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 2790 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, 1800-1840, of the Russells of Ashiesteel and their relatives, the Halls of Dunglass; with other papers., 1788-1840, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3220
Scope and Contents
The Ashiesteel correspondence begins on folio 61. It is preceded by:(i) Miscellaneous papers: 'Flowers of the Forrest', in the autograph of Mrs Cockburn (folio 1); letter of Robert Burns to Patrick Miller of Dalswinton on the lease of Ellisland, 1788, printed in the ‘Kilmarnock Standard’, 14 August 1943 (folio 3); 'The Hag in the Red Cloak', verses ridiculing Matthew Gregory Lewis, in the hand of John Leyden (folio 5); letters of Humboldt, undated (folio 6), and Disraeli, 1865...
Dates:
1788-1840, undated.
Correspondence, 1859-1910, undated, of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family; with related papers., 1836-1910, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1890
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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.
Dates:
1836-1910, undated.
Correspondence, 1961-2017, and literary papers, circa 1970s, of David Macleod Black.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13836
Dates:
1961-2017.
Correspondence and contributions relating to issue 22 of "Scotia Review", published spring 1997.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11469
Dates:
1996-1997.
Correspondence and family papers of the Marquesses and Marchionesses of Lothian, received unbound., 1729-1900, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5801
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Correspondence: an unsigned letter, 1729, to the Marchioness of Lothian from her sister (probably Eleanora, wife of John Craufurd of Craufurdland); eight letters, 1870, written by the 8th Marchioness and the 9th Marquess and Marchioness; and nine letters, 1871-1899, undated, written to the 9th Marquess. (Folio 1.)(ii) Other papers: copy of an inscription on a dirk given to the 6th Marquess, 1797; 'Maxims by my Father', in the hand of...
Dates:
1729-1900, undated.
Correspondence and literary papers, including articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts, of Janet Adam Smith.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12342/1-203
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dates:
1930-2005.
Correspondence and literary papers of the author, Marion C Lochhead (1902-1985).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26190-26193
Dates:
1928-1971, undated.
Correspondence and manuscripts of Agnes Ethel Mackay (died 1980).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26891-26894
Scope and Contents
Agnes Mackay was born and educated in Scotland, but spent much of her life in France. During the German Occupation, she lived in St Tropez with her cousin, Marion Melville, and they moved to Paris after the war. Her publications included poetry, biographies of Paul Valery and Arthur Melville, and critical works on art and literature.
Dates:
1917-1976, undated.
Correspondence and memoranda of Sir John Sinclair, relating chiefly to his attempts to trace Gaelic manuscripts, to the translation into English of the Gaelic ‘Poems of Ossian’, and to his ‘Fingal; a tragedy, in five acts’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.26
Dates:
1808-1820.
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Elizabeth Oliver., 1905-1946, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24681
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Letters to Elizabeth Oliver, 1920-1945, undated, with a telegram to her husband Major Edward Oliver, 1905 (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous papers including verses, accounts, inventories, invitations, menu cards, and newspaper cuttings, chiefly concerning India, 1918-1946, undated (folio 21); (iii) Newspaper cuttings, 1912-1946, undated (folio 137).
Dates:
1905-1946, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, literary papers, and photographs, of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver, 1921-1944, together with diaries and miscellaneous papers of his mother, Elizabeth Oliver, wife of Major Edward Oliver, Veterinary Advisor to the Indian government, 1905-1946, undated.
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Papers of and concerning Elizabeth Oliver.
Correspondence and other papers of John Richardson, of Kirklands, Writer to the Signet, and his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3989-3992
Scope and Contents
A note on John Richardson's children will be found in MS.3989, folio i.
Dates:
19th century.
Correspondence and other papers of Rachel Annand Taylor; with copies of poems in several hands., 1892, 1901-1965, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.20433
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Copies of poems, 1892, undated, by different authors in several hands. (Folio 1.) (ii) Correspondence, 1901-1965, undated, including a few accounts and photographs. Many of the letters, 1962-1965, are written to Mrs Taylor's nephew, Walter Annand, on the possibility of publishing parts of 'Renaissance France'. (Folio 25.)
Dates:
1892, 1901-1965, undated.
Correspondence and papers, 1966-1967, containing contributions of poetry, mostly amended typescripts and rejected contributions, relating to 'Broadsheet' edition one, February 1967., 1966-1967.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/1
Correspondence and papers, 1967, containing manuscript and typescript of poetry and illustrations, relating to 'Broadsheet' edition three, December 1967., 1967.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/5
Correspondence and papers, 1968-1968, undated, containing manuscript and typescript of poetry, relating to 'Broadsheet' edition five, June 1969., 1968-1969, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/11
Correspondence and papers, 1968-1978, containing manuscript and typescript of poetry, relating to 'Broadsheet' edition ten, March 1971., 1968-1978.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/27
Correspondence and papers, 1970, containing typescript of poem, relating to 'Broadsheet' edition six, September 1969., 1969-1970.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/14
Correspondence and papers, 1970, containing typescript poetry relating to 'Broadsheet' edition eight, June 1970., 1970.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/20
Correspondence and papers, 1971, containing manuscript and typescript of poetry, relating to 'Broadsheet' edition thirteen, December 1971., 1971.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/36
Correspondence and papers, 1971, containing typescript of poetry, relating to 'Broadsheet' edition eleven., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/31
Correspondence and papers, 1973-1974, containing manuscript and typescript of poetry, relating to 'Broadsheet' edition twenty-one, June 1974., 1973-1974.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/54
Correspondence and papers, 1973, containing manuscript and typescript of poetry, relating to 'Broadsheet' edition eighteen, June 1973., 1973.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/47
Correspondence and papers, 1974-1975, containing manuscript and typescript of poetry, relating to 'Broadsheet' edition twenty-three, March 1975., 1974-1975.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/67
Correspondence and papers, 1974-1978, containing manuscript and typescript of poetry, relating to 'Broadsheet' editions twenty-six to thirty, final issue., June 1978.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/74