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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 3 Collections and/or Records:

Four letters, 1823 and undated, of Jane Welsh Carlyle, and two letters, 1838 and undated, of Grace Welsh to Isabella McTurk.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12039
Scope and Contents

Includes:

1. verses, 1832 and undated, in various hands;

2. riddles and verses, circa 1828, given by Jane Welsh Carlyle to Isabella McTurk.

Dates: 1823-1838.

Four letters, [1823], and undated, of Jane Welsh Carlyle, and two letters, 1838, and undated, of Grace Welsh, to Isabella McTurk, mainly concerning personal matters.

 File
Identifier: Dep.295- is now Acc.12039.
Scope and Contents

Includes:

1. verses, 1832 and undated, in various hands;

2. riddles and verses, circa 1828, given by Jane Welsh Carlyle to Isabella McTurk.

Dates: [1823]-1838, and undated.