Translation of the fragment of an Arabic manuscript. : As is appeared in the Observer of Friday, Sept. 23, 1842..
Hogg, James, ǂd 1770-1835Translation from an ancient Chaldee manuscript.
Edinburgh: : Published by W. & H. Robinson, 11 Greenside Street.,
1842..
Inspired by the ‘Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript’ contributed to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine of October 1817, in which the discovery of spoof historical text is used to expose contemporary events, this so called 'Arabic manuscript' comments humorously on Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's first visit to Scotland in 1842 and the difficulties caused by lack of communication between the Tory Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, and the Whig Town Council of Edinburgh.
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Scotland Edinburgh.