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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 2783 Collections and/or Records:

Typescripts, with a few manuscript corrections, of poems of Alastair Reid in 'Weathering'., [1978, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.27448
Scope and Contents

The typescripts appear to have been made at different times and put together by Alastair Reid. The collection is incomplete; all the translations and several other poems are missing.

Dates: [1978, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Literary papers of the poet and author, Alastair Reid (born 1926). / Poetry of Alastair Reid.

Typescripts, with a few manuscripts of poems in English, by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1930-1939, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26121
Scope and Contents

There are several copies of some of the poems, and a number of title-pages, which suggest that Sydney Goodsir Smith was arranging the poems for publication.

Dates: 1930-1939, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Literary manuscripts and personal papers of the poet and art critic, Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975). / Poetry of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

Typescripts with manuscript corrections of 'Radio Forth Ryhmes' by Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1975-1977.

 File
Identifier: MS.26590
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Robert Garioch Sutherland was commissioned by Radio Forth to write and broadcast a light-hearted poem once a week, and he completed a series of a hundred such verses. They are not included in his ‘Complete poetical works’ (Edinburgh, 1983). The manuscript drafts were written on the backs of letters and circulars (the more important of which have been indexed), and other scrap paper.

Dates: 1975-1977.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father. / Poetry of Robert Garioch Sutherland. / Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Radio Forth Ryhmes' by Robert Garioch Sutherland.

Typescripts, with manuscript corrections, of 'The alien world: a dramatic poem' by James Findlay Hendry., 1970.

 File
Identifier: MS.26717, folios 45-75
Dates: 1970.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of James Findlay Hendry (1912-1986), poet and editor. / Typescripts of and letters to James Findlay Hendry.

Typescripts, with manuscript corrections, of 'Winter artillery in Hyde Park' by James Findlay Hendry., 1969.

 File
Identifier: MS.26717, folios 36-44
Scope and Contents

This is a revision of some of the verses in James Findlay Hendry's ‘The orchestral mountain’ (London, 1943), page 26.

Dates: 1969.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of James Findlay Hendry (1912-1986), poet and editor. / Typescripts of and letters to James Findlay Hendry.

Typescripts, with some annotations, of early unpublished poems of Sir Alexander Gray., [Circa 1918]-1925.

 File
Identifier: MS.26001
Scope and Contents

The poems include a collection called 'The Rainbow Field' (folio 71).

Dates: [Circa 1918]-1925.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Literary and family papers of Sir Alexander Gray (1882-1968), Professor of Political Economy at Aberdeen and later at Edinburgh University. / Poems of Sir Alexander Gray.

Typsecript verse concerning Sir Patrick Geddes by Dr Arthur Geddes with related notes; printed `Brief Guide to the Scotland Room, The Outlook Tower, Castlehill, Edinburgh`, undated; annotated typescript of `Patrick Geddes as a sociologist` by Dr Arthur Geddes; offprints of four published articles on Patrick Geddes.

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Identifier: Acc.13661
Scope and Contents i). Two typescript drafts, 1946, undated, of `Olympus and a Mortal Spirit : sonnet to a servant of the Gods, in memory and pressage ; (1854-1932), Patrick Geddes` , by Arthur Geddes, with incomplete comments on the sonnet and Patrick Geddes by Arthur Geddes.ii). Printed `Brief Guide to the Scotland Room, The Outlook Tower, Castlehill, Edinburgh`, undated, with annotations by Arthur Geddes.iii). Typescript, undated, of `Patrick Geddes as Sociologist`, a lecture given...
Dates: 1946-2015, undated
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

"Unbound Notebook" of George Crabbe., 1822-1827.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42077
Scope and Contents

Title taken from the "Index of English Literary Manuscripts", volume 3, part 1, page 297 (London : Mansell, 1986), which has a full description of the contents of the notebook.

Dates: 1822-1827.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of John Murray, publishers. / Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts. / Papers of and concerning George Crabbe. / Notebooks of George Crabbe.

Unfinished untitled blank verse tragedy about Henrique, King of Sicily., 18th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5761
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: 18th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey. / Literary manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.

Unpublished memoir, poems and bibliography of Gordon Jarvie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13261
Dates: 2011.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Unpublished poem and correspondence of George Outram.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13489
Scope and Contents

A small collection of letters mainly to George Outram, and a manuscript of one of his `legal lyrics`, evidently unpublished. The letters are from various eminent correspondents and mainly relate to `The Glasgow Herald` and to Outram`s first privately printed collection of `Legal Lyrics` (1851). Correspondents include William Edmonstoune Aytoun, John Wilson and James Sheridan Knowles. With one unrelated letter, 1870, of Sir George Deas.

Dates: c 1840-1855.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Valmiki, "Ramayana".

 File
Identifier: Acc.2426
Scope and Contents

Imperfect copy.

Dates: 18th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Various compositions of George Douglas Brown., 1897-1898, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.8180
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript, in the author's hand, of 'Honest Jack' by George Douglas Brown, a one-act farce. Brown's only experiment in play-writing was never published. (Folio 1.)(ii) Typescript, with a few corrections in Brown's hand, of two chapters of "The doctor's stories". Intended as an autobiography of a doctor, the work remained unpublished. The date of composition is probably 1898. See James Veitch, 'George Douglas Brown', page 110. (Folio...
Dates: 1897-1898, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts and drafts of and concerning George Douglas Brown. / Various manuscripts of George Douglas Brown bound together.

Various compositions of Sir Walter Scott., [?1799]-1831, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.876
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:“The Shepherd’s Tale”, [?1799], in Sir Walter Scott’s hand, containing slight variations throughout from the version given by John Gibson Lockhart in ‘Life of Sir Walter Scott’, chapter ix (folio 1);'The Maid of Neidpath', with the preface as published, 1806 (folio 13);'Wandering Willie', 1806 (folio 14B);'Lines on Mr. Macdonald of Staaffa ... left in the Book at the Inn there where the Travellers put their names...
Dates: [?1799]-1831, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order. / Original compositions of Sir Walter Scott.

Various letters and papers., 1822-1876, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1704, folios 56-65
Scope and Contents

Letter of Princess Louise of Stolberg, wife of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, to Lady Dillon, 1822; letter of Charles Kingsley, when a boy, to Mrs Knowles, 1828; poem of James Hogg, 'The last look of the land of the Stuarts', undated; poem of Mrs Hemans, “The Kaiser’s Feast", undated; letter of George Eliot, 1876.

Dates: 1822-1876, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Small collections of letters and papers.

Various letters and papers of Elizabeth Bell, 'Tibbie Flint'., 1808-1867, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.12848
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter, 1808, of Helen Stewart (Mrs Dugald Stewart) giving her opinion of 'Tibbie Flint' (folio 1); correspondence with Mary Brydone, 1808, 1825, undated (folios 3, 25), Dr John Brown, 1865 (folio 60), and the Adam family of Blair Adam, 1865-1867 (folio 66); 'Tibbey Flint's History ...', circa 1808 (folio 21); and verses and charades, 1809, 1820, circa 1836 (folios 27, 36).

Dates: 1808-1867, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Literary papers, music and drawings of various members of the Elliot of Minto family. / Literary papers of Elizabeth Bell of Coldstream, a humorous writer in Scots in the character of 'Tibbie Flint', who frequently acted that part in theatrical productions at Minto House.

Various literary papers of the family of Erskine of Alva., 18th century-19th century.

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Identifier: MS.5113
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Addresses, 1835, undated, of an unidentified R D Murray to a St Stephen's Society, on such subjects as the advantages of public education, poetry, phrenology, etc. (folio 1);(ii) Class cards, lecture notes (mostly on legal subjects), and copies of the regulations for Dollar Academy, with excerpts from the sederunt books of the trustees, 1826 (folio 97);(iii) Various short prose pieces, chiefly nineteenth century, including...
Dates: 18th century-19th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the family of Erskine of Alva. / Personal papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.

Various manuscripts and fragments, almost all undated, in the autograph of Hugh Miller., 1819-[1852, or before.]

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Identifier: MS.7518
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Two 'Descriptive Letters' probably intended for publication and signed 'M--r', concerning a visit to Edinburgh in 1824 (folio 1);(ii) Fragmentary notebooks, 1819-1820, undated, mainly containing poems, some of which were published with many alterations in ‘Poems written in the leisure hours of a journeyman mason’ (Edinburgh, 1829) (folio 10);(iii) Description of the parish of Cromarty: basically the text of the description...
Dates: 1819-[1852, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters, notebooks and manuscripts of and concerning Hugh Miller, geologist.

Various manuscripts of David Hume., 1738-1776, undated.

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Identifier: MS.23159
Scope and Contents The papers include David Hume's agreement with John Noon for publishing the ‘Treatise of human nature’, 1738; his appointment as Judge Advocate, 1746; a letter of Hume recounting the order to remove three French works purchased by him while Keeper of the Library of the Faculty of Advocates - ‘Contes’ of La Fontaine, Bussy-Rabutin's ‘Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules,’ and Crébillon's ‘L'Ecumoire,’ - deemed by three of his curators 'indecent Books and unworthy of a place in a learned Library',...
Dates: 1738-1776, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of and concerning David Hume.

Various manuscripts of George Douglas Brown bound together., 1897-[1901, or after], ?1923.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8177-8180
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Many of the drafts are early compositions, but they include all that apparently now exists of 'The House with the Green Shutters', published in 1901 (MSS.8171-8172), and two items not by George Douglas Brown (MS.8178).

MSS.8171-8176 are written in school notebooks.

Dates: 1897-[1901, or after], ?1923.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts and drafts of and concerning George Douglas Brown.

Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20491-20496
Scope and Contents

The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.

Dates: 4th quarter of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.17888-17894
Dates: Mid 18th century-early 19th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Various papers and correspondence concerning David Hume., 1746-1766, 1839-1844, undated.

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Identifier: MS.23163
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Reports and correspondence concerning the acceptance by the Royal Society of Edinburgh of Baron Hume's bequest and the granting of access to the papers to John Hill Burton, 1839-1844. There is a list of these papers, which are not included in the calendar, at the beginning of the volume. (ii) Miscellaneous manuscripts not by David Hume, 1746-1766, undated, including verses, a character of Hume, papers on mathematical principles, and historical statements by...
Dates: 1746-1766, 1839-1844, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of and concerning David Hume.

Various works edited by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [1940, or before]-1953.

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Identifier: MS.27077
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Fragmentary manuscripts and typescripts of ‘The golden treasury of Scottish poetry’, selected and edited by Hugh MacDiarmid (London, 1940). (Folio 1.) It includes a letter of MacDiarmid to the publisher commenting on the introduction. (Folio 58.) (ii) Draft introduction, notes and partial typescript of an anthology of work by Scottish poets, circa 1950. (Folio 64.) (iii) Introduction and part of the text and page-proofs of ‘Selected poems of William Dunbar’,...
Dates: [1940, or before]-1953.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'. / Literary papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'. / Prose works of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'. / Broadcasts and speeches of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'. / Editorial work of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.

Various works of Ovid in a manuscript by Nicolas Crabel, written at Padua in 1448-1449, with additions of the later 15th and 16th centuries

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.9
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Ovid. `Ars amatoria` (`de arte amandi` manuscript; ‘P. Ovidi Nasonis Amores’, etc., page 113). The first gathering has been wrongly bound; the correct order of folios is 3, 2, 6-10, 5, 4, 1 (folio 1).(ii) Ovid. `Amores’ (`de sine titulo` manuscript; ‘P. Ovidi Nasonis Amores’, etc., page 5). ii.14. 31-16.8 are omitted (folio 29).(iii) Ovid. `Remedia amoris` (`de remedio amoris` manuscript; ‘P. Ovidi Nasonis...
Dates: 1448-16th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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