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82 L. Corbett 1782 According to The Scottish Nation (3) an elegantly mounted snuff box was presented to Lord Buchan, 11th Earl, David Stuart Buchan (1742-1829), by the Goldsmiths of Edinburgh in 1782. Made from the tree which sheltered Wallace, and described by the Smith Art Gallery and Museum as – “of the highest quality … with a gold and silver plated inscription”. The Earl was a great admirer of Wallace, owned Kirkhill in Uphall (West Lothian), and bought Dryburgh Abbey and its lands. There in 1814 he had John Smith of Darnwick build on th slopes of Bemersyd Hill the massive statue of Wallace, visable from as far away as Berwick (7), and see 1814 below. (Howie and Mackay) 1792 In 1792 the Earl of Buchan obtained leave to transfer this Edinburgh Goldsmiths’ snuff box – “to the only man in the world he thought it justly due” – George Washington, first president of the United States of America. He had it conveyed to the President by the portrait painter Archibald Robinson, and it became known as the Washington Snuff Box. Buchan, a highly respected friend to the United States, named Washington “the William Wallace of America”. It was last publicly seen at a Daughters of the American Revolution tea party in Belleville, Illinois on 22nd February 1923, and under guard by owner Henry Williams. It is the subject of a detailed report of 10th February 1997 by Robert Goodrich of the Post Dispatch Belle. This included an illustration of the oval shaped 6+4+2 inches box, carved from the wood of the Torwood Wallace Tree, and said to have a secret compartment. Buchan had asked George Washington to pass the dedicated box to his successor, but the President is said to have willed it back to the Earl. Goodrich says it never got back to the Earl, but was ‘acquired’ via a US Navy Commander by the pioneer Belleville family Williams. Another account says it did come back, was ‘rededicated’ by Buchan, and sent to someone else in America, but en route it was highjacked in a stage coach hold up. The Williams family reputedly kept it secure till the death of Henry J. Williams in August 1931, but he had no survivors, and no traced will. According to the Belleville Daily Advocate, quote – “…the Museum of Edinburgh tried several times to purchase the snuff box from the Williams family, but was rebuffed. – This 1997 faxed report to Forrester also says – quote – “…enthusiastic efforts are being made to find this very desirable box by International Press Service correspondent Jim Leggett, a Stirling Scot and Wallace admirer, of Charlotte, NC.” Colin Forrester wrote to President Regan about this in 1985, but without reply. A note to Forrester by the Earl Buchan also in 1985 says that a number of
Wallace Oak: Supplement 83 the boxes were made, “and one came up at a Christie auction ‘recently’ ” but he did not buy. (Forrester, King, LC) 1794 Remarks on the Wallace tree by the Rev George Harvie in his reports on the parishes of Larbert and Dunipace in the Old Statistical Account of Scotland … quotes – “In Dunipace parish is the famous Torwood; in the middle of which there are the remains of Wallace’s tree, an oak which, according to a measurement when entire, was said to be about 12 feet diameter. To this wood Wallace was said to have fled, and secreted himself in the body of the tree, then hollow, after his defeat in the north. Adjoining to this is squaire field, inclosed by a ditch, where Mr Donald Cargill excommunicated King Charles II.” 1795 Quaich – wood and silver-mounted, four heraldic shields, engraved thistle rim, inscribed – “This cup is part of the oak tree in the Torwood, which was often an asylum to the immortal Wallace.” and “Drink of this and mark the footsteps of a hero.”
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THE WEATHER OF 1998 S. J. Harrison
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Weather 1998 5 May Warm and mostly
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Bird Report 1998 19 Month 1996/7 19
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Bird Report 1998 21 BLACK-THROATED
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Bird Report 1998 23 over Stirling a
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