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Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Item
Identifier: MS.10306
Scope and Contents
A draft title-page (folio 24) suggests that in 1850 Adam White was proposing to publish a work on 'Weeds and wild-flowers loved by Wordsworth', and the first part of the album contains a collection of materials towards this purpose: drawings and engravings of wild flowers with some specimens of pressed flowers, newspaper-cuttings, and copies of letters and poems of Wordsworth.The collection of information is then extended to include other poets: Coleridge, Cowper, Southey,...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-?late 19th century.
Autograph manuscripts of three apparently unpublished poems by Sir Edwin Arnold.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9588-9590
Dates:
1894-1896.
Autograph version, apparently unpublished, of 'Peebles to the Play' by James Ballantine.
Item
Identifier: MS.8489
Scope and Contents
The manuscript does not appear to have been published. However, a version of the poem was prepared for the inauguration of the Chambers' Institution, Peebles, 1859.
Dates:
[1859, or before].
Book of autographs begun by Catherine E Moir, wife of David Macbeth Moir, 1829, and continued by her daughter Anne Mary Milligan, 1853, and her grandson, George Milligan, biblical scholar, 1872.
Item
Identifier: MS.10256
Scope and Contents
The album for the most part contains cut-out signatures of well-known nineteenth-century figures but there are also several letters notably of Charles Dickens, Fanny Kemble, Henry Siddons, Samuel Warren and Baroness Wentworth. Also included are autograph poems by Thomas Campbell and James Hogg. The poems of Hogg (folios 64-66) are "Lenochan's farewell", 'The Stuarts of Appin' and 'The poor man', all published in ‘The works of the Ettrick Shepherd' (London, 1873). The verses of Thomas...
Dates:
1829-1872.
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.
Contents leaf and pages 25-360 of the 3rd or 4th edition of “The queen's wake” by James Hogg (Edinburgh, 1814 or 1815); with autograph corrections and additions by the poet which were incorporated into the 5th edition of 1819.
Item
Identifier: MS.20440
Dates:
1814-1815.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
File
Identifier: MS.3115
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, poems, etc., of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet, to Peter Buchan, collector of Scottish ballads, Peterhead, 1828-1850, undated. The letters, which are in Laing's autograph, deal chiefly with literary matters of the day. Most of the poems (folios 4, 6, 10, 19, 23) appear later in published form.(ii) Poems and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell, in his autograph, with one letter to him, 1815-1865, undated. Several of...
Dates:
1815-1865, undated.
Manuscript of miscellaneous poems of George Donnan, in his own hand.
File
Identifier: MS.9377
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of eighteen poems all in the classical style, and including pastoral verses, odes and epitaphs, and imitations of Horace.
Dates:
1786.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
File
Identifier: MS.10279
Scope and Contents
The material is predominantly literary and is chiefly confined to the 19th century. Among the more notable items are:Seven letters of Allan Cunningham, 1828-1840, chiefly to Captain Charles Gray of the Royal Marines, with an undated manuscript of the poem 'The standard bearer' published in ‘Poems and songs’ (London, 1847) by Cunningham, under the title 'The Cavalier' (folios 43-59);Papers of James Hogg, including manuscripts of his poems 'A Scottish ballad', circa...
Dates:
1592, 1723-1891, undated.
‘Works of Henry Mackenzie’ (Edinburgh, 1808), volume viii, containing autograph additions.
File
Identifier: MS.1803
Scope and Contents
There are additional sheets, inserted after page 62, containing seven poems of Henry Mackenzie written in 1825 and 1828-1829, all apparently unpublished (folios 1-5). Inserted after page 289 is a further additional sheet (folio 6) containing notes on his tragedy, 'The Spanish Father', with duplicates of pages 283-286 containing autograph notes and alterations to the text.Printed pages missing from the volume (pages 1-17, 33-48) have been supplied in manuscript in a hand not Henry...
Dates:
1825, 1828-1829.