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Copy, 17th century, of `The Life, Araignment, and Death of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More Knight, sometimes Lord Chauncellor of England. Together with his Vision`.
Copy of Giles Dixey, "Deinde, More Collected Verses", with dedication and letter of Dixey to Ruari McLean.
Copy of ‘Hamewith’ (London, 1910) by Charles Murray, enclosing a letter of Murray to the publisher William Fordie Forrester concerning a publishing agreement with Constable.
There are transcripts by William Fordie Forrester of Charles Murray's poems "It wasna his wyte" and "The Thraws o' Fate" on the endpapers.
Copy of 'Wild coal' (1963) by Kenneth White; with a letter of White, some poems in typescript, and newspaper cuttings.
Correspondence and memoranda of Sir John Sinclair, relating chiefly to his attempts to trace Gaelic manuscripts, to the translation into English of the Gaelic ‘Poems of Ossian’, and to his ‘Fingal; a tragedy, in five acts’.
Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of 'Lifeboat and other poems', by George Mackay Brown.
Contains correspondence between George Mackay Brown, Richard Gilbertson and Norah Smallwood concerning Gilbertson's publishing of 'Lifeboat and other poems', with typescripts of several of the poems included in the collection.
Correspondence, diaries and literary manuscripts of Naomi Mitchison.
Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
Cowie collection of manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Allan Ramsay and others, made by Charles R Cowie of Glasgow.
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
Draft letter (beginning missing), 1865, of David Livingstone.
On possible misinterpretation of his remarks on America.
Includes:
letter, 1857, of Roualeyn Gordon Cumming to Livingstone, acknowledging a copy of his book
photocopy of a poem, 1874, on Livingstone.
Dugald S MacColl, "Newdigate Prize Poem. The Fall of Carthage", with letter and sketch by the author.
Eight letters to David Morrison.
Eight letters, 1984-2010, to David Morrison; correspondents include Alasdair Gray, Norman MacCaig and John Manson. With manuscript drafts of two poems by David Morrison.
Eighty-four letters and cards of Edwin Morgan to Richard Price; with manuscript of unpublished poem, "The Ropemaker`s Bride".
Exercise-book, containing 'Lord John, a Fife Tale', a poem, ?1895, by Thomas Swan, handloom weaver, Leslie, Fife.
Other poems (one of circa 1893) and letters with which Thomas Swan sent them to Professors David Masson and John Chiene, 1895, have been inserted at the beginning.
Five letters and two poems to members of the McCracken family.
Four letters, 1823 and undated, of Jane Welsh Carlyle, and two letters, 1838 and undated, of Grace Welsh to Isabella McTurk.
Includes:
1. verses, 1832 and undated, in various hands;
2. riddles and verses, circa 1828, given by Jane Welsh Carlyle to Isabella McTurk.
Four letters, [1823], and undated, of Jane Welsh Carlyle, and two letters, 1838, and undated, of Grace Welsh, to Isabella McTurk, mainly concerning personal matters.
Includes:
1. verses, 1832 and undated, in various hands;
2. riddles and verses, circa 1828, given by Jane Welsh Carlyle to Isabella McTurk.
Four letters, 1874-1884, of Thomas Stevenson to Peter G Tait, with one, 1886, to Mrs Tait.
Includes:
sonnets, 1858, of Sir William Rowan Hamilton, sent to Mrs Tait.
two documents, undated, concerning H S Reid, one being the text of the dedication of a chapel.
Four letters of Allan Cunningham.
One letter concerns a bust of John Keats.
With a poem, 1843, of James Montgomery, "The Dying Girl`s Request".
Four letters of W S Graham and his wife Nessie to Nataly Nesterenko; with two possibly unpublished poems of W S Graham.
Nataly Nesterenko was married to William Featherston, a Canadian artist, and the couple were friends of W S and Nessie Graham. The friendship survived the Featherston`s divorce and the letters show the Graham`s concern for Nataly Nesterenko during a difficult period in her life. The two typescript poems are untitled, but the first lines are ...
Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.
A small group of manuscripts that were formerly part of Acc.3184 (now MSS.14877-14881), to be merged with that collection in due course.
The manuscripts were brought together by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine (1773-1824), minister of Fortingall and then Little Dunkeld, Gaelic scholar and collector of Gaelic verse. They comprise correspondence in English, sermons in Gaelic, and Gaelic poetry collected by Irvine.
Further papers and correspondence of and relating to Gael Turnbull.
Further papers of and relating to Gael Turnbull.
This small collection includes correspondence, drafts of late poems and typescript of `Winged Afar`, an unpublished work. The correspondence includes letters, 1979-2005, of August Kleinzahler.
Further papers of and relating to Harvey Holton.
Gaelic material extracted from the papers of the author, broadcaster and schoolmaster, Hector MacIver (1910-1966).
The material extracted from MSS.26276-26300 consists chiefly of typescripts of Hector MacIver’s plays and broadcasts.