Eulogies.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Laudatory speeches or written tributes.
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries, containing various works attributed to, or written by, St Bernard.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Extracts from the `Vita beatissimi Malachie`, caps. 1-25. See ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 1073-1104 (folio 1 verso).(ii) Notes on vipers with reference to Aristotle (folio 8 verso).(iii) `De conversione ad clericos`, cap. 3. ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 856-857 (folio 9).(iv) `Bernardus de servitute vitiorum et incertitudine mortis` (folio 10).(v) Anonymous commentaries on the Song of...
Dates:
15th century.
Articles and speeches and miscellaneous papers of Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'., 1938-1956, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27407
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts and typescripts of articles and speeches, 1938-1956, undated, begin on folio 1. The miscellaneous papers, 1938-1954, undated, begin on folio 127. They include a few notes for 'A woman of letters' (folio 144).
Dates:
1938-1956, undated.
Assorted, printed items concerning William Gifford either personally, or in his capacity as editor of the "Quarterly Review"., 1815-? 1827.
File
Identifier: MS.42258
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Editor and satirist William Gifford (1756-1826) was an important figure in the history of the publishing house of John Murray. As editor of the 'Quarterly Review', Gifford was heavily involved in producing a significant, highly respected and popular periodical. In addition, Gifford acted as a literary advisor to John Murray [II] and his opinion was highly valued by the publisher.There is a vast amount of correspondence here, including hundreds to John Murray [II]. There is...
Dates:
1815-? 1827.
Autograph manuscript draft of "Inscriptions for the Caledonian Canal", verses by Robert Southey written in praise of the engineering feats of Thomas Telford.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12653
Dates:
circa 1820.
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Neil Munro., 1863-1966, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26927
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence, 1898-1927, undated (folio l). This includes letters from the novelist, Joseph Conrad, and copies of agreements with publishers. (ii) Miscellaneous papers, 1863-1966, undated, including lists of works by Neil Munro and tributes to him (folio 35).
Dates:
1863-1966, undated.
Email print-out of Alec Finlay containing eulogy given at the funeral of Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12608
Dates:
2006.
Ephemera and memorabilia of and concerning Margo MacDonald., Circa 1963-2014, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13638/43-54
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
The papers reflect Margo MacDonald`s life as a politician and broadcaster. Although somewhat miscellaneous, they provide an insight into her relationship with the Scottish National Party leadership throughout her life, and into some of the causes she advocated during her life, including independence and assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.
Dates:
Circa 1963-2014, undated.
File of correspondence and papers, relating generally to the writings or to the Buchan family. Including tributes to Alice Fairfax-Lucy, and booklet on life of James Walter Buchan. , 1952-1995.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/290
Dates:
1952-1995.
Funeral address for James P M Millar, delivered at Dartmouth by George A Clarke.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10038
Dates:
1989.
Illuminated memorial to James Ogilvie, 11th Earl of Seafield, by Graily Hewitt.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9289
Dates:
circa 1915.
Letter of Christopher Murray Grieve to Marie Muir, with a copy of her tribute to Helen Cruickshank., 1975.
File
Identifier: MS.26713, folios 108-110
Letters collected by Allan Paton Park., 1799-1903, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3218
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters of R B Sheridan, undated (folio 1);(ii) Letters of Alexander Wilson, the ornithologist, to Charles Orr, 1799-1802, undated, with a silhouette of Wilson; most of the letters are published in A P Paton, ‘Wilson the Ornithologist’ (London, 1863) (folio 4);(iii) Lord Byron's family: bills of his mother, 1803, and of the poet himself, 1811, and letters of his daughter, 1839, and wife, 1844 (folio 33);(iv)...
Dates:
1799-1903, undated.
Letters of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 1977; for President Dwight D Eisenhower, 1961; and of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 1958, 1970; also containing a tribute to Alexander of Tunis, died 1969., 1958, 1961, 1970, 1977.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/149
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1958, 1961, 1970, 1977.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
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Professional and business correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, containing some material on overseas travel.
Manuscripts and typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith concerning the poet Robert Fergusson., 1950, 1974, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26146
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Typescript, with manuscript corrections, additions and deletions, of 'Fergusson and Burns', a programme for the BBC series 'Chapbook', broadcast on the Scottish Home Service, 1950 (folio l);
(ii) Corrected typescript of Sydney Goodsir Smith's introduction to ‘Fergusson: a bi-centenary handsel’ (Edinburgh, 1974) (folio 23). For another copy, see MS.26187, folio 34.
(iii) Manuscript and typescript drafts of "'The Tricky Callant"; a tribute to Robert Fergusson',...
Dates:
1950, 1974, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary manuscripts and personal papers of the poet and art critic, Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975).
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Literary papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
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Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith concerning the poet Robert Fergusson (1750-1774).
Miscellaneous papers collected by Angus Martin, including drafts of parts of Martin's 'Kintyre: the hidden past', with annotations by George Campbell Hay, and material concerning Hay and his family., 1974-1987, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26752
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Angus Martin became a personal friend of George Campbell Hay in the 1970s.
Dates:
1974-1987, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of Nancy Brysson Morrison., 1933-1986, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27373
Scope and Contents
The papers include a publisher's agreement and royalty statements for 'These are my friends' 1945-1947 (folios 2-7), newspaper cuttings, 1933-1956, undated (folios 15-23), and a tribute and other material about her, 1986 (Folios 24-32).
Dates:
1933-1986, undated.
Newspaper cuttings, tributes and articles on the life and works of Edwin Muir, some of the latter by Janet Adam Smith., 1956-1995.
File
Identifier: Acc.13861/98
Scope and Contents
Containing: Four colour photographs [in 1 sleeve] of plaque in St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney - 3 of Edwin Muir and 1 of Eric Linklater. Letter from Willa Muir to Janet Adam Smith, July 1969.
Dates:
1956-1995.
Notebook containing obituary tributes, to the novelist, Thomas Hardy, and including the manuscript of a tribute by Ramsay MacDonald, January 1928, for the ‘Yorkshire Evening News’ and a cutting of the tribute as printed in the newspaper.
Item
Identifier: MS.25275
Dates:
1928.
Notebook of Edwin Muir., 1947-1948.
Item
Identifier: MS.19663
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains drafts of poems (passim); two essays on Robert Burns (folios 2, 38 verso); the preface to Jan Lukas, ‘Light and shade’, 1947 (folio 13); 'Robert Henryson' (folio 15) and ‘A note on Franz Kafka' (folio 42), both of which were published in Edwin Muir's ‘Essays on literature and society, 1949; 'Father and son' (folio 54), published in ‘The Listener’ xxxvii (1947), page 680; review of Frantisek Halas, ‘Old women’, 1948 (folio 65); article on Hugh Kingsmill, ‘The fall’,...
Dates:
1947-1948.
Other correspondence and papers of Lady and Lord Tweedsmuir., Circa 1911-circa 1998.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11884/282-359
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers provide a very full and extensive record of the political and public career of Lady Tweedsmuir, particularly of Scottish politics from 1945 to 1974, and of foreign policy in the early 1970s in her areas of responsibility as Minister of State, for example, the 'Cod War' dispute with Iceland. Business papers include some relating to her directorship of the transatlantic Cunard Line, and the construction and launching of RMS ‘Queen Elizabeth 2’. Some papers of Lord Tweedsmuir,...
Dates:
Circa 1911-circa 1998.
Papers and letters of and concerning Helen B Cruickshank., 1934-1975.
File
Identifier: MS.26713
Dates:
1934-1975.
Single letters and papers chiefly of the nineteenth century, with a few of the eighteenth century.
File
Identifier: MS.1810
Dates:
1736-1893, 1903, undated.
Small collections of letters and papers concerning people with surnames from F-W., 1741-1888, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1809
"To Hugh MacDiarmid on His Eightieth Birthday a Henrysonian Offering from the National Library of Scotland", inscribed to the Library by C M Grieve.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5736
Dates:
1972.
Tribute to Sir Walter Scott: papers read at the Scott Bicentenary Celebration, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin.
File
Identifier: MS.23067
Dates:
1971.