Poetry.
Found in 1532 Collections and/or Records:
Typescripts with manuscript corrections of 'Radio Forth Ryhmes' by Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1975-1977.
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.
Typescripts, with manuscript corrections, of 'The alien world: a dramatic poem' by James Findlay Hendry., 1970.
Typescripts, with manuscript corrections, of 'Winter artillery in Hyde Park' by James Findlay Hendry., 1969.
This is a revision of some of the verses in James Findlay Hendry's ‘The orchestral mountain’ (London, 1943), page 26.
Typescripts, with some annotations, of early unpublished poems of Sir Alexander Gray., [Circa 1918]-1925.
The poems include a collection called 'The Rainbow Field' (folio 71).
"Unbound Notebook" of George Crabbe., 1822-1827.
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.
Unfinished untitled blank verse tragedy about Henrique, King of Sicily., 18th century.
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.
Various compositions of George Douglas Brown., 1897-1898, undated.
Various compositions of Sir Walter Scott., [?1799]-1831, undated.
Various letters and papers., 1822-1876, undated.
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.
Various letters and papers of Elizabeth Bell, 'Tibbie Flint'., 1808-1867, undated.
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).
Various literary papers of the family of Erskine of Alva., 18th century-19th century.
Various manuscripts and fragments, almost all undated, in the autograph of Hugh Miller., 1819-[1852, or before.]
Various manuscripts of David Hume., 1738-1776, undated.
Various manuscripts of George Douglas Brown bound together., 1897-[1901, or after], ?1923.
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.
Various papers and correspondence concerning David Hume., 1746-1766, 1839-1844, undated.
Various works edited by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [1940, or before]-1953.
Verse epistle in holograph beginning, “Dear friend, t’enjoy life arright”, by Allan Ramsay, inlaid at the end of his 'Poems' (Edinburgh, 1721), volume i., [1721, or after.]
Verse, undated, by John Stuart Blackie., Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
The contents are as follows: sonnets (folio 1), songs (folio 42), an epic on Jack the Giant-killer, in Greek and English (folio 80), fragments of a drama on Prometheus (folio 132), and miscellaneous (folio 148).
Verses and charades, chiefly of the 2nd Earl of Minto and his children., 1806-1857, undated.
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Verses by Philip, chancellor of Paris (died 1236), beginning `Centrum capit cerculus quod est maius cerculo`., Before 1237.
Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.
Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.
Verses by William Widdrington, whose signature occurs at intervals., 1697-1704.
Some of the verses are addressed to W Widrington's wife Elizabeth, who died in 1672 (page 14); some to his friends, especially Samuel Burroughs, Newmarket, to whom he presented the book.
Verses described as 'fresh from the brains of R Heber and Mr Wilmot' regarding the return of Queen Caroline to England., [?1820.]
Verses of James Boswell, beginning, "Madam, 'Tis true you plac'd me at your board"., ?1767.
The verses were probably addressed to the Countess of Stair in May 1767 (see the letter of Frederick A Pottle, appended).
There is also a note, undated, on Boswell by Thomas Park.
Verses of Sir Henry Yule, Geologist, inspired by a portrait of Gladstone in the Grosvenor Gallery., 1885.
Verses on the fall of Troy, in 88 lines, beginning `Pergama flere volo fato danais data solo`. The title `Versus de excidio troie` is added in a later hand.
Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.
Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.