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Album of Eliza Boothby containing verses and drawings by various hands.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Album of occasional verse, verse epistles, etc., apparently by Lady Frances Scott, afterwards Baroness Douglas.
Album of poetry compiled by Isabella Farquharson Will.
Containing lithographs of Frederick Schenck, Edinburgh.
Album of verses, riddles and drawings.
Most of the entries are dated from 1825 to 1828, and some were made at Newcastle- upon-Tyne. The book belonged to the donor's grandmother, Mrs Elizabeth Russell Davison, of the Wilson family of Roxburghshire.
"An Aon Dleasnas"/"The One Duty", typescripts of poem of James S Adam for Alastair and Dorothy Dunnett.
English and Gaelic texts.
‘Ancient Scottish poems’ (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun.
Animadversions by Henry Cockburn on his client, the murderer David Haggart, and on ‘The convict’, a poem occasioned by his execution; written in a copy of ‘The convict’ (Edinburgh, 1821).
Annotated and corrected typescript of "Scotland, an Anthology" compiled by George Campbell Hay.
Includes translations of Gaelic poetry.
Annotated typescripts of eight poems of W S Graham.
`Annotationes in Aristotelis physicam`: a volume of lecture notes taken by James Barclay from lectures by Robert Barron at St Salvator`s College, St Andrews.
The notes are followed by `Tractatus continens doctrinam Astronomicam` (folio 189), verses on the death of Henry, Prince of Wales, in 1612 (folio 199 verso), and `Solutio quorundam problematum ad elementorum explicationem pertinentium` (folio 201).
Anonymous poem concerning the play, "The Battle of Bothwell Brig".
Apparently unpublished poem by Mrs Alison Cockburn entitled 'Adieu to My Garden 23rd Novʳ. 1777', tipped into a copy of ‘Letters and Memoir of her own Life by Mrs Alison Rutherford or Cockburn’ (Edinburgh, 1900).
On the page facing the half-title page is an inscription dated May 1900 of T Craig-Brown, who compiled the notes to the printed work, presenting this copy to his daughter.
Approximately 80 notebooks and files, 1973-2003 and undated, of Tessa Ransford, containing draft poetry and prose, literary notes and research, holiday diaries and other personal papers; with a few university notebooks, circa 1960.
A collection of XXX notebooks and several files of Tessa Ransford, relating mainly to her literary and creative life as a poet and writer. Also includes a few notebooks from her student days at Edinburgh University.
Arabic astrological text, ? 19th century.
With Burmese prayer woven on a tape, roll containing a poem, an inscription, and a painting by Ch`êng Chih-You, with accompanying ink blocks, all undated.
Asloan Manuscript: a miscellany of prose and verse, chiefly Scottish, written almost entirely by John Asloan early in the reign of James V (1513-1542).
'Auchinleck manuscript', one of the earliest and largest compilations of Middle English verse, including romances and religious and historical pieces
Audio cassette of a sound recording of "Skuil-Bairns Sing", a collection of Scots nursery rhymes, songs and poems, presented by children of Gourock Primary School.
Audio cassettes of recordings of the works of William Soutar, produced by Scotsoun.
Audio cassettes produced by Scotsoun of recordings of readings from Hugh MacDiarmid.
Audio recording, [from the insert] "Waves and Furrows. The Poetry of David Morrison, Read by Himself".
Audio recordings of Edwin Muir reading his own poetry when he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University.
Audiocassette of a recording of "Twa Leids" (Glasgow: Scotsoun, 1988), a collection of Scots and Gaelic poetry in translation.
"Auld Robin Gray".
Includes "The Rose" and additional verses written in an unidentified hand.