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:
Poetry workbook, volume V, of Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1946-January 1951.
Item
Identifier: MS.26117
Poetry workbook, volume VI, of Sydney Goodsir Smith., March 1951-1953.
Item
Identifier: MS.26118
Poetry workbook, volume VII, of Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1954-1971.
Item
Identifier: MS.26119
Poetry workbooks of Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1942-1973.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26116-26120
Scope and Contents
Part of a numbered series of notebooks containing drafts of poems. some of the poems are annotated with the place and date of their first publication in periodicals. MSS.26116—26117 also contain notes from Goodsir Smith's reading.
Dates:
1942-1973.
Poetry worksheets of Tom Pow., 1969-1996.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12233/52-59
Poetry worksheets of Tom Pow, and translations from Washington Delgado, a Peruvian poet., 1969-1996, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12233/52-60
Dates:
1969-1996, undated.
Political and administrative papers, 1701-1720, undated, of Sir David Dalrymple, with undated miscellaneous verses., 1701-1720, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25280
Scope and Contents
The political and administrative papers particularly concerning Sir David Dalrymple's offices as Solicitor-General for Scotland and Lord Advocate. Included are drafts for memorials on the economy and Scottish politics following the Act of Union (folio 1). The miscellaneous verses begin on folio 70.
Dates:
1701-1720, undated.
Positive Photostat of a manuscript containing Gaelic poetry collected by the Reverend James McLagan (MacLagan MS.73 in Glasgow University).
Item
Identifier: MS.14950
Scope and Contents
The photostat includes a portion which once formed part of National Library of Scotland MS.3784.
The Photostat of the manuscript was catalogued by John Mackechnie as follows.
Mackechnie, page 424 (MacLagan MS.73 a-b) (folios 1-4);
Mackechnie, page 324 (NLS MS.3784 (2), numbers 3, 4, 1, 2, 4, 5 in that order) (folios 5-8);
Mackechnie, page 424 (MacLagan MS.73 c-n) (folios 9-12).
Dates:
[Circa 1755.]
Postcards, christmas card, typescript verse, photographs and proofs of and relating to Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13681
Scope and Contents
1). Postcards, christmas card, typescript verse, press-cuttings and proofs, 1896-ca.1960, undated.i. Postcards, 1896-1903, undated.ii. Christmas card, early 20th century.iii. Typescript verse of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, undated.iv. Press-cuttings, 1949, undated.v. Proofs, 1956, of `Literary Landmarks of Scotland`, articles by Isobel Wylie Hutchison for the `National Geographic` magazine.2. Photographs, ca.1900-1962,...
Dates:
1896-1962, undated.
Preaching-book of John of Grimestone, a Franciscan friar from Norfolk.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.21
Scope and Contents
The sermon topics are arranged alphabetically, with an index at the beginning (folios 7-9); the heading and number of each is repeated at the top of each page. The last three in the index (numbers 141-143, De Vsura, De Vita, De Veste) are missing from the text. The topics are predominantly in Latin, a very few in French, and consist of quotations (from the Bible, classical authors, especially Cicero and Seneca, the Fathers, and medieval authors) and moral tales and happenings. Interspersed...
Dates:
1372.
Presentation note, undated, of Thomas Carlyle to Mrs Welsh (apparently torn out of a printed work).
File
Identifier: Acc.8405
Scope and Contents
With copy of verses, 1924, of John Masefield.
Dates:
1924 and undated.
Press cuttings, poetry readings, dinner invitations and events to mark the centenary of the birth of T S Eliot., September 1988.
File
Identifier: Acc.13861/94
Press primarily relating to Ted Hughes collected by Peter Butter., 1997-1998.
File
Identifier: Acc.13634/73
Dates:
1997-1998.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Research papers and literary correspondence between Peter Butter and various correspondents relating to his work on Edwin and Willa Muir, William Blake, Francis Thompson and other writers.
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Research papers of Peter Butter relating to his work on William Blake, George MacDonald, Francis Thompson and other writers.
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Research papers of Peter Butter relating to his work on various writers.
Printed and other miscellaneous material, chiefly relating to military matters., 1834-1863, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.2877
Printed and other miscellaneous material, chiefly relating to military matters., 1834-1863, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2877, (i)-(xix), (xxi)
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) ‘Proclamation for a Tournament’, held at Corfu, 1834, in Greek, English, and Italian.(ii) Proclamation relating to the Rebecca Riots in Brecon, 1843.(iii) ‘Rules and Regulations to be observed on the occupation of cells of approved construction’, issued by the Adjutant-General, November 1844.(iv) ‘Exercise with Heavy Shot, as a means of enforcing a sentence of hard labour’, undated.Numbers (iii) and...
Dates:
1834-1863, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, chiefly of General Sir George Brown, Knight Commander of the Bath, with those of other members of his family, residing at Linkwood, Elgin.
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Printed and other miscellaneous material, chiefly relating to military matters.
Printed books owned and annotated by George Campbell Hay., 1867-1970.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26754-26792
Scope and Contents
Some of the books also contain drafts of his poems.
Dates:
1867-1970.
Printed books, pamphlets, offprints and periodicals., 1939, 1946-1983, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9271/1138-1140
Scope and Contents
The works are inscribed by the author, or contain a letter from the author.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1939, 1946-1983, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including manuscripts, typescripts and proofs, of Professor Alexander Norman Jeffares, English literature scholar.
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Miscellaneous material including publications, slides, notebooks, typescripts, leaflets and press cuttings.
Printed, but unpublished, pages of the suppressed preface and biographical note to the "Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, and her second husband, the Hon. George Berkeley; from 1712 to 1767", edited by John Wilson Croker., 1824.
File
Identifier: MS.42147
Scope and Contents
The suppressed preface and biographical note would appear from the title page to have been intended to accompany volume 2 of the work. However, this would seem to have been as a result of an error in the setting-up of the title page, which ought to have shown "Vol. I". This suggestion is confirmed by the volume note printed to accompany each signature. This would also conform to the logical position of such matter in a publication, and indeed, the position of the related material...
Dates:
1824.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning John Wilson Croker.
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Manuscripts of reviews for the "Quarterly Review" by John Wilson Croker; with pages from "Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, and her second husband, the Hon. George Berkeley", edited by Croker.
Printed copy of "The Estate of Poetry" by Edwin Muir.
File
Identifier: Acc.12172
Scope and Contents
Includes letters to Willa Muir of (1) T S Elliot, 1962 (2) Helen Sutherland, 1963; with two other Edwin Muir volumes.
Dates:
1962-1963.`
Printed Gaelic battle song and elegy on the death of Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine., ca. 1804 and 184
Item
Identifier: MS.14877
Scope and Contents
A folder of miscellaneous material, containing:[Anonymous]. A printed battle song headed "Brostuchadh cogaidh do chlannuibh Gaidheal 'sna bliannuibh 177-8, 1803-4 nuair a thug na Francaich ionnsuidh air Breatuinn agus Eirinn; agus fa leath do 'n Lochraidh-dheonach. Air fonn, 'O cuir a nall am bodach.'" Begins ''S mithich dusgadh, chlanna-Gaidheal, / 'S buill a' chatha ghlacadh dana.' 25 stanzas of 4 lines, with a refrain of 4 lines beginning 'O Chlanna-Gaidheal chugnuibh, / I...
Dates:
ca. 1804 and 184
Printed items with notes or proof corrections in the hand of William Soutar., 1912-[Before 1944.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8768-8770
Dates:
1912-[Before 1944.]
Printed menu of the dinner given for James Maclehose, as editor of the 'Scottish Historical Review', with associated correspondence inserted at the back.
File
Identifier: MS.9592
Scope and Contents
The letters are to James Maclehose and George Neilson from various people, including Peter Hume Brown, the historian, and Sir Herbert Maxwell. There is also a page of verse by W P Ker, written for the occasion (folio 5).
Dates:
1909.
Printed poems of Dr Archibald Pitcairne, some with notes in his hand, and printed 'Information for the Earl of Roxburgh and Mr. William Ker, his brother, against John, Lord Ballenden'., 1712-1714, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3584
Printer’s copy of the text of Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’, in the hand of the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of Lochbroom, tutor in Edinburgh., [1796 or after.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.4.1-73.4.3
Scope and Contents
Each of the manuscripts is watermarked 1796.
Dates:
[1796 or after.]