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Manuscript of early dramatic version of Walter Scott`s `The Antiquary`.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13606
Scope and Contents

A dramatic version of Sir Walter Scott`s `The Antiquary` written in German.

Dates: After 1816.

Manuscript page of Sir Walter Scott's 'The Abbot' with transcription.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13829
Content Description

Page 39 of the manuscript with holograph corrections, a transcript, and a receipt from Goodspeed's bookshop in Boston, MA, 1957 for the sale of the folio.

Dates: 1820, or before.

Miscellaneous items of or concerning Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.308
Scope and Contents

Framed declaration, 1786, by Elizabeth Paton regarding her child by Robert Burns;

Exciseman`s notes by Robert Burns;

Four letters, 1816-1829, of Sir Walter Scott to Joseph Train;

Volume containing a manuscript copy, 1896, of `Brief sketch of a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott commencing in the year 1814` by Joseph Train;

Printed book, `The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott` (1897) by George G Napier.

Dates: 1786-1897.

Papers concerning the authorship of the Waverley novels, compiled by Gilbert James French.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.8906
Scope and Contents

Includes pamphlets, newspaper articles and letters.

With letters of J G Lockhart and others concerning the controversy and the writings of French, W J Fizpatrick and others, on the subject.

Dates: circa 1840-1857.

Papers concerning Torsonce Inn.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4464
Scope and Contents

With two letters of Sir Walter Scott.

Dates: 1818, 1820.

Papers of and relating to Sir Walter Scott and his literary property.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13422
Scope and Contents

Agreements, memoranda, letters, notes and drafts of Sir Walter Scott with his publishers Archibald Constable and Robert Cadell, and his printers, James Ballantyne, concerning Scott`s literary property. Included are a draft of the deed of 1819 selling the copyright of Scott`s novels and poems to Constable, and a letter of John Gibson Lockhart to Archibald Constable concerning his proposal for a Scott edition of Shakespeare, 1823.

Dates: 1817-1826

Papers of Clive Wainwright.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12077
Scope and Contents

Papers concern Sir Walter Scott and Abbotsford and its furnishing and decoration.

Dates: circa 1975-1999.

Photocopies and microfilm of letters of Sir Walter Scott.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6104
Scope and Contents

With associated papers.

Dates: circa 1800-circa 1832.

Photocopies of papers from Selkirk Public Library.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6207
Scope and Contents

Mostly concerning the history of Selkirk.

Including letters of Sir Walter Scott, Mungo Park and Thomas Boston.

Dates: 1608-1939.

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  • Names: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) X

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Subject
Letters. Correspondence. 109
Photocopies. 31
Correspondence. 21
Manuscripts. 12
Notes. 9
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Novels. 8
Copies. Derivative objects. 7
Abbotsford House (historic house). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. 4
Accounts. 4
Albums. 4
Research notes 4
Typescripts. 4
Bonds. Legal instruments. 3
Drawings. Visual works. 3
Facsimiles. Reproductions. 3
Illustrations. Layout features. 3
Poetry. 3
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 3
Sketches 3
Transcripts 3
Articles. 2
Books 2
Commissions. Permissions. 2
Dissertations. 2
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 2
Engravings. Prints. 2
Indexes. Reference sources. 2
Legal documents. 2
Receipts. Financial records 2
Reports 2
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 2
Scripts. Documents 2
Watercolours. Paintings. 2
Agreements. Legal instruments. 1
Annotations. 1
Caricatures. 1
Certificates 1
Charters 1
Circulars. Fliers. 1
Declarations. 1
Drafts. Documents. 1
Dryburgh Abbey. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Ruins. Longitude: -2.6667. Latitude: 55.5667. 1
Envelopes. 1
Excerpts. 1
Fiction. 1
Forgeries. Derivative objects. 1
Fragments. 1
Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 1
Genealogies. 1
Glasgow. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Glasgow. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.2500. Latitude: 55.8833. 1
Histories. 1
India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 1
Inscriptions. 1
Invitations. 1
Isle of Man. Europe - Isle of Man. Island. Longitude: -4.5000. Latitude: 54.2500. 1
Lake District. Europe - United Kingdom - England. General region. 1
London. Europe - United Kingdom - England - Greater London. Inhabited place. Longitude: -0.1667. Latitude: 51.5000. 1
Melrose Abbey. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Ruins. Longitude: -2.7500. Latitude: 55.6167. 1
Microfilms. 1
Orders. Records (documents). 1
Pamphlets. 1
Photographs. 1
Prompt books. Scripts. 1
Prose poems. 1
Publications. 1
Publishers and publishing. 1
Registers (lists) 1
Reviews. Document genre 1
Scrapbooks 1
Seals. Artifacts 1
Selkirk. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. County. 1
Songs. Musical compositions. 1
Translations. Documents. 1
Travel journals 1
Trossachs. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Stirling. General region. 1
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Language
English 171
French 1
German 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Ballantyne, James (printer) 9
Lockhart, John Gibson (biographer of Scott) 7
Ballantyne, John, publisher, 1774-1821 4
Cunningham, Allan, miscellaneous writer, 1784-1842 4
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 3
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Cadell, Robert, publisher, 1788-1849 3
Chambers, Robert (publisher and writer) 3
Edgeworth, Maria (novelist) 3
Erskine, Charles, of Shielfield, Sheriff Substitute for Selkirkshire, 1771-1825 3
Gibson, John, WS (adm 1819), agent of Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1877 3
Gibson, John, WS (adm 1819), agent of Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1877: recipient 3
James Ballantyne and Co, Edinburgh, printers 3
Scott, Harriet, nee Bruhl, Lady Polwarth, 1772-1853 3
A and C Black Ltd, Edinburgh, publishers and booksellers 2
Ballantyne, Alexander Thomson, printer, 1776-1847 2
Bonaparte, Napoleon, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 2
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) 2
Curle, James, writer, Melrose, fl 1812-1826: recipient 2
Ellis, Frances Sterling, Walter Scott scholar, fl 1968-1998 2
Scott, Margaret Charlotte, wife of Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford, née Carpenter, 1770-1826 2
Scott, Sir Walter, 2nd Baronet of Abbotsford, 1801-1847 2
Tilt, Charles, bookseller, London, 1797-1861 2
Adolphus, John Leycester, barrister and author, 1795-1862 1
Aitken, John, Editor of "Constable's Miscellany", 1793-1833: recipient 1
Anderson, James, author of "Sir Walter Scott and History", b 1918 1
Andrew, Elizabeth, lover of Robert Burns, poet, née Paton, fl 1786 1
Archibald Constable and Co, Edinburgh, publishers 1
Arnot, Hugo, of Balcormo, advocate, formerly Pollock, 1749-1786 1
Atherstone, Edwin, author, 1788-1872 1
Baillie, Joanna (playwright and poet) 1
Ballantyne, Charles K N, Secretary of the New Club, Edinburgh, 1903-1985: recipient 1
Ballantyne, John Alexander, son of James, printer, 1816-1861 1
Ballantyne, John, artist, 1815-1897 1
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, novelist, 1825-1894 1
Bannatyne Club, literary and scholarly society, Scotland 1
Barber, Stephen Nicolson, correspondent of Walter Scott, fl 1810: recipient 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Beardsley, Aubrey, Illustrator and Author, 1872-1898 1
Beauclerk, Harriot, actress and banker, formerly Coutts, née Mellon, ? 1777-1837 1
Boston, Thomas, divine, the Elder, 1676-1732 1
Boswell, James, of Auchinleck, author, 1740–1795 1
Boswell, Sir Alexander, 1st Baronet, of Auchinleck, 1775-1822 1
Bridges, James, Writer to the Signet, d 1865: recipient 1
Brinkley, John, Bishop of Cloyne, c 1766-1835: recipient 1
British Broadcasting Corporation 1
Buchan, Peter, collector of ballads, 1790-1854 1
Buchanan, Hector Macdonald, of Ross and Drummikill, Writer to the Signet, Principal Clerk of Session, formerly Macdonald, d 1828 1
Cadell and Davies, Edinburgh, publishers 1
Cadell, Robert, publisher, 1788-1849: recipient 1
Campbell, Sir Ilay, 1st Baronet, of Succoth, Lord President of the Court of Session, 1734-1823: recipient 1
Campbell, Thomas (poet) 1
Canning, George (statesman) 1
Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV 1
Celakovský, František Ladislav, scholar, 1799-1852: recipient 1
Christie, Alexander, Interim Sheriff Depute of Berwickshire, fl 1813 1
Cockburn, Robert, wine merchant, fl 1813-1821: recipient 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Constable, Archibald (publisher) 1
Constable, Archibald, publisher, 1774-1827 1
Copleston, Edward, Bishop of Llandaff, 1776-1849: recipient 1
Corbett, Miss, correspondent of James Ballantyne, printer, fl 1825: recipient 1
Corson, James C, collector and bibliographer of Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, 1905-1988 1
Coutts, Thomas, banker, 1735-1822 1
Coventry Sketching Club 1
Davidov, Denis Vasilevich, General, 1784-1839 1
Davidson, John, poet, 1857-1909 1
Dewar, Henry, physician, 1780-1823 1
Dickinson, John, wholesale stationer, 1782-1869: recipient 1
Douglas, David, bookseller, 1823-1916 1
Douglas, Jean (née Wedderburn-Colville, Countess of Selkirk) (d.1871) 1
Douglas, Lady Frances, 2nd wife of Archibald, 1st Baron Douglas of Douglas, née Scott, 1750-1817: recipient 1
Douglas, R. K., journalist, fl 1827: recipient 1
Drummond, Thomas Robert Hay-, 11th Earl of Kinnoull, 1785-1866: recipient 1
Duncan, Adam Haldane-, 2nd Earl of Camperdown, 1812-1867 1
Dundas, Sir Robert, 1st Baronet, of Beechwood, 1761-1836 1
Dunlop, Jane, wife of Andrew Vans, Bengal Medical Service, née Fergusson, fl 1826 1
Dunlop, William, Ensign, Bengal Army, 1807-1827: recipient 1
Elder, John, Depute Clerk of Session, fl 1814 1
Faed, John, painter, 1819-1902 1
Falconer, George Home, recipient of bond of Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, fl 1819: recipient 1
Fanu, Alicia Le, novelist and poet, b 1791: recipient 1
FitzPatrick, William John (Irish biographer) 1
French, Gilbert James, biographer, 1804-1866: collector 1
Gillies, Robert Pearse, of Balmakewan, advocate, 1788-1858 1
Gilly , William Stephen (Canon of Durham) 1
Gordon, George Huntly, amanuensis to Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1868 1
Gourgaud, Gaspard, soldier, 1783-1852 1
Gray, John Henry (Canon of St Peter's, Edinburgh, and author) 1
Grierson, Sir Herbert John Clifford, Knight, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, 1866-1960 1
Hamilton, Lady Jane Dalrymple, daughter of Adam Duncan, Viscount Duncan, née Duncan, c 1780-1852: recipient 1
Hamilton, Thomas, miscellaneous writer, 1789-1842 1
Hartstonge, Matthew Weld, fl 1811-1827 (Author of 'Marion of Drymnagh') 1
Harvey, Ada Margaret Leech, wife of Charles Harvey, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Bristol, fl.1882-1891: author 1
Harvey, Charles Octavius (wine and spirit merchant, Bristol) 1
Hay, James, recipient of bond of Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, fl 1819: recipient 1
Hayman, Anne, Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Caroline, fl 1806-1817: recipient 1
Hogg, James, poet and novelist, 1770-1835 1
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd, d 1835: recipient 1
Home, Joseph, of Ninewells, d 1832: recipient 1
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