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Esdaile Furniture Collection provenance documents

Key details

Archive number
NTS/02/25/BRN/647
Alt. number
3.6720
Date
1843 to 1976
On display
No
Recipient
Dunlop T C

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Description

Correspondence regarding authenticity including note on false claims for collection by J C Ewing, 1918 and list of museum contents and offer of donation of Correspondence showing that the items were not genuine.

Letter from F Dobie, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland to T C Dunlop enclosing reprint of letter printed in Edinburgh Evening Dispatch concerning Burns Cottage Collection, 1895; Lines to Robert Burns by Chang Yow Tong (Burns Club of St Louis); Assorted news clippings on Burns Cottage Relics, 1918; Handwritten note on The Cottage Collection, 1843; Correspondence to Sir Charles regarding Esdaile Furniture

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