Novels.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Invented prose narratives of considerable length and a certain complexity that deal imaginatively with human experience through a connected sequence of events involving a group of persons in a specific setting.
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph manuscript of "The Raid of Rittersford" by Walter Scott, later published with variations as "Jamie Telfer of the Fair Donhead" in "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" (1802)
Item
Identifier: Acc.12712
Dates:
1796.
Fragment of the autograph manuscript of "The Abbot" in hand of Sir Walter Scott
Item
Identifier: Acc.12775
Dates:
? 1820.
Incomplete manuscript of 'Waverley'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.0
Scope and Contents
The manuscript comprises the greater part of `Waverley`. Of the parts not included in the manuscript some exist as fragments in the Library`s manuscript collection, fifteen folios are in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, and others are missing.
The first fifty folios of the manuscript are on quarto paper, watermarked 1805, the rest on folio paper, watermarked 1813.
Dates:
?1805-1814.
Manuscript of an unpublished novel, probably incomplete, entitled "The Maid of Montrose" in the style of Sir Walter Scott.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11297
Dates:
19th century.
Manuscript of "The House of Aspen: A Drama of Chivalry" by Sir Walter Scott.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11772
Dates:
1800.
Manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and Lord Byron from the Library of Honresfield House.
Record Group
Identifier: MSS.50701-50706
Dates:
1781-1832.
Selected manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott from the Library of Honresfield House., 1796-1832.
Series
Identifier: MSS.50702-50705
"The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" (1812, 5th edition) by Walter Scott, with three tipped-in letters of Scott to Charles Erskine of Shielfield.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11706
Scope and Contents
The tipped-in letters of Scott are 1803, 1816 and undated.
Dates:
1803-1816 and undated.
Typescript of "The Ragged Lion" (1994), by Allan Massie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11901
Dates:
circa 1994.
Working autograph of ‘Rob Roy’ by Sir Walter Scott, with some associated papers., 1817.
Item
Identifier: MS.50702
Scope and Contents
Complete working manuscript of 'Rob Roy'.Associated content.Letter, circa 1817, of Sir Walter Scott to James Ballantyne on the completion of 'Rob Roy'. Folio i.Fragment of a sales catalogue, 4th quarter of 19th century. Folio ii.Card from Honresfield, Littleborough, marked 'Scott original manuscript of 'Rob Roy''. Folio iii.Newspaper clipping from 'The Times', 19 March 1901, on the effect of 'Rob Roy' on James Russell Lowell. Folio...
Dates:
1817.