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Articles.

 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:

Notebook, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing miscellaneous papers., 1747-[circa 1760.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.24545
Scope and Contents The papers include the continuation of several articles from earlier volumes, and notes on published works. Among the more important essays are 'Of the origin and formation of the Greek language' (folio 2), 'Homerus historicus' (folio 23 verso), 'Of the progress of the mind in the formation of general ideas' - Monboddo number 18, (folio 55 verso), 'Of geometrical analysis and synthesis' (folio 87), and 'Of musick ancient and modern' (folio 131). The volume is referred to by Lord Monboddo as...
Dates: 1747-[circa 1760.]

Notebook, undated, of Robert Garioch Sutherland containing miscellaneous notes on literature and science., Mid 20th century-late 20th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26581
Scope and Contents

The notebook also includes rhyme lists (folio 54), articles on the makars and on an Edinburgh eccentric (folios 77, 95) and a Scots glossary (folio l54).

Dates: Mid 20th century-late 20th century.

Notes and correspondence of James R Anderson, concerning a bibliography of Philip Doddridge's ‘Life of Colonel Gardiner’.

 File
Identifier: MS.6156
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript of a lecture by James R Anderson, possibly given to Glasgow Bibliographical Society, apparently unprinted (folio 1);(ii) Extracts from an article and subsequent correspondence in the 'Scotsman', September-October 1918, relating to the Battle of Prestonpans and to Colonel Gardiner (folio 22);(iii) Notes, etc., relating to the compilation of the bibliography (folio 28);(iv) Letters, 1918-19, 1925, to...
Dates: 1918-1919, undated.

Notes and drafts of articles and other material of Ruthven Todd., 1965-1975, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26859
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Drafts, 1965, of the article 'Miró in New York: a reminiscence', published in the ‘Malahat Review’ number 1 (1967) pages 77-92 (folio 1). They are followed by a photocopy of a reprint of the article in 1972 (folio 29), and translations of it into Spanish (folio 43); (ii) Page-proofs of 'Background to a portrait', an article about a portrait of Robert Graves by John Ulbricht, published in the ‘London Magazine’, n.s.6 (February 1967), pages 66-73 (folio...
Dates: 1965-1975, undated.

Notes and papers of John Boyes.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9009
Scope and Contents

Concerning Boyes` researches into the history of medicine and dentistry in Edinburgh.

Dates: circa 1970-1980.

Notes and papers of Robert Louis Stevenson., 1891-1894, undated.

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Identifier: MS.9892
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Miscellaneous notes. (Folio 1.) (ii) Miscellaneous articles by Robert Louis Stevenson. Included are four galley slips of the article ‘Confessions of a unionist’, written in 1887, but not published - see Roger G Swearingen, ‘The prose writings of Robert Louis Stevenson’ (London, 1980), page 122. Another item of particular interest is page-proofs of chapters of the ‘South Sea letters’ dealing with Hawaii, which were set up for Sir Sidney Colvin when he was...
Dates: 1891-1894, undated.

Notes and papers of Sir Graham Balfour., 1888-1929, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.9897
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of: (i) Apparently unpublished articles by Sir Graham Balfour (folio 1); (ii) Transcriptions and typescripts of articles about Robert Louis Stevenson collected by Balfour (folio 128); (iii) Miscellaneous notes which include excerpts of diaries, 1851-1853, belonging to Margaret Isabella Stevenson (folio 201).

Dates: 1888-1929, undated.