them is given in the First Report
of the Historical Manuscripts Commission. Lord Menmuir's library is now
represented at Haigh[102] by two volumes and three fragments, all of
which bear his autograph. Lord Menmuir was succeeded by a son, who died
whilst yet a youth and unmarried. The second son, David, who after his
brother's death inherited the estate of Balcarres, may be termed the
second founder of the library. The father's love of books and learning
seems to have in a very large measure descended to the son. He added to
the library until it became one of the best in the kingdom. A very
charming letter from William Drummond of Hawthornden to David Lindsay,
sent with a copy of the _Flowers of Zion_, which the poet had privately
printed, is clear evidence of the terms on which Lindsay lived with his
friends and fellow book-lovers. The original letter is preserved in the
Muniment Room at Haigh, but the identical copy of Drummond's work has,
alas! been lost sight of.

[Illustration: THE SMALL BOOK-STAMP OF THE FIRST LORD BALCARRES.]

The library of Sir David Lindsay, Lord Balcarres, continued at the
family seat on the shores of the Firth of Forth until comparatively
recent times. Sibbald in 1710 mentions the 'great bibliothek' at
Balcarres. In Sibbald's time the owner, Colin, third Earl of Balcarres,
had added many books to the library, and spent the evening of his days
in the pursuit of letters. When Lady Balcarres, great-grandmother of the
present Earl of Crawford, left Fife and removed to Edinburgh, whilst her
son was in the West Indies, the greater portion of the library was
literally thrown away and dispersed--torn up for grocers as useless
trash, by her permission. Of the library collected by generations of
Lindsays, all that now remains is a handful of little over fifty
volumes. The books of David Lindsay, first Lord Balcarres, who died in
1641, are recognisable from his signature, and on many of them his arms
are impressed in gold on the sides.

[Illustration: THE LARGE BOOK-STAMP OF THE FIRST LORD BALCARRES.]

Of the present library at Haigh, the nucleus of it may be said to be the
books inherited by the grandfather of the present Earl, whose wife was
the heiress of the first Baron Muncaster. These Muncaster books,
although not of the greatest value, formed a basis on which the late
Earl of Crawford, who was born in 1812, built up the present library,
which will be always associated with his memory. When a bo