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Drafts of Alan Bold, "A Celtic Quintet".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8325
Scope and Contents
With proofs and litho plates.
Dates:
1982.
Illustrated comments on the Housing Act, 1972 (Scotland), by Lachlan M Dinwoodie.
File
Identifier: Acc.5920
Scope and Contents
With illustrated verses, 1975, of Dinwoodie, "The Big Bell of Bow".
Dates:
1972, 1975.
"Journal of a few days from home in the summer of 1856 with selected poetry and songs".
Item
Identifier: MS.9233
Scope and Contents
The author was born near Dover, and describes himself as a 'middle class man engaged in the business of life', possibly a doctor or lawyer. After a brief stay in Edinburgh, he visited Perth, Bannockburn, Callander, Inversnaid, Glasgow, Oban, Inveraray, and Rothesay, and returned again to Glasgow. The text is interspersed with poetry and songs, and is profusely illustrated with floral cut-outs, small prints, and water-colours, mainly of views. Three pages and some of the illustrations have...
Dates:
1856.
‘Lays and lyrics’ by Charles Gray (Edinburgh, 1841) with pencil and wash illustrations, 1846, of A A Ritchie.
File
Identifier: MS.15947
Scope and Contents
At the back of the volume, “A familiar Epistle, addressed to Peter M'Leod, Esq., of Polbeth” by Charles Gray (Edinburgh, 1845) has been bound in.
There are also manuscript verses by A A Ritchie (folio 1), class certificates, 1833-1834, of Charles Gray's son, Charles E Gray, from St Andrews University (folio 3) and a newspaper article, 1845, on Gray's poetry (folio 9).
Dates:
1833-1846.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of a poem sequence of Duncan Glen "Out to the Calf of Man".
File
Identifier: Acc.10156
Scope and Contents
Includes associated artwork.
Dates:
1990.
Manuscript narrative poem, "Days of Chivalry, or Adelaide and Ethelbert" by John Clark.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11766
Scope and Contents
Illustrated with watercolours.
Dates:
circa 1830-1840.
Notebook of W S Graham containing drafts of poems, a radio play, notes and illustrations.
File
Identifier: Acc.12979
Dates:
1942-1973.
"Penson's short progress into Holland, Flanders, and France, with remarques, written by Thomas Penson, Anno Domini 1690", and account of a tour made in the second half of 1687.
Item
Identifier: MS.3003
Scope and Contents
The places described in most detail are Rotterdam, Delft, Leyden, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Antwerp, Lille, Paris, and Versailles. Thomas Penson describes monuments and other sights, sometimes very fully (e.g., the museum of the Academy at Leyden), institutions, ceremonies, the life of the people, and his personal experiences and difficulties as a traveller.The book, which appears to have been written only for distribution in manuscript, is decorated with illustrations and other...
Dates:
1690.
Proofs of and illustrations for three collections of poems of Samuel Pollock.
File
Identifier: Acc.10580
Dates:
1981-1984.
Two photographs of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, with an illustrated notebook of her poems.
File
Identifier: Acc.12841
Dates:
circa 1921-1941.