museums Scotland Library Compiled, edited and annotated by Stephen W. Brown. July 1998 With revisions by Elspeth Yeo, 2011. The papers were originally bound in three volumes (SAS MS 592-4) but have subsequently been removed from their binding and arranged by subject. The original order was restored in 2011. The listing by Stephen W. Brown is by broad subject (shown below), with references to their volume and item number added by Elspeth Yeo. The papers were microfilmed in 1988 - in their subject order - and a copy is held in the library collection (Accession No. 159107). A listing with transcripts by Stephen Brown is also held in the library collection (Accession No. 186864). Acknowledgements Work on the project was much assisted by Fionna Ashmore, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; and by the library staff at the National Museums of Scotland. Funding for the project was received from the National Museums of Scotland, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Correspondence General Various, mostly one-time or limited familiar and business correspondence Correspondence Familiar Extended correspondence with friends and family: Lord Buchan; Dr William Buchan; Samuel Charteris; Lord Kames; Robert Burns and Maria Riddell; Robert and Walter Riddell; Alexander Smellie; John Smellie; William Tod Correspondence Booktrade Extended business correspondence with Robert and William Auld; John Balfour; Andrew Bell; William Creech; John Murray; Gilbert Stuart; Andrew Strahan; William Strahan; Strahan and Cadell Booktrade Documents Note: Some minor booktrade items are to be found under Correspondence General Manuscript Works: Natural History (1780-1800) Manuscript Works: Other writing Includes reviews, pamphlet satires, essays, prefaces, etc. Legal Papers GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Various, mostly one-time or limited familiar and business correspondence. Alexander Allerdice to William Smellie. 15 October 1773. (about Edinburgh Magazine and Review subscription) MS 592 no.29 James Anderson to William Smellie. 10 October 1773. (about Edinburgh Magazine and Review) MS 594 no.32 Anonymous (from London) to William Smellie. 14 October 1790. (about Smellie's Philosophy of Natural History) MS 592 no.66 (from Livingston) to William Smellie. 26 Nov. 1766. (about Betty’s health) MS 594 no.29 Henry Bateman to William Smellie. 11 January 1790. (about Buffon translation) MS 592 no.67 Rev. Dr Thomas Blacklock to William Smellie. Five letters, one in Latin; one signed Cosmophilus. 25 May 1775 (declines to write a review for Edinburgh Magazine and Review) MS 593 no.63(2) n.d.,probably December 1779 (talks favourably about Smellie's Preface to Buffon) MS 593 no.63(1) 18 April 1790 (describes intended book on educating the blind) MS 593 no.2 21 October 1790 (seeks Smellie's assistance with An Essay on the Education of the Blind) MS 593 no.67 n.d. (Latin letter: translation - Having just read your letter and preparing my reply when some twelve youths interposed and carried hapless me by fraud and force imprisoned in a vehicle to Dunbar's domicile. Farewell) MS 593 no.1 Hugh Blair to William Smellie. 16 June 1780. (about Buffon translation; two additional pages suggesting corrections to Buffon proposal sent under separate cover) Letter: MS 592 no.44. Additional pages: MS 592 no.11 2 October 1786. (corrections to Lord Kames biography). On reverse, in Smellie’s hand, Figures for the cost of paper for printing part of The Statistical Papers MS 594 no.3 Dr Gilbert Blane to William Smellie. 1780. (about printing his medical society paper) MS 592 no.12 George Brooks to William Smellie on behalf of the Bishop of Durham. 2 December 1786. (about Philosophy of Natural History proposal) MS 592 no.56 William Smellie to the Rev. Mr Brown. 1774. (Four letters about controversy arising from article in the Edinburgh Magazine and Review) MS 593 nos 37-9, 41 Count de Buffon to William Smellie. 18 February 1780. (translated by William Smellie; about Natural History) MS 592 no.43 William Smellie to Rev. Dr George Campbell. 25 April 1765. (about Hume and religion) MS 594 no.19 Patrick Clason to William Smellie. 6 July 1790. (personal and financial) MS 593 no.83 James Cummyng to William Smellie. 21 May 1791. (professional matters) MS 592 no.73 William Smellie to John Dalrymple. 6 May 1788. (about John Smellie's naval career) MS 593 no.71 John Dalrymple to William Smellie. 30 January 1771. (about William Smellie printing JD's Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland) MS 593 no.58 John Dalrymple to Thomas Dundas. 22 February 1776. (supporting Smellie's pursuit of the Chair in Natural History) MS 592 no.20 Robert Dick to William Smellie. 26 August 1791. MS 592 no.75 William Smellie to Lord Dreghorn. Late November 1776. (Smellie explains his part in the Lord Monboddo incident, with Robert Kerr's notes about Charles Elliot) MS 593 no.6 Lord Dreghorn to William Smellie. (about the Lord Monboddo incident which effectively finished the Edinburgh Magazine and Review) 17 November 1776. MS 593 no.65 19 November 1776. MS 593 no.7 William Smellie to Henry Dundas. 30 November 1787. (about John Smellie's naval careers) MS 593 no.69 Thomas Dundas to William Smellie. 6 March 1776. (about Chair in Natural History at University of Edinburgh) MS 592 no.35 John Edgar to William Smellie. 19 September 1788. (personal) MS 592 no.63 Robert Faulder to William Smellie. 4 July 1793. (declining to reissue Volume One of the Philosophy of Natural History). Letter on reverse by William Smellie to newly elected Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 11 July 1793. MS 592 no.89 William Smellie to Alexander Fergusson. 19 March 1794. (personal; also Society of Antiquaries of Scotland) MS 593 no.95 Earl of Fife to William Smellie. (both letters about Natural History) 19 December 1786. MS 592 no.57 4 January 1787. MS 592 no.58 William Forbes to Captain John Hay of the Lord Maccartney Indiaman. 18 February 1788. (about John Smellie's naval career) MS 592 no.62 William Forbes to William Smellie. (two letters about John Smellie) 4 February 1788. MS 592 no.61 n.d., 1790 ? MS 592 no.65 See also, William Smellie to William Forbes. 1 February 1795 (included with Alexander Smellie's papers: MS 592 no.47) John Reinold Foster to William Smellie. 26 August 1779. (about Natural History) MS 592 no.41 William Fullerton M.P. to William Smellie. 2 May (no year indicated) (about Count de Buffon) MS 592 no.3 William Smellie to Lord Gardenston. June 1791. (about Lord Kames and proposing to write biography of Lord Gardenston) MS 592 no.74 William Smellie to Dr John Gardiner. 31 May 1794. (personal; about declining health) MS 592 no.94 Cosmo Gordon to William Smellie. 9 February 1786. (Natural History) MS 592 no.55 Ralph Griffiths to William Smellie. 17 September 1783. (about Smellie's essay for the Monthly Review) MS 593 no.10 Lord Hailes to William Smellie. (both letters about Smellie's printing of the Annals of Scotland) 19 January 1779. MS 592 no.39 4 February 1779. MS 594 no.36 Dr John Hope to William Smellie. 7 February 1764. (about Smellie's prize in Botany) MS 593 no. 51 Henry Hunter (medical student) to William Smellie. n.d. (personal) Fragment. MS 592 no.2 William Smellie to Henry Hunter. November 1761. (personal) MS 594 no.7 Samuel Hunter to William Smellie. 18 September 1762. (personal) MS 593 no. 16 William Smellie to James Hutton. (both letters personal, about health and finance) 20 June 1793. MS 592 no.88 26 August 1793. MS 593 no.92 James Hutton to Alexander Smellie. 1792. (about printing the Dissertations) MS 592 no.1 William Smellie to Robert Kerr. 22 May 1774. (personal, refers to financial troubles) On reverse of letter: Dr John Rotheram to William Smellie. 12 May 1794 (about his edition of Dr William Cullen's First Lines) MS 593 no.98 28 February 1795. (personal; about money owed to Smellie by William Creech) MS 593 no.101 Robert Kerr to William Smellie. 2 March 1795. (appears to lack middle pages about William Creech) On address of this letter, fragment in William Smellie's hand, of letter concerning Crochallan Fencibles. It reads: " ...this damned world. I hope my dear Major is well; and will be [able] to take the field; against what! his oppon ..." MS 593 no.99 James Laing to Alexander Kincaid. 12 December 1773. (for William Smellie about Edinburgh Magazine and Review) MS 592 no.30 William Smellie to John Macniven. 20 March 1795. (professional matters – booktrade) MS 593 no.100 William Smellie to John Milman. 10 April 1794. (about publishing second volume of Philosophy of Natural History) MS 593 no.96 Dr Alexander Monro to William Smellie. (both letters about Natural History) 20 March 1794. MS 592 no.92 13 April 1794. MS 592 no.93 Robert Morrison to William Creech. 26 January 1774. (about Edinburgh Magazine and Review) MS 594 no.33 Robert Morrison to William Smellie. 6 April 1774. (about Edinburgh Magazine and Review) MS 592 no.40 Rev. Dr James Muirhead to William Smellie. Late 1780. (about Buffon translation and other matters of Natural History) MS 592 no.19 William Smellie to John Neaves. 3 April 1792. (about a libel by William Smellie: see explanation of episode in Alexander Smellie's hand on reverse of letter) MS 593 no.90 Robert Nicoll to William Smellie. 4 January 1773. MS 592 no.27 2 April 1774.
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