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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:

Pocketbook 41 of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing a continuation of MS.24583 on the government of Sparta, and other papers., 1799.

 Item
Identifier: MS.24584
Scope and Contents

The continuation of MS.24583 on the government of Sparta begins on folio 1; ‘Of the difference between Rational and Intellectual' on folio 33; 'Observations upon a work of the Emperor Antoninus' on folio 51 verso; 'Of the division of things into Genuses, Species and Individuals' on folio 81 verso; additions to ‘Antient Metaphysics’ vi on folio 113. Also includes and other miscellaneous material, 1799.

Dates: 1799.

"Practiques of the Law of Scotland".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11941
Scope and Contents

Contains:

1 "Actes of Parliament Ordine Alphabetico Anent Crymes"

2 "Practickes re Land", 1666

3 "The Ordinarie Forme of Proces Befor the Lordes of Sessione", 1669.

Dates: circa 1666-1669.

Printed Books from the Riddell Collection., 1718-1850.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.42
Scope and Contents

Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.

Dates: 1718-1850.

Printed, but unpublished, pages of the suppressed preface and biographical note to the "Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, and her second husband, the Hon. George Berkeley; from 1712 to 1767", edited by John Wilson Croker., 1824.

 File
Identifier: MS.42147
Scope and Contents The suppressed preface and biographical note would appear from the title page to have been intended to accompany volume 2 of the work. However, this would seem to have been as a result of an error in the setting-up of the title page, which ought to have shown "Vol. I". This suggestion is confirmed by the volume note printed to accompany each signature. This would also conform to the logical position of such matter in a publication, and indeed, the position of the related material...
Dates: 1824.

Quintin Kennedy, "Ane Compendius Tractive", with annotations by the author.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9268 [RB.s.2950]
Scope and Contents

With manuscript copy of "De Praesentia Corporis in Sacramento Altaris".

Dates: 1558.

'Recollections of my boyhood, with open-air-lessons of later years, by Thomas Edward (of Banff, shoemaker)’.

 File
Identifier: MS.2227
Scope and Contents

Four letters, 1883-1884, of Thomas Edward to David Douglas, bookseller, Edinburgh; proofs of Edward's apparently unpublished 'Recollections', as in MS.1662, with some manuscript corrections; proofs of other essays, also apparently unpublished, with corrections.

The title is in the hand of David Douglas.

Dates: 1883-1884.

Reminiscences, notes and essays on literary figures by Ruthven Todd., 1953-1977, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26857
Scope and Contents

The subjects, who are arranged alphabetically, include Auden, T S Eliot, Norman Cameron and Louis Macneice.

Dates: 1953-1977, undated.

Representation, 1682, of John Riddell of Haining, concerning the breeding of horses for the king, with four unassociated documents.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7583
Scope and Contents

Other papers:

letter, 1727, of Ludovick Brodie of Whytfield, to Alexander Brodie of Lethen, on business matters

letter, 1797, of Sir George Colebrooke, on the political situation in France

essay, 1835, of David Smith, "An Essay on Sympathy"

essay, 1850, of John MacKinnon, "An Essay on Patriotism".

Dates: 1682, 1727, 1797, 1835, 1850.

Research notes and speeches., 1952-2006.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/514-757
Scope and Contents

Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1952-2006.

Research on Iceland., 1957-2006.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/595-692

Research on Scotland., 1960-2006.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/514-594

Robert Louis Stevenson, "The History of Moses" (1856).

 File
Identifier: Acc.10356
Scope and Contents

Text as dictated to Stevenson`s mother, with his signature and sketches illustrating the work.

With copy of "The Happy Sunday Book of Painted Pictures" (London, undated) given to Stevenson as a prize, and a copy of the privately printed edition of the Stevenson manuscript by A Edward Newton, and a note by Newton on his acquisition of the manuscript.

Dates: 1856-1919 and undated.

Scripts and research materials for 'Chronicle'., 1966-1976.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/186-250
Scope and Contents

Chronicle was a BBC 2 television programme focusing on archaeology and related subjects which aired from 1966 until 1991. Materials in this section relate to Chronicle episodes in which Magnusson had a direct involvement.

Dates: 1966-1976.

Small collections of correspondence and manuscripts of the author and essayist Thomas De Quincey, acquired at different times.

 File
Identifier: MS.21239
Scope and Contents Thomas De Quincey's own letters are written to his family and friends about his work and other activities, finance, and family matters. Letters addressed to him include one from an unnamed American admirer, 1853, (folio 18) which was published in ‘Thomas De Quincey’, pages 103-105, the catalogue of an exhibition held at Dove Cottage and the National Library of Scotland.Most of the manuscripts are fragmentary drafts of unidentified essays, but they include parts of "The English...
Dates: 1800-1855, undated.