Fragments.
Found in 371 Collections and/or Records:
Letters, chiefly of the first two Viscounts Melville and other Dundases.
Letters collected by Allan Paton Park., 1799-1903, undated.
Letters in English from the Reverend Donald MacQueen of Kilmuir (died 1785) to the Reverend Dr John Stuart of Luss.
Letters, notes, and fragments in the autograph of Lord Henry Brougham.
Letters of David, Earl of Buchan, and others., 1811-1878, undated.
The contents are as follows:
(ii) Letters of David, Earl of Buchan, to James Haig of Bemersyde, 1811;
(ii) Letter of Henry, Lord Brougham, to S Gray, ?1812;
(iii) Letter concerning William Glen, the poet, 1872;
(iv) Letters of Dean Farrar, Sir Alexander Grant and John Cairns, about a temperance meeting in Edinburgh, 1877-1878;
(v) Letter of ?Thomas Arthur, 1864;
(vi) A fragment of a letter of Matthew Arnold, undated.
Letters of horning for the payment of maills due from the barony of Moulin., Circa 1694.
Letters of Thomas and Jane Carlyle., 1823-1874, undated.
The contents include a letter of Edward Irving, 1827 (folio 226); the verse, 'Simon Brodie had a cow', in Thomas Carlyle's handwriting, 1849 (folio 240); a draft of Carlyle's letter to David Laing on a proposed exhibition of Scottish historical portraits, 1854 (folio 247); and a fragment of an account by Carlyle of his early life, undated (folio 271).
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.
There are no letters of Thomas Carlyle to his father. Several letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle (sometimes added to Carlyle’s letters as postscripts) and of various members of Carlyle’s family are included. Other writers are Daniel Corrie, Bishop of Madras, 1836; W H Wills, ‘Editor and factotum‘ of Charles Dickens, 1855; and Rudolf Sonnenburg, who brought out a German edition of ‘Frederick’, 1867. There are also letters of Carlyle to Whewell, 1861, Emerson, 1869, and others.
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family, with undated drafts and miscellanea., 27 June 1865-1870, undated.
Includes 22 draft letters, ?1867-?1870, an "Author’s note of 1868" to 'Sartor Resartus', a page of manuscript of 'Past and present', a note for 'Cromwell', a galley-proof of 'Frederick', other fragments, a book-plate, and a stencil for a silhouette.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names Chorely to Christy., 1821-1917.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Dorset to Douglas, G., 1808-1927.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Children to Cholmondeley., 1828-1920.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Donnegan to Dorrien., 1828-1925.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Graves to Gray, G., 1816-1910.
Letters, undated, of Sir Walter Scott and his family and of John Gibson Lockhart, with several anonymous letters, verses and other fragments addressed to or collected by Scott's mother., [1758-1854.]
Lexicographical fragments found loose in MS.14957, written by Edward Dwelly and various of his informants.
Includes some cuttings and proofs.
"Leyden's poems, &c. MS", collected by the Reverend James Morton., 1794-1837, undated.
List of Greek words and fragmentary notes by Thomas Boston, (1677-1732), Minister of Ettrick, and author of the ‘Fourfold state’.
Literary papers, drafts, typescripts and related correspondence of Michael Roberts., 1922-1960, undated.
Literary papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1923-1978, undated.
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poetry and prose works, including books, articles, lectures and notes. Much of the material is fragmentary, and some was reworked or copied by Hugh MacDiarmid at a later date.
Loose leaf notebook of Ruthven Todd., 1947-1948.
The notebook contains notes of poems with the names of the magazines to which they were submitted for publication (folio 1), addresses, fragments of poems and miscellaneous notes (folio 50).
Loose leaves from notebooks, undated, of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., Mid 19th century.
The loose leaves consist of fragments of prose works, excerpts from reading, occasional scraps of poetry, and miscellaneous notes.
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fragments of Ruthven Todd concerning Mull., 1962, 1967, undated.
The papers include part of a letter (probably an application for a grant) describing the book (folio 42). Most of the material concerns Mull.
Manuscript and typescript of 'Carotid Cornucopius' by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1945.
The contents are as follows. (i) Fragments of the original manuscript of ‘Carotid Cornucopius’, containing part of the third and fourth chapters (folio l); (ii) Typescript, with manuscript corrections, of the first chapter of ‘Carotid Cornucopius’, 1945 (folio 5).