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Description: | [Letter] 1834 Jan 6, Albyn Place, Edinb[urgh to] William Rathbone, Greenbank [near Liverpool] / Thos. Stewart Traill. [8p. on 2 leaves, holograph signed. Part of the "Science and Medicine" purchase from Sothebys via Quaritch in 1977Agrees with Rathbone in lamenting the decline of Liverpool society "since the days of Roscoe and Currie"; is shocked at the failure of [the business of] Fletcher and Roscoe; has high hopes of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society. Has revisited his native Orkney; describes in detail his work there on geology and fossil fishes; is sure he has found the grave of the Maid of Norway in Kirkwall; has acquired the MSS of the Revd. G. Low, "the Orkney naturalist"; personal news and inter-family greetings. Part of the "Science and Medicine" purchase from Sothebys via Quaritch in 1977] | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | letter | Temporal: | 1834 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Traill, Thomas Stewart, 1781-1862 | Identifier: | 1992-188/29 | Go to resource |
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