| Description Of Item | The volume contains the twelve page article by Blackhall-Morison about the walking stick given to his grandfather Sir Alexander Blackhall-Morison. After the article is a list of 55 items of correspondence followed by the letters themselves, mostly copies but including some originals. The letters are all to or from Blackhall-Morison, are dated 1899-1901 and concern the location of the walking stick. The correspondents are from: P A Young; R Peel Ritchie; M B Grahame; Archibald Sholto Douglas; P H Maclaren; Wallace & Begg, solicitors; C M Morison; A Halliday Douglas; George Balfour; J Smith; Jonathan M Shaw; Lyon & Turnbull; and James Mackintosh Gow. At page 65 is another article by Blackhall-Morison 'Concerning a Gold-Headed Tortoiseshell Walking Stick Presented by the late Sir Alexander Blackhall-Morison to the late Dr William Seller', 1899; and at page 88 are extracts from the diaries of Sir Alexander Blackhall-Morison, 1828. |