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Literary, personal and political papers of James Kelman, with digital archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13471
Dates:
circa 1970-2012.
Manuscript contributions to "The Peripatetic: a Quarterly Magazine"
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8911
Dates:
1865-1881.
Manuscript essay of Alexander Bryce, probably Minister of Kirknewton.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5016
Scope and Contents
Concerning rainfall.
Dates:
1770.
Manuscript essay or talk entitled "Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe" of Mary S Thomson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11257
Dates:
circa 1960.
Manuscript essays of George Mackay Brown concerning Gerard Manley Hopkins, with related notebooks and notes.
File
Identifier: Acc.13909
Scope and Contents
Includes several manuscript essays concerning various aspects of Hopkins' work, as well as three notebooks and some loose pages of notes, all concerning Hopkins.
Dates:
Circa 1962-1964.
Manuscript of an apparently unpublished essay by William Cross[e], 'Some considerations by way of Essay, upon the means of civilizing the Highlands and extinguishing Jacobitism in Scotland'.
Item
Identifier: MS.5201
Scope and Contents
The author of the essay, who was Sheriff of Lanark and Professor of Law at Glasgow, recommends a policy of severity, to be enforced by garrisons of troops.
Dates:
1748.
Manuscript of ‘Ane Essay Relating to the Natural History of Scotland by way of Supplement to the Prodromus Naturalis Historae Scotae published anno 1684’ in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.19
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains, for the most part, discourses on natural history and scientific and medical phenomena found in Scotland, taken from manuscript and printed sources.Accounts taken from printed sources include ‘Philosophical Transactions’, ‘Description of the Islands of Orkney’ and ‘Large Description of Galloway’. Manuscript sources include letters and extracts of letters to Sibbald from Dr George Garden of Aberdeen and Matthew MacKaile, an Aberdeen apothecary....
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
Manuscript of George Macintosh, "Researches Relative to the Cyclopian Ruins of Antiquity, Written Originally 1822, Rewritten 1826".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7435
Dates:
1826.
Manuscript of Henry Myers, "Hegelian Dialectics of Moses, Jesus, and Paul. "What was the Real Jesus?""
Item
Identifier: Acc.8458
Dates:
1938.
Manuscript of Sorley MacLean, "My Relationship with Poetry".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10117
Dates:
1976.
Manuscript volume by Sir Robert Sibbald, containing two unpublished discourses.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.16
Scope and Contents
(i) `Caetologia or Memoirs for composing the Naturall Historie of Whales from the Remarks made upon thos cast in or taken upon the Scottish coast in which ther are descriptions also of the smaller fishes and aquatick animals of the whale Kynde and accounts how they may be taken and prepared and what uses may be gott of them’ (folio 6).(ii) `Discourses anent the improvements may be made in Scotland for advancing the wealth of the Kingdom’ (folio 76) which is mainly concerned with...
Dates:
1701.
Manuscript, written in the 14th century, containing extracts from 'De Clementia' and an incomplete text of 'Epistolae morales' by Seneca; with many contemporary annotations.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.16
Scope and Contents
(i) Extracts from the ‘De clementia’, in two series, concerning respectively ‘clementia’ and ‘crudelitas’: i.1.5 ‘rarissimum’ – ‘est’, ‘nemo’ – ‘Romano’, i.1.6 ‘difficile’ – ‘procedunt’, i.1.7 ‘iam’ – ‘sunt’, ‘fecit’ – ‘assecuti’, i.2.2 ‘nec’ – ‘praeponderet’, 1.3.3 ‘nullum’ – ‘struendum est’, i.4.1 ‘ille’ – ‘fidem’, i.4.3 ‘olim’ – ‘capite’, i.5.1 ‘uides’ – ‘parcere’, i.5.3 ‘decet’ – ‘conspicitur’, i.5.5 ‘magnam’ – ‘despicere’, i.7.4 ‘humili’ – ‘liberius est’, i.8.1 ‘eorum’ - i.8.2 ‘timore’,...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscripts and typescripts of talks and essays of James Archibald Campbell of Achanduin and Barbreck (1854-1926).
Series
Identifier: MSS.10260-10269
Dates:
[Circa 1878]-1913, undated.
Manuscripts collected by Walter Biggar Blaikie, Doctor of Laws, editor of volumes concerning Jacobitism in the publications of the Scottish History Society, etc.
Series
Identifier: MSS.278-318
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Manuscripts of biographical articles for the 8th edition of the `Encyclopaedia Britannica` by Lord Macaulay.
File
Identifier: Acc.11868
Scope and Contents
Essays on Atterbury, Bunyan, Goldsmith, Johnson, and William Pitt
Dates:
circa 1852-1859.
Manuscripts of books, articles and essays on historical subjects of William Ferguson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11277
Dates:
1959-1991.
Manuscripts, typescripts and research papers of Tom Leonard.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14605/1-42
Scope and Contents
This collection of the papers of the Glasgow poet Tom Leonard includes manuscript and typescript drafts of his poetry, as well as research papers and notes concerning his interests in literary theory, literary history and the Middle East.The poetry drafts include many works for inclusion in his 'Outside the narrative' (Word Power Books, 2009), as well as audio and visual elements for his performance piece 'My name is Tom' (Good Elf Publications, 1978). There are also files of...
Dates:
1817-2016, undated.
Material on Aberdeenshire used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.29
Scope and Contents
The manuscript mostly concerns the boundary between the counties of Banff and Aberdeen, but also includes an essay on the University of Aberdeen (folio 18).
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century-1st quarter of 19th century.
`Off the Military and Equestrial Ordor of St Andrew commonly called the ordor of the Thisle`; an essay, apparently intended as the first chapter of a larger work, on the early history, insignia, etc., of the Order.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.13
Scope and Contents
The essay ascribes the foundation of the Order to Achaius, and quotes the same authorities as does ‘A System of Heraldry’, volume ii, pages 104-106. It also cites a manuscript by Sir James Balfour.
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Papers and correspondence of literary figures.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8693
Scope and Contents
Includes:
inaugural lecture, 1913, of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch as Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University
"El Tango Argentino", 1913, of R B Cunninghame Graham
"The Satire of Rage", 1913, of H W Nevinson
With 24 letters, 1890-1942, to Sir Sydney Cockerell from Quiller-Couch (16), Cunninghame Graham (3) and Nevinson (5).
Dates:
1890-1942.
Papers concerning, "The Age of MacDiarmid. Essays on Hugh MacDiarmid and His Influence on Contemporary Scotland. Edited by P H Scott and A C Davis".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7941
Scope and Contents
Comprising proofs, manuscripts and typescripts of essays, and correspondence.
Dates:
1980.
Papers of Alan Bold, David Morrison, and Tom Scott.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6329/1-9
Scope and Contents
Including corrected manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles and essays.
With letters of Alan Bold and Tom Scott to David Morrison, on literary matters.
Dates:
1972-1974 and undated.
Papers of and concerning Hugh MacDiarmid.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10173- is now MSS.27001-27246
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, articles, reviews and autobiography, literary notebooks and correspondence.
Dates:
circa 1927-1978.