Poetry.
Found in 2780 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of miscellaneous poems, some of which relate to Scottish affairs, written mainly before the Restoration.
On the flyleaf is written "Incept. March 23 1652/3".
The poems are written in two different hands and at the rear of the volume there are several pages written in cypher or shorthand.
Collection of original verse of Edward Albert., 1st half of 20th century.
The papers consist chiefly of manuscripts and typescripts of Edward Albert's educational works, manuscripts and typescripts of his works of fiction, and his correspondence.
Collection of original verse of Edward Albert., 1st half of 20th century.
The papers consist chiefly of manuscripts and typescripts of Edward Albert's educational works, manuscripts and typescripts of his works of fiction, and his correspondence.
Collection of original verse of Edward Albert., 1st half of 20th century.
The papers consist chiefly of manuscripts and typescripts of Edward Albert's educational works, manuscripts and typescripts of his works of fiction, and his correspondence.
Collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Collection of poems copied by several hands and including work by Byron, Scott and Thomas Campbell among others.
Some of the poems were copied at Dundee, Glasgow, London and Brechin Castle, and the volume appears to have belonged to members of the Robertson family of Dundee. There are pencilled notes on the different branches of the family inside the front cover.
Collection of poems, songs, letters, anecdotes, sermons, and prayers 'by David Dun, late Teacher of Dancing', Edinburgh., 1828-1829.
Two dates, 1828 and 1829, are given.
Collection of prose and verse of Cecilia Combe, 1852.
MSS.7443-7445 are written in German, having been delivered on George Combe's tour in Germany in 1842.
The phrenological reports (MSS.7452-7455) comprise the phrenological measurements of many persons, both well-known and obscure, with reports and descriptions of their mental capabilities and weaknesses.
The papers of Cecilia Combe contain a selection of literary efforts, diaries of tours, and the usual memoranda and inventories kept by nineteenth-century housewives.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Collection of sacred religious hymns and verses.
The hymns and verses are by William Lighton, Robert Sandeman, William Sandeman, J.G?, and others whose initials are given.
Collection of Scottish pasquils in the hand of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Collection of Scottish poems and Jacobite songs.
The majority of the poems are anonymous but there are two by Allan Ramsay, one by Jonathan Swift, and one attributed to Colley Cibber. Several of the other poems have been printed and some appear in ‘First Line Index of English Poetry’. A list of these poems is inserted at the beginning of the volume.
Apart from the poems there are several pages written in a cypher and folios 71-73 contain dressmaking accounts, dated 1722-1729, in a different hand.
Collection of Scottish poems and satirical verse.
The first 70 folios are in manuscript while the latter half of the volume consists of a collection of printed broadsides of the 18th century. Several of the manuscript items appear in print and a list of them is inserted at the beginning of the volume.
Collection of Spanish poetry.
The poetry is anonymous.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.190) includes the reference: (W.6.45).
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Collection of tales and verse compiled for Ronald MacDonald of Staffa, Advocate, by Iain MacMhuirich (John MacPherson), schoolmaster in Mull.
'Collection of the ancient martial music of Caledonia’ by Donald Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1822), with the signature of Peter Reid dated Glasgow 1826, a poem in his hand, and other material bound in at the back.
Collection, undated, of poems in Scots compiled by Charles Murray., Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.
Collections of original verse, undated, of Edward Albert., 1st half of 20th century.
The papers consist chiefly of manuscripts and typescripts of Edward Albert's educational works, manuscripts and typescripts of his works of fiction, and his correspondence.
Collections of poems by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., [Circa 1940]-1967.
The contents are as follows. (i) Part of a manuscript collection of poems intended for publication, circa l940 (folio 1); (ii) Incomplete manuscript and typescripts of the second and third appendices to a larger work. The 'Second Appendix' (folio 21) consists of a poem on Glasgow, parts of which were published in ‘Collected poems’ and ‘Lucky poet’. The "Third Appendix' (folio 52) is 'Once in a Cornish garden' from ‘A lap of honour’ (London, 1967).
Collotype prints of an illuminated manuscript by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘In Memoriam’ by Alfred Tennyson., 1890-1892.
The manuscript was bound by Phoebe Anna Traquair.
`Coloquy betwixt Philander and Silvia` and other Scottish poems, mainly satirical.
All the poems are apparently unpublished.
Common-place book containing a collection of verse transcripts and reminiscences relating chiefly to Frasers and Roses, with some of the writings or compositions of Forbes and Culloden and John Roy Stewart, written by Peter Rose.
Commonplace book, 1863-1896, of Robert Dickson Glover, a merchant at Roslin and later in Portobello.
The book contains verses, historical and literary material, notes of events in Roslin, 1869-1873, and fragments of a diary for 1895-1896. A later hand has added copies of poems and of the will, May 1927, of John Glover who died in 1933 (folio 96).
Commonplace book containing copies of poems and extracts in verse and prose from various sources., 1831-1832, undated.
The greater part of the book is blank.