Autographs (manuscripts).
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents written in, and usually signed with, the writer's own hand; in certain legal instances, prefer "holographs."
Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous pieces and scraps of music by Maude Beswick., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21641
Scope and Contents
The pieces include vocal music, versions of the ‘Reverie’ and ‘Romance’ for violin and piano (MS.2635: 'Violin solos'), and ‘The waterwheel’ for piano (also found as a piece marked ‘tempo giusto’ in MS.21638 ('Piano solos').
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Music by James Scott Skinner., 1894-1943, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21680
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Autograph music and notes, 1894-1924, undated, by Scott Skinner, including signed photographs, and a note, 1915, (folio 3) on his publications. (Folio 1.)(ii) Tunes, 1904-1943, undated, by Scott Skinner in various hands, chiefly John Murdoch Henderson's. (Folio 23.)(iii) Two collections of pieces, undated, some for keyboard, and some for violin solo, by various composers, but the vast majority by Scott Skinner. Much of the...
Dates:
1894-1943, undated.
Music by Maude Beswick, all apparently autograph., Mid 20th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21633-21641
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Music, chiefly of W B Moonie and Maude Beswick., 1918-mid 20th century, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21627-21642
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
1918-mid 20th century, undated.
Music of G W Crawford for stage works., [?1892-?1941.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21936-21967
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
Music of W B Moonie., 1918, [circa 1920].
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21627-21632
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
1918, [circa 1920].
Notebook containing original poems and verse translations by George Campbell Hay., 1945-1946.
Item
Identifier: MS.14968
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains 39 poems in Gaelic (14), English (14) and Scots (11). These include two further poems on ‘Mochtar is Dubhghall’ (folios 15 recto, 38 verso), and English verse translation of An Ciaran Mabach’s “Nollaig bu ghnàthach air fìon” (folio 25 verso) and English prose translations (published) of two of the poet’s own works (folio 43 verso). Folios 27 verso-37 recto, 38 recto blank.
Dates:
1945-1946.
Notes of John Purves on general literature., [Circa 1914-circa 1943], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.15886
Scope and Contents
The contents includes:
(i) Paper, undated, by John Purves on 'The literature of the British dominions' (folio 1);
(ii) Notes, [circa 1930], on early Latin poetry and hymns taken chiefly from printed sources (folio 50);
(iii) Notes, [circa 1914], on literary relations between England and the Netherlands (folio 147);
(iv) Notes, undated, on 'The tendencies of recent German literature' (folio 201);
(v) Autograph manuscript, 1942-1943, of poems in German written by several poets (folio...
Dates:
[Circa 1914-circa 1943], undated.
'Nursery toys' by Maude Beswick, six piano pieces for children, undated, including versions for piano and violin, and for piano, violin and cello., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21637
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Orchestral and band music of David Stephen., 1913-1940, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22155-22156
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Dates:
1913-1940, undated.
Orchestral and band music of David Stephen., 1927-1940, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22155
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Short score, with instrumentation indicated in red ink, of 'Sinfonietta', an orchestral work in three movements, 1927-1928 (folio 1);
(ii) Full score of 'A Scottish pastoral', an orchestral work in one movement, 1940 (folio 15);
(iii) Full score of 'In honorem' a work in one movement for band (folio 25), undated but would appear to have been composed during or shortly after the First World War.
Dates:
1927-1940, undated.
Original and revised autograph settings by Robin Orr of "The Kimmers o' Cougate", a song from Sydney Goodsir Smith's play 'Colickie Meg', preceded by a letter of the composer presenting the setting to the donor., 1955.
File
Identifier: MS.22016, folios 1-3
Papers of John Blythe Kinross, relating to various financial undertakings., 1927-1969.
File
Identifier: Acc.8699/19
Scope and Contents
Containing:British Corosit Button Co: copies of a speech made by Kinross at a creditors’
and shareholders’ meeting, 1931.Old Gate Estates Ltd: transcript of the evidence of Kinross in the case against the valuers Topliss, Harding and Russell, 1939.Crown Flour Mills: Printed report and accounts, 1939, 1942.Public Benefit Boot Co: Printed note concerning the board, ca. 1940.Col W A Bristow, the inventor of coalite: Autographed copy...
Dates:
1927-1969.
Papers of John Purves on the relationship between Italian and English literature., 1822-1946, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.15880 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...
Dates:
1822-1946, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notes of John Purves.
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Note and other material of John Purves concerning Italian literature.
Papers of John Purves on the relationship between Italian and English literature., 1920-1922.
File
Identifier: MS.15880 (1)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...
Dates:
1920-1922.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notes of John Purves.
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Note and other material of John Purves concerning Italian literature.
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Papers of John Purves on the relationship between Italian and English literature.
Part of an autograph collection formed in the middle of the nineteenth century by Lady Charlotte Fletcher with the help of Sir William Fraser., 15th century, 18th century-19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.16747
Scope and Contents
The original extent of the collection can be seen from the list at folio 1; several items are no longer present, and the bulk of the letters and documents, which were abstracted from various parts of the Saltoun Papers, have been restored to their original positions. Some of those which remain may also have come from this source; some are from other Scottish archives; one at least passed through the saleroom (letter of Horace Walpole, folio 154: Sotheby's, 25 April 1843, lot 186). ...
Dates:
15th century, 18th century-19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Correspondence of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
'Personal history and associations of Sir Walter Scott', by Helen J M Russell of Ashiesteel, in typescript and the author's autograph., Mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3234
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Photocopy of the autograph orchestral score of 'llaia, May 1873' by Charles François Gounod, a setting of a poem on David Livingstone's death by R M Milnes, Baron Houghton, with a note by the composer, 1874., 1873, 1874.
File
Identifier: MS.10755
Dates:
1873, 1874.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
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Miscellaneous items of and concerning David Livingstone.
Photostats of a letter of Sir Walter Scott to Robert Johnston, regarding building work at Abbotsford, and of part of his autograph manuscript of the 'Introductory Epistle' to ‘The fortunes of Nigel’, showing some differences from the first edition., 1817, [1822, or before].
File
Identifier: MS.3109, folios 96-101
Dates:
1817, [1822, or before].
'Piano solos', undated, by Maude Beswick., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21638
Scope and Contents
The compositions include numbers 1 and 3 from 'Four Preludes in Odd Rhythms' (MS.21640), and a version of 'Stormwinds' from 'Three Impressions' for cello and piano (MS.21636).
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Piano suite 'Antediluvia', undated, by Maude Beswick., Mid 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21639
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Poem in the autograph of and signed by James Hogg, entitled "A young girl’s prayer"., 1829.
Item
Identifier: MS.573, folio 73
Scope and Contents
The poem begins, “O father that’s above the sky”.
'Hogg' of the signature wanting.
Inscribed at the foot, 'Given to me on the same day it was written M H Wilson' (folio 73).
Dates:
1829.
Poems and essays by various authors, including several poems of William Soutar, 1922, two of which are in his own hand and the rest in typescript., 1904-1945, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.15873
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...
Dates:
1904-1945, undated.
Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy, chiefly in his autograph., 1865-1869, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3073
Scope and Contents
Many of the poems are accompanied by previous drafts. A few bear dates: 1865 (number 56), 1868 (numbers 3, 66), 1869 (numbers 4, 50, 61). On the back of number 45 is a fragment of prose dialogue.
Dates:
1865-1869, undated.
Score of trio sonata in D for violin, cello and piano by Maude Beswick, lacking third movement., 1941.
Item
Identifier: MS.21633
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
1941.