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Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
Miscellaneous small collections of letters and papers.
Notebook of Thomas Heart, containing prose translations, poetry, notes and some medical recipes.
The notebook contains prose translations of most of Horace's ‘Odes and Epodes’ (inverted folio 3, folio 1 verso), a poem entitled "The believer's dowry" with other verses and notes of a religious nature (folio 4), and some medical recipes (folio 27 verso). Dates ranging between the years 1720 and 1763 occur at points throughout the volume.
Notebooks containing original poems and verse translations by George Campbell Hay (1915-1984).
‘Nye Eventyr’ by Hans Christian Anderson (Copenhagen, 1845), with verses, 1845, written by the author for Mrs Charlotte Cowan, Glasgow, on the flyleaf; with a photographic copy, a typed transcription, and a translation into English verse.
Papers, 1321-1601, to and of the family of Murray of Falahill.
Includes translations of the papers, genealogical notes, genealogies of the families of Falahill and Philiphaugh, and a copy of a poem "The Song of Outlaw Murray", all mid 19th century.
Papers and translations collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
Papers of Alexander Huchison.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and translations, correspondence and artwork.
Papers of Edmund Crosby Quiggin (1875-1920), Munro Lecturer in Celtic, Cambridge University, relating to the preparation of editions of Gaelic texts.
Due to the War and Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin’s early death, neither work was published. The papers were used however by Professor John Fraser in publishing his collection of Quiggin’s Book of the Dean of Lismore transcripts, ‘Poems from the Book of the Dean of Lismore’.
Papers of James Logie Robertson.
Papers of S Marshak.
Including, chapter of autobiographical novel, "At the Beginning of Life", two poems and translations of poems of Burns and others.
Papers of the families of Crawfurd of Kilbirnie and of Jordanhill.
The contents are as follows: (i) Legal documents and correspondence, 1488-1789 (folio 1); (ii) Notes, ?1786-1821, on legal cases (folio 33); (iii) Genealogical papers, 1707-1731, undated (folio 65); (iv) Poetry, 18th century-19th century, including an early copy, dated 1734, of Allan Ramsay's poem, 'The Thimble' (folio 93); (v) Notes, undated, by George Crawfurd, the antiquary, and a translation of a charter, 1748, by Thomas Ruddiman (folio 107).
Papers of the literary magazine, "Chapman".
Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, translations, articles, and reviews, with editorial correspondence, comprising over 700 letters. With associated printed items.
Papers of the Rev Dr Neil Ross, Gaelic scholar and poet.
Part of Sir John Sinclair’s general correspondence on Gaelic matters.
Part of the Ossianic collection of the Reverend Alexander Campbell of Portree (1770-1811).
Photostats of manuscripts held in the Abbotsford Library, all in the hand of Sir Walter Scott.
Poems, original and translated from the Persian, all apparently by Sir John Malcolm, except one of John Leyden, written in what seems to be a feminine hand at the end of a copy of Malcolm’s 'Persia, a poem' (London, 1814), presented by the author to his sister Wilhelmina Malcolm.
The poem of John Leyden (folio 22) was written, probably in 1805, in reply to Malcolm's lines on his 'Scenes of Infancy' (Edinburgh, 1803).
Poetical and editorial papers of Robin Fulton (1937- ).
Robin Fulton was born in Arran and became a schoolteacher. From 1967 to 1976 he edited the literary magazine 'Lines Review'. His work is mostly poetry, but also includes reviews, translations and literary studies. The papers consist of drafts and proofs of poems (MSS.27495-27497), and editorial papers for 'Lines Review' (MS.27498).
Schoolbook of James Fowler, Strathpeffer, containing instructions and problems in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and the construction of sundials, and a translation of the ‘Iliad’, book 3.
A few miscellaneous notes and poems have been added in a 19th-century hand.
Three volumes of poems of Alexander Ross, Schoolmaster at Lochlee in Angus, and author of ‘Helinore: the Fortunate Shepherdess’ (Aberdeen, 1768).
The poems are mainly of a religious nature and written in English, with the exception of ‘The Fortunate Shepherd or the Orphan’, which is in Scots.