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:
Miscellaneous poems of William Soutar published in newspapers or periodicals, chiefly in corrected typescript., 1925-1932.
File
Identifier: MS.8607
Dates:
1925-1932.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of poems of William Soutar.
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Miscellaneous poems of William Soutar published in newspapers or periodicals, chiefly in corrected typescript.
Miscellaneous poems of William Soutar published in newspapers or periodicals, chiefly in corrected typescript., 1933-1937.
File
Identifier: MS.8608
Dates:
1933-1937.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of poems of William Soutar.
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Miscellaneous poems of William Soutar published in newspapers or periodicals, chiefly in corrected typescript.
Miscellaneous prose and verse collected by the Rymour Club., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3769
Miscellaneous purchases.
File
Identifier: MS.20766
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Correspondence, 1802-1815, undated, of and concerning R B Sheridan (including letters of Sir John Macpherson and Samuel Whitbread, and material on the Drury Lane Theatre) and his son Thomas (including descriptions of a journey to Edinburgh and of Madeira); a poem, 1772, of Sheridan to his future wife; and various notes and press cuttings, 1788-1914, undated, on Sheridan and his works (folio 1);
(ii) Letters, 1922-1928, of Sir James G Frazer to William...
Dates:
1772-1930, undated.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
Series
Identifier: MS.10335
Dates:
1651-1907, undated.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
File
Identifier: MS.10279
Scope and Contents
The material is predominantly literary and is chiefly confined to the 19th century. Among the more notable items are:Seven letters of Allan Cunningham, 1828-1840, chiefly to Captain Charles Gray of the Royal Marines, with an undated manuscript of the poem 'The standard bearer' published in ‘Poems and songs’ (London, 1847) by Cunningham, under the title 'The Cavalier' (folios 43-59);Papers of James Hogg, including manuscripts of his poems 'A Scottish ballad', circa...
Dates:
1592, 1723-1891, undated.
Miscellaneous single letters and small collections of correspondence chiefly of nineteenth century literary and scientific figures.
File
Identifier: MS.11000
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes groups of letters, 1846-1858, of George Combe to Robert Dunn (folios 19-38), of James Nasmyth to Henry Bicknell, son-in-law of the painter David Roberts, 1859-1879 (folios 140-176), of John Rae, the Arctic explorer, to Gladys Holman-Hunt, 1883-1893 (folios 186-223), and of James J Maclntyre to his brother Patrick, vividly describing a voyage from Liverpool to Buenos Aires, 1818-1821 (folios 98-121). A letter, 1846, of the poet David Stevenson includes one of his...
Dates:
19th century.
Miscellaneous single letters of, to, and concerning Sir Walter Scott, with related papers., 1808-1838.
File
Identifier: MS.3653, folios 147-215
Scope and Contents
The contents include: letters of Sir Walter Scott to various correspondents; the 'Advertisement' to the first edition of 'Rob Roy'; and an 'Extempore poetical dialogue betwixt two Edinr. shopkeepers', 1822, in Scott's hand; letters to Scott of Matthew Weld Hartstonge, Maria Edgeworth, and Sir Robert Peel; and correspondence, 1838, of Lockhart and Peel on busts of Scott.
Dates:
1808-1838.
Miscellaneous single letters, poetry, etc., of celebrities, collected by Allan Park Paton., 1762-1900, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3219
Scope and Contents
Among the writers are: Hugh Blair, writing of Ossian and of University matters, 1762 (folio 1); Robert Burns, part of a letter to Mrs McLehose (Clarinda) (published), 1787 (folio 3); 'An American gentleman', probably the Reverend Heman Humphrey, on the field of Waterloo, 1835 (folio 36); Principal Alexander John Scott, a sonnet, 'Harold complains that mountain-climbers find', ?1844 (folio 58); Lord Dufferin, commending Ebenezer Wyse, who navigated the ‘Foam’ to Iceland, etc., on the voyage...
Dates:
1762-1900, undated.
Miscellaneous small collections of letters and papers.
File
Identifier: MS.1006
Dates:
1620-1837, undated.
Miscellaneous typescript poems, chiefly undated, of William Soutar., [1917-1942.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8617-8622
Dates:
[1917-1942.]
Miscellaneous verse, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott., 17th century-early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.895
Scope and Contents
The contents include:(i) Ancient Scottish prophecies, in a 17th-century hand (folio 1);(ii) Part of the ‘Flyting betwixt Polwart and Montgomery’, in Sir Walter Scott’s hand (folio 11);(iii) Poem by Sir William Hamilton of Whitelaw on Viscount Stair (folio 19);(iv) Laxo’s Lines, dated Lunnasting, 1720, probably transcribed by William Henderson, Junior, of Papa Stour (see MS.907) (folio 26);(v) Poems by Francis Stuart, 1732-1735...
Dates:
17th century-early 19th century.
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.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Material concerning literary matters, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Miscellaneous verse, presumably original, in the hand of John Hill Burton and that of his wife Isabella., [Before 1882.]
File
Identifier: MS.9429
Dates:
[Before 1882.]
Miscellaneous verses, of the Burnett family of Monboddo., 1804-1816, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24601
Dates:
1804-1816, undated.
Miscellaneous volume containing notes and studies on the Bible, together with a variety of astrological, historical and cosmographical writings.
File
Identifier: MS.8187
Scope and Contents
Also included are a quantity of amorous and other verse, some anecdotes, and an article on the 1st Marquess of Montrose. It may have been compiled by one Samuel Brett, otherwise unknown, whose name appears on folio 318 verso, but more probably by several people, there being several contemporary hands (in different inks) exhibited by the leaves, which vary in size, and which contain a number of unrelated watermarks.The volume was compiled in the latter half of the seventeenth...
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century.
Miscellaneous works of Thomas Ruddiman and prayers in another hand., 1690.
File
Identifier: MS.20494
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is labelled ‘RA, XI, XIII’.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Themes to be discussed by Thomas Ruddiman, dated Kal. Mai. MDCXC; and verses. (Folio 1.)
(ii) 'Aenigmata et versus hinc inde collecta', written by Ruddiman, with Greek alphabets added. As well as Ruddiman's signatures there is a note 'James Rudiman aught this book' on folio 24. (Folio 17.)
(iii) Prayers in another hand. (Folio 25.)
Dates:
1690.
Miscellanies of papers of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson., [?1854-?1908], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.20028
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Letters and papers previously loosely enclosed in or pinned to the leaves of MS.20027 (folio 1); (ii) Poems, notes and other papers found amongst the correspondence in MSS.20025-20026 (folio 44); (iii) Papers concerning Richard Burdon-Sanderson (died 1865) formerly contained in MSS.20029-20030 (folio 89); (iv) Draft memorandum, undated, (with amendments) of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson’s father by Jane C Burden Sanderson (folio 97).
Dates:
[?1854-?1908], undated.
Miscellanous papers of Annie Isabella Dunlop, including a commonplace book, research notes, poetry, printed material, and photographic negatives., 1801, 1968, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6568/62-68
`Miscellany collections out of the Registers of the justiciary parliament and containing historical and genealogical Collections`, a transcript, late 17th century, partly in the hand of Robert Mylne, of the historical part of Sir Lewis Stewart`s collections, compiled early in the 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.11
Scope and Contents
Compared with Stewart`s own manuscript (Adv.MS.22.1.14), this transcript has several additional texts (which also mostly appear in the other transcript, Adv.MS.34.3.12); as only a few of these can ever have been in Adv.MS.22.1.14, it is likely that this transcript was not made from it, but from a lost expanded version; and if the Lues Stewart mentioned on folio 145 as a borrower of books is Sir Lewis, the expansion may not have been by him.The correspondence between the two...
Dates:
1134-[circa 1627].
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Series
Identifier: MS.20311
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
‘Morah or, the Witch of Holborn Head. A tale of the sixteenth century, collected from the traditions still handed down in Caithness', by A Stewart, 1824., 1823-[circa 1846], undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.2073
Scope and Contents
Also included are a letter of the author, 1824 (page 115), and poems, 1823, 1829, undated (page 119). From page 28, the manuscript is in the hand of a copyist, 'J.S.'. 'Some remarks on the Second Advent', signed 'W.C.', circa 1846, are inserted at page 131.
Dates:
1823-[circa 1846], undated.
'Morning Poem, composed at Blackhall in the wood of Airds’ by John Lowe., 1772.
Item
Identifier: MS.896
Dates:
1772.
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.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Material concerning literary matters, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
`M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. V`, being mainly a continuation of the scripts and editorial material for inclusion in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 3., 1860-1861.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Laoidh Dhiarmaid`: Gaelic version, not published in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 3, transcribed by Hector MacLean from Janet Currie, South Uist, 1860. On folio 1 verso are notes by MacLean of remarks about ‘Ossianic’ poetry by Alphonse de Lamartine and Wilhelm von Humboldt. (Folio 1.)(ii) `Dan an Deirg`: Gaelic words of the first stanza and music, as received from Mrs MacTavish, Islay, 1861. ‘Popular Tales...
Dates:
1860-1861.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871.
Music book of M Carter, containing the words and melodies (occasionally with bass) of songs from late 17th- and early 18th-century operas.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.20
Scope and Contents
Composers include Handel, Henry and Daniel Purcell, Pepusch, Leveridge, Carey, Hayden etc. The collection also contains English country dances arranged for violin, and scraps of poetry by Milton, Pope, and others. The name M Carter, and the date 1719 appear inside the front cover.
Dates:
1719-circa 1750.