Essays.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Short literary compositions on single subjects, often presenting the personal view of the author.
Found in 566 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, chiefly on the human mind., 1775-1778, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24513
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) 'Of the principles of all science and demonstrative reasoning, and of the nature of the divine mind', 1777. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 51. (ii) 'Speculations upon the original residence of Man', written while suffering from a fever, 1778. (Folio 23.) Monboddo number 169. (iii) Metaphysical papers on the Human mind and the difference between physical sensation and intellect, 1775, I778, undated. (Folio 24.) Monboddo numbers 10, 22, 17, 16.
Dates:
1775-1778, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on Egyptian, Greek and Roman history., 1766-1782, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24531
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Of the history of antient Greece compared with the antient history of Egypt', I766. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 85.
(ii) 'Of antient Egypt', 1769. (Folio 12.) Monboddo number 86.
(iii) 'Of the heroick history of Greece', 1769. (Folio 33.) The wrapper is also dated 1778. Monboddo number 1.
(iv) 'Of the Persian invasion of Greece under Xerxes', 1770. (Folio 58.) Monboddo number 107.
(v) Papers on Herodotus and other Greek historians, 1772, 1782, undated. (Folio...
Dates:
1766-1782, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on general philosophical subjects., 1767-1795, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24513-24518
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on Greek literature., 1772-?1781, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24511
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Material on the works of Homer, 1779, undated. (Folio 1.) It includes a comparison of the ‘Odyssey’ with Virgil's ‘Aeneid’. (Folio 9.) Monboddo numbers 209, 123-124, 131.
(ii) 'Of the poetry of Plato', 1772. (Folio 26.) Monboddo number 158.
(iii) Papers on the orations of Demosthenes, ?1781, undated. (Folio 37.) They include observations on the Karl of Mansfield’s Latin oration on Demosthenes, which are closely related to a passage in the ‘Origin and progress...
Dates:
1772-?1781, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on Greek philosophy and philosophers., 1771-[circa 1790], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24519
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'The history of the metaphysical philosophy', concerning philosophy and religion in ancient Greece and Egypt, 1777. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 67.
(ii) 'Of the philosophy of Greece before Plato and Aristotle', 1771. (Folio 9.) Monboddo number 36.
(iii) 'The history of antient philosophy in later times' from Plotinus to Themistius, undated. (Folio 38.) Monboddo number 68.
(iv) Comparisons between the philosophies of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, undated....
Dates:
1771-[circa 1790], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
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Literary and philosophical papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on particular philosophies and individual philosophers.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on happiness, free will and the origins of evil., 1783, 1790, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24514
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) 'Of happiness in the universe', 1783. (Folio 1.) Endorsed 'This to be diligently studied before I write upon the origin of evil and the fall of Man’. Monboddo number 269. (ii) Papers on free will and the origin of evil, 1783, 1790, undated. (Folio 21.) Monboddo numbers 61, 266, 220.
Dates:
1783, 1790, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on History., 1765-1796, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24528-24534
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on language., [Circa 1735]-1796, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24505-24510
Dates:
[Circa 1735]-1796, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on nature, man in his natural state and men in a state of society., 1777, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24515
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Of the notion of infinite ... Of the eternity of God and his works', 1777. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 63.
(ii) 'Of the progress of nature from the first principle. Of ill in the universe and of natural and moral ill', undated. (Folio 21.) Monboddo number 268.
(iii) Papers on the difference between man in his natural state and civilised man, 1777, undated. (Folio 54.) Monboddo numbers 62, 300.
(iv) 'Of the degeneracy of men in a state of society', undated....
Dates:
1777, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on particular philosophies and individual philosophers., 1765-1796, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24519-24522
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on Plato's works., 1787, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24520
Scope and Contents
The papers include Monboddo numbers 135, 38, 298.
Dates:
1787, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
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Literary and philosophical papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on particular philosophies and individual philosophers.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on population., 1774-1796, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24534
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Essays on population in ancient and modern times, 1779, 1787, undated. (Folio 1.) Includes Monboddo numbers 276, 197. (ii) Notes and excerpts from printed works, 1774-1796, undated. (Folio 50.) Includes Monboddo number 198. (iii) Statistics of baptisms in Kincardineshire parishes for 1686 to 1778, with other miscellaneous papers, 1778-1780, undated. (Folio 59.) Monboddo numbers 177, 216.
Dates:
1774-1796, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on rhythm., 1768-1790, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24507
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Of the sound of language', 1790. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 244.
(ii) 'Of the ancient verse compared with the modern, and of the accents and quantity of the ancient languages', 1766. (Folio 18.) Monboddo number 154.
(iii) 'Of rhythme'. (Folio 44.) Several articles and parts of articles, 1766, undated. The last of these (folio 124) ends with several pages on the teaching of accent and verse in English schools. Monboddo made several changes in the arrangement...
Dates:
1768-1790, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on Scottish, English and Irish history., 1765-?1794, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24532
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Two papers on the ancient history of Scotland, 1765, undated. (Folio 1.) The second ends with the royal pedigree in Gaelic which occurs in Adv.MS.72.1.1, folio 1 recto. Monboddo numbers 171, 173.
(ii) 'Of the succession in the kingdom of Scotland', undated. (Folio 41.) Monboddo number 174.
(iii) Transcripts, undated of charters and formal documents. (Folio 47.)
(iv) 'Observations upon Lord Lyttelton's History, and the constitution of the antient Parliaments...
Dates:
1765-?1794, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on style., 1766, 1777-1789.
File
Identifier: MS.24506
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) 'Of stile', 1766. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 145. (ii) 'Of composition', 1766. (Folio 5.) Monboddo number 148. (iii) Papers on the language of Homer, 1777-1789. (Folio 21.) Monboddo numbers 231, 230, 132, 229, 233.
Dates:
1766, 1777-1789.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on the philosophy of John Locke., 1774, 1795, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24521
Dates:
1774, 1795, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
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Literary and philosophical papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on particular philosophies and individual philosophers.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo on theology., 1766-1781, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24527
Scope and Contents
The papers on religion are as follows.
(i) ‘Of the necessity of religion in a nation’, undated. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 253.
(ii) Two papers on the history of religion from the earliest times to the ancient Greeks, 1766, undated. (Folio 11.) Monboddo numbers 4, 3.
(iii) 'Of natural religion and its progress', undated. (Folio 57.) Monboddo number 9.
(iv) 'An account of the Chaldaeans', 1769. (Folio 73.) A translation from Diodorus Siculus, ‘Bibliotheca historica’, book 2. Monboddo number...
Dates:
1766-1781, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on various particular philosophies and philosophers., 1769-1796, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24522
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Two papers on Sir Isaac Newton's theories of motion, 1777, undated. (Folio 1.) The beginning of the first is closely related to ‘Antient metaphysics’, i, page 251, and what follows. Monboddo numbers 162, 48.
(ii) Part of a paper on individual philosophers, undated (Folio 26.) It deals with the theories of Newton, Timaeus and Plato.
(iii) Two papers on the Pythagoreans, 1770, undated (Folio 38.) Monboddo numbers 31, 21.
(iv) 'Of the history of the Epicurean...
Dates:
1769-1796, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
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Literary and philosophical papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on particular philosophies and individual philosophers.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on various philosophical subjects., 1767-1780, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24517
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Of abstract ideas as applied to natural philosophy', 1767. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 14.
(ii) 'Of the system of the universe', undated. (Folio 12.) Numbered 303.
(iii) 'Of numbers and of their influence in the system of the universe; of musical concords; of the Pythagorean philosophy; and of the Ideas of Plato', undated. (Folio 18.) Monboddo number 30.
(iv) 'Of the origin of virtue', undated. (Folio 75.) Monboddo number 8.
(v) 'Of beauty', 1772. (Folio 84.)...
Dates:
1767-1780, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on various philosophical subjects., 1784-1795, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24518
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Paper discussing the difference between the ancient and modern treatment of morals, logic, natural philosophy and metaphysics; the value of philosophy; effects of money, etc., undated. (Folio 1.) It is headed 'To be inserted in the third Book of Vol.4 of Origin of L.’, but it bears no relation to the published edition. One of the 'papers apart' (folio 52) is similar to the discussion of wealth in ‘Antient Metaphysics’ v, page 70.
(ii) 'Comparison of ancient...
Dates:
1784-1795, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Mondobbo, on literature., 1772-1783, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24511-24512
Papers of Jessie Meikle née McLetchie., 1893-1927, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3421/141-147
Dates:
1893-1927, undated.
Papers of John Buchan.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6482
Scope and Contents
Comprising photocopies of corrected typescripts of an essay, 1893, "Angling in Still Waters", and two short stories, undated, "Coriolanus" and "Other Gods".
Dates:
1893 and undated.
Papers of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6975
Scope and Contents
Including literary notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of literary work, and family and personal correspondence.
With papers of Susan, Baroness Tweedsmuir, including typescripts of essays and addresses, and correspondence.
Dates:
1894-1940.
Papers of John Dover Wilson concerning education and English literature., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14356-14369
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.