Sonnets.
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
‘[Gospel Sonnets] or Spiritual Songs’, in the autograph of the Reverend Ralph Erskine, preceded and followed by matter in shorthand.
Two versions of part vi, chapter v, section 1, ‘In heavenly quires a question rose’, are given (folios 119, 122).
Italian manuscript of some of the 'Capitoli' and Sonnets, selections from 'Orlando Innamorato', and the 'Carmina', by Francesco Berni., Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Letter, 1805, of Sir Walter Scott to Mrs Greenwood, and copies, undated, of sonnets of John Leyden, sent by Scott to Mrs Greenwood., 1805, undated.
Letters, 1914-1941, of Lord Alfred Douglas to William Sorley Brown, editor of the ‘Border standard’, concerned chiefly with the publication of Douglas's articles, poems and speeches; with several drafts of letters chiefly written to newspapers for publication.
Also included are a number of newspaper-cuttings, 1915-1936, undated, by or about Lord Alfred Douglas, and the manuscripts, 1915, undated, of three sonnets. "All's well with England", 'Winston Churchill' and 'A Christmas sonnet', all apparently unpublished.
Letters written to William Marwick, chiefly in his capacity of Editor of the 'Ruskin Reading Guild Journal’, afterwards ‘Igdrasil’.
Manuscripts and typescripts of poems by Robert Garioch Sutherland., ?1952-1979, undated.
Some of the poems are written on the backs of letters and other scrap paper, and include the following: (i) Some of the 'Roman sonnets frae Giuseppe Belli', 1975-1979, undated (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous poems, ?1952-1979, undated (folio 22). Not all of these were included in the ‘Complete poetical works’ (Edinburgh, 1983).
Microfilm chiefly of photographs and prints of works of Phoebe Anna Traquair.
The contents are as follows:
Photographs of and printed articles concerning murals of Phoebe Anna Traquair, [1890-1948] (MS.8123);
Illuminated manuscript, 1895-1897, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (MS.8127);
Collotype prints of an illuminated manuscript, 1890-1892, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘In Memoriam’ by Alfred Tennyson (MS.8128).
Microfilm of romance of the lovers Pamphilia and Deiphebo.
Microfilm of sonnet, 1927, written by W W Peploe on the flyleaf of his ‘Memories and illusions’ (Edinburgh, 1906).
Microfilm of Sonnet, 1927, written by W W Peploe on the flyleaf of his ‘Memories and illusions’ (Edinburgh, 1906).
Miscellaneous papers of John Pinkerton., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
The contents comprise materials relating to John Pinkerton's collections of poetry (folio 1), edition of Barbour (folio 29), geographical works (folio 35), mineralogy (folio 104), ‘Recollections of Paris’ (folio 129), etc.; plans for works which were not subsequently carried out (folio 153); original poems (folio 164); and miscellaneous matter (folio 173).
Miscellaneous single letters, poetry, etc., of celebrities, collected by Allan Park Paton., 1762-1900, undated.
'Monarchicke tragedies’ (London, 1607) by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, containing an autograph sonnet of William Drummond of Hawthornden to Alexander, and marginal notes, marking parallel passages chiefly from Sir Philip Sydney’s ‘Arcadia’.
Notebook, undated, of John Purves labelled ‘The poems of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke’., Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.
Romance of the lovers Pamphilia and Deiphebo., Early 16th century.
Scrap-book, containing caricatures, some dated 1813, and other drawings, chiefly by John Gibson Lockhart, engravings, etchings, lithographs, etc., 1813-1857, undated.
Sonnet, 1927, written by W W Peploe on the flyleaf of his ‘Memories and illusions’ (Edinburgh, 1906).
Sonnet of Robert Burns on the death of Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 31: miscellaneous letters and papers., 1586, 1605-1620, undated.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Typescript 'Sonnets (in Petrarchan form) by Pittendrigh Macgillivray, 1898 to 1936', one of twelve copies with photographs of sculptures., 1898-1936.
Verse, undated, by John Stuart Blackie., Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
The contents are as follows: sonnets (folio 1), songs (folio 42), an epic on Jack the Giant-killer, in Greek and English (folio 80), fragments of a drama on Prometheus (folio 132), and miscellaneous (folio 148).