This poser is a passage from the inventory in the testament of William Robertson, the historian and former principal of Edinburgh University, included in the Commissary Court records for Edinburgh, 1802 (Crown copyright, National Records of Scotland CC8/8/133, page 523).
The hand is fairly typical for a hand at the end of the eighteenth century. The clerk has a tendency to flourish his capital letters. Watch out for the similarity in his letters s and f and the flourish on his letter d.
Question: which item was given to Robertson by Catherine the Great?
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18th century alphabet
Letter s
Letter f
Letter d
Capital letters
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