Poetry.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms. (AAT) All poetry, except ballads, was indexed under this heading in the published catalogues. (NLS) .
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Commonplace Book containing drawings of scenery, characters, flora and fauna and miscellanous verse.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13650
Scope and Contents
This volume contains numerous illustrations including the `Costume of the Ladies of Edinburgh, Spring 1828`, a drawing of the Water of Leith, a man in Albanian costume in southern Italy, the ruins of a Roman temple in Palmyra in Syria, together with flora and fauna. There are also verses from Shakespeare, Byrone, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton and James Thomson.
Dates:
1828-1847, undated.
Correspondence between Lord Byron and correspondents with surnames from Nathan-Rowley., 1807-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.43504
Scope and Contents
The letters have been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname. When first made available for consultation, the letters of Rocca had been placed before those of Ridgeway. These have now been changed so that they adhere to the alphabetical arrangement and the folio numbers updated accordingly.Further correspondence has been added to the end of the sequence.
Unpublished poem ‘On reading Lord Byron’s Bride of Abydos’, by A Baldry, beginning 'The tale is...
Dates:
1807-1823, undated.
Letter, 1824, of Lord Byron to Sir John Bowring.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8766
Scope and Contents
With four letters, 1824 and 1828, concerning Byron, and a manuscript of his last poem, undated.
Dates:
1824-1828 and undated.
Letters mostly of and to John Cam Hobhouse concerning a statue of Lord Byron., 1824-1845, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.43533
Scope and Contents
MS.43533
Letters mostly of and to John Cam Hobhouse concerning a statue of Lord Byron, 1824-1845, undated.These letters have been arranged in three sections:
(i) Letters to John Cam Hobhouse relating to a statue of Lord Byron and a related pamphlet written by Hobhouse have been organised alphabetically by correspondent surname;
(ii) Letters and notes of a sub-committee relating to a statue of Lord Byron (further folios relating to this have been added at folios 289-292 having...
Dates:
1824-1845, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Correspondence of, to and concerning Lord Byron and his circle.
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Correspondence relating to the death of Lord Byron, his funeral, will and estate, and the burning of his memoirs.
Letters mostly to Lord Byron of correspondents with surnames from Silvestrini-Tournier., 1810-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.43508
Scope and Contents
The letters to Lord Byron have been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname. When first made available for consultation, before foliation, the wrapper of Sir George Sinclair had been housed in Ms.43449. It was moved to f.7 of this folder on cataloguing.Letters of Francesca (Fanny) Silvestrini to Lord Byron, 1819 and undated: folios 1-6;Wrapper of a letter probably of Sir George Sinclair to Lord Byron, 1813: folio 7;Letters of Constance...
Dates:
1810-1823, undated.
Letters of, to or concerning Lady Caroline Lamb; with letters and manuscripts of George Lamb and William Lamb., 1812-1831, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.43468
Scope and Contents
The letters of Caroline Lamb to various correspondents have been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname. Papers relating to George Lamb and William Lamb, Lord Melbourne, have been arranged at the end of the sequence.Letter of Caroline Lamb to William Fletcher, 1812: folios 1-2;Copy of a letter of Caroline Lamb to Thomas Medwin, 1824: folios 3-6;Letter of Caroline Lamb to Lydia Rogers White, 1824: folios 7-8;Copy of a letter of...
Dates:
1812-1831, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Correspondence of, to and concerning Lord Byron and his circle.
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Letters of and to Lady Caroline Lamb, with some of William Lamb and George Lamb.
Letters of various correspondents to Lord Byron and others concerning Greece and the Greek Committee., 1823-1824, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.43530
Scope and Contents
The letters have been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname, with additional material at the end of the sequence.When first made available for consultation, before foliation, this manuscript included letters of Pellegrino Ghigi and Antonio Lega Zambelli. These have been moved to Ms.43531 during cataloguing.Letter possibly of Giuseppe Abbati to Lord Byron, with a poem dedicated to Byron, 1824: folios 1-4;Note possibly of David Baillie...
Dates:
1823-1824, undated.
Letters to Catherine Gordon Byron; and letters of Anne Isabella Noel Byron, Lady Byron., 1808-1857.
File
Identifier: MS.43411
Scope and Contents
Letters to Catherine Gordon Byron have been placed before those of Anne Isablla Noel Byron, Lady Byron.Letters to or concerning Catherine Gordon Byron:Letter of Margaret Abercromby to Lady Catherine Gordon Byron, [1811]: folios 1-2;Letter of John Birch to Lady Catherine Gordon Byron, 1808: folios 3-4;Letter of William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, to Catherine Gordon Byron, 1810: folios 5-6;Letter of John Dell to Catherine Gordon...
Dates:
1808-1857.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Correspondence of, to and concerning Lord Byron and his circle.
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Letters of and to Catherine Gordon Byron, and of Anne Isabella Noel Byron, Lady Byron.
Manuscript of a poem "Addressed to the Purveyor of the Latest Byron Scandal", by an unidentified author., 1869.
Item
Identifier: MS.42602
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates:
1869.
Manuscript of 'Bride of Abydos', by Lord Byron., 1813.
Item
Identifier: MS.43322
Scope and Contents
There are three groups of manuscripts within this volume, all relating to 'Bride of Abydos' by Lord Byron.First draft in the hand of Byron, consisting of:Motto: folio 1;Canto I dated 1 November 1813 on f.2, 4 November on f.11v, 1813: folios 2-11;Canto II dated 8 November on f. 23v, 1813: folios 12-25;
Fair copy in the hand of Byron, from which the poem was printed, consisting of:Canto I stanza VI onwards, [1813]: folios...
Dates:
1813.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
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Manuscripts and fair copies mainly of the narrative poetry of Lord Byron.
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Manuscripts mostly of and concerning 'The Bride of Abydos', a poem by Lord Byron.
Manuscripts and fair copies of poems featured in 'Hebrew Melodies' by Lord Byron., 1810-1845.
File
Identifier: MS.43345
Scope and Contents
For poetical works, first lines are given in brackets after the title of the poem. The manuscripts are in the hand of Byron unless otherwise stated.‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by Jermone McGann, has been used in some of the following descriptions – where his titles differ from those on the physical manuscripts these have been given in square brackets.List of manuscripts of poems included in 'Hebrew Melodies' and their locations, undated: folio 1;...
Dates:
1810-1845.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
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Manuscripts, fair copies, fragments and material relating to the non-narrative poems of Lord Byron.
Manuscripts of 'Bride of Abydos: canto I', 'Lament of Tasso', and first draft of 'Werner', all by Lord Byron; with some related correspondence and an article on 'Werner' by Frederick Leveson Gower., 1813-1914, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.43323
Scope and Contents
This volume contains manuscripts relating to three poems written by Byron – ‘Bride of Abydos’, ‘Lament of Tasso’ and ‘Werner’. The content has been listed in the order in which it appears in the volume. All manuscripts are in the hand of Byron, although some dates have been added by John Murray.‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by Jermone McGann, has been used in some of the following descriptions.Folios 1-5, 26, 29, 44, 46, 54, 56, 70 and 75-81...
Dates:
1813-1914, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
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Manuscripts and fair copies mainly of the narrative poetry of Lord Byron.
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Manuscripts mostly of and concerning 'The Bride of Abydos', a poem by Lord Byron.
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.
Manuscripts of works and translations by Lord Byron; with some copy in the hands of Lady Byron, Charles Hanson, John Cam Hobhouse, Augusta Leigh, John Murray [II], and Mary Shelley., 1807-1823, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.43348
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts here have been broadly arranged in chronological order. First lines are given in brackets after the title of the poem. ‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by Jermone McGann, has been used in some of the following descriptions.Corrected manuscript draft of an untitled poem (“As relics left of saints above …”) in the hand of Byron, undated [?1806]: folio 1;Corrected manuscript of ‘Parody on Sir W. Jones’s Translation from Hafiz – “Sweet...
Dates:
1807-1823, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
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Manuscripts, fair copies, fragments and material relating to the non-narrative poems of Lord Byron.
Proofs and printed editions of poems by or relating to Lord Byron, 1811-1818, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.43390
Scope and Contents
Part proofs of the first edition of ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’, by Lord Byron including title, preface, contents and errata of, with annotations, 1812: folio 1;Part proofs ‘Don Juan’s Expostulation, with notes by a friend’, by Lord Byron, with an annotation in the hand of John Cam Hobhouse, undated: folios 2-3;Part proofs of ‘Hints from Horace’ by Lord Byron, including title-page and half-title, with annotations, 1811: folios 4-7;
Part proofs of ‘Congiura di Marin...
Dates:
1811-1818, undated.
Transcription by John Cam Hobhouse of Lord Byron's poem, 'The Conquest'., 1823, or after.
Item
Identifier: MS.42294
Scope and Contents
This is an undated manuscript copy, in the hand of John Cam Hobhouse, of the poem of Lord Byron entitled 'The Conquest', originally written in 1823.
Dates:
1823, or after.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning John Cam Hobhouse.
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Manuscripts by John Cam Hobhouse, with related proofs.
Two manuscript copies of the satirical verse, 'My boy Hobby' by Lord Byron in an unidentified hand., Circa 1832, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.42296
Scope and Contents
There are here two manuscript copies of the poem 'My Boy Hobbie O', which was sent in a letter of Lord Byron to John Murray [II] in 1820. Hobhouse was upset by the poem and the fact that Murray had allowed it to circulate.The first copy is annotated with the phrase 'an imperfect recollection' and there are indeed differences between the poem as it exists in other places and that which appears on both copies here.Neither manuscript is dated, but one copy has a...
Dates:
Circa 1832, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning John Cam Hobhouse.
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Manuscripts by John Cam Hobhouse, with related proofs.
Volume containing a letter of Lord Byron to Sir John Bowring, 1824; four letters concerning Byron, 1824 and 1828; and a manuscript of his last poem.
File
Identifier: Dep.238- is now Acc.8766.
Dates:
1824, 1828.
Volume containing manuscript poems of Lord Byron and some letters of various correspondents; with a manuscript catalogue relating to manuscripts and correspondence of Lord Byron., ?1811-1831, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.43341
Scope and Contents
There are here two volumes. The first contains a number of manuscripts of the poetry of Byron, with some correspondence of and to Byron.The content has been listed in the order in which it appears in the volume. For poetical works, first lines are given in brackets after the title of the poem. The manuscripts are in the hand of Byron unless otherwise stated; pencil notes are in an unidentified hand.‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by...
Dates:
?1811-1831, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
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Manuscripts, fair copies, fragments and material relating to the non-narrative poems of Lord Byron.
Volume containing manuscripts of miscellaneous early poems of Lord Byron., 1807-1811.
Item
Identifier: MS.43340
Scope and Contents
This volume contains various poetical pieces, largely in the hand of Lord Byron. A number of leaves have been cut from the beginning of the volume. There are contents on 27 folios of the volume, with additional annotations to the inside back board. The inside front board contains a bookplate of John Murray, giving an address in Wimbledon.The content has been listed in the order in which it appears in the volume. For poetical works, first lines are given in brackets after the...
Dates:
1807-1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
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Manuscripts, fair copies, fragments and material relating to the non-narrative poems of Lord Byron.
Volume of miscellaneous poetic manuscripts by Lord Byron; with some related correspondence., 1808-1822, 1930-1973, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.43346
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts here have been largely arranged in chronological order. The original foliation of the volume has been retained, although some of the folios have been removed prior to arrival at the Library.For poetical works, first lines are given in brackets after the title of the poem. The manuscripts are in the hand of Byron unless otherwise stated.‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by Jermone McGann, has been used in some of the following descriptions...
Dates:
1808-1822, 1930-1973, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
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Manuscripts, fair copies, fragments and material relating to the non-narrative poems of Lord Byron.