By à decision issüed at the Court of Session at Edinburgh, Lieutenant Colonel R. H. Isham, of Park Avenue, New York, owner of a large collection of Boswell manuscripts is to receive a half-share of a valuable collection of Boswell papers, letters, and cther documents which were discovered in Fettercalrn House, Kin-\cardineshire, in 1931, states the "Manchester, Guardian."
Colonel Isham, who purchased his present collection of Boswell MSS. from Lord Talbot de Malahide in 1927, was one of four, rival claimants to the recently. found literary treasures, which had been lost for about 150 years.
Lord Stevenson, in his judgment. holds that Colonel Isham and the Cumberland Infirmary, as residuary legatees of Mrs. Mounsey, have an jeaual claim to the papers.
Lieutenant Colonel Isham claimed as the assignee of Lord Talbot, who succeeded to the "books and pictures in the house of Auchinleck" under the testamentary writings, of his aunt, Boswell's great-granddaughter, Julia Boswell Mounsey, or under the marriage contract of his mother, Emily Boswell, another of Boswell's great-granddaughters.
The unsuccessful claithaiits to the papers were Lord Clinton of Max. tock and Save owner of Fettercairn House, the oldest descendant in the direct line of Sir William Forbes, the executor of Boswell, who died ili 1795, and Mrs. Mary Cumberlege, of Bailey, claiming as descendant of one of Boswell's younger children.
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