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Andrew Duncan (1744-1828)Places
Edinburgh (Scotland)Times
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[Printed materials from the archive of the family of Dr. Andrew Duncan]
1770, Andrew Duncan
in English
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46 items, largely verse.
Extracted from an archive of manuscripts belonging to the Duncan family.
Title constructed by cataloger.
Most items composed solely or in part by Andrew Duncan, and all but a few appear to have been published and circulated by him privately.
The Court of Session Garland, 1770, has the following note printed at the end: The first of these ballads was privately prepared by the facetious and lively James Boswell, Esq. for what is known in Edinburgh by the name of The Examinator's Dinner. There it was sung. Mr. Maclaurin, (afterwards Lord Dreghorn), who, by means of Mr Boswell had been let into the secret, prepared the second, which was sung immediately after Mr Boswell's ...
James Boswell, the biographer of Johnson, was living in Edinburgh and working as an attorney in 1770.
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