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Small collections of correspondence and manuscripts of the author and essayist Thomas De Quincey, acquired at different times.

 File
Identifier: MS.21239
Scope and Contents Thomas De Quincey's own letters are written to his family and friends about his work and other activities, finance, and family matters. Letters addressed to him include one from an unnamed American admirer, 1853, (folio 18) which was published in ‘Thomas De Quincey’, pages 103-105, the catalogue of an exhibition held at Dove Cottage and the National Library of Scotland.Most of the manuscripts are fragmentary drafts of unidentified essays, but they include parts of "The English...
Dates: 1800-1855, undated.

"The Scottish Regality, 1300-1455", an undergraduate essay by Archibald A M Duncan for the Honours Class of Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh, 1944.

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Identifier: Acc.12305
Scope and Contents

Includes related letter, 1954, of Thomas Mackay Cooper, Baron Cooper of Culross.

Dates: 1944, 1954.

Typescript of 'The Knighthood of the Clergy' by Owen Chadwick, with associated correspondence.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14080
Content Description

One of several privately-distributed copies of Chadwick's unpublished essay, 1985, which investigates whether it is lawful for members of the clergy to be denied the right to use the title 'Sir' following their acceptance of a knighthood. Chadwick, himself a priest in the Anglican Church, was knighted in 1983. The essay also covers the situation in Scotland, as does the accompanying correspondence with the Very Rev. Dr. Hugh Douglas, St. Andrews.

Dates: 1981-1985

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Essays. 53
Correspondence. 27
Letters. Correspondence. 27
Manuscripts. 22
Typescripts. 21
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Notes. 12
Poetry. 12
Photographs. 10
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 9
Articles. 8
Drafts. Documents. 7
Notebooks. 7
Copies. Derivative objects. 6
Speeches. Documents. 6
Diaries. 4
Lectures. 4
Novels. 4
Plays. 4
Proofs. printed matter 4
Reviews. Document genre 4
Short stories. 4
Albums. 3
Pamphlets. 3
Proofs. Printed matter. 3
Reports 3
Transcripts 3
Account books. 2
Ephemera. 2
Histories. 2
Inscriptions. 2
Legal documents. 2
Memoirs. 2
Photocopies. 2
Prayers. 2
Reviews. Document genre. 2
Sermons. 2
Translations. Documents. 2
Agendas. Administrative records. 1
Anecdotes. 1
Audiocassettes. 1
Autobiographies. 1
Autographs (manuscripts). 1
Born digital. 1
Botswana. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 24.0000. Latitude: -22.0000. 1
Calculations. 1
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 1
Cashbooks. 1
Certificates 1
Compact discs. 1
Covers (gathered matter components). 1
DVDs. 1
Dictionaries. 1
Documents. 1
Drafts. Negotiable instruments. 1
Drawings. Visual works. 1
Elegies. 1
Essays 1
Excerpts. 1
Excise tickets. 1
Exercise books. 1
Exhibition catalogues. 1
Facsimiles. Reproductions. 1
Fiction. 1
Fliers. Printed matter. 1
Fragments. 1
France. Europe. Nation. Longitude: 2.0000. Latitude: 46.0000. 1
Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 1
Genealogies. 1
Inventories. 1
Lecture notes. 1
Lists. 1
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Microfilms. 1
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Orders. Military records. 1
Periodicals. 1
Personal papers. 1
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Political posters. 1
Prefaces. 1
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Prints. Visual works. 1
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Reports. 1
Research notes 1
Research notes. 1
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Snapshots. 1
Songs. Musical compositions. 1
Stats. Copies. 1
Testimonies. 1
Theses. 1
Transcripts. 1
Travel journals 1
Travel journals. 1
Visiting cards. 1
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Language
English 40
Undetermined 12
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 2
 
Names
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 7
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 3
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 2
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 2
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
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Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Anderson, Arthur, founder of P and O Steam Navigation Co, 1792-1868: recipient 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: recipient 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: transcriber 1
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, art collector, 1818-1880 1
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 1
Brodie, Alexander, of Lethen, d 1770: recipient 1
Brodie, Ludovick, of Whytfield, Writer to the Signet, c 1681-1758 1
Brown, George Douglas, author, 1869-1902 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976: recipient 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 1
Carter, John Waynflete, bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller, 1905-1975 1
Chadwick, Owen, 1916-2015 1
Clyde Workers' Committee 1
Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, Knight, bibliographer, 1867-1962: recipient 1
Colebrooke, Sir George, 2nd Baronet, of Gatton, 1729-1809 1
Cooper, Thomas Mackay, Baron Cooper of Culross, judge, 1892-1955 1
Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-, Knight, novelist and literary scholar, 1863-1944 1
Davis, Albert C, British Council Representative in Scotland, 1910-1992 1
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 1
Elliot, Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, née Tennant, 1903-1994 1
Elliot, Walter Elliot, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1888-1958 1
Erskine, James, Lord Grange, Lord Justice Clerk, d 1754 1
Everson, James, Beverley, Yorkshire, fl 1825-1853 1
Faculty of Advocates, Library, Edinburgh 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Grieve, Valda, 2nd Wife of Christopher M, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, née Trevlyn, 1906-1989 1
Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson, philanthropist and author, 1862-1937 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994: recipient 1
Hay, George Campbell, poet, 1915-1984 1
Jenkin, Anne (née Austin, wife of Henry C. Fleeming Jenkin, engineer) 1
Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming (engineer) 1
Jones, James Idwal, headteacher and politician, 1900-1982: transcriber 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Lang, Andrew, historian, 1844-1912 1
Leonard, Tom (poet) (1944-2018) 1
Lochhead, Marion Cleland, journalist, editor and author, 1902-1985 1
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 1
MacKay, Aeneas Thomas, publisher, Stirling, fl 1905-1933 1
MacKinnon, John, University of Edinburgh, fl 1850 1
MacLean Sorley, Poet, 1911-1996. 1
MacPhárlain, Calum, Gaelic activist and writer, 1853-1931 1
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 1
Mirror, Edinburgh, newspaper 1
Moncrieff, George Scott-, writer, 1910-1974 1
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 1
Morison, Stanley, typographer, 1889-1967 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Muir, John William, trade unionist and Labour MP for Glasgow Maryhill, 1879-1931 1
Muir, Percival Horace, antiquarian bookseller, 1894-1979 1
National Library of Scotland 1
Nevinson, Henry Woodd, journalist and author, 1856-1941 1
Osbourne, Samuel Lloyd, 1868-1947 (author, stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist) 1
Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery (statesman) 1
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 1
Riddell, John, of Haining, fl 1682 1
Roberts, David, painter, 1796-1864 1
Royal Academy of Arts 1
Royal Scottish Society of Arts 1
Ruddiman, Thomas, Librarian of the Advocates' Library, 1674-1757 1
Saurat, Denis, writer, 1890-1958 1
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 1
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958: recipient 1
Scott, Paul Henderson, author, b 1920 1
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 1
Sellar, Robert James Batchen, playwright and author, b 1893 1
Silver, Robert Simpson (James Watt Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Glasgow) 1
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 1
Smith, David, Writer to the Signet, 1803-1880 1
Stevenson, Frances Matilda Van de Grift (née Van de Grift, then Osbourne, wife of Robert Louis Stevenson) 1
Strong, Austin (playwright) (1881-1952) 1
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 1
Wallace, Sir William, Knight, guardian of Scotland, d 1305 1
Woodburn, Arthur (politician) 1
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 1
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