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Gray, Muriel («Munro-bagging»), from Muriel Gray, The First Fifty: Munro-bagging without a Beard (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1991). Reproduced by permission of the publisher.

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Gunn, Walter («A Missionary Visits Greenock»), from Walter Gunn, Missionary, Sketches of the Sanitary and Social Condition of Greenock (Greenock 1865).

Guthrie, Tyrone («The Second Edinburgh Festival»), from Tyrone Guthrie, A Life in Theatre (Columbus, London, 1987). Reproduced by kind permission of the Wylie Agency (UK) Ltd.

Hamilton, Ian («Stealing the Stone of Destiny»), from I. R. Hamilton, The Taking of the Stone of Destiny (Lochar, Colonsay, 1991). Reproduced with permission of the author.

Hardie, Keir («Keir Hardie Elected as First Labour MP»), from Keir Hardie’s Speeches and Writings from 1888 to 1915, 4th edn, ed. Emrys Hughes (Forward Printing and Publishing Company, Glasgow, 1927).

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Hili, David Octavius («The Origins of Photography»), from NLS MS Acc. 7967/1, quoted in A Scottish Postbag, ed. George Bruce and Р. H. Scott (W. & R. Chambers, Edinburgh, 1986).

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