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Photograph of manuscript poem of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7483
Dates:
circa 1870-circa 1890.
Photographs and transcripts of poems by Allan Ramsay, with related correspondence.
File
Identifier: MS.9748
Scope and Contents
The collection was made by Professor John Burns Martin for his edition (with J W Oliver, completed by A M Kinghorn and A Law) of ‘The works of Allan Ramsay’, (Scottish Text Society, 1951-1974).The contents of the collection are as follows.(i) Photostats of Allan Ramsay's autograph manuscript of fourteen poems, now in the Henry Huntington Library, San Marino, California (H.M.211). (Folio 1.)(ii) Photostats of a manuscript, now in the Huntington Library...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 18th century, 1929.
Photographs of five pages of MS. Lat. Q.v.1, 112 in the M E Saltuikov-Shchedrin Library in Saint Petersburg: Hours of Mary, Queen of Scots.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, written and illuminated circa 1430, contains verses in French in Mary`s hand, most of which are reproduced here.
Placed with the photographs is a letter concerning them from Ronald Munro Ferguson to Lord Rosebery, 1903.
Dates:
Circa 1430.
Photographs of riddles and verses given to Isabella McTurk by Jane Welsh Carlyle.
File
Identifier: Acc.7322
Dates:
circa 1828.
Photographs of the Asloan Manuscript: a miscellany in prose and verse written by John Asloan early in the reign of James V of Scotland (1513-1542).
Series
Identifier: MSS.335-336
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Photographs of the leaves of the Glenquoich visitors' book containing the names of friends and relatives who visited the Ellices' estates at Invergarry during the late summer and autumn of each year from 1846 to 1863.
File
Identifier: MS.15197
Scope and Contents
The book appears to have belonged to Katherine Jane Ellice, first wife of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1880), who died in April 1864. Each visitor was asked to sign the book, adding the dates of arrival and departure, his profession, his object in coming and any remarks or complaints. Several took the opportunity to write in verses or poems or to make drawings, which range in size from thumbnail sketches to full-page drawings. Latterly, small photographs of many of the visitors...
Dates:
1846-1863.
Postcards, christmas card, typescript verse, photographs and proofs of and relating to Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13681
Scope and Contents
1). Postcards, christmas card, typescript verse, press-cuttings and proofs, 1896-ca.1960, undated.i. Postcards, 1896-1903, undated.ii. Christmas card, early 20th century.iii. Typescript verse of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, undated.iv. Press-cuttings, 1949, undated.v. Proofs, 1956, of `Literary Landmarks of Scotland`, articles by Isobel Wylie Hutchison for the `National Geographic` magazine.2. Photographs, ca.1900-1962,...
Dates:
1896-1962, undated.
Small collections and single letters presented by various donors.
Series
Identifier: MS.5406
Dates:
1810-1897.
Successive typescript, printed and postcard versions of poem of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "Net/Planet", and photographs of final version; with a letter to 'Private Eye' and a copy of issue 11 of the 'Private Tutor' magazine.
File
Identifier: Acc.4652
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
'Net/Planet' Poem
Original typescript, [circa 1966]
Form 3, 15 December 1966.
Proof of postcard published by the Wild Hawthorn Press, 1968.
2 colour photographs, undated.
Carbon copy of letter to Private Eye concerning 'The Dancers Inherit the Party', 1970.
'Private Tutor', number 11, May 1970.
Dates:
[Circa 1966]-1970, undated.
Two photographs of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, with an illustrated notebook of her poems.
File
Identifier: Acc.12841
Dates:
circa 1921-1941.
Volume entitled 'Celtic music', compiled by David R Robertson, a mercantile clerk in Dundee, consisting of pipe tunes, poems, notes and memoranda, extracts from published sources, letters from correspondents interested in Gaelic culture, and some press cuttings and photographs.
File
Identifier: MS.22164
Scope and Contents
The title is taken from folio 1, a vellum leaf.Some items found loosely enclosed have been tipped or pasted in.The work consists of an introduction (folio 6) preceded by prefatory poems (folio 2), and eight sections: Old highland airs (folio 39), Clan tunes (folio 90), Jacobite airs (folio 131), Battle tunes (folio 159), Laments (folio 209), Old Scottish airs (folio 223), Army tunes (folio 244) and General marches (folio 276).There are two unrelated items:...
Dates:
1911-1912.