Acrostics.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Short poems or prose compositions in which text is arranged so that the first letters of each line form a word, phrase, or motto.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Acrostic, 1876, of Lewis Carroll to Marion Bessie [Terry], written on the half-title of ‘The hunting of the snark’ by Carroll (London, 1876); a letter, 1876, of Carroll to Marion Terry is inserted.
File
Identifier: MS.10287 [H.S.262]
Scope and Contents
A letter from Lewis Carroll to Marion Terry, 1876, is inserted in the volume.
Dates:
1876.
Letters and papers of George Francis Stewart Elliot., 1853-1876.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19471-19472
Scope and Contents
George Francis Stewart Elliot was the son of Gilbert, 2nd Earl of Minto.
Dates:
1853-1876.
Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13344
Scope and Contents
Letters, 1986-1994, of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Grawford; with manuscript and typescript poems and acrostics, 1986-1995; uncorrected typescript, 1986, of "The Ballad of the Golden Bird"; sketchbook, 1985, of Kenna Crawford containing manuscript poem of George Mackay Brown.
Dates:
1986-1995.
Photocopies of cards, acrostics, poems and stories of George Mackay Brown, sent as birthday greetings to Alan, son of Peter and Betty Grant; with some birthday acrostics to the parents.
File
Identifier: Acc.13125
Dates:
1974-1995.
Poems of George Mackay Brown, including acrostic poems, and other poems included in Christmas cards.
File
Identifier: Acc.14441
Dates:
1977-1986.