Essays.
Found in 567 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles and essays of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1933-1947.
While most of the articles and essays are on literary topics, they also include such diverse subjects as the Faroe Islands, hill-farming, politics, and the Edinburgh Festival. Many were published in a wide range of newspapers and periodicals. Some are incomplete and some survive only as drafts.
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles and essays of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1948-1952.
While most of the articles and essays are on literary topics, they also include such diverse subjects as the Faroe Islands, hill-farming, politics, and the Edinburgh Festival. Many were published in a wide range of newspapers and periodicals. Some are incomplete and some survive only as drafts.
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles and essays of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1953-1960.
While most of the articles and essays are on literary topics, they also include such diverse subjects as the Faroe Islands, hill-farming, politics, and the Edinburgh Festival. Many were published in a wide range of newspapers and periodicals. Some are incomplete and some survive only as drafts.
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles and essays of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1961-1967.
While most of the articles and essays are on literary topics, they also include such diverse subjects as the Faroe Islands, hill-farming, politics, and the Edinburgh Festival. Many were published in a wide range of newspapers and periodicals. Some are incomplete and some survive only as drafts.
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles and essays of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1969-1977.
While most of the articles and essays are on literary topics, they also include such diverse subjects as the Faroe Islands, hill-farming, politics, and the Edinburgh Festival. Many were published in a wide range of newspapers and periodicals. Some are incomplete and some survive only as drafts.
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles and essays, undated, of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [1933-1977.]
While most of the articles and essays are on literary topics, they also include such diverse subjects as the Faroe Islands, hill-farming, politics, and the Edinburgh Festival. Many were published in a wide range of newspapers and periodicals. Some are incomplete and some survive only as drafts.
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles and essays, undated, of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [1933-1977.]
While most of the articles and essays are on literary topics, they also include such diverse subjects as the Faroe Islands, hill-farming, politics, and the Edinburgh Festival. Many were published in a wide range of newspapers and periodicals. Some are incomplete and some survive only as drafts.
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles and essays, undated, of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [1933-1977.]
While most of the articles and essays are on literary topics, they also include such diverse subjects as the Faroe Islands, hill-farming, politics, and the Edinburgh Festival. Many were published in a wide range of newspapers and periodicals. Some are incomplete and some survive only as drafts.
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of introductions and prefaces by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid' to some of his own works, as well as to works by other writers., 1936-1978, undated.
The papers include fragments of the introduction to Hugh MacDiarmid's proposed biography of John Maclean, 1936 (folio 1), the introduction to his unpublished long poem 'Impavidi Progrediamur', 1956 (folio 58), and a partial typescript of the introductory essay to an anthology of work by contemporary Scottish poets, undated (folio 212).
Manuscripts, typescripts, and related working papers of other creative works of Ian Rankin., 1977-2016, undated.
This series contains manuscripts and typescripts of, and associated working papers for, various other creative works of Ian Rankin. The working papers include development and editorial notes. Administrative papers and correspondence relating to some of the works are also included.
Manuscripts, typescripts and research papers of Tom Leonard.
Marked and revised offprint of an article from the "Quarterly Review" : "Sterne" by Whitwell Elwin., ? 1853-? 1900.
Marked, incomplete page proofs of the introductory essay to the section, "Chaucer", in "Specimens of the British poets" by Thomas Campbell., ? 1819.
The proofs differ in details of content and of layout from the published version.
Material for a work, in the hand of John Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates' Library, titled, 'Essay towards the digesting & disposing in good order, & to the best advantage, the styles of all the writts, evidents, & securities made use of in the Scotch law, & practised among the Writters to the Signet’., 1689-1692, 1697, 1722, undated.
Most of the papers were bound in a volume (not in order of date); others, found loose either at an appropriate place in the volume or at the end, have now been bound in.
Material on Aberdeenshire used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’.
The manuscript mostly concerns the boundary between the counties of Banff and Aberdeen, but also includes an essay on the University of Aberdeen (folio 18).
Memorial, by John Smyth WS, of Balharry, Perthshire, on behalf of the poor of Scotland.
‘Metaphysic the science of the absolute’, an essay by Richard B Haldane, in his autograph.
According to a note in pencil in the hand of Richard B Haldane at folio i, dated 1914, this appears to have been the essay which he wrote in 1876 whilst a student at Edinburgh University for the Bruce of Grangehill prize and Falkland medal.
The text is preceded by a list of contents (folio 1), and begins with a preface (folio 1) and an introduction (folio 4).
Microfilm of ‘Collection of the place names of Colonsay and general description of Scalasaig’, prize essay, Mod competition, 1909, by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Microfilm of correspondence of, and manuscripts of or concerning, Thomas De Quincey.
Microfilm of documents concerning Thomas de Quincey during his residence in Edinburgh., 1836-1841, 1881.
Microfilm of essay entitled ‘Superstitions of Perth’ by the Reverend James Scott, incorporating extracts from the Kirk Session registers of Perth upon 16th century popular customs in Perth.
Microfilm of essay, musical arrangement and photographs of Robert Louis Stevenson.
The contents are as follows:
Account, [?1871], of a students’ meeting and class excursion by Robert Louis Stevenson (Acc.9690);
Setting by Robert Louis Stevenson, circa 1890, of an air by J S Bach from the Cantata number 68 'Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt', for two flageolets; and two photographs, circa ?1890-circa ?1894], of Stevenson, one taken at Vailima (MS.9756).
Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 1., [?2nd half of 18th century-?early 20th century.]
Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 1., 2nd half of 18th century-1834.
Series of fifteen lectures, 2nd half of 18th century, of Joseph Black on the subject of heat, delivered at Edinburgh University (MS.8487);
Diary, 1833-1834, of Thomas Telford, the engineer, contained in “Simpson's gentleman's almanack and pocket journal” for 1833 (MS.9157);
'Essay on the application of steam to the purposes of navigation'; a fair copy by James Rennie of his prize essay, 1816 (MS.9352).