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Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Dates: 1548-1641.

‘[Gospel Sonnets] or Spiritual Songs’, in the autograph of the Reverend Ralph Erskine, preceded and followed by matter in shorthand.

 File
Identifier: MS.1015
Scope and Contents

Two versions of part vi, chapter v, section 1, ‘In heavenly quires a question rose’, are given (folios 119, 122).

Dates: Early 18th century-mid 18th century.

Letters, 1914-1941, of Lord Alfred Douglas to William Sorley Brown, editor of the ‘Border standard’, concerned chiefly with the publication of Douglas's articles, poems and speeches; with several drafts of letters chiefly written to newspapers for publication.

 File
Identifier: MS.9925
Scope and Contents

Also included are a number of newspaper-cuttings, 1915-1936, undated, by or about Lord Alfred Douglas, and the manuscripts, 1915, undated, of three sonnets. "All's well with England", 'Winston Churchill' and 'A Christmas sonnet', all apparently unpublished.

Dates: 1914-1941.

Letters written to William Marwick, chiefly in his capacity of Editor of the 'Ruskin Reading Guild Journal’, afterwards ‘Igdrasil’.

 File
Identifier: MS.2984
Scope and Contents Most of the letters are from W G Collingwood and relate to Ruskin and his works, 1888-1890; some deal with attacks made on Ruskin by R T Hamilton Bruce in the ‘Scots Observer’, 1889 (folios 20-38). Two undated sonnets of Collingwood are included (folio 115). Other letters are written by the Honourable Roden Noel, 1890 (folios 89-92), and Henry Stephens Salt, 1891 (folio 103), regarding their contributions to the 'Ruskin Reading Guild Journal'; by Roger Casement, at Creek Town, Old Calabar,...
Dates: 1888-1893.

Microfilm chiefly of photographs and prints of works of Phoebe Anna Traquair.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.915
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Photographs of and printed articles concerning murals of Phoebe Anna Traquair, [1890-1948] (MS.8123);

Illuminated manuscript, 1895-1897, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (MS.8127);

Collotype prints of an illuminated manuscript, 1890-1892, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘In Memoriam’ by Alfred Tennyson (MS.8128).

Dates: [1890-1948.]

Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.

 File
Identifier: MS.569
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) ‘On the laying the Foundation of the High School of Edinburgh, 24th June, 1777’ (folio i);(ii) ‘Winter Hymn’ with a note, 26 January 1829 (folio 2);(iii) ‘Morning Hymn’, endorsed, ‘Written out 1825, composed chiefly in a dream at Canaan Lodge [Edinburgh] one beautiful morning in August, 1825’; two copies (folio 4);(iv) ‘Ink loquitur’, endorsed, ‘(Impromptu) to Steuart of Allantoun, the translator of Sallust, who...
Dates: 1777-1829, undated.