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:
Letters, 1762-1788, undated, chiefly drafts and copies, and miscellaneous papers, 1722-1788, undated, including a fragment of the diary kept by Mickle on his visit to Portugal in 1779-1780, of William Mickle., 1722-1788, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.15936
Dates:
1722-1788, undated.
Letters, 1794-1840, to Thomas Graham, including letters of Barbarina Wilmot, later Baroness Dacre (with a poem, 1802, to celebrate his return to England), 1st Duke of Wellington and 1st Viscount Hill., 1794-1840.
File
Identifier: MS.16428, folios 1-10
Letters, 1812-1852, to William Menzies, his wife Elizabeth and their son James.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11488
Scope and Contents
Includes letters and papers, 1679-1834 and undated, concerning the Robertsons of Struan, and poetry in English and Gaelic, undated.
Dates:
1679-1852 and undated.
Letters, 1878-1888, of William Maccall, apparently to E J Collings, with two poems of Maccall (entitled 'The Hidden Manna' and "Brahma's Cradle"), correspondence, 1890, 1893, of Collings regarding the letters, and a number of press cuttings concerning Maccall and his acquaintance with the Carlyles.
File
Identifier: MS.1805
Dates:
1878-1893.
Letters, 1904-1930, chiefly addressed to the Reverend John Stirton, and relating to his ‘A day that is dead', and to Captain Archibald Chisholm of Glassburn and other persons mentioned therein, with a poem addressed to Mrs Chisholm, 1872; inserted in a copy of ‘A day that is dead' (Forfar, [1929])., 1872, 1904-1930.
File
Identifier: MS.3065
Dates:
1872, 1904-1930.
Letters, 1949-1952, undated, of James J Guthrie to Carl Boivie, concerning the products of the Press, both men's work and the art of fine printing, with copies of some of Boivie's replies and a few additional miscellaneous items, 1952,1956, undated., 1949-1956, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19624
Scope and Contents
In 1949 Boivie purchased the type of the Pear Tree Press, using it to set up the Caravel Press.
Dates:
1949-1956, undated.
Letters, 1975-2012, of David Craig to John Manson, with some typescript poems and prose; letters, 2004-2012, of various correspondents mainly relating to Hugh MacDiarmid and Scottish literature.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13857
Dates:
1975-2012.
'Letters amorous, complementall, consolatorie, informing, militarie, historicall’: copies or drafts of letters of William Drummond of Hawthornden, in his hand, with a few letters of other persons, 1605, undated., 1605, 1626, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2061
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains:'Of impresas' (folio 128);
'A dedication of some poems to Cragmiller' (folio 131);
'Of change of religion' (folio 136 verso);
'In praise of the allegorie in poesie' (folio 143);
'For the geneologie of the house of Drummond' (folio 144 verso);
'In praise of letters' (folio 147);
'New-Scotland' (folio 148);
'The Hermitage' (folio 151);
'Discourse in commendation of kinglie government', 1626 (folio 159);
Speeches, etc., connected with the visit of Charles I...
Dates:
1605, 1626, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Hawthornden Manuscripts: original papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
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Manuscripts of William Drummond of Hawthornden.
Letters and copies of letters of and to James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, with other papers., 1918-1971, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26109
Letters and drafts of poetry of Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1955-1987, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26674
Dates:
1955-1987, undated.
Letters and journals sent to Lady Anna Maria Elliot., 1807-1811.
File
Identifier: MS.11102
Scope and Contents
The journals contain pencil and pen and watercolour sketches, and some verses, and were sent by Captain (later Major-General Sir) Thomas William Taylor, Military Secretary to the 1st Earl of Minto in India, to Lady Anna Maria Elliot. They describe the journey of the Minto party to India, their life and travel there, the voyage in the invasion fleet to Java via Penang and Malacca, the British conquest and occupation of the Dutch colonies, and life in Java.
Dates:
1807-1811.
Letters and other documents, and a photograph and autograph album, formerly preserved at Yester House.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14829-14830
Dates:
1572-1964, undated.
Letters and papers chiefly concerning the families of Forbes and Skene., 1622-1713.
File
Identifier: MS.1704, folios 2-8
Scope and Contents
Letter of Elizabeth Sinclair, Lady Sinclair, to Lord Forbes, 1622; fragment of a covenant with the Almighty signed by John Skene of Skene, 1677, l680; covenant with the Almighty by John Forbes of Balfluig, 1697; memoranda of Colin Campbell, Minister of St Nicholas, Aberdeen, 1703; poem on the union of the Parliaments, circa 1707; letter, 1713, of George Skene of Skene, Rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen.
Dates:
1622-1713.
Letters and papers found loosely enclosed in the 'Memorial' of Margaret Constable., 1878, 1901-[1902.]
File
Identifier: MS.23236
Letters and papers, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland., 1231-1641.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.8
Scope and Contents
The subjects include the case brought by John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, against Robert Wallace; the ‘Second Book of Discipline’; the Act of Revocation; and the protests against the Service-book. Most of the papers concerning the Covenant have been published more than once, and some appeared as contemporary pamphlets.Copy of a charter, 1360, granted by David II to the Bishop of Aberdeen; in Latin (folio 1). - This was printed from Adv.MS.16.1.10 in ‘Registrum episcopatus...
Dates:
1231-1641.
Letters and papers of and concerning John Leyden.
File
Identifier: MS.971
Scope and Contents
The contents include: letters of John Leyden chiefly to William Erskine, 1797—1811, undated (folio 1); poems of Leyden, some apparently unpublished (folio 95); letters to Erskine and others regarding Leyden, written after his death, 1811-1826 (folio 120); and cuttings from Indian newspapers, 1811-1812 (folio 179). Also included are an account in Leyden's hand of the story of Duke Richard Sans Peur and the Company of Hellequin, apparently used by Scott in the essay ‘On the Fairies...
Dates:
1797-1826, undated.
Letters and papers of Rachel Armand Taylor (1876-1960), poet and journalist, who was a student of Herbert Grierson's at Aberdeen University in the 1890s and with whom he kept up a lifelong correspondence., 1895-1946.
File
Identifier: MS.9328
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Letters, 1895-1946, of Rachel Taylor to Herbert Grierson in which she discusses her work and other literary and personal matters (folio 1);(ii) Manuscripts and typescripts of poems by Taylor (folio 67); some of these were published in ‘Some poems’ (London, 1904), and in ‘The end of Fiammetta’ (London, 1923), but the rest, including 'East Coast' (folio 133) and the typescripts dated 1945-1946 (folios 138-167), appear to be...
Dates:
1895-1946.
Letters and papers of Ronald Campbell MacFie, poet and physician (died 1931), who was a friend and contemporary of Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University., [Circa 1895-1931, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.9329
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, circa 1895-1896, and one of 1927, of Ronald MacFie to Herbert Grierson, concerning personal matters, MacFie's pacifism, metaphysics, and chiefly poetry. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letters to Grierson concerning MacFie, written after his death in 1931 by various correspondents, chiefly common friends. (Folio 87.)(iii) Manuscripts and typescripts of MacFie's poems, including a fragment of the first proof of ‘Collected Poems’...
Dates:
[Circa 1895-1931, or after.]
Letters and papers of Sir David Wilkie., 1802, 1811-1812, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3278, folios 69-75
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of part of a poem in the hand of Sir David Wilkie, inscribed, 'The following lines were written upon an accidental visit to the Church Yard at Walmer, near Deal, 2 Sept., 1802' (folio 69); two letters of Wilkie to Mrs Coppard, 1811-1812 (folio 71); two pages folio, numbered 5 and 6, apparently from a rough draft of an article by Wilkie on the best means for encouraging young artists, undated (folio 75).
Dates:
1802, 1811-1812, undated.
Letters and papers of Sydney Durward Tremayne (1912-1986), the poet and journalist.
File
Identifier: MS.26704
Dates:
1961-1968, undated.
Letters and papers of the geologist, Leonard Horner, and of his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2213-2222
Dates:
1782-1880.
Letters and papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which, on his death, came into the hands of John Blackwood as his executor., 1825-1869.
Series
Identifier: MSS.4895-4934
Letters and poems of Alastair Reid, and letters of Harry Hoehn to Ruthven Todd., 1960-1973, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26818
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) The letters and poems of Alastair Reid, 1960-1973, undated, begin on folio 1. They mostly concern his work and travels, and his son Jasper, but a few also discuss Todd's projects. (ii) The letters of Harry Hoehn, 1967-1972, undated, begin on folio 57. Hoehn was a printmaker who taught at Long Island University, New York. His letters concern his different projects and techniques of making prints.
Dates:
1960-1973, undated.