Articles.
Found in 908 Collections and/or Records:
Letters addressed ‘to the Editor’ or ‘to the Author’ of the ‘Mirror’ collected by William Finlay Watson., 1779-1780.
Included is an article on opinions about the ‘Mirror’ in the handwriting of Henry Mackenzie, the editor (folios 103-109).
Letters and articles relating to A S Arnot of Calabar., 1915-1926.
Letters and articles relating to A S Arnot of Calabar., Circa 1920.
Letters and manuscripts of Donald Whyte.
Letters and papers concerning honours bestowed on Thomas Carlyle.
Letters and papers of and concerning the Pasley family., 1838-1861.
The contents are as follow: (i) Letters, 1844-1848, 1860-1861, of Lady Tyler to Charles Pasley (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous family letters, 1838-1855, undated (folio 288); (iii) Copy, 1928, by Amelia Tyler of a report in the ‘Broad Arrow’, November 1838, describing the conferring of the freedom of the City of London on Sir Charles Pasley (folio 316).
Letters and papers of Sir Charles H Firth, and of his wife, Lady Frances Firth, to Professor David Nicol Smith., 1909-1939, undated.
The contents are as follows.
(i) Letters and papers, 1909-1936, undated, of Sir Charles H Firth. Many of the letters take the form of brief notes but the papers include manuscripts and typescripts of reviews and articles. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Letters and papers, 1926-1939, undated, of Frances, Lady Firth, mostly concerning the disposal of Sir Charles's books. (Folio 186.)
Letters and papers of Sir David Wilkie., 1802, 1811-1812, undated.
The contents consist of part of a poem in the hand of Sir David Wilkie, inscribed, 'The following lines were written upon an accidental visit to the Church Yard at Walmer, near Deal, 2 Sept., 1802' (folio 69); two letters of Wilkie to Mrs Coppard, 1811-1812 (folio 71); two pages folio, numbered 5 and 6, apparently from a rough draft of an article by Wilkie on the best means for encouraging young artists, undated (folio 75).
Letters and papers of Thomas Carlyle, with a few of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle and others.
Letters and papers relating to the publication of articles and reviews by Alasdair Gray., 1962-1986.
Letters, articles and notes of David Alan Robertson to Janet Adam Smith, 1948-1999, containing his letter to President Kraushaar, March 1961., 1948-1999.
Containing annotated note listing some originals already sent to the National Library of Scotland and carbon copies supplied by Susan Robertson.
Letters, articles and press cuttings concerning Clan Gleneil., 1996-2002.
Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott., 1792-1831, undated.
The contents are as follows: letters, 1792-1801, of Sir Walter Scott and his wife to the Marquess of Downshire or with reference to him; letters, 1807-1831, of Scott to the Ballantynes; and a few letters of Scott to other persons.
Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, and a fragment in Scott's hand of an article which was published in the ‘Edinburgh Weekly Journal’, 7 February 1821, over the signature 'A Modest Whig'., 1818-1823.
Letters, copies of letters and other material relating to James Henry Leigh Hunt; with letters of John Hunt and John Horatio Leigh Hunt., 1816-1843, undated.
Letters, field diary, copies of off prints of articles, and map relating to the Oxford-Cambridge natural history expedition to St Kilda., 1910, 1931-1933.
Letters, mainly to various officials in the Board of Health from scientists, inventors and manufacturers., 1855-1860.
Included among the correspondents are the chemist Sir Henry E Roscoe, the inventor Sir Charles Wheatstone, and the engineer Sir William Fairbairn.
A considerable number of printed items have been bound into the volume and are mainly reports and articles on various heating and ventilating systems, including a few in French.
There are also some of John Francis Campbell`s notes on experiments relating to heating and ventilation, with diagrams.
Letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.
Letters of, and an article by, Robert D Macleod.
Letters of and to Edward Bulwer Lytton; with a manuscript of an article for the "Quarterly Review" by Lytton., 1834-1864.
Letters of and to Ethel Bassin, 1960-1969; with a copy of an article 'Lucy Broadwood, 1858-1928', by Ethel Bassin, published in 'Scottish studies', volume 9, 1965, and related typescripts, background notes and correspondence., 1960-1969.
Correspondents include John Lorne Campbell of Canna, Frank Howes, Lecturer at the Royal College of Music, and Janet Gnosspelius, the architect and Stanley Cursiter.
Letters of and to John Francis Campbell, mainly relating to his acquisition of apparatus for solar experiments, particularly glass spheres., 1879-1882.
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.
Letters of Sir Compton Mackenzie to Douglas Ainslie, 1912-1913, and St John Adcock, 1926, with the typescript of a brief article, 'What I would rather do', undated., 1912-1913, 1926, undated.
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to John Murray II, with a letter each to John Murray III and to "Mrs. Austin". Included is an article, 1985, concerning Carlyle`s "Sartor Resartus" in relation to John Murray., 1831-1850, 1985.
Letters of Thomas Hardy to Sir George B Douglas, 5th Baronet of Springwood Park, near Kelso, Roxburghshire.
As well as giving his impressions of contemporary literary figures, Hardy discusses poetry and frequently mentions both his own and Douglas's work including the reception in 1895-1896 of 'Jude the Obscure'.
The letters are followed by a typescript of Sir George Douglas's article, 'Thomas Hardy: personal reminiscences’.