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* Hill (David Octavius, 1802-1870). Autograph letter signed, 'D.O. Hill', Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, National Galleries, Edinburgh, 29 November 1858, writing as secretary to Dr Hamilton of Kelso, sending a copy of the report by the council of the 'academy's proceedings and progress during the year ending on the 10th of this month, in which it became the mournful duty of the Council to record the loss which art and the Academy had sustained by the death of your father the late Thomas Hamilton Esquire RSA Architect', sending their sympathy and also 'requesting that you will convey to Miss Hamilton their sincere thanks for her gift of Mr Hamilton's beautiful perspective drawing of the design for art galleries on the Mound, and to assure her that it will be carefully preserved in their collections', written on pages 1 and 3 of a printed letterhead bifolium, tipped on to an old album sheet, 4to Qty: (1)