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New Year greeting from S.R. Crockett to Dan Mowat

New Year greeting with golf illustration; verse wishing friend never sorrow; includes sketch of golfer addressing golf-ball

Letter from S.R. Crockett to William Blackwood

Discusses Wallace unable to join Galt project; suggests Francis Espinasse (who wrote Library of National Biography article) as alternative; requests…

Letter from S.R. Crockett to William Blackwood

At Glenhead Bargrennan to ease sore heart with silence; thanks for sympathy; glad to have D.S. Meldrum; praises choice of Annals of the Parish and The…

Letter from S.R. Crockett to T. Fisher Unwin

Brief note about collected stories volume offered last summer to be published around April

Letter from S.R. Crockett to Dickson

Thanks for notes about Peter; grateful for Life and Curious Adventures of Peter Williamson and loan of Blackwood 1848; will send Anderson to library;…

Letter from S.R. Crockett to William Blackwood

Regrets missing Blackwood during Edinburgh visit with Dr Whyte; leaving for London; invites Blackwood to dine and sleep at Bank House on return for…

Letter from S.R. Crockett to T. Fisher Unwin

Thanks for sending book; found it excellent and admirably executed; S.S. McClure (New York, staying with Crockett) also impressed; deserves great…

Letter from S.R. Crockett to Lloyd Osborne

Deeply moving response to memorial of Stevenson; explains profound grief at his death; describes waking at night realising 'Stevenson is dead'; unable…

Letter from S.R. Crockett to John and Marion Macmillan

Writes from London during busy period; wife grieved at his departure; multiple reception dinners (Authors Club Monday, Vagabonds Friday, Savage Club…

Letter from S.R. Crockett to Bain (bookseller)

Requests nice copy of Evelina (not first edition, but old); delivery to Morley's Hotel 25th; terrible cold caught at zoo watching monkeys ('improper…