Inscriptions.
Found in 182 Collections and/or Records:
Inscribed copy of Jessie Cormack, "The Spell".
with additional poems in typescript.
Inscribed copy of Stewart Conn, "Thunder in the Air: Poems" (1967).
Includes letter of Conn to Alexander Reid, on literary matters.
Inscribed copy of "The Tree" (Dunfermline, 1977), by Tom Scott.
Includes three related letters of Tom Scott to John Stewart Collis, 1978.
Inscribed copy of William A Younger, "Madonna and Other Poems" (1935).
With two letters of Younger to Dennis and Joan Wheatley.
Inscribed presentation copy of Graham Seton Hutchison, "Kitchener the Man" (1943), to Edmund Blunden, with accompanying letter.
Inscribed presentation copy of ‘Hints to the sick, the lame, and the lazy: or Passages in the life of a hydropathist, by a Veteran’ by Thomas Dundas, (London, 1847) with a letter from Dundas to W T Bree, 1847, tipped in.
Inscription, 1894, by Captain Haig (afterwards Earl Haig), with a note on the duties of instructors, in a copy of Carl von Schmidt, ‘Instructions for the training, employment and leading of cavalry’ (London, [1881]), presented by him to a Squadron Sergeant-Major of the 7th Hussars., 1894.
Inscription, 1905, of Meredith Nicholson to Lucy J Rose, in his ‘House with the thousand candles’ (Indianapolis, 1905)., 1905.
Inscription of Alfred Edgar Coppard, in his ‘Adam & Eve & pinch me’ (Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1921)., [1921, or after.]
Inscription of AW Evans to Hugh Sharp, in his translation, ‘Penguin Island’ (London, 1909)., 1931.
Inscription on the headstone of the Reverend Andrew Lothian with a list of persons at his funeral., 1831.
`Inscriptiones funebres virorum doctrina, probitate, virtute, clarorum, qui hoc aevo decessere`, compiled by Sir Robert Sibbald, being a collection of funerary inscriptions and elegies of Scots, some composed by Sibbald himself, with a few other poems.
Interleaved copy of Abraham Welling ‘Repetitio Institutionem Juris Civilis’ (Trajecta ad Rhenum, 1740), with notes and cartoons by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., Mid 18th century.
The volume is inscribed 'David Dalrymple'. There are some pages missing.
Interleaved copy of Hugo de Groot ‘In Questionis Redacti de Jure Belli ac Paris, Lib III', (1688), annotated by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1688, 1746.
Journal of a tour in the western counties of Scotland by Miss Archibald Montgomerie Williamson, later Lady Fairfax.
Letter, 1931, of Percy H Muir to Hugh Sharp, on bibliographical matters, inserted in his ‘Points, 1874-1930’ (London, 1931), which contains an inscription to Sharp., 1931.
Letter book of General James St Clair concerning the War of the Austrian Succession., 1747.
The letters are written from Vienna and Turin where General St Clair served as special envoy. Inscribed at front 'Lord Hailes'.
Letter of Sir Hugh Walpole to William Roughead tipped into a copy of ‘The cathedral’ by Walpole (London, 1922)., 1922.
Letters and papers pasted or inserted loose in printed books, inscriptions written in books, etc., in the Hugh Sharp Collection.
'Letters from Admiral Lord Nelson to Hercules Ross Esq., of Rossie' with inscription of Hercules de Lautour Ross, circa 1891.
Letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.
Letters of and relating to Douglas Young. The recipient was Lord Robertson.
The letters mainly date from shortly after Douglas Young`s death in 1973. Correspondents include David Murison and Wilfred Taylor concerning a memorial publication. With related papers, one photograph and an inscribed copy of Young`s "Auntran Blads" (1943).
Letters of Gael Turnbull to Matthew and Ruth Mead.
Includes inscribed copy of "A Perception of Ferns".
Letters of Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux.
With letters to Lord Stuart de Rothesay, the Duc de Broglie and Marquis de Lafayette.
Letters of Jane Carlyle Aitken, four of her daughter, Mary, and others of the Carlyle family.
With a copy of "The Saints` Everlasting Rest (1833), inscribed by Thomas Carlyle, and an engraved portrait of him.