MACVICAR

[ John Macvicar Anderson, Scottish architect. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('J. Macvicar Anderson') to John Kinahan, declining his request regarding 'Church building'.

Author: 
John Macvicar Anderson (1835-1915), Scottish architect, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1891-1894
Publication details: 
6 Stratton Street, W. [ London ] 13 March 1891.
£35.00

1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged. He is declining his request as he has 'many, & much more pressing claims to meet in the way of Church building'.

[Printed pamphlet providing an 'exposition' of Macvicar's work.] Science Based on Religion. A Sketch of a Philosophy. From "The Annandale Herald" of February 13, 1875, with further exposition by the author.

Author: 
[ J. G. Macvicar, LL.D., D.D., Minister of Moffat ]
Publication details: 
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh. Robert Knight, Moffat. [ Circa 1874 ]
£65.00

16pp., 12mo. Disbound and without covers. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper. This item is an anonymous review of Macvicar's work, not the work itself, the author writing: 'what is proposed here is not a critique or an estimate of our author's philosophy, but a simple view of it as short as possible, the accuracy of which may be depended upon, since we have been favoured with it by Dr Macvicar himself'. Scarce: the only copy traced on COPAC at Glasgow. Now uncommon.

Autograph Letter Signed from the Scottish author Anne Grant to 'Mrs. Drysdale', boasting of her behaviour to 'People of the Highest Rank', and making 'perhaps the last' joke.

Author: 
Anne Grant [n
Publication details: 
'Coats Crescent [Edinburgh] | Friday' [no date].
£220.00

2pp., 12mo. 33 lines of text, written in a close, neat hand. Good, on lightly-aged paper. She begins with a five-line 'encomium', before assuring Mrs Drysdale that she is 'pretty safe': 'I have been considered By People of the Highest Rank to whom I was known merely as a private teacher &c &c of moral virtues To possess of <?> for the highest talents & the purest Virtues I have been familiar I need not say why. None of these I ever flattered.

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