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11 letters, 1967-1983, to and copies of two letters, 1970-1971, of W R Aitken

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8951
Scope and Contents

With inscribed copies of Robert Bain, "James the First of Scotland" (1921), and William Montgomerie, "A Selection of Three Poems" (1965), each with letters, 1921 and 1965, from the authors.

Dates: 1921, 1965-1983

64 letters, 1899-1949 and undated, to John Purves, mostly on literary matters, from among others J M Barrie, John Davidson, Luigi Pirandello and Walter de la Mare.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7175
Scope and Contents

With literary and historical manuscripts, 1388, 1798-1911 and undated, collected by Purves, including single letters of D G Rossetti, John Ruskin, Sir Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth.

Also two albums, 1936-1952, of Purves, containing inscriptions in poetry and prose by various contributors.

Dates: 1388, 1798-1952.

Apparently unpublished poem by Mrs Alison Cockburn entitled 'Adieu to My Garden 23rd Novʳ. 1777', tipped into a copy of ‘Letters and Memoir of her own Life by Mrs Alison Rutherford or Cockburn’ (Edinburgh, 1900).

 File
Identifier: MS.8892
Scope and Contents

On the page facing the half-title page is an inscription dated May 1900 of T Craig-Brown, who compiled the notes to the printed work, presenting this copy to his daughter.

Dates: 1777.

Corrected manuscripts of three poems, undated, in Gaelic of Maoilios M Caimbeul.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9534
Scope and Contents

With inscribed copies of Caimbeul`s poetry collections, "Eileanan" (1980) and "Bailtean" (1987).

Dates: 1980-1987 and undated.

Genealogical and other material collected by William Camden, the antiquary.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.36
Scope and Contents The title of the first item, `The nobilitie of Scotland ... 1606`, and some of the addenda to the genealogical tables are probably in Camden`s hand.The contents include:Genealogical trees of the royal and noble houses of Scotland, with some coats of arms drawn in trick, and additions to 1620 (folios 3, 34, 47).`The generall state of ye Scottish Commonwealth with ye causes of theire often mutinies and ther discords` (folio 38).`A Booke of...
Dates: Early 17th century.

Inscribed copy of Jessie Cormack, "The Spell".

 File
Identifier: Acc.9282
Scope and Contents

with additional poems in typescript.

Dates: 1961.

Inscribed copy of Stewart Conn, "Thunder in the Air: Poems" (1967).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11181
Scope and Contents

Includes letter of Conn to Alexander Reid, on literary matters.

Dates: 1967.

Inscribed copy of "The Tree" (Dunfermline, 1977), by Tom Scott.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11586
Scope and Contents

Includes three related letters of Tom Scott to John Stewart Collis, 1978.

Dates: 1977-1978.

Inscribed copy of William A Younger, "Madonna and Other Poems" (1935).

 File
Identifier: Acc.8912
Scope and Contents

With two letters of Younger to Dennis and Joan Wheatley.

Dates: 1935 and undated.

Letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.9
Scope and Contents The collection chiefly concerns Scotstarvet`s patronage of literature and learning, and political events on the continent.Symbols have been written in an unidentified hand, apparently of late 17th century provenance, in the upper left-hand corner of many of the letters; their meaning is not known. Leaves from a lost ‘album amicorum’ of Scotstarvet have been identified in folios 101-112. They contain inscriptions to him with mottoes, or classical extracts, by a number...
Dates: 1617-1668, undated.

Letters of and relating to Douglas Young. The recipient was Lord Robertson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12914
Scope and Contents

The letters mainly date from shortly after Douglas Young`s death in 1973. Correspondents include David Murison and Wilfred Taylor concerning a memorial publication. With related papers, one photograph and an inscribed copy of Young`s "Auntran Blads" (1943).

Dates: 1944-1976.

Letters of Gael Turnbull to Matthew and Ruth Mead.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12476
Scope and Contents

Includes inscribed copy of "A Perception of Ferns".

Dates: 1993-2004.

Letters of Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8655
Scope and Contents

With letters to Lord Stuart de Rothesay, the Duc de Broglie and Marquis de Lafayette.

Dates: 1821-1830 and undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of 27 poems of Joe Corrie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10040
Scope and Contents

With four inscribed copies of published collections of Corrie`s poems and short stories.

Dates: 1927-1928 and undated.

'Ocean, Stella, and other poems', 2nd edition (Edinburgh, 1830) by John Mackenzie, minister of Portpatrick, inscribed 'from the author', with an anonymous poem, 'The charming woman', tipped in at the end.

 File
Identifier: MS.9227
Scope and Contents

The poem, 'The charming woman', is addressed to Miss Agnes Mackenzie, probably by John Mackenzie to his daughter.

Dates: 1830.

Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates: 17th century-19th century.

Papers of Callum Macdonald.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9476
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts and proofs of publications, together with associated correspondence and printed items.

Dates: 1953-1986.

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Letters. Correspondence. 10
Manuscripts. 7
Books 5
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Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 2
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Names
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Bain, Robert, dramatist and poet, 1865-1955 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Boswell, James, of Auchinleck, author, 1740–1795 1
Broglie, Jacques Victor Albert, Duc de Broglie, politician, 1821-1901: recipient 1
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Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (statesman, Lord Chancellor) (1778-1868) 1
Caimbeul, Maoilios M (poet and writer) 1
Collis, John Stewart, writer and naturalist, 1900-1984 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Cormack, Jessie, author of "The Spell", fl 1961 1
Corrie, Joseph, miner and playwright, 1894-1968 1
Davidson, John, poet, 1857-1909 1
Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham, poet, b 1942 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 1
Graham, Janet, poet, 1723-1805: former owner 1
Holms, Beatrix, author of "The Zodiac", fl 1925-1934 1
Holms, Dorothy, wife of John Holms, writer, née Peacock, fl 1919-1934: former owner 1
Holms, John, writer, 1897-1934: former owner 1
Macdonald, Malcolm 'Callum' (printer and publisher) 1
Mare, Walter John de la, poet and author, 1873-1956 1
Mead, Matthew, poet and translator, 1924-2009: recipient 1
Mead, Ruth, translator, wife of Matthew, poet and translator, fl 1968-2004: recipient 1
Montgomerie, William, poet and editor, 1904-1994 1
Motier, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du, Marquis de Lafayette, Major General, 1757-1834: recipient 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Murison, David D, lexicographer, 1914-1997 1
Pirandello, Luigi, writer, 1867-1936 1
Purves, John, Reader in Italian, University of Edinburgh, 1877-1961: collector 1
Purves, John, Reader in Italian, University of Edinburgh, 1877-1961: recipient 1
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 1
Robertson, Ian, Lord Robertson, Senator of the College of Justice, 1912-2005: recipient 1
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, poet, 1828-1882 1
Ruskin, John (author and art critic) (1819-1900) 1
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 1
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 1
Stuart, Charles, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, 1779-1845 1
Turnbull, Gael Lundin, poet and physician, 1928-2004 1
Wheatley, Dennis Yates, writer, 1897-1977: recipient 1
Wheatley, Joan Gwendoline Pelham Burn, writer, pseudonym Eve Chaucer, née Johnston, then Younger, b c 1895: recipient 1
Wordsworth, William (English poet and garden designer) (1770-1850) 1
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 1
Younger, William Antony, poet, pseudonym William Mole, 1917-1961 1
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