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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 and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.

 File
Identifier: MS.3115
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, poems, etc., of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet, to Peter Buchan, collector of Scottish ballads, Peterhead, 1828-1850, undated. The letters, which are in Laing's autograph, deal chiefly with literary matters of the day. Most of the poems (folios 4, 6, 10, 19, 23) appear later in published form.(ii) Poems and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell, in his autograph, with one letter to him, 1815-1865, undated. Several of...
Dates: 1815-1865, undated.

Letters and poems of George Bruce.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12186
Scope and Contents

Includes papers of Ian McNab concerning George Bruce and Fraserburgh.

Dates: 1993-2000.

Letters and poems of George Macdonald.

 File
Identifier: MS.9745
Scope and Contents

The letters, which include some from his wife Louisa, are written to Baron and Lady Mount-Temple. They mention George Macdonald's work, give news of himself and of his family, describe his surroundings in Italy, and contain many reflections on God and the next world. The poems (folio 95) are both manuscript and printed. There are also a few poems included in the letters.

Dates: 1862-1900.

Letters and poems of Marjory Fleming., 1811-1812, undated.

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Identifier: MS.1100
Scope and Contents

Contains letters of Marjory Fleming's mother, and of her cousin Isabella Keith.

Dates: 1811-1812, undated.

Letters and poems of Robert Hogg to John and Margaret Aitken.

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Identifier: Acc.13164
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of three autograph letters addressed by Robert Hogg (1802-1832), nephew of James Hogg the poet, to John and Margaret Aitken, mostly on his uncle`s affairs. It also contains two poems possibly addressed to Mrs Aitken.

Dates: 1822 and undated.

Letters and postcards, 1970-1980 and undated, of W.S. Graham to William Featherston, with a few letters of Nessie Graham and others; typescript, carbon typescript and photocopied typescript of draft sections of long poems, 1958 and undated, including `The Dark Dialogues` and `With the Dulle Griet in Canada`; silk screen print portrait of W.S. Graham by William Featherston; and CD and audio-cassette of BBC radio broadcast by W.S. Graham.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13163
Scope and Contents William Featherston, a Canadian artist, lived and worked in Cornwall during the 1960s. During this period he became a friend of Sydney and Nessie Graham. Featherston returned to Canada in 1971, and the friends corresponded over the next decade. The letters and cards are wide-ranging, intensely personal, and often enriched with Graham`s drawings and doodles. The sections of typescript poetry (some of it carbon typescript and photocopies) include draft passages from `The Dark Dialogues` and...
Dates: 1958, 1970-1980, and undated.

Letters and postcards of William Soutar to Mairi Campbell Ireland., 1934-1943, undated.

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Identifier: MS.19327
Scope and Contents

The subject matter is primarily contemporary poetry and literature, but William Soutar also mentions Mairi Campbell Ireland's own writing and broadcasting, and includes verses and riddles.

Dates: 1934-1943, undated.

Letters and postcards to Janet Adam Smith from literary friends, containing some poems and notes., 1955-1997.

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Identifier: Acc.13861/66
Scope and Contents

Some of the correspondents include: John Meade Falkner, 1956; Hugh Trevor-Roper, 1969; John Hewitt, 1981; Richard Usborne, 1984; Robert Robinson, 1984; Vikram Seth, 1988; Allan Massie, 1994; and Mogador Empson, on Hetta, Lady Empson, 1997.

Dates: 1955-1997.

Letters, and related typescripts, to Charles King, mostly of contributors to 'Twelve Modern Scottish Poets' and 'Twelve More Modern Scottish Poets'.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11661
Scope and Contents A collection of letters and typescripts of poems, mostly concerning Twelve Modern Scottish Poets (London: University of London Press, 1971) and Twelve More Modern Scottish Poets (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1986).Letters are to Charles King, unless otherwise stated.Typescript, 1984, of 'Accomplished Mission', a poem for Charles King by Jim Alison.Letter, 1972, written on behalf of Benjamin Britten.Letters, 1969-81, of George Mackay Brown....
Dates: 1965-1998, undated.

Letters chiefly of Scottish interest.

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Identifier: MS.2524
Scope and Contents Except one of Archbishop Leighton, the letters are of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Several are addressed to the Mures of Caldwell; others to Archibald Constable. Among the writers are Dr John Moore, Hugh Blair, David Hume, Bishop Percy, John Pinkerton, Dugald Stewart, Lord Jeffrey, Joanna Baillie, James Hogg (writing to 'M.L.', the anonymous author of two songs in ‘Jacobite relics’, second series (Edinburgh, 1821)), Mrs Grant of Laggan, Lord Cockburn, and John Gibson...
Dates: [?1673], 18th century-early 19th century.

Letters, chiefly of the first two Viscounts Melville and other Dundases.

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Identifier: MS.3834
Scope and Contents Many of the letters appear to have been addressed to John Wauchope, Writer to the Signet. Those of the 1st Viscount Melville are mainly drafts. The letters deal, among other matters, with family affairs, Scottish politics and appointments, the defence of Scotland, the affairs of the sons of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, and work done by Sir Francis Chantrey. Other papers include a draft petition in the name of the Scottish Representative Peers against the Bill for abolishing their election,...
Dates: 1719, 1771-1820, undated.

Letters collected by Allan Paton Park., 1799-1903, undated.

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Identifier: MS.3218
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters of R B Sheridan, undated (folio 1);(ii) Letters of Alexander Wilson, the ornithologist, to Charles Orr, 1799-1802, undated, with a silhouette of Wilson; most of the letters are published in A P Paton, ‘Wilson the Ornithologist’ (London, 1863) (folio 4);(iii) Lord Byron's family: bills of his mother, 1803, and of the poet himself, 1811, and letters of his daughter, 1839, and wife, 1844 (folio 33);(iv)...
Dates: 1799-1903, undated.

‘Letters from Sir Walter Scott to the Shortreeds’, i.e. to Robert Shortreed, Sheriff-Substitute of Roxburghshire, and his family., 1793-1831.

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Identifier: MS.856
Scope and Contents

The letters are almost all transcripts. They are mostly in the autograph of Andrew Shortreed, son of the Sheriff-Substitute, and are accompanied by explanatory notes and a covering letter (folio 8) with which he sent them to John Gibson Lockhart in 1837. They include a letter of Sir Walter Scott to Charles Kerr, 1794 (folio 13), one of John Elliot Shortreed, 1831 (folio 68), and a poem, ‘Head and Tail’ ascribed to Scott (folio 74).

Dates: 1793-1831.

Letters, manuscripts and typescripts of William Jeffrey., 1921-1946, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26895
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Letters to William Jeffrey from other poets and authors, 1921-?1944. (Folio 1.) They discuss their own and Jeffrey's work, and poetry in general. (ii) Manuscripts and typescripts of poems, 1925-1946, undated. (Folio 25.) The manuscripts include drafts and fair copies.

Dates: 1921-1946, undated.

Letters mostly of and to John Cam Hobhouse concerning a statue of Lord Byron., 1824-1845, undated.

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Identifier: MS.43533
Scope and Contents MS.43533 Letters mostly of and to John Cam Hobhouse concerning a statue of Lord Byron, 1824-1845, undated.These letters have been arranged in three sections: (i) Letters to John Cam Hobhouse relating to a statue of Lord Byron and a related pamphlet written by Hobhouse have been organised alphabetically by correspondent surname; (ii) Letters and notes of a sub-committee relating to a statue of Lord Byron (further folios relating to this have been added at folios 289-292 having...
Dates: 1824-1845, undated.

Letters mostly to Lord Byron of correspondents with surnames from Silvestrini-Tournier., 1810-1823, undated.

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Identifier: MS.43508
Scope and Contents The letters to Lord Byron have been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname. When first made available for consultation, before foliation, the wrapper of Sir George Sinclair had been housed in Ms.43449. It was moved to f.7 of this folder on cataloguing.Letters of Francesca (Fanny) Silvestrini to Lord Byron, 1819 and undated: folios 1-6;Wrapper of a letter probably of Sir George Sinclair to Lord Byron, 1813: folio 7;Letters of Constance...
Dates: 1810-1823, undated.

Letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.9
Scope and Contents The collection chiefly concerns Scotstarvet`s patronage of literature and learning, and political events on the continent.Symbols have been written in an unidentified hand, apparently of late 17th century provenance, in the upper left-hand corner of many of the letters; their meaning is not known. Leaves from a lost ‘album amicorum’ of Scotstarvet have been identified in folios 101-112. They contain inscriptions to him with mottoes, or classical extracts, by a number...
Dates: 1617-1668, undated.

Letters of Alfred Tennyson to John Murray III, with a marked proof of the poem, "Helen`s Tower"., 1859-1886.

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Identifier: MS.42570
Scope and Contents Folios 1-2 : letter, 31 October 1859, of Alfred Tennyson to John Murray III thanking him for having sent a copy of the "Quarterly Review";folios 3-4 : letter, 26 October 1886, of Alfred Tennyson to John Murray III thanking him for the gift of a set of casts of coins of the twelve Caesars.Folio 5 : marked proof, ? 1862 or before, of Alfred Tennyson`s poem, "Helen`s Tower". The poem was written at the request of Lord Dufferin for the folly he...
Dates: 1859-1886.

Letters of and concerning C M Grieve to Ernest Brooks and Barbara Niven.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12074
Scope and Contents

Includes typescript of "Mature Art".

Dates: 1936-1983.

Letters of and relating to Douglas Young. The recipient was Lord Robertson.

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Identifier: Acc.12914
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1944-1976.

Letters of and to Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10909
Scope and Contents

With typescripts, undated, of prose pieces and verse including "Prisoners at War", photographs and press-cuttings.

Dates: 1943 and undated.

Letters of and to Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell., 1935-1960.

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Identifier: MS.26079
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Letters, 1935-1959, of A Walter Marsden, chiefly concerning his own activities. Also included is an essay by Marsden on James Leslie Mitchell, with reminiscences of their meeting, and typescripts of some of Marsden's poems (folio l); (ii) Correspondence, 1935-1960, of John Muriel, the author 'John Lindsey'. It mostly concerns a proposed memorial volume to Mitchell, and includes letters from those asked to contribute (folio 35).

Dates: 1935-1960.