Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832)

Copy of typescript MA dissertation, by Frances Sterling Ellis, entitled "Unity in "The Heart of Midlothian"".

Item

Identifier: Acc.11666

Dates: 1968.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Copy of typescript PhD dissertation, by Frances Stirling Ellis, entitled "Progression as Retrogression: the Stuart Tragedy in the Waverley Novels."

Item

Identifier: Acc.11667

Dates: 1976.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Correspondence and papers concerning figures of Scottish historical interest.

Collection

Identifier: Acc.10742

Scope and Contents

Includes:

charter, 1316, of Robert the Bruce

royal letters, 1537-1645

contemporary description, 1587, of the death of Mary, Queen of Scots

letters, 1716-1821 and undated, of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and his family

letters, 1764 and 1793, of James Boswell

letters, 1810 and 1828, of Sir Walter Scott

letter, 1843, of Thomas Carlyle

Dates: 1316-1938.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Correspondence and papers of and relating to Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family., 1681-1853.

Series

Identifier: Acc.12092/87-101

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of more than 3000 documents, dating from the 1420s to 1980s, mainly relating to the family of Skene of Rubislaw (near Aberdeen). At its centre are the papers of James Skene (1775-1864), artist and friend of Sir Walter Scott. Skene corresponded with notable individuals in the cultural circles of his day and was connected with such organizations as the Royal Institution, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institute for the...

Dates: 1681-1853.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.

Correspondence between Sir Walter Scott and John and Thomas Smith.

File

Identifier: Acc.14122

Scope and Contents

The letters mostly concern building work and developments at Abbotsford carried out by the Smith brothers. A number of the letters concern Scott's financial predicament, in relation to payment for work, following the market crash of 1825.

Dates: 1820-1832.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Correspondence of John Leycester Adolphus and his family.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.6445

Scope and Contents

With a manuscript of Adolphus, concerning Sir Walter Scott.

Dates: 1792-1875.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott and of Elizabeth Scott., 1817-1832.

File

Identifier: Acc.11407/2-3

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers concern the affairs of Thomas Scott, brother of Sir Walter, his family, and particularly his son-in-law Colonel Thomas Huxley.

Includes nine letters of Sir Walter Scott, and manuscript concerning the Isle of Man compiled by Thomas Scott, used by Walter Scott in `Peveril of the Peak`.

Dates: 1817-1832.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Scott Huxley papers.

Correspondence of the Huxley family with the Public Archives of Nova Scotia., 1937-1993.

File

Identifier: Acc.11407/9

Scope and Contents

Included are extracts from Walter Scott’s Journal and photocopies of Canadian newspaper articles on Huxley’s death.

Dates: 1937-1993.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Scott Huxley papers. / Papers relating to Thomas Huxley’s death.

Correspondence, poetry and prose of Sir Walter Scott from the Library of Honresfield House., 1796-1832.

Item

Identifier: MS.50703

Scope and Contents LettersArchibald, Joseph JamiesonLetter, 8 November 1825, of Scott to Joseph Jamieson Archibald on his admiration for Robert Burns and the progress of John Gibson Lockhart in London. Folio 1.Ballantyne, JamesLetter, 8 July 1826, of Scott to James Ballantyne on his work for ‘The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte’. Folios 2-3.Bell, JohnLetter, 7 March 1816, of Scott to John Bell on collecting Jacobite songs. Folios 4-5....

Dates: 1796-1832.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and Lord Byron from the Library of Honresfield House. / Selected manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott from the Library of Honresfield House.

Draft of letter to Sir Walter Scott., 1830

Item

Identifier: MS.23118, ff 63-64

Dates: 1830

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters of, to, and relating to Sir Walter Scott.

Draft of letter to Sir Walter Scott., 1807

Item

Identifier: MS.23141, ff 60-61

Dates: 1807

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters of, to, and relating to Sir Walter Scott.

Eight letters to John Forbes Mitchell.

File

Identifier: Acc.8069

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Sir Alexander Boswell, Thomas Campbell and Sir Walter Scott, concerning a monument to Robert Burns.

Dates: 1814-1819.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Engraved portraits of Sir Walter Scott, evidently from published works., 19th century.

Item

Identifier: MS.23141, ff 7-8, 89

Dates: 19th century.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters of, to, and relating to Sir Walter Scott.

Facsimile of the "Peroration" to the manuscript of Walter Scott`s "The Tale of Old Mortality" (1816).

Item

Identifier: Acc.12392

Dates: circa 1816.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Forged letter, spuriously dated`1801` purporting to be of Walter Scott but actually by Alexander Howland Smith, pseudonym Antique Smith.

Item

Identifier: Acc.12364

Dates: circa 1890.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Fragment of letter of Sir Walter Scott.

Item

Identifier: Acc.13007

Scope and Contents

Letter mentions books in the Advocates` Library and at Abbotsford.

Dates: Before 1826.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Fragment of Sir Walter Scott, "History of Scotland".

Item

Identifier: Acc.10109

Dates: circa 1829-1830.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Fragment of the autograph manuscript of "The Abbot" in hand of Sir Walter Scott

Item

Identifier: Acc.12775

Dates: ? 1820.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Fragment of the border ballad 'Outlaw Murray'.

Item

Identifier: Acc.14137

Scope and Contents

In Sir Walter Scott's hand and collected for Scott's 'The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border' with variations from teh published version.

Dates: Circa 1802.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

French prose translation of "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott: "La Dame du Lac" by Etienne-Aulède-Sophie Fevret de Saint-Mesmin, Vicomtesse de Juigné

Item

Identifier: Acc.10944

Dates: 1826.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Galley proof sheet of Sir Walter Scott`s "History of Scotland".

Item

Identifier: Acc.12734

Scope and Contents

Sheet has been revised heavily.

Dates: circa 1829-1830.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Incomplete manuscript of 'Waverley'.

Item

Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.0

Scope and Contents

The manuscript comprises the greater part of `Waverley`. Of the parts not included in the manuscript some exist as fragments in the Library`s manuscript collection, fifteen folios are in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, and others are missing.

The first fifty folios of the manuscript are on quarto paper, watermarked 1805, the rest on folio paper, watermarked 1813.

Dates: ?1805-1814.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Interleaved copy of the introduction to 'Border Antiquities of England and Scotland' (1817) by Sir Walter Scott, with the author’s manuscript annotations; and some additional, related content., 1823.

Item

Identifier: MS.50704

Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter, 18 December 1793, of Scott to Robert Shortreed on collecting old ballads. Folios i-ii.

Note indicating that the corrections made by Scott to the text remained unpublished. Folios iii-iv.

Note containing the words 'This might perhaps be improved though not enlarged'. Folio v-viii.

Interleaved copy of the introduction of 'Border Antiquities of England and Scotland'. Folios 1-130.

Dates: 1823.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and Lord Byron from the Library of Honresfield House. / Selected manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott from the Library of Honresfield House.

Journal of `A few weeks among the Blue-bells of Scotland, memoranda of men, manners and mountains above the Tweed`

Collection

Identifier: Acc.13639

Scope and Contents The author of this illustrated journal lived at Bedford Villa, Richmond Hill, Clifton, Bristol, and was probably Ada Margaret Leech, wife of Charles Octavius Harvey, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Bristol.The writer and `Charles` travelled from Bristol to Melrose by train and visited Abbotsford, Melrose Abbey and Dryburgh Abbey before leaving for Edinburgh. Queen Victoria had recently been in Edinburgh and there are numerous pasted in printed drawings of scenes of her visit. The...

Dates: 1886

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

'Lay of the Last Minstrel' (London: John Sharpe, 1809) by Sir Walter Scott; with notes of William Beckford., 1809.

Item

Identifier: MS.50705

Scope and Contents

Beckfords's notes for the volume appear on i only. The rest of the copy is clean.

Dates: 1809.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and Lord Byron from the Library of Honresfield House. / Selected manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott from the Library of Honresfield House.

Archives and Manuscript Catalogue

Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832)

Dates

Found in 323 Collections and/or Records:

Copy of typescript MA dissertation, by Frances Sterling Ellis, entitled "Unity in "The Heart of Midlothian"".

Copy of typescript PhD dissertation, by Frances Stirling Ellis, entitled "Progression as Retrogression: the Stuart Tragedy in the Waverley Novels."

Correspondence and papers concerning figures of Scottish historical interest.

Correspondence and papers of and relating to Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family., 1681-1853.

Correspondence between Sir Walter Scott and John and Thomas Smith.

Correspondence of John Leycester Adolphus and his family.

Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott and of Elizabeth Scott., 1817-1832.

Correspondence of the Huxley family with the Public Archives of Nova Scotia., 1937-1993.

Correspondence, poetry and prose of Sir Walter Scott from the Library of Honresfield House., 1796-1832.

Draft of letter to Sir Walter Scott., 1830

Draft of letter to Sir Walter Scott., 1807

Eight letters to John Forbes Mitchell.

Engraved portraits of Sir Walter Scott, evidently from published works., 19th century.

Facsimile of the "Peroration" to the manuscript of Walter Scott`s "The Tale of Old Mortality" (1816).

Forged letter, spuriously dated`1801` purporting to be of Walter Scott but actually by Alexander Howland Smith, pseudonym Antique Smith.

Fragment of letter of Sir Walter Scott.

Fragment of Sir Walter Scott, "History of Scotland".

Fragment of the autograph manuscript of "The Abbot" in hand of Sir Walter Scott

Fragment of the border ballad 'Outlaw Murray'.

French prose translation of "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott: "La Dame du Lac" by Etienne-Aulède-Sophie Fevret de Saint-Mesmin, Vicomtesse de Juigné

Galley proof sheet of Sir Walter Scott`s "History of Scotland".

Incomplete manuscript of 'Waverley'.

Interleaved copy of the introduction to 'Border Antiquities of England and Scotland' (1817) by Sir Walter Scott, with the author’s manuscript annotations; and some additional, related content., 1823.

Journal of `A few weeks among the Blue-bells of Scotland, memoranda of men, manners and mountains above the Tweed`

'Lay of the Last Minstrel' (London: John Sharpe, 1809) by Sir Walter Scott; with notes of William Beckford., 1809.

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