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Copy of apparently unpublished poem entitled "Rebellion; or Culloden", possibly by Robert Legard
Item
Identifier: Acc.12783
Dates:
1747.
Copy of autograph manuscript of poem, "Highland Laddie" by James Hogg.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11775
Dates:
1818.
Copy of C M Grieve (editor), "Northern Numbers" (Edinburgh and London).
Item
Identifier: Acc.11066
Scope and Contents
With marginal notes of William Jeffrey.
Dates:
Undated.
Copy of “Caelia's country-house and closet”, a poem by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, here with the title “Coelia's solitude or closset”.
Item
Identifier: MS.15979
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in a seventeenth-century hand; there are marginal corrections or elucidations and instructions about paragraphing, which appear to be in George Mackenzie's own hand.This manuscript and MS.550 (which is later and less complete) represent a recension of the text frequently and significantly different from that of the printed editions (first in James Watson, ‘Choice collection of comic and serious Scots poems’, Part 2, page 71, and separately, (London, [1715?]);...
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy of facsimile of "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect" (Kilmarnock, 1786), known as the Kilmarnock Burns, collated with the Edinburgh edition (1787), annotated by Prof Robert Dewar and with his notes inserted.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11010
Dates:
1927.
Copy of Giles Dixey, "Deinde, More Collected Verses", with dedication and letter of Dixey to Ruari McLean.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8544
Dates:
1971.
Copy of ‘Hamewith’ (London, 1910) by Charles Murray, enclosing a letter of Murray to the publisher William Fordie Forrester concerning a publishing agreement with Constable.
File
Identifier: MS.27286
Scope and Contents
There are transcripts by William Fordie Forrester of Charles Murray's poems "It wasna his wyte" and "The Thraws o' Fate" on the endpapers.
Dates:
?1926
Copy of John Marchfield, "Ballads and Poems" (London, 1913), with manuscript poem of Marchfield on the flyleaf.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4182
Dates:
1913.
Copy of sermons and religious verse written by James Cuninghame of Barns, a Quietist preacher and Jacobite.
Item
Identifier: MS.5166
Scope and Contents
The poems and sermons have for headings the date and place of composition; among the places mentioned are Edinburgh, Stirling, Kilsyth, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
The manuscript is written in a fair hand, and some gaps have been left where the copyist could not read the original.
The original pagination, lacking pages 100-179, is faulty.
Dates:
1710-1711.
Copy of Sydney Goodsir Smith, "Skail Wind. Poems" (1941), with autograph emandations and additions by the author.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10692
Dates:
circa 1941.
Copy of 'Wild coal' (1963) by Kenneth White; with a letter of White, some poems in typescript, and newspaper cuttings.
File
Identifier: Acc.14442
Dates:
Circa 1963.
Corrected drafts and typescripts of ten series of poems of Kenneth White.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5918
Dates:
circa 1960-circa 1963.
Corrected manuscript and printed version of poem of David Morrison, "Sterk Vision".
File
Identifier: Acc.5005
Dates:
1970.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of 19 poems of Roderick Watson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7643
Dates:
circa 1966-circa 1976.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of 190 poems of Duncan Glen.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8403
Dates:
1972-1982.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and a play of David Morrison.
File
Identifier: Acc.10096
Dates:
1987-1988.
Corrected manuscript of a poem of George MacDonald, "Christmas 1876".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7067
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Corrected manuscript of an article, undated, and manuscript, 1948, of a verse from "Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica", both of Hamish Henderson.
File
Identifier: Acc.9539
Dates:
1948 and undated.
Corrected manuscript of poem of Iain Crichton Smith, "Returning Exile".
File
Identifier: Acc.4460
Scope and Contents
With typescript of the poem.
Dates:
circa 1968.
Corrected manuscript of Robert William Jameson, "Nimrod: a Dramatic Poem in Five Acts".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8385
Dates:
1848.
Corrected manuscript of unpublished poem of David Scott, "British Deed or Trafalgar", with annotations by William Bell Scott.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7269
Dates:
1848.