Essays.
Found in 566 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook of Canon Andrew John Young containing topographical notes and poetry., [After 1955.]
The notebook contains notes made after 1955 on English topography (page 1) and poetry (page 280). Also included are drafts of the essay 'Poly-olbion' published in ‘The poet and the landscape’, 1962, pages 38-43 (page 296).
Notebook of Edwin Muir., 1947-1948.
Notebook of Edwin Muir., 1956-1957.
The notebook contains a draft for the broadcast 'Revisiting Orkney' (folio 1); 'The ballads' published in ‘The New Statesman’, 53 (1957), pages 174-175 (folio 39 verso); reviews of work by Christopher Logue, C A Trypanis and Anna Kavan (folios 55, 96 verso); a translation from Kafka (folio 70 verso); and articles on 'Story and novel' (folio 30), Christopher Logue (folio 53), contemporary poetry (folio 61), ballads (folios 67, 90 verso) and 'The thirties' (folio 87 verso).
Notebook of Elspeth Davie including manuscript drafts of short stories and essays., 1966.
Notebook of James Mutter, Ardrossan.
Contains a lecture on a visit to Germany and an essay on Schiller.
Notebook of Richard B Haldane containing, at the front, an essay, and at the back, drafts of political speeches., 1907, 1910.
Several leaves are cut out after folio 14 inverted. Most of the volume is blank.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Essay, [?2 June 1907], on the state of philosophy in the late nineteenth century (folio 1);
(ii) Drafts of political speeches, one of which appears to be dated 5 April 1910 (folio 3 inverted).
Notebook, undated, containing essays and notes from lectures, kept by W S Walker., [?1827-?1831.]
Notebook, undated, containing essays and notes from lectures, kept by W S Walker., [?1827-?1831.]
Notebook, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing miscellaneous papers., 1747-[circa 1760.]
Notebook, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing papers on ancient history and on law., 1747-[circa 1760.]
The papers include essays on the goverment of Athens, the history of Greece, the law of succession, the origins of feudal law, and titles of honour. The volume is referred to by Lord Monboddo as ‘Folio MS. 10’.
Notebook, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing papers on logic and metaphysics., [1747]-[circa 1760.]
Also included in the notebook are the essays 'Of Taste' (folio 20) and 'Of the ancient mythology’ (Folio 86 verso.) The volume is referred to by Lord Monboddo as ‘Folio MS. 6’. Includes Monboddo numbers 5, 25, 32.
Notebook, undated, of James Hyman Singer, ‘Burns Singer’, containing drafts of poems, fragments of essays, a scene from a play, and part of a story set in a Dutch prison., 3rd quarter of 20th century.
Notebooks and papers, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes.
Papers mostly containing historical research notes, lectures, articles and or broadcasts, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes, minister of Halkirk (1934-1955) and of Hopeman (1955-1966) and historian of Highland evangelicalism. The collection consists mostly of notebooks, many very miscellaneous in content: only in principal content of each notebook or file is noted.
Notebooks containing essays and notes from lectures, kept by William Stuart Walker as an undergraduate at Edinburgh University., [?1827]-1831, undated.
The lectures cover humanities, ancient history, Greek, logic, moral philosophy, natural history, mathematics, divinity and law.
Notebooks containing 'Red magic', an essay by James Campbell., 4th quarter of 19th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Notebooks of James Campbell containing undated essays., 4th quarter of 19th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Notes and early drafts of 'George Scott Moncrieff and a few friends: a brief memoir' by Morley Jamieson., [1987.]
Folios 52-113 were originally two notebooks with some loose pages inserted, and they also contain part of a short story, 'The Awakening' (folios 54-63), an essay on armed forces (versos of folios 112-102) and poems (versos of folios 99-53). There are some additional poems at the end (folio 120).
Notes and essays of John Purves on Italian poetry and poets, including Petrarch, Dante, Leopardi and Carducci., [Circa 1907-circa 1937.]
Notes and essays on educational psychology, 1951 and undated
Contains a typpe-written dissertation, with no date or author given, headed "The problem of the modern school child's leisure"; handwritten notes and an essay headed "Economic indfluences on education practice and theory" by Farquhar Macintosh, a handwritten essay by John MacDonald headed "The Scottish culture pattern", an outline of the teaching of Modern Psychology, and the Psychology class examination paper, 20 April 1951, with notes by Macintosh.