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Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscripts of various articles and poems by George Carless Swayne., 1884, 1887, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.4879
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscripts, undated, of six apparently unpublished articles, 'War and civilization' (folio 1), 'King Kohl' (folio 28), 'Free trade' (folio 33), "Notes on the Paris 'Salon'" (folio 44), 'Picturesque Switzerland' (folio 53), and 'Gardening as a profession for ladies' (folio 83);(ii) Manuscripts of six apparently unpublished poems: two versions of 'In Leopoldi memoriam', 1884 (folio 90), 'A Tuscan afterglow', 1884 (folio 92), 'A fable for...
Dates:
1884, 1887, undated.
Manuscripts of various poems by James Hogg., Early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.4805
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscripts of ten poems, two incomplete, first published in "Blackwood's Magazine", 1827-1831. The titles are:
'Ode for music on the death of Lord Byron',
'Ane rychte gude and preytious ballarde',
'Will and Sandy',
'A Greek pastoral',
'A real vision',
'A Sunday pastoral',
'The raid of the Kers',
'Johnne Graimis eckspeditioun till hevin',
'The miser's grave', and
'The magic mirror'. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript of ‘Songs by the Ettrick...
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871., 1859-1862, 1870-1871.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.1-50.2.4
Scope and Contents
The terms, `Gaelic version` or `English version` refer to the original manuscript texts produced by (`transcribed by` or `told to`) one of his team of collectors or by Campbell. Unless stated otherwise, all English versions of the tales and textual notes are the work of Campbell.
Dates:
1859-1862, 1870-1871.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Manuscripts, typescripts and a few printed copies of individual poems by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., [1978, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27027-27028
Scope and Contents
Some of the poems are rough drafts, written on scrap paper or leaves torn from notebooks, and others are fair copies; many are incomplete, and there are some variants.
Dates:
[1978, or before.]
Manuscripts, typescripts and a few printed copies of poems of Alastair Reid., 1953-1977, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27447
Scope and Contents
Some of the poems are preceded by notes about the date, circumstances of writing and publication. There are a few translations from Spanish (folio 90).
Dates:
1953-1977, undated.
Map illustrating the orders of the Boundary Commission for Roxburgh and Selkirk, being a copy with manuscript additions of Johnston's 'Reduced ordnance map coloured', Sheet 12., [Circa 1890.]
Item
Identifier: MS.13455 [Map Library]
Material collected by Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton, Lyon King of Arms, supplementary to the work of his father, Archibald Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame, ‘The Swintons of that Ilk and their Cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.350A-B
Dates:
1814, 1883, 1927-1929.
Material collected by James Bell Salmond for his 'Wade in Scotland', chiefly typescript copies of letters and documents., 4th quarter of 17th century-3rd quarter of 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.7188A
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-3rd quarter of 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and photographic plates collected by James Bell Salmond for the 1st and 2nd editions of his ‘Wade in Scotland’; with correspondence and press cuttings concerning the book.
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Material collected by James Bell Salmond for his 'Wade in Scotland', chiefly typescript copies of letters and documents, but with some extracts from periodicals.
Material collected by James Bell Salmond for his 'Wade in Scotland', chiefly typescript copies of letters and documents., 2nd quarter of 18th century-early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.7188B
Dates:
2nd quarter of 18th century-early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and photographic plates collected by James Bell Salmond for the 1st and 2nd editions of his ‘Wade in Scotland’; with correspondence and press cuttings concerning the book.
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Material collected by James Bell Salmond for his 'Wade in Scotland', chiefly typescript copies of letters and documents, but with some extracts from periodicals.
Material collected by James Bell Salmond for his 'Wade in Scotland', chiefly typescript copies of letters and documents., 2nd quarter of 18th century-early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.7188C
Dates:
2nd quarter of 18th century-early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and photographic plates collected by James Bell Salmond for the 1st and 2nd editions of his ‘Wade in Scotland’; with correspondence and press cuttings concerning the book.
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Material collected by James Bell Salmond for his 'Wade in Scotland', chiefly typescript copies of letters and documents, but with some extracts from periodicals.
Material collected by James Bell Salmond for his 'Wade in Scotland', chiefly typescript copies of letters and documents, but with some extracts from periodicals., 4th quarter of 17th century-1936.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7188A-7188C
Material concerning antiquarian matters chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott., 17th century-early 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.901-908
Dates:
17th century-early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Material concerning the Constables of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.31
Scope and Contents
(i) `De Constabulariis fet officio Constabularij Angliae`, 1628. A collection of material compiled by Sir James Balfour on the duties and powers of the Constables, including copies of charters and other documents, mostly from the Cotton Manuscripts. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Copy of royal commission to report on the office of High Constable of Scotland, 1627. (Folio 41.)
Dates:
1627-1628.
Material deposited with George Hogarth, Writer to the Signet, relating to the dispute between Robert Cadell, publisher of the Waverley Novels, and Ballantyne and Company, printers, about the quality and price of the printing of ‘Guy Mannering’ by Sir Walter Scott., 1829-1830.
File
Identifier: MS.6290, folios 173-219
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copies of correspondence between Robert Cadell and Ballantyne and Company (folio 173), and of a letter, 1829, of Ballantyne and Company, appealing to the proprietors of the Waverley Novels (folio 193);
A draft of a Memorial of Ballantyne and Company, presenting their case (folio 201), and the answer of Counsel, signed John Hope, 1830 (folio 213).
Dates:
1829-1830.
Material extracted from the papers placed in MS.3134 (xi): Letters of Sir Walter Scott to Thomas Thomson and other material relating to Scott., [1831, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3168-3169
Material for a biography of Thomas Carlyle, part, at least, of which was collected by Frederick Martin., 1821-1877, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2884
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters of Mary Carlyle Aitken and others to Frederick Martin, regarding his biography of Thomas Carlyle, 1877. (Folio 1.)(ii) Poems, apparently in the early handwriting of Jane Welsh. (Folio 13.)(iii) Copies of correspondence, 1821-1856, chiefly of letters of Jane Welsh and Emerson to Thomas Carlyle. (Folio 18.) Some of the letters of Jane Welsh are copied from originals placed in MS.2883.(iv) Copies of letters...
Dates:
1821-1877, undated.
Material for 'Hidden doors' by Neil Gunn., [1929, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27482
Scope and Contents
The material consists of typescripts of the stories 'The White Hour' and 'Gentlemen' (folio 2), and printed copies of 'The Moor', 'Between Headlands', 'Hidden Doors' and 'The Sleeping Bins' (folio 21). There are a few manuscript corrections throughout.
Dates:
[1929, or before.]
Material for the 'Life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott., 1789-1828.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.883-890
Dates:
1789-1828.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
Material on the Rossetti family., 1826-[1931], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.15874
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Corrected typescript of an article by John Purves, ‘Dante Rossetti and his godfather Charles Lyell of Kinnordy’, published in the ‘University of Edinburgh journal’ (folio 1);
(ii) Extracts from and notes on letters, 1826-1837, of Gabriele Rossetti to Charles Lyell (folio 12);
(iii) Copies of letters, 1876, 1882, undated, of Christina Rossetti to Alice Boyd. (folios 35, 65);
(iv) Copies of letters, 1868-1880, of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Miss Alice Boyd of...
Dates:
1826-[1931], undated.
Material relating to Bibi Salimah, including copies of 'The story of Bibi Salimah', undated; a copy of correspondence of Bibi Salima to her brother, with translation, circa 1883; and related correspondence of John Kirk and other individuals, 1875-1883., 1875-1883, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.9942/20
Scope and Contents
Material relating to Bibi Salimah, sister of the Sultan of Zanzibar who married a German and fled Zanzibar.Typescript (2 copies) of 'The story of Bibi Salimah'.Manuscript account of the life of Bibi Salima (different text to the above).Copy of Bibi Salima's letter to her brother the Sultan, [noted on the translation to be circa 1876, but in reality circa 1883] and two English translations of this.Letters relating to Bibi Salimah:2...
Dates:
1875-1883, undated.
Material relating to Thomas Muir, the political reformer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3824-3829
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Materials towards ‘Caledonia’ by George Chalmers.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.2.3-20.2.9
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of notes and extracts, mostly from published sources, together with some correspondence, and a number of fair copies of early versions of parts of the text. Many of the items, particularly the fair copies of the text, are in the hand of Chalmers’s nephew James Chalmers. The letters are dated between 1794 and 1805: the other writings are undated but watermarks visible in the leaves are dated within this period.
Dates:
?1794-?1805.
Materials used for and letters concerning ‘The Life of Thomas Ruddiman, A.M. ... to which are subjoined New Anecdotes of Buchanan’ by George Chalmers., 18th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.21.1.11-21.1.12
Dates:
18th century.
Medical recipes of the family of Erskine of Alva., 17th century-18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5112
Scope and Contents
The contents include a treatise, 1656, on the making of plasters (folio 1), a copy of Dr Hermann Boerhaave's prescriptions for powders for a fever (folio 68), and a photostat of a prescription, undated, by Jon Macolo, physician to James VI (folio 70).
Dates:
17th century-18th century.