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Teddy enjoying a draught of ginger-beer, the 2nd Battalion King's Rifles pet

Teddy enjoying a draught of ginger-beer, the 2nd Battalion King's Rifles pet, arrived in Shorncliffe from India. Given a new home at an expense of seventeen pounds and soon made it home by removing the door and a good deal of the woodwork

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James Jollie (1757 - 1846), business man connected with many public institutions in

James Jollie (1757 - 1846), business man connected with many public institutions in Edinburgh, approaching Robert Sym (1752-1845). Sym owes his place in literary history as the character Timothy Tickler in the Noctes Ambrosiane published each month in Blackwood's Magazine between 1822 and 1835. A tall, thin man, who delighted in taking long walks whatever the state of the weather, Sym was a popular, though slightly eccentric figure in Edinburgh. Date: 1839

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