Collection name. Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Bart., of Abbotsford
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Identifier: Collection name
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Album containing portraits of Sir Walter Scott, with papers of and concerning him.
File
Identifier: MS.23060
Dates:
1821-1827.
Audio recording of an address by John Buchan to the Sir Walter Scott Society.
Item
Identifier: MS.23064
Dates:
1932.
Autograph manuscript of Sir Walter Scott concerning Scottish gypsies, including an account of Jean Gordon, of whom the character ‘Meg Merrilies’ in Guy Mannering is based.
File
Identifier: MS.23057
Dates:
1817.
Catalogues of the exhibition held at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, in July and August 1871, in commemoration of Sir Walter Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23062-23063
Dates:
1872.
Corrected typescript of ‘Sir Walter Scott and his wife: the happy marriage and the mystery’ by Elisabeth Anthony Dexter.
Item
Identifier: MS.23066
Scope and Contents
At the end is a genealogical table of the Scott family.
Dates:
[Circa 1960.]
Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
Series
Identifier: MSS.851-938
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, and miscellaneous papers concerning him.
Series
Identifier: MS.23141(i)-(ii)
Dates:
19th century-mid 20th century, undated.
Letters to Sir Walter Scott; with a list of contents.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3874-3920
Scope and Contents
These letters, with those in the Abbotsford Collection (MSS.865-869), must make up almost the whole correspondence addressed to Sir Walter Scott.
Dates:
1796-1831, undated.
Manuscript of ‘The life of Napoleon Buonaparte’ by Sir Walter Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23058-23059
Dates:
[1827, or before.]
Manuscript of 'William and Helen' by Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.5278
Scope and Contents
There is an inscription to Lady Charlotte Home and Miss Haldane on folio 1.
Dates:
1796.
Manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott from the Pforzheimer Library, collectively known as the ‘Pforzheimer Scott manuscripts’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23042-23052
Dates:
[1808, or before]-1830.
Notes on Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Chronicles of the Canongate’, made by M R Dobie for a projected edition of the Waverley Novels under the general editorship of Lord Normand.
File
Identifier: MS.23065
Dates:
[Circa 1954.]
Papers of Robert Cadell and the Stevenson family, additional to MSS.21001-21069: Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell and his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21070-21071
Dates:
1801-1941, undated.
Photostats of twenty-four letters of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly to Charles Robert Maturin.
File
Identifier: MS.5277
Scope and Contents
Twenty-two of the letters are to Charles Robert Maturin and his wife. The other two letters are addressed to Archibald Campbell-Colquhoun and to James Ballantyne.
Dates:
1808-1826, undated.
'Pirate' by Sir Walter Scott, first edition (Edinburgh, 1822), with anonymous manuscript 'Remarks', 1822, assigning the authorship to Scott, and related material inserted.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5023-5024
Dates:
1822.
Printed copy of the song, 'Tranent Muir' by Sir Walter Scott, interleaved with anonymous explanatory notes and annotations, with an endorsement by Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.23056
Scope and Contents
The endorsement by Sir Walter Scott is as follows, 'Tranent Muir & Notes to be taken in page 189'.
Dates:
[1791, or after.]
‘Rob Roy’, a national drama based on the novel of Sir Walter Scott, consisting of annotated pages from the book, interleaved with plans of scenery and stage settings, as performed at the Theatre Royal Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: MS.23061
Scope and Contents
The play was produced on the occasion of Sir Walter Scott’s centenary under the supervision of Mr and Mrs Wyndham.
Dates:
1822-1871.
Thirty-seven letters, 1811-1830, and fragments of manuscript, ?1831-1832, by Sir Walter Scott, with seventy-three letters, 1830-1832, written to or about Scott.
Series
Identifier: MS.5317
Dates:
1811-1832.
Tribute to Sir Walter Scott: papers read at the Scott Bicentenary Celebration, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin.
File
Identifier: MS.23067
Dates:
1971.