Letters of George Dempster to Sir Adam Fergusson, 1756-1813
George Dempster of Dunnichen, a man of humour and spontaneous wit, was one of the young men moving in that brilliant society of intellect which adorned Edinburgh in the 1750s. The affection and respect which he commanded in his lifetime sprang partly from personal charm and partly from the integrity and altruism of his public life. This Correspondence to his closest friend, the respectable and 'aith-detesting' Sir Adam Fergusson of Kilkerran, compensates for a biography which, perhaps because the Dempster family papers disappeared, has never been written. One of the first landlords to treat his tenants with hu…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84530-007-4
- EAN: 9781845300074
- Produktnummer: 9314105
- Verlag: The Grimsay Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 420 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.4 cm 642 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 642
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