Publications.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents distributed to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.
Found in 1006 Collections and/or Records:
Letters of and concerning Charles Darwin, with a file copy of the first edition of Darwin`s, "On the origin of species by means of natural selection"., 1843-1881.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42152-42154
Scope and Contents
The seminal work of naturalist Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), 'On the origin of species by means of natural selection', was published by John Murray in 1859. Most of the works by Darwin appeared through the house of Murray and the items in this series relate to these publications.There are over 200 letters of Darwin, mainly to John Murray [III], although there are some to other correspondents. These detail the publication process of the works of Darwin, their reception and...
Dates:
1843-1881.
Letters of and to John Francis Campbell, mainly relating to his acquisition of apparatus for solar experiments, particularly glass spheres., 1879-1882.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.8
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include various opticians and civil engineers whose assistance Campbell required.
There are also several letters from Donald Macleod, editor of ‘Good Words’, concerning proposals for publication of articles by Campbell.
Printed items include an article on ‘The Sun’ by Professor Roscoe, ‘The Sun and the Earth’ by Professor Balfour Stewart and ‘Dioptric Apparatus in Lighthouses for the Electric Light’, by James T Chance, a civil engineer.
Dates:
1879-1882.
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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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
Letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Neil Hanson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13601
Scope and Contents
Letters and copy letters, 1981-1983, of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Neil Hanson; with related papers and publications. Neil Hanson was Exhibitions Officer at Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery at the time, and had approached Finlay about possible involvement in a proposed ‘Cumbrian Landscape Exhibition’ and related book (presumably Presences of nature: words and images of the Lake District, published by the Gallery in 1982). The early correspondence chiefly concerns the possibility of commissioning...
Dates:
1981-1983.
Letters of Matthew Urlwin Sears to Messrs A and C Black and Co, with a letter of Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the hand of Charles Beecher, to Messrs A and C Black and Co, inserted into a copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853).
File
Identifier: MS.50256
Scope and Contents
Estimate, 1852, supplied by R and R Clark, printers, for production costs for a half-crown illustrated edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (folio 1).Copy of a memorandum, 1852, between A and C Black and Co and Matthew Urlwin Sears concerning the production of woodcuts for the illustrated edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (folio 2).Letters, 1852-1853, of Matthew Urlwin Sears to A and C Black and Co concerning the production and supply of woodcuts for the illustrated editon of...
Dates:
1852-1853
Letters of Professor Alexander McCall Smith, 2007-2022
File
Identifier: MS.50717
Scope and Contents
Letters and greeting cards of Professor Alexander McCall Smith to Lucinda Mackay regarding social occasions, invitations, shared cultural interests, writing projects, and news of family life. Correspondents also include McCall Smith's wife Elizabeth and his assistant Lesley Winton. File also includes poems written and presented by McCall Smith to Lucinda Mackay for her birthdays in 2012, 2021, and 2022; brief correspondence concerning a filmed interview undertaken between Mackay and McCall...
Dates:
2007-2022
Letters to Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, and an instruction-book of his son Charles.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15381-15382
Dates:
1801-1815.
Letters written by John Williams, mineral engineer, to the Earl of Buchan, bound at the end of Williams’ 'An account of some remarkable ancient ruins lately discovered in the Highlands .. .in a series of letters' (Edinburgh, 1777).
File
Identifier: MS.996
Scope and Contents
With notes on John Williams by the Earl of Buchan, and a modern transcript of a fourteenth 'letter' not printed in the book.
Dates:
1790, undated.
'Letters Written on Board His Majesty's Ship the Northumberland and at Saint Helena' (London: R. Ackermann, 1816), by William Warden., 1816.
Item
Identifier: MS.50262
Scope and Contents
Inscribed on the half title, 'To Mr John Warden, the gift of his son Alexander Warden. Febry. 1817'.
Also included is a newspaper cutting (folio i)from the 'Times', July 14 1930, 'On this day', which prints a letter, 1816, concerning Napoleon and St Helena.
Dates:
1816.
'Lettres de Napoléon à Joséphine' 2 vols (Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1833)., 1833
Item
Identifier: Dep.353/24
"L’Hermite en Italie" (Paris, 1824)., 1824.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/1002
Dates:
1824.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Printed Works of, or belonging to, the Forbes, Stuart Forbes, and Trefusis Families.
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General printed works belonging to the Forbes family.
“Lieutenant Busk`s Rifle Target Register” (London, 1858)., 1858.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.29
Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton’s copy of ‘A large new historical Catalogue of the Bishops of the Several Sees within the Kingdom of Scotland Down to the Year 1688’ by Bishop Robert Keith (Edinburgh, 1755)., 1755.
Item
Identifier: MS.21197
Scope and Contents
This is one of two annotated copies of ‘A large new historical Catalogue of the Bishops of the Several Sees within the Kingdom of Scotland Down to the Year 1688’ by Bishop Robert Keith owned by Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton (the other is BL.Add.MSS.8143-4).
Dates:
1755.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Two copies of ‘A large new historical Catalogue of the Bishops of the Several Sees within the Kingdom of Scotland Down to the Year 1688’ by Bishop Robert Keith (Edinburgh, 1755) with manuscript annotations.
‘Life and letters of James Hogg’, volume i, by Alan Strout (Lubbock, 1946)., 1946.
Item
Identifier: MS.10493
‘Life and remains of Henry Kirke White’ by Henry Kirke White (London, 1852), with drafts of poems by David Gray on the covers., 1852.
File
Identifier: MS.8479
Scope and Contents
The poems of David Gray are written on the front and back paste downs and the front free endpaper.
Dates:
1852.
'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volume i, by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand., 1827.
Item
Identifier: MS.3358
'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volume ii, second edition, by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand., 1827.
File
Identifier: MS.3359
Scope and Contents
Inserted at page 353 is an anecdote of Talma, in the hand of C M Young.
Dates:
1827.
'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volume iii, by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand., 1827.
Item
Identifier: MS.3360
'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volume ix, second edition, by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand., 1827.
Item
Identifier: MS.3362
'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volume v, by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand., 1827.
File
Identifier: MS.3361
Scope and Contents
Inserted at page 400 is an extract from a letter of Luise, Frederick William III of Prussia's Queen, in an unidentified hand.
Dates:
1827.
'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volumes i-iii, v, and ix (ii and ix being of the second edition), by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3358-3362
Scope and Contents
The corrections, which are numerous in volumes i and ii, less numerous in volumes iii, and few in volumes v and ix, are apparently different from those in the interleaved volumes that were used for the preparation of the Miscellaneous Prose Works edition of the ‘Life’ (see prefatory Advertisement thereto).
Dates:
1827.
'Limekilns and Passagium Reginae' (Edinburgh, 1929), 'compiled under the instructions of the Right Honourable the Lord Wavertree of Delamere', annotated by George Algernon Fothergill., 1929.
Item
Identifier: MS.5310
Scope and Contents
The published book uses much of George Algernon Fothergill's material (MS.5309), but large parts have been omitted or rewritten.
Dates:
1929.
‘Links with Lady Nairne and the House of Gask’ (Forfar, 1930) by the Reverend John Stirton, with letters inserted, relating to the book and matters contained therein, with manuscript notes of the author inserted or written on the margin., 1826, 1908-1909, 1918, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3066
Scope and Contents
Contains an original letter of Sir Walter Scott, 1826 (number 3).
Dates:
1826, 1908-1909, 1918, undated.
List of authors connected with Perthshire and their works., 1835, [Before 1928.]
Item
Identifier: MS.478
Dates:
1835, [Before 1928.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers of Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson concerning bibliography.
'List of books and pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland' by James W Cursiter (Kirkwall, 1894), interleaved, with manuscript and printed addenda by James Shand.
File
Identifier: MS.9159
Scope and Contents
The very extensive notes include extracts from printed catalogues, and inserted at the end of the volume (folio 40) is a letter from James Cursiter to James Shand, 1921, acknowledging receipt of bibliographical notes by [Gilbert] Goudie.
Dates:
1894-early 20th century.