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Title: Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Grant, James, 1822-1887
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Publisher: London, New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin
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t his death, occupied si.x long daysat the auction rooms in South Hanover Street. Robert Chambers describes a visit he paid himin Princes Street. His servant conducted me tothe first floor, and showed me into what is calledamongst us the back drawing-room, which I foundcarpeted with green cloth and full of old family Argyle, who died in 1806, and the visit referred totook place about 1824. To Mr. Sharpe Sir Walter owed many of themost graphic incidents which gave such inimitablelife to the productions of his pen ; and a writer inthe Gentlemans Magazine justly remarked that his collection of antiquities is among the richestwhich any private gentleman has ever accumulatedin the north. In Scottish literature he will bealways remembered as the editor of Laws Me-morials and of Kirktons History of the Kirk ofScotland. His taste in music was no less culti-vated than peculiar, and the curious variety ofsingular and obsolete musical instruments whichenriched his collection, showed how well the
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a oo Drummond Place 1 LORD ROBERTSON. 193 .inticjuarian taste consorted with the musical skilland critical sagacity of the editor of the Minuetsand Songs, by Thomas, sixth Earl of Kellie. At his death, in 1851, a desire was felt by manyof his friends that his collection of antiquitiesshould, like that of his friend Scott, be preservedas a memorial of him, but from circumstancesover which his family had no control this wasfound to be impossible, so the vast assemblage ofrare and curious objects which crowded every roomin No. 28 was disperse<l. The very catalogue ofthem, filling upwards of fifty pages, was in some ofits features strongly indicative of the character ofthe man. Among them we find— A small box made froma leg of the table at which King James VIII. saton his first landing here; fragment of QueenMarys bed-curtains; hair of that true saintand martyr Charles I., taken from his coffin atWindsor, and given to me by the Hon. PeterIlrummond Burrel at Edinburgh, December,1813;

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