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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Literary compositions prepared for publication as an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, encyclopedia, or other work.

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.

 File
Identifier: MS.598
Scope and Contents

Included is an article on opinions about the ‘Mirror’ in the handwriting of Henry Mackenzie, the editor (folios 103-109).

Dates: 1779-1780.

Letters and manuscripts of Donald Whyte.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10431
Dates: 19th century to 20th century.

Letters and papers concerning honours bestowed on Thomas Carlyle.

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Identifier: MS.1795
Scope and Contents The contents concern the following:Membership of the Gesellschaft für in- und ausländische schöne Literatur in Berlin, 1830, 1835 (folio 1); of the Orden der Wachsamkeit, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1859 (folio 7); of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1866 (folio 16); and of the Prussian order, Pour le Mérite, 1874 (folio 18); with a letter forwarding an article published in the ‘Deutscher Reichs- und Königlich-Preussischer Staats-Anzeiger’ in honour of Thomas Carlyle's birthday, 1875...
Dates: 1830-1875.

Letters and papers of and concerning the Pasley family., 1838-1861.

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Identifier: MS.9883
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1838-1861.

Letters and papers of Sir Charles H Firth, and of his wife, Lady Frances Firth, to Professor David Nicol Smith., 1909-1939, undated.

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Identifier: MS.19601
Scope and Contents

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.)

Dates: 1909-1939, undated.

Letters and papers of Sir David Wilkie., 1802, 1811-1812, undated.

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Identifier: MS.3278, folios 69-75
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1802, 1811-1812, undated.

Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott., 1792-1831, undated.

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Identifier: MS.2525-2527
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1792-1831, undated.

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.

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Identifier: MS.43450
Scope and Contents When first made available for consultation this folder of letters, before it was foliated, contained a letter of John Higgs Hunt to John Murray II, dated 1819. This letter has now been moved to Ms.40591 ff.115-116. Part of a letter of Lord Byron to James Henry Leigh Hunt, 1816: folios 1-2;Press cuttings concerning Lord Byron and James Henry Leigh Hunt from the ‘Examiner’ and ‘Literary Gazette’, 1821 and 1828: folios 3-6;Article, ?1930s, entitled 'A...
Dates: 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.

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Identifier: Acc.11628/218
Scope and Contents Containing:(i) Letters (1 each), 1931, from father of John Norman Stuart Buchan and from Sir Reginald MacLeod of MacLeod, then proprietor of the islands.(ii) Field diary while on St Kilda, July 1931.(iii) Copies of off prints of articles produced by the expedition John Norman Stuart Buchan, T H Harrisson and David Lack, ‘The early autumn Migration at St Kilda in 1931’ from The Scottish Naturalist, January-February, 1932; and Harrisson and J A Moy-Thomas,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1910, 1931-1933.

Letters, mainly to various officials in the Board of Health from scientists, inventors and manufacturers., 1855-1860.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.51.1.15
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1855-1860.

Letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.9
Scope and Contents The collection chiefly concerns Scotstarvet`s patronage of literature and learning, and political events on the continent.Symbols have been written in an unidentified hand, apparently of late 17th century provenance, in the upper left-hand corner of many of the letters; their meaning is not known. Leaves from a lost ‘album amicorum’ of Scotstarvet have been identified in folios 101-112. They contain inscriptions to him with mottoes, or classical extracts, by a number...
Dates: 1617-1668, undated.

Letters of, and an article by, Robert D Macleod.

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Identifier: MS.9997
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters,1930-1956, undated, to Robert Macleod, chiefly in his capacity of editor of ‘Library review’. The writers include J M Builoch, R B Cunninghame Graham, and Donald Carswell. Most of the correspondence concerns articles for ‘Library review’, but there is also material on a memorial to Cunninghame Graham, and a number of autobiographical notes requested by Macleod in 1932. (Folio 1.) (ii) Typescript, 1957, of an unpublished article by Macleod entitled...
Dates: 1930-1957, undated.

Letters of and to John Francis Campbell, mainly relating to his acquisition of apparatus for solar experiments, particularly glass spheres., 1879-1882.

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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.

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.

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Identifier: MS.42058
Scope and Contents Folios 1-2 : letter, 1850, of Thomas Carlyle to "Mrs. Austin"; 3-16 : letters, 1831, of Thomas Carlyle to John Murray II; 17-18 : letter, 1842, of Thomas Carlyle to John Murray III; and, 19-46 : article (folios 38v-40r), "John Murray`s reader and the rejection of `Sartor Resartus`", by Thomas Richardson. The article is in the "Carlyle Newsletter", number 6, Spring 1985. The newsletter has been inscribed by Tom Richardson to Virginia ...
Dates: 1831-1850, 1985.

Letters of Thomas Hardy to Sir George B Douglas, 5th Baronet of Springwood Park, near Kelso, Roxburghshire.

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Identifier: MS.8121
Scope and Contents

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’.

Dates: 1887-1924, undated.