[Printed materials from the archive of the family of Dr. Andrew Duncan]
Contributors: Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828; Grey, Henry, 1778-1859; Lee, John, 1779-1859; Law, George Henry, 1761-1845; Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744; Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744; Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828; Boswell, James, 1740-1795; Dreghorn, John Maclaurin, Lord, 1734-1796
Publisher: Andrew Duncan
Published: 1770
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Subjects: Social life and customs
Other titles: Duncan family archive.
Notes: 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.
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1. [1] Inscriptions in a small garden at the foot of St. Leonard's Hill in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. [2] Contemplation on the top of Arthur's Seat, 1st May 1814. [3] Abridgement of a sermon preached in the Cathedral of York, Sunday, 20th September 1812. [4] Contemplations on the top of Arthur's Seat ... May 1, 1816. [5] Meditation on the top of Arthur's Seat, 1st May 1818. [6] Meditations on the top of Arthur's Seat ... 1st of May 1819. [7] Contemplations on the top of Arthur's Seat by the oldest physician in Edinburgh [1823]. [8] Address to the oldest Duke in Scotland, from the oldest physician in Edinburgh, on the top of Arthur's Seat, 1st May 1827. [9] Rhymes addressed by the father of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, an octogenarian, to one of his grandchildren, on the top of Arthur's Seat, May 1st, 1828. [10] Postscript. May 3, 1824, since the publication of the Memoir of Sir Henry Raeburn, Dr. Duncan has received from a friend, the following elegiac ode ... [11] Invitation for a gymnastic meeting, to celebrate the Ludi Apollinares at Leith Links. [12] To the vice-president of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, Edinburgh. [13] Verses on the marriage of Captain Duncan to Miss Hill. [14] To the president of the Caledonian Gardeners Society ... [15] The followng picture of a happy family, at a social meal, is taken from a poem lately published by Rivington, London, entitled, The pleasures of society. [16] Thanks returned by an octogenarian physician, to his friends in the county of Fife, particularly in the ancient city of St. Andrews. [17] Treaty of peace with old age, by a justly celebrated lady ...; title: [18] Grey, Henry. A sermon preached in St. George's Church, on Thursday, 16th March, 1815, in behalf of the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum. Edinburgh: Printed for the Asylum by A. Balfour, 1815. [19] Lee, John. A sermon preached in St. Andrew's Church, Edinburgh, on Sunday the 21st of May 1809. Edinburgh: A. Neill & co., 1809. [20] Law, George Henry. A sermon preached at the anniversary of the Royal Humane Society. London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1813.; title: Vol. 2. [1] The Lord's Prayer, with a paraphrase, commonly denominated The universal prayer, written by Alexander Pope. [Edinburgh]: Printed by Neill & co. for the Orphan Hospital, Edinburgh. [2] The prayer of a dying man. [3] The Messiah. A paraphrase from the prophecies of Isaiah, by Alexander Pope. [Edinburgh]: A. Neill & co., 1803. [4] Elegy on Henry Francis Duncan, who died at Edinburgh on the 24th of December 1805 ... [5] Elegy sacred to the memory of Henry Francis Duncan, youngest son of Dr. Duncan senior ... [6] Contemplations on the top of Arthur's Seat ... on the 1st of May 1807. [7] Contemplation on the top of Arthur's Seat, 1st May 1814. [8] Abridgment of a sermon preached in the Cathedral of York ... 20th September 1812. [9] Contemplations on the top of Arthur's seat ... May 1, 1816. [10] Meditation on the top of Arthur's Seat, 1st May 1818. [11] Meditations on the top of Arthur's Seat ... 1st of May 1819. [12] The heavens a proof of the wisdom and glory of God. [13] Inscriptions in a small garden at the foot of St. Leonard's Hill ...; title: [14] To the vice-president of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, Edinburgh. [15] List of wax models of apples, sent to the Caledonian Horticultural Society, by Melongeno. [16] To the president of the Caledonian Gardeners Society ... [17] A new edition of an old song, Was you e'er at Crail Town ... [18] Duncan's grand panacea, an infallible cure for all diseases, translated into Pindaric rhymes by Dr. Barclay, and published at the fortieth anniversary of the Edinburgh Harveian Festival, 14th April 1821. [19] Boswell, James, and Maclaurin, John. Court of Session garland. 1770, [20] At a convival meeting of the Royal Company of Scottish Archers ... on Saturday the 27th of October 1821, the Company drank a bumper to the health of Dr Duncan ...[21] Letter from the Rev. Dr. John Lee ... to Dr. Duncan senior ... [22] A letter to Sir William Fettes, bart. ... Edinburgh: P. Neill, 1825. [23] Harveian ode for 1829 / by Richard Huie, M.D. [24] Dr. Duncan senior of Edinburgh, in the 83d year of his age ... on the death of His Grace Alexander Duke of Gordon ... [25] Mahomedan articles of belief [newspaper clipping] [26] Brickbatting no Offence [newspaper clipping; with 2 other incomplete articles]