Essays.
Found in 567 Collections and/or Records:
Essays, broadcasts and reviews of George Mackay Brown., 1963-1970, undated.
Essays by Friedrich Lintz, Lieutenant in the Austrian Army: Napoleon and Frederick II of Prussia; Axel, Graf von Oxenstierna; Armed Citizens and Standing Armies. , Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Much of the material was collected by Sir Walter Scott, partly for use in his works; some must have been accumulated by John Gibson Lockhart.
Essays (historical and other), biographies, reminiscences, and other works by John Ramsay of Ochtertyre, Advocate.
The works are for the most part descriptive of the eighteenth century in Scotland, and are contained in 10 folio volumes, each bearing the title assigned to it by John Ramsay, showing his grouping and division of his manuscript. Subjects treated in one volume, however, are apt to occur again in others.
'Essays in psychonomy' by James Campbell., [Circa 1878.]
The essays were apparently intended as part of a larger work on spiritualism.
Essays, letters, pamphlets, and other material concerning the 'Forty-five., 1745-1750.
Essays, notes and other papers of A Keith Johnston., 1848-1862, undated.
Includes biographies and histories of members of the Johnston family, and business records of W and A K Johnston, Ltd, founded in 1826 by William and Alexander Keith Johnston.
Essays, notes and other papers relating to non-fiction works of Jean Mary Allan., 1920s-1964, undated.
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, essays, talks and some personal papers.
Essays of John Davidson, "Observations on the Regiam Majestatem" and "Remarks on the Editions of the Acts of the Parliament of Scotland".
Essays of Robert James Batchen Sellar., Undated.
Essays on literary topics, and linguistic notes., 17th century-18th century.
The contents are as follows.
(i) Essays on literary topics, 18th century, including several by Francis Fletcher, Lord Milton's son, and translations from Sallust and Sulpicius. See also MS.17898. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Linguistic notes, 17th and 18th centuries, including change of Latin letters in Spanish, a list of English homophones, a vocabulary to Homer's ‘Odyssey’, and Spanish phrases with French equivalents. (Folio 110.)
Essays 'On the late Spanish campaign', 'On Charles II', and 'On finances', all apparently unpublished., [1796, or after-1807, or after.]
'On the late Spanish campaign' (folio 1), is written on paper watermarked 1807; 'On Charles II' (folio 5) on paper watermarked 1796. 'On Finances' (folio 7) is dated 1802.
Essays, plays and poetry of James Johnston written while a student at the Royal Military College of Science., c.1960-1963
Essays, poems and other literary papers of the family of Paul., 1827-1893.
Robert Paul, manager of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, married Charlotte, the daughter of John Erskine of Cambus, advocate, in 1814. The connection of the Pauls with the Erskines of Alva, and later with the Erskine Murrays, remained strong, and the antiquarian interests of the Reverend Robert Paul, Free Church minister at Dollar, led him to examine many of the Erskine papers. Some of these remained with the Paul’s and now form part of the collection.
Essays, probably by Margaret Inglis, a schoolgirl in Edinburgh.
The subjects include themes from literature and history as well as more general topics and descriptions. Also included is a copy of a letter of Margaret Inglis (page 39), and miscellaneous notes and paraphrases.
Essays sent to Magnusson on Icelandic literature., 1973-1980.
Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.
Essays, undated, by the Reverend William Wilson, with comments, 1927-1928, undated, by Professor George Dunbar., [?1833-?1888], 1927-1928, undated.
The subjects of the essays include ‘Sensibility’, ‘Chivalry’ and other abstract topics, as well as two essays on Homer and one on Latin tenses.
"Essays Written and Delivered by the Members of the Association for Promoting Moral, Scientific and Commercial Knowledge, Glasgow, 1842".
Essays written by John Stuart Blackie as a student at Aberdeen University., 1825-1826, 1828-1829, undated.
'Everyone who ever mattered is dead and gone: An essay on the cultural significance of nature and landscape, especially depopulated landscape, in the Scottish Highlands’., circa 1990.
Written by James Hunter at the Institute of Celtic and Nordic Studies Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Isle of Skye.
Exam papers, student essays and lecture notes on teaching and education, 1950-1951 and undated
Notebooks and notes, largely unsorted, dating from Farquhar Macintosh's school and university and teacher training years. Subjects covered are mainly history and education.
Examination papers in History and Church History, 1946-1950
Marked examination papers (11 booklets) in European History, British History, Church History and Moral Philosophy. Macintosh studied History at Edinburgh University from 1946 to 1950.
'Farewell Essay by C.G. Scott To Mr John Fletcher Salton Hall July 1843’, on 'Labor, Rest & Recreation with Their Relation to Enjoyment’, Scott being the young Fletcher's tutor., 1843.
Four essays on economics and moral philosophy by Patrick J Stirling, written while he was a student at St Andrews in 1828.
There are brief comments by Thomas Chalmers at the end of the first three essays.
Four essays written by Agnes Mure Mackenzie while taking the Moral Philosophy course at Aberdeen University., 1910-1911.
The contents are as follows:
Essay, 1910, entitled 'Whether society may properly be considered as an organism' (folio 2);
Essay, 1911, entitled 'On custom' (folio 13);
Essay, 1911, entitled 'On unselfishness' (folio 26);
Essay, [?1910], entitled 'Sartor resartus' (folio 40).