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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 of Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling and Ellen Kean., 1868, 1897, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.5406 (xvii), folios 224-233
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Two letters of Charles Dickens, one, 1868, to Henry Taylor, and one, undated, to the Countess of Blessington; (ii) Two letters from Rudyard Kipling to William Henley, one, 1897, containing the rough draft of an apparently unfinished poem beginning 'Porter of dross', and one, undated, containing an early version of the poem beginning 'My new cut ashlar takes the light';(iii) A letter, undated, from Ellen Kean to R H Wyndham,...
Dates: 1868, 1897, undated.

Letters of David Black to James Greene, with related literary papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13573
Scope and Contents

Letters, 1977-2014, of David Black to James Greene; with some typescript poems of David Black and a paste-up of an unpublished collection of his poetry edited by James Greene.

Dates: 1977-2014.

Letters of Diana Hendry to William Scammell, including many enclosed poems.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13165
Scope and Contents

These letters are one half of a correspondence between two poets who regularly submitted recent work to one another for comment. Though rich in comment on literary matters, the letters are also very personal in nature.

Dates: 1975-2000.

Letters of Gael Turnbull to Matthew and Ruth Mead.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12476
Scope and Contents

Includes inscribed copy of "A Perception of Ferns".

Dates: 1993-2004.

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.

Letters of Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8655
Scope and Contents

With letters to Lord Stuart de Rothesay, the Duc de Broglie and Marquis de Lafayette.

Dates: 1821-1830 and undated.

Letters of Hugh Blair and George Chalmers concerning the poems of Ossian, with the poem 'An Gaisgeach' ('The Hero') by Dugald Buchanan., 1782-1804, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3408
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letter, 1782, of Hugh Blair, perhaps to the publisher W Strahan, apparently on the publication of his ‘Lectures’ (London, 1783), and the exclusion therefrom of his ‘Critical dissertation on the poems of Ossian’ (London, 1765). (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter, 1787, of Blair to Robert Burns, containing a reference to Blair's part in the publication of Ossian; written in reply to the letter of Burns announcing his departure from Edinburgh (number...
Dates: 1782-1804, undated.

Letters of John Davidson, the poet, to John Lane, and to Grant Richards.

 File
Identifier: MS.3356
Scope and Contents

Letters of John Davidson to John Lane 1894-1908, undated, about his own writings and illustrating his moods and character (folio 1); and to Grant Richards, 1902, 1909, enclosing two poems, 'Ode on the Coronation of Edward VII' and 'Song for the Twenty-fourth of May' (folio 34).

Dates: 1894-1909, undated.

Letters of John Hill Burton, of his first wife Isabella Lauder, and of his mother, Mary., 1829-1843, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.9413
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, 1829-1835, of John Hill Burton to his mother, chiefly of a personal nature. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letters, 1829-1842, undated, of Burton's first wife, Isabella Lauder, to her mother, together with a few letters to her from various friends and relations. These letters were written chiefly before her marriage. There is also what appears to be a guest list for her wedding, and ten poems apparently written by her, being signed 'I.L.'....
Dates: 1829-1843, undated.

Letters of Robert Garioch Sutherland to the poet and journalist, Sydney Tremayne., 1967-1976, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26673
Scope and Contents

The letters discuss in a lively fashion Sydney Tremayne's and Robert Garioch Sutherland's poetry (some copies of Sutherland's verses are enclosed), their fellow poets, current affairs, and Sutherland's other activities. Some of the letters are incomplete.

Dates: 1967-1976, undated.

Letters of Ronald Campbell Macfie to Mairi Campbell Ireland., 1930-1931, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.19326
Scope and Contents

Ronald Campbell Macfie writes about mutual friends and acquaintances and discusses poetry at some length, both his own and that of others. Drafts of two of his poems, 'High Lands and High Ladies' and 'The Aberdonian' are included (folios 65-72). The correspondence is followed (folio 123) by other manuscript, typescript and printed poems, most of which were published in ‘The complete poems of Ronald Campbell Macfie’, 1937.

Dates: 1930-1931, undated.

Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to John Murray II., 1812-1825.

 File
Identifier: MS.42062
Scope and Contents

Included with the letters are two manuscripts by Coleridge :

(1) "Glycines Song"; and,

(2) the last verse ("Dark as a dream Lord Julian stood ... Lies bleeding on the glade") of the ballad, "Alice du Clos".

Dates: 1812-1825.

Letters of Sir Walter Scott to Robert Southey, Charles Erskine and other correspondents., 1807-1830, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.15971
Scope and Contents

Also included are some lines from 'Glenfinlas' (not in Walter Scott's hand), a spurious memorandum purporting to be by Scott and two portraits.

Part of the letter to John Clarke Whitfeld was published by Sir Herbert J C Grierson in ‘The letters of Sir Walter Scott’, volume iii, page 194.

Dates: 1807-1830, undated.

Letters of Sydney Durward Tremayne to John Smith, the poet and literary agent, discussing Tremayne's relations with the Poetry Society., 1961-1965.

 File
Identifier: MS.26704, folios 1-24
Scope and Contents

The letters are followed (folio 14) by corrected typescripts of some of the poems published in ‘The turning sky’ (London, 1969), and ‘The swans of Berwick’ (London, 1962).

Dates: 1961-1965.

Letters of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26672-26674

Letters of Thomas and Jane Carlyle., 1823-1874, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3823, folios 224-276
Scope and Contents

The contents include a letter of Edward Irving, 1827 (folio 226); the verse, 'Simon Brodie had a cow', in Thomas Carlyle's handwriting, 1849 (folio 240); a draft of Carlyle's letter to David Laing on a proposed exhibition of Scottish historical portraits, 1854 (folio 247); and a fragment of an account by Carlyle of his early life, undated (folio 271).

Dates: 1823-1874, undated.