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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notes added as comment or explanation, such as those accompanying an entry in a bibliography, reading list, or catalogue intended to describe, explain, or evaluate the publication referred to.

Found in 581 Collections and/or Records:

Poems by David Macbeth Moir, some of them versions of work published in "Blackwood's Magazine" and elsewhere, with some notes and related matter., 1822-1849.

 File
Identifier: MS.6520
Scope and Contents

The manuscript was for a time in the hands of Thomas Aird, editor of ‘The poetical works of D.M. Moir’ (Edinburgh, 1852), and critical and other comments, in his hand and initialled, appear throughout the volume.

A detailed note on the contents has been placed at the beginning of the volume.

Dates: 1822-1849.

Poems of John Dunlop of Gairbraid., 1853-1856.

 File
Identifier: MS.9273
Scope and Contents

Most of the manuscript consists of 'Rhymed Reason', a didactic poem annotated by the author.

Dates: 1853-1856.

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.

Political papers of Patrick Chalmers of Auldbar (died 1854), who contested Montrose district of burghs unsuccessfully in 1832, and was returned as Member of Parliament for the constituency at the next election in 1835, resigning in 1842., 1830-1836.

 File
Identifier: MS.15467
Scope and Contents The volume contains: (i) Election papers and addresses, 1832 (folio 1); (ii) Printed parliamentary papers with manuscript notes, including lists of members; copies of Acts etc. (folio 21); (iii) Papers concerning reform (folio 75); (iv) Papers, 1836, concerning the Scotch Municipal Bill (folio 84); (v) Papers, 1831-1836, concerning the Hypothec Bill (folio 88); (vi) Papers, 1836-1837, concerning the Salmon Fisheries Bill (folios 162); (vii) Papers concerning prisons (folio 178); (viii)...
Dates: 1830-1836.