Poetry.
Found in 1258 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of and relating to James Hogg.
The contents include: letters of James Hogg, 1814, 1820, 1826, 1831, 1835; an unpublished poem, 'The Fall of Idumea', written by him shortly before his death; letters and verses of his literary acquaintances in Scotland and London and his family; information supplied to his daughter and biographer, Mary Garden; portraits of Hogg; and a receipt, 1819, for duty paid by him on 'one work horse', on which someone has written, 'Mr. Hogg has no Horse nor never had one' (folio 333).
Correspondence and papers of and relating to John Leyden, collected by his cousin and biographer, the Reverend James Morton, with correspondence of Morton.
Correspondence and papers of Canon John Gray, parish priest of Saint Peter`s, Morningside, Edinburgh; and of Mark André Raffalovich.
Correspondence and papers of James Pittendrigh Macgillivray.
Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.
There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.
Correspondence and papers of Patrick William Campbell, Writer to the Signet.
Includes material on investments in Argentina, genealogy, biography and poetry.
Correspondence and papers of Prof Derick S Thomson.
Includes proofs concerning the publication of George Campbell Hay`s "Mochtar is Dughall" (Glasgow, 1982).
Correspondence and papers of Sir William Craigie (1867-1957), the philologist and lexicographer.
Correspondence and papers of the artist William Skeoch Cumming (1864-1929) and of his wife Isabella ('Belle') Sutton.
Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.
Correspondence and papers of Tom Scott.
Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.
Correspondence and papers relating to publications and exhibitions of Hamish Whyte and the Mariscat Press.
Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of 'Lifeboat and other poems', by George Mackay Brown.
Contains correspondence between George Mackay Brown, Richard Gilbertson and Norah Smallwood concerning Gilbertson's publishing of 'Lifeboat and other poems', with typescripts of several of the poems included in the collection.
Correspondence and poems of George Bruce.
Correspondence and poems of William Jeffrey (1896-1946).
Educated in Wishaw and at Glasgow University, William Jeffrey spent the rest of his career as a journalist in Glasgow. His literary work consisted of poetry, essays and criticism.
Correspondence, diaries and literary manuscripts of Naomi Mitchison.
Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
Correspondence, diaries, manuscript and typescript drafts and proofs and other literary and personal papers of George Mackay Brown.
Correspondence, essays, articles, cuttings and other literary papers of Alexander MacDonald, Gaelic scholar, and his daughter Mairi MacDonald, novelist and playwright.
Correspondence, log books, literary papers and copies of published articles and press cuttings of Hamish Brown.
Correspondence of Alexander Christie, Provost of Montrose, and other material relating to the affairs of the town, with discussions of Christie's religious and political views, copied by Christie.
The correspondents are mainly notables of Angus, divines, political thinkers, and merchants, and include Alexander Christie's brother William, the Unitarian writer, his son Thomas, the political writer, Sir David Carnegie, Baronet, George Dempster of Dunnichen, David Scott of Dunninald, the Reverend William Dalrymple (subject of "The Kirk's Alarm"), T F Palmer, the reformer, Robertson, the historian, and Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
Correspondence of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family.
Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.
Correspondence of the antiquary, John Pinkerton, with papers and notes accumulated by him in connection with works which he published or projected.
Correspondence, papers, bromides and negatives of 'Chapman' literary magazine.
Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems, short stories, articles and reviews, together with editorial correspondence.