Writers' Museum

The seventy-first annual supper had on its menu egg mayonnaise, scotch broth, haggis, roast turkey, pear melba, and coffee.

On the right of the menu is the toast list which reads as the following: The Queen ・ ・ ・ ・ The Chairman Interval The Immortal Memory of Robert Burns Charles H. Johnston, M. A., LL.

He apparently thought that time was better spent on the acquiring a new language and said, "Surely, chess playing is a sad waste of brains"[2] The slippers are woven in pink and blue wool, lined with silk, and leather soled.

The slippers became part of a collection of Scott-related items owned by Sir Hugh Walpole, who, a great admirer, thought himself as Scott's reincarnation.

The following is an excerpt: Come lend me an attentive ear A startling moral tale to hear, Of Pirate Rob and Chemist Ben, And different destinies of men.

A paper sculpture left anonymously in the premises of several of Edinburgh's literary organisations, 10 Street Scene shows support of "libraries, books, words, and ideas" as well as an adoration for Ian Rankin and Robert Louis Stevenson.