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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Plays of Margaret H Noël-Paton., ?1932-1952, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27465-27470
Scope and Contents

Margaret Noël-Paton wrote a number plays, chiefly in the 1930s and 1940s. Few were published, although several were performed.

Dates: ?1932-1952, undated.

Poems and copies of poems in various hands, and historical notes in the hand of Robert Mylne., [1688, or after]-early 19th century.

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Identifier: MS.2093
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'The Mysterie of Iniquitie, or the Revolution, deduced to the time of K.J. his being forced . . . to retire from England. Written by one whose head is as full of thoughts as the kingdom's of distractions'. A poem in dramatic form, introducing William and Mary, James VII, and various symbolical characters. It seems to have been written by a native of Scotland about the time of the Revolution. At the beginning is a modern description. From the same...
Dates: [1688, or after]-early 19th century.

Poems and correspondence of Robert Crombie Saunders (born 1914).

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Identifier: MS.26799
Scope and Contents Robert Crombie Saunders, was the editor of ‘Scottish Arts and Letters' and the 'Scots Independent’. Many of his poems appeared in literary magazines.The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscripts and typescript drafts of poems, (circa 1940-1969, undated (folio 1). There are several versions of each poem. (ii) Letters to Saunders from Christopher Murray Grieve, Sydney Goodsir Smith, and others, 1943-1961, undated (folio 70); (iii) Fair copies of poems, 1969, undated...
Dates: [Circa1940]-1970, undated.

Poems and other items of William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James IV., Late 16th century-first quarter of 17th century.

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Identifier: MS.2063
Scope and Contents

Contains poems, impresas, anagrams, proverbs, corrections and emendations of the ‘Basilikon doron’ (folio 121), and drafts and copies of official letters (folios 235-236).

On folio iii is a note by Sir William Drummond, the poet's son, 'Papers of Secratarie Fowllers, all his owen hand writt, preserved as they ar by my father ... 1703'.

Dates: Late 16th century-first quarter of 17th century.

Poems in Scots of the Reverend James Melville, minister of Kilrenny, mostly on religious themes

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.7
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Sonnets and short poems, some relating to Andrew Melville, written in 1610 and 1611 (folio 1). (ii) Copy of Hugh Broughton`s pamphlet `A Petition to the Lords to examine the religion and cariage of R. Ban[croft] Archbishop. Anno.1608` (folio 12).(iii) `A Preservative from Apostasie or the Song of Moses ... translated out of Hebrew and put in metre first shortly neere the text and than more at large...
Dates: 1606-1611.

Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.

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Identifier: MS.569
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) ‘On the laying the Foundation of the High School of Edinburgh, 24th June, 1777’ (folio i);(ii) ‘Winter Hymn’ with a note, 26 January 1829 (folio 2);(iii) ‘Morning Hymn’, endorsed, ‘Written out 1825, composed chiefly in a dream at Canaan Lodge [Edinburgh] one beautiful morning in August, 1825’; two copies (folio 4);(iv) ‘Ink loquitur’, endorsed, ‘(Impromptu) to Steuart of Allantoun, the translator of Sallust, who...
Dates: 1777-1829, undated.

Poems of Robert Garioch., 1940-1944.

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Identifier: MS.26161
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Copies of the first and second editions of ‘17 poems for 6d’ by Somhairle Mac Gill-Eathain (Sorley Maclean) and Robert Garioch, (Edinburgh, 1940) (folio l); (ii) Typescript of 'The Masque of Edinburgh', published in ‘Scottish Art and Letters’, number l (1944), pages 24-28 (folio 31).

Dates: 1940-1944.

Poems of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century., Late 18th century-early 19th century.

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Identifier: MS.2070
Scope and Contents

'Copies of several of my father's poems' (folio i); 'these preceding poems were written down by my father himself. Those that follow were copied ... by different hands ... E.F.' (folio 15 verso).

Dates: Late 18th century-early 19th century.