Poetry.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms. (AAT) All poetry, except ballads, was indexed under this heading in the published catalogues. (NLS) .
Found in 2772 Collections and/or Records:
Account of the trial of Alexander Wilson, the weaver-poet and ornithologist, at the instance of William Sharp, in connexion with his poem ‘The Shark’.
File
Identifier: MS.493
Scope and Contents
In accordance with the order of the Sheriff-Substitute, Alexander Wilson publicly burned two copies of the poem at the Tolbooth, Paisley. Bound with a printed copy of ‘The Shark’, 1792.
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Accounts of Sir Walter Scott and other documents relating to him., 1760-1838.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.916-922
Dates:
1760-1838.
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.
Adam Drinan, "The Process of Writing Verse" (being a typescript of poem, "The Trossachs"), with typescript notes and comments.
File
Identifier: Acc.4552
Dates:
circa 1968.
‘Africa’, a poem of T E Leonard Jones, whose climax is a eulogy of David Livingstone., 1860.
Item
Identifier: MS.20311, folios 94-98
‘Album', compiled by James Hopkirk, Dalbeth., 1826.
Item
Identifier: MS.3062
Scope and Contents
A collection of curious facts, comic anecdotes, verse, etc., chiefly of Scottish interest, including 'Manners of the inhabitants of Glasgow in former times' (folio 31) and a list of proverbs (folio 35).
Dates:
1826.
Album containing pencil drawings, water-colours, and poems by Edward Lear., 1829, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3321 [H.S.954]
Album containing verses by Andrew Elliot, Admiral John Elliot, the 1st Earl and Countess of Minto, George Ellis and the Countess of Malmesbury., 1791-1797.
Item
Identifier: MS.12823
Dates:
1791-1797.
Album labelled, 'Letters &c. from 1791 to 1796 from George Ellis, Esq., to his [half-] sister Elizabeth Lindsay, afterwards Mrs. Schutz', but really a commonplace-book, containing poems, riddles, etc., of Ellis and others., 1791-1796.
Item
Identifier: MS.2907
Scope and Contents
Poems ascribed to George Ellis occur on folios 16 verso-20, 28 verso-39 verso. A list of letters of Ellis to Miss Lindsay, found loose, has been pasted on to folio 1. The name 'E. Lindsay' appears on folio ii verso and that of 'Aug. Schutz' on folio 26 verso.
Dates:
1791-1796.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Item
Identifier: MS.10306
Scope and Contents
A draft title-page (folio 24) suggests that in 1850 Adam White was proposing to publish a work on 'Weeds and wild-flowers loved by Wordsworth', and the first part of the album contains a collection of materials towards this purpose: drawings and engravings of wild flowers with some specimens of pressed flowers, newspaper-cuttings, and copies of letters and poems of Wordsworth.The collection of information is then extended to include other poets: Coleridge, Cowper, Southey,...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-?late 19th century.
Album of caricatures by John A Hipkins: '6. Musicians'., 1876-1929, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2924
Scope and Contents
The caricatures are preceded by a letter of Sir George Henschel enclosing a poem written by him on the death of John A Hipkins, 1933.
Dates:
1876-1929, undated.
Album of Eliza Boothby containing verses and drawings by various hands.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12164
Dates:
1835.
Album of Elizabeth Johnston containing drawings and verses by her friends., 1842-1871, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.26259
Dates:
1842-1871, undated.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Album of occasional verse, verse epistles, etc., apparently by Lady Frances Scott, afterwards Baroness Douglas.
Item
Identifier: MS.3814
Dates:
1762, 1774-1782.
Album of poetry compiled by Isabella Farquharson Will.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6844
Scope and Contents
Containing lithographs of Frederick Schenck, Edinburgh.
Dates:
1852.
Album of verse by Sir Gilbert Elliot., 1745-1777.
Item
Identifier: MS.12816
Dates:
1745-1777.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Literary papers, music and drawings of various members of the Elliot of Minto family.
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Papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet.
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Albums of verse by Sir Gilbert Elliot.
Album of verse by Sir Gilbert Elliot., 1745-1777.
Item
Identifier: MS.12817
Dates:
1745-1777.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Literary papers, music and drawings of various members of the Elliot of Minto family.
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Papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet.
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Albums of verse by Sir Gilbert Elliot.
Album of verse by Sir Gilbert Elliot., 1745-1777.
Item
Identifier: MS.12818
Dates:
1745-1777.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Literary papers, music and drawings of various members of the Elliot of Minto family.
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Papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet.
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Albums of verse by Sir Gilbert Elliot.
Album of verse by Sir Gilbert Elliot., 1745-1777.
Item
Identifier: MS.12819
Dates:
1745-1777.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Literary papers, music and drawings of various members of the Elliot of Minto family.
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Papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet.
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Albums of verse by Sir Gilbert Elliot.
Album of verses and charades of the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1829-1844.
Item
Identifier: MS.12834
Dates:
1829-1844.
Album of verses and masques, chiefly by the 1st Earl of Minto., 1798-1803.
Item
Identifier: MS.12824
Dates:
1798-1803.
Album of verses, chiefly by Lady Charlotte Mary Elliot., 1836-1853.
Item
Identifier: MS.12836
Dates:
1836-1853.
Album of verses in various hands of members of the Minto family., 1805.
Item
Identifier: MS.12826
Dates:
1805.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Literary papers, music and drawings of various members of the Elliot of Minto family.
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Papers of the Earls of Minto and other members of the family.
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Albums of verses in various hands of members of the Minto family.
Album of verses in various hands of members of the Minto family., 1806.
Item
Identifier: MS.12827
Dates:
1806.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Literary papers, music and drawings of various members of the Elliot of Minto family.
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Papers of the Earls of Minto and other members of the family.
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Albums of verses in various hands of members of the Minto family.