Poetry.
Found in 2772 Collections and/or Records:
Letters of Basil Bunting to Gael Turnbull, with typescript draft of "Briggflatts".
Letters of Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling and Ellen Kean., 1868, 1897, undated.
Letters of David Black to James Greene, with related literary papers.
Letters, 1977-2014, of David Black to James Greene; with some typescript poems of David Black and a paste-up of an unpublished collection of his poetry edited by James Greene.
Letters of Diana Hendry to William Scammell, including many enclosed poems.
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.
Letters of Francis Head, mostly to John Murray II., 1830-1836.
Letters of Gael Turnbull to Matthew and Ruth Mead.
Includes inscribed copy of "A Perception of Ferns".
Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford.
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.
Letters of Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux.
With letters to Lord Stuart de Rothesay, the Duc de Broglie and Marquis de Lafayette.
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.
Letters of James Hogg, with "Prince Charles’ March" a poem, undated, in Hogg’s autograph., 1818-1820, undated.
Letters of John Davidson, the poet, to John Lane, and to Grant Richards.
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).
Letters of John Ferguson, banker and poet, Stirling, with newspaper-cuttings of poems by him and notices and poems about him., 1921-1928, undated.
Letters of John Hill Burton, of his first wife Isabella Lauder, and of his mother, Mary., 1829-1843, undated.
Letters of Muriel Spark to Frances Cowell with related correspondence and photographs.
Letters of R L Stevenson to W E Henley with a poem by Stevenson (first line: 'The Gods are dead. Perhaps they are. God knows') and the proof of a woodcut made by Stevenson at Davos in 1882.
Letters of Robert Garioch Sutherland to the poet and journalist, Sydney Tremayne., 1967-1976, undated.
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.
Letters of Ronald Campbell Macfie to Mairi Campbell Ireland., 1930-1931, undated.
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.
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to John Murray II., 1812-1825.
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".
Letters of Sir Walter Scott to Robert Southey, Charles Erskine and other correspondents., 1807-1830, undated.
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.
Letters of Sydney Durward Tremayne to John Smith, the poet and literary agent, discussing Tremayne's relations with the Poetry Society., 1961-1965.
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).
Letters of T W Eason to Janet Adam Smith, some including poems by him., 1948-1952.
Letters of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland.
Letters of Thomas and Jane Carlyle., 1823-1874, undated.
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).