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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:

Miscellaneous art-related items., 1960-1996.

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Identifier: Acc.13861/54
Scope and Contents Containing: Copies of Christie’s and Sotheby’s Catalogues, 1960-1974, for the sale of Valuable Books, MSS and Works of Art, with Janet Adam Smith correspondence, notes and record of purchases of 7 items.Typed list ‘Catalogue of pictures belonging to Janet Carleton’, dated August 1972, with addenda dated April 1987.Loose pages from Christie’s catalogues, 1974-1982.Correspondence and accounts with Fine Art Auctioneers, including Phillips and...
Dates: 1960-1996.

Miscellaneous articles and lecture notes of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., [Circa 1895]-1947, undated.

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Identifier: MS.9321
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript lecture notes, undated, on the subject of 'Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists, Beaumont and Fletcher' (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript notes for a lecture entitled 'Pope and Tennyson', delivered to the Aberdeen Clerical Society, circa 1895; dated by Sir Herbert Grierson in 1944 (folio 13);(iii) Manuscript notes, undated, on Charles Dickens; possibly material gathered for a lecture or article (folio 76);(iv)...
Dates: [Circa 1895]-1947, undated.

Miscellaneous articles and notes, containing press-cuttings and correspondence., 1914-2005.

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Identifier: Acc.13861/58
Scope and Contents Containing:Press cuttings and printed reviews on articles and books on Scottish history, 1914-1969.Letters to Janet Adam Smith about miscellaneous articles written by her on Scottish history and literature, 1939-1982.Newspaper articles on Henry James, 1947-1955.Janet Adam Smith notes on Henry James and William James (nephew), including an article The Guerdon by Max Beerbohm, 1956-1972.Article, Mary Geraldine Dickins, by Janet Adam...
Dates: 1914-2005.

Miscellaneous correspondence and other papers.., 1816-1827.

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Identifier: MS.683
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Correspondence of and concerning Sir Walter Scott, 1816-1827 (folios 1-83);

(ii) Articles, memoranda, etc., of literary, historical, and topical interest (folios 84-120);

(iii) Circular letters regarding Edinburgh institutions (folios 121-128), prospectuses of books, etc., (folios 129-135), and legal papers, ancient and recent, etc., (folios 136-143).

Dates: 1816-1827.

Miscellaneous documents relating to the Ogleface Friendly Society, 1794-1875; with typescript copies, circa 1965, of newspaper articles, 1958, of Nan Milton.

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Identifier: Acc.3827
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Contract, 1794, of the Ogleface Friendly Society concerning the rental of property for a Hearse House (folio 1).(ii) Photograph of a printed sheet, 1795, "Conditions on which the Ogleface Friendly Society's Hearse is let out" (folio 3).(iii) 'Regulations of the Avonbridge New Hearse Society, instituted in 1842', printed, 1867 (folio 4).(iv) Fragments of minutes of the society, 1858, 1860, and the Treasurer's...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1795-1875, circa 1965.

Miscellaneous lecture notes and articles, chiefly by Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson, the majority of which are apparently unpublished., 1933-[1952], undated.

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Identifier: MS.9320
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Typescript, undated, of a lecture or article, with autograph corrections, entitled 'Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey, critics and essayists' (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript, 1933, of a lecture or article entitled 'Abraham Lincoln', apparently written on Herbert Grierson's return from America in that year (folio 26);(iii) Manuscript notes, undated, headed 'Lincoln', but apparently concerning Andrew Carnegie and American industry,...
Dates: 1933-[1952], undated.

Miscellaneous material collected by Peter Butter relating to his work on Edwin and Willa Muir. File 2., 1963-1987.

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Identifier: Acc.13634/54
Scope and Contents Box named ‘E.M miscellaneous documents relating to him’ by Peter Butter. Contains a photocopy of ‘Edwin Muir: A personal appreciation’ by Wilfred Taylor; press cuttings concerning Mui, 1987; extract concerning Muir from ‘Irina’s Garden’ by Stephen Spender; a photocopy of ‘Downhill All the Way’ by Leonard Woolf; a copy of ‘Edwin Muir’ from ‘Littérature de notre temps : Écrivains anglais et irlandais : Recuuil I’ by Georgette Dhume, 1973; a copy of ‘A Study of Edwin Muir’s ‘The...
Dates: 1963-1987.

Miscellaneous notes and articles of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., Early 20th century.

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Identifier: MS.9322
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript, undated, entitled 'On teaching poetry', being the text of a lecture delivered to a group of teachers at some time during Sir Herbert Grierson's tenure (1894-1915) of the Chair of English at Aberdeen (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript, undated of part of a bibliography of the works of Thomas Hardy compiled by R B H Thomson and presumably in his hand (folio 27);(iii) Manuscript, 1916, entitled 'Shakespeare Centenary...
Dates: Early 20th century.

Miscellaneous papers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.10
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Translation, 17th century, of Jan de Laet`s edition of ‘Lexicon Vitruvianum’. The beginning is missing; the text starts at `Abstantia` and breaks off at `Mataxa`. (Folio 1.)(ii) Article attacking the service-book, circa 1638. (Folio 51.)(iii) Manuscript, 1709, of ‘A Letter directed thus, for Mr James Lyon in Kirkwal’ by James Sands. (Folio 72.)(iv) Copy, late 17th century, of George Buchanan`s...
Dates: ?1595-18th century.

Miscellaneous papers of Alastair Reid., ?1956-1977.

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Identifier: MS.27464
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence, ?1956-1976 (folio 1). It consists of letters from literary figures, including Pablo Neruda and José Emilio Pacheco, about Alastair Reid's poetry and translations; there is also correspondence with Jonathan Cape abot 'Extravagaria' (London, 1972), 1971-1972). (ii) Miscellaneous papers, 1971-1977, including an article about Reid's poetry (folio 57).

Dates: ?1956-1977.

Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Archibald Irvine., 1922-1996, undated

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Identifier: Acc.12016/16
Scope and Contents

The papers include articles on Chogoria written by Archibald Irvine; photocopies of press cuttings relating to Irvine and Chogoria; a list of 'Questions for Baptism', undated; and a printed leaflet 'Jubilee at Chogoria, 50th Anniversary, 1922-1972'.

Dates: 1922-1996, undated

Miscellaneous papers of Donald Alexander Mackenzie., [Circa 1909]-1937.

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Identifier: MS.19310
Scope and Contents

The papers include twelve songs set to music, six being settings of poems by Donald Alexander Mackenzie, and eight arranged by Learmont Drysdale. Also a memorandum of agreement for publishing ‘The Migration of Symbols’, 1923 (folio 36), manuscript of Mackenzie's article on ‘School Life Fifty years ago’ published in the ‘Scottish Educational Journal’ of November 18th 1932, pages 1391-1393 (folio 38), and newspaper cuttings concerning his life and work, 1901-1937.

Dates: [Circa 1909]-1937.