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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:

Marked and revised offprint of an article from the "Quarterly Review" : "Sterne" by Whitwell Elwin., ? 1853-? 1900.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42207
Scope and Contents Elwin`s article on Laurence Sterne was published in the "Quarterly Review", March 1854. The offprint has been bound in cloth covers and interleaved. Many of the pages have been marked with corrections and alterations. Certain passages have been re-worked on the interleaves. Included is a manuscript copy by Elwin of a letter, 1762, of Sterne to an unnamed recipient.The article was republished in Elwin`s, "Some XVIII century men of letters", under the following introduction :...
Dates: ? 1853-? 1900.

Material concerning Virginia Woolf sent to Edwin Muir by Leonard Woolf., 1925-1941, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.19673
Scope and Contents

The material consists of printed articles, reviews and press-cuttings, but also includes (folio 2) the typescript of E M Forster's "The novels of Virginia Woolf', published in ‘The New Criterion’ iv (1925-1926), pages 277-286, with manuscript corrections by Forster.

Dates: 1925-1941, undated.

Material on the Rossetti family., 1826-[1931], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.15874
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Corrected typescript of an article by John Purves, ‘Dante Rossetti and his godfather Charles Lyell of Kinnordy’, published in the ‘University of Edinburgh journal’ (folio 1); (ii) Extracts from and notes on letters, 1826-1837, of Gabriele Rossetti to Charles Lyell (folio 12); (iii) Copies of letters, 1876, 1882, undated, of Christina Rossetti to Alice Boyd. (folios 35, 65); (iv) Copies of letters, 1868-1880, of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Miss Alice Boyd of...
Dates: 1826-[1931], undated.

Materials relating to the reputation of Ian Rankin., 1972-2018, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.50559-50592
Scope and Contents

This series contains press, awards, and other papers relating to the reputation of Ian Rankin, regarding his career as a writer and his personal life.

Dates: 1972-2018, undated.

Memoranda and drafts or copies of some of Charles Robert Cockerell’s letters, together with letters or copies of letters of various correspondents., 1822-1829.

 File
Identifier: MS.638
Scope and Contents

The correspondents include: William Burn, ‘Grecian’ Williams, the Earl of Elgin, Sir Robert Liston, Captain Basil Hall, Sir Archibald Alison, Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, William Henry Playfair, and others.

Dates: 1822-1829.

Memoranda on relations with Spain and the Spanish Netherlands, with copies of correspondence and orders., 1604-1660, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.149
Scope and Contents Bound with printed copies of the Spanish treaties of 1604 and 1630 (London, 1605, 1630). Included are copies of the correspondence and orders of Don John of Austria, as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, relating to English (Royalist) shipping, etc., 1656-1659, undated, (passim), and of secret articles in treaties, 1604, 1656 (pages 94, 57-63) in English, Spanish and French. According to a pencilled note in a modern hand, the notes are of one of the Earls of Bristol, but some at least...
Dates: 1604-1660, undated.

Metrical version of the Psalms, by Thomas Foxton.

 File
Identifier: MS.635
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is inscribed: ‘Coningesby—Given me by Mr. Archer March—1752. Wrote by Thos. Foxton’. An article from ‘Notes and Queries’, 2nd series, volume ii, page 321, is inserted at folio i. The manuscript of this article, which is initialled J O, and a note on Thomas Foxton by Alexander Gardyne, are attached to the end-papers at the beginning of the volume.

Dates: [1752, or before.]

Microfilm chiefly of photographs and prints of works of Phoebe Anna Traquair.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.915
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Photographs of and printed articles concerning murals of Phoebe Anna Traquair, [1890-1948] (MS.8123);

Illuminated manuscript, 1895-1897, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (MS.8127);

Collotype prints of an illuminated manuscript, 1890-1892, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘In Memoriam’ by Alfred Tennyson (MS.8128).

Dates: [1890-1948.]

Microfilm of a Gospel lectionary, 11th century, and a typescript, 1968, of an unpublished article concerning the lectionary.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.485
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Gospel lectionary, 11th century, containing the synaxarion (week days, Saturdays and Sundays), menologion, and morning lessons (MS.9000);  

Typescript of an unpublished article, 1968, concerning MS.9000, a Gospel lectionary in Greek (MS.9000A).

Dates: 11th century, 1968.

Microfilm of letters and other papers of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.419
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Letters, [1823-1875], of Thomas Carlyle to various persons, with some written to him (MS.1796);Letters, [1833-1868], of Jane Welsh Carlyle to various persons, with some of Geraldine Jewsbury to Lady Amberley and of Margaret Welsh and Dr John Aitken Carlyle to William and Mrs Dods (MS.1797);Articles, notes, and fragments, 1767, [1832-?1871], in Thomas Carlyle’s autograph (MS.1798);‘Thomas Carlyle, Eine biographisch-literarische...
Dates: 1767-[1875].

Microfilm of letters and papers, 1826-1831, undated, of Sir Walter Scott and correspondence, 1831-1846, of his son Walter and Lady Scott, and some other papers.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15555 [Mf.MSS.63]
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Letters and papers of Sir Walter Scott, consisting of notes on Malta, undated, fragments of the manuscript of an article, 'Ancient history of Scotland' in ‘Quarterly review’, volume xli (1828), instructions for his will, 1831, and some letters, 1826, undated. (The letters from this collection which are published in ‘The letters of Sir Walter Scott’, edited by Sir Herbert J C Grierson (London, 1932-1937) or copies of which are included in MSS.1750-1753, are...
Dates: 1826-1846, undated.

Microfilm of manuscripts of Piobaireachd., [Circa 1916]-1943.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.939
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Photocopy of manuscript of John Grant, ‘Oide Piob Mhor nan Gaidheal’, (Highland Bagpipe Instructor), 1943 (Acc.8271), 219 frames;

G F Ross, ‘Article on Piobaireachd with a collection of 25 Tunes’ (1942) (Acc.8383), 107 frames;

Tunes for the bagpipe, [circa 1916-circa 1918], thought to have been collated by a Black Watch piper (Acc.8498), 75 frames.

Dates: [Circa 1916]-1943.

Microfilm of the correspondence and literary manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant (Adam Matthew, 1999).

 Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1209-1234
Scope and Contents

The content descriptions for each microfilm are taken from the catalogue descriptions of the original items and as such there may be variations between the contents of the microfilms and the descriptions provided.

The dates are taken from the accession records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.

Dates: ?19th century-[?1921].

Microfilm of the correspondence and literary manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant. Reel 5. ‘The quiet heart’, articles for “Blackwoods magazine”, ‘Annals of a publishing house’., [1854, or before-1898 or before.]

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1214
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Manuscript, [1854, or before], of chapters ix-xxxvii of 'The quiet heart' by Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (MS.4859);Manuscripts, [1855, or before-1898 or before], of various works of Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (MS.4860);Manuscript, [1897, or before], of part of ‘Annals of a publishing house: William Blackwood and his Sons’ by Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, consisting of the first twelve chapters of text, corresponding...
Dates: [1854, or before-1898 or before.]

Microfilm of the correspondence and literary manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant. Reel 20. Correspondence, articles, ‘The looker on’, letter of Margaret Oliphant to William Blackwood., [Circa 1852-circa 1897.]

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1234
Scope and Contents might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.The contents are as follows: Letter, circa 1860-1890, of Margaret Oliphant to William Blackwood (Acc.10329);Letter, circa 1885, of Margaret Oliphant, probably to Andrew Lang (Acc.7828);Letter, circa 1890-circa 1899, of Margaret O W Oliphant (Acc.5772);Corrected manuscript, 1897, of an article of Margaret Oliphant, ‘Recent books: French and English’, published in "Blackwood’s...
Dates: [Circa 1852-circa 1897.]

Microfilm of Nineteenth century literary manuscripts. Part 4. The correspondence and papers of J G Lockhart. Reel 18., [1817, or before]-1859.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1311
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Letters, 1849-1859, of John Gibson Lockhart, William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Brougham, and others, addressed chiefly to the Reverend Whitwell Elwin, on matters relating to the 'Quarterly Review' (MS.2262);    Poems, [1824, or after], of John Gibson Lockhart, in his hand: 'Farewell to the Year', from a German ‘Taschenbuch’ of 1828, and 'To the Virgin' and 'Prayer', from the Spanish (MS.3995);    Manuscript and corrected proof, [1819, or before], of the 'Postscript...
Dates: [1817, or before]-1859.