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Printed materials. Object genre.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Genre of written works published or otherwise available in printed form, usually on paper.

Found in 160 Collections and/or Records:

Letters and papers concerning honours bestowed on Thomas Carlyle.

 File
Identifier: MS.1795
Scope and Contents The contents concern the following:Membership of the Gesellschaft für in- und ausländische schöne Literatur in Berlin, 1830, 1835 (folio 1); of the Orden der Wachsamkeit, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1859 (folio 7); of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1866 (folio 16); and of the Prussian order, Pour le Mérite, 1874 (folio 18); with a letter forwarding an article published in the ‘Deutscher Reichs- und Königlich-Preussischer Staats-Anzeiger’ in honour of Thomas Carlyle's birthday, 1875...
Dates: 1830-1875.

Letters and poems of George Macdonald.

 File
Identifier: MS.9745
Scope and Contents

The letters, which include some from his wife Louisa, are written to Baron and Lady Mount-Temple. They mention George Macdonald's work, give news of himself and of his family, describe his surroundings in Italy, and contain many reflections on God and the next world. The poems (folio 95) are both manuscript and printed. There are also a few poems included in the letters.

Dates: 1862-1900.

Letters, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.9310-9315
Scope and Contents

The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.

Dates: 1779-1884.

Letters of Joyce Cary to Professor John Dover Wilson, and one to C B Young.

 File
Identifier: MS.10799
Scope and Contents

Joyce Cary discusses his literary work and two lectures he was to deliver in Edinburgh, and gives his impressions of East Africa and India. A printed copy of the laureation address delivered when he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Edinburgh University in 1953 is included (folio 23).

Dates: 1942-1955.

Letters to and papers collected by James Greig (1861-1941), art critic of the ‘Morning Post’.

 File
Identifier: MS.9809
Scope and Contents Most of the material concerns the artists Walter Richard Sickert and James McBey. The contents are as follows:(i) Correspondence, 1910-1932, undated, chiefly concerning McBey's paintings and etchings, but including a few letters of Sickert (folio 1);(ii) Printed and manuscript articles by Sickert, 1912-1932, undated, most of which have been reprinted in ‘A free house! ... the writings of Walter Richard Sickert’, edited by Osbert Sitwell (London, 1947)...
Dates: 1910-1935, undated.

Literary papers of the poet and author, Alastair Reid (born 1926).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27446-27464
Scope and Contents

Born in Whithorn and educated at St Andrews, Alastair Reid lived in Spain and Latin America for many years, translating from Spanish as well as writing his own poetry and prose. His papers reflect these different kinds of work.

Dates: 1953-1981, undated.

Manuscript music-book, containing ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces, hymns, and vocal exercises and scales.

 File
Identifier: MS.3282
Scope and Contents The music-book is made up of pages watermarked 1794. The volume contains ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces from Scotland and various European countries (passim), hymns (folios 22 verso-31), and vocal exercises and scales (folios 22, 32 verso-33 verso, 70-71 verso). Among the more extended pieces are extracts for pianoforte from Méhul's 'Jeune Henri' of 1797 (folio 67 verso), and from an opera 'Paul and Virginia', possibly that produced in London in 1800; and 'Favourite dances at...
Dates: ?1794-1813.

Mess book of the Edinburgh Squadron of the Royal Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry.

 Item
Identifier: MS.663
Scope and Contents

The mess book consists of the printed 'Mess Regulations' for each year, names of ‘Strangers’ and ‘Guests’ and by whom invited, and ‘names of troopers absent from Mess’.

Dates: 1846-1851, 1853-1856, 1858-1859.

Metrical version of the Psalms, by Thomas Foxton.

 File
Identifier: MS.635
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is inscribed: ‘Coningesby—Given me by Mr. Archer March—1752. Wrote by Thos. Foxton’. An article from ‘Notes and Queries’, 2nd series, volume ii, page 321, is inserted at folio i. The manuscript of this article, which is initialled J O, and a note on Thomas Foxton by Alexander Gardyne, are attached to the end-papers at the beginning of the volume.

Dates: [1752, or before.]

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.]