Essays.
Found in 567 Collections and/or Records:
Journals of Marshall Anderson., 1990-1999.
The journals are distinctive physically because of their bindings which are of cloth re-purposed from jackets and other clothing.
Generally, each journal contains essays, notes, and copies of letters of Marshall Anderson.
`Just complaint on Mankind for Injuiring [sic] killing and eating animals`; the author`s name `John Williamson, Brachman ` [i.e. Brahmin] has been added in another hand.
The author, a sheep farmer, was a friend of James Boswell (see ‘James Boswell, the earlier years, 1740-1769’, pages 4, 33-34).
Làithean sona agus làithean dona, 1954
Essay headed "Làithean sona agus làithean dona", part of which appeared in the Weekly Scotsman's column "A Highland Notebook" in 1954; see also Acc.14003/15. With further notes on lucky and unlucky days and traditions connected with certain days of the week.
Lecture notes, essays and related papers., Circa 1908-1961.
Legal documents concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk, and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1631-1829, undated.
Letter, 1978, of Naomi Mitchison, together with manuscript, undated, entitled "A Note on Courtesy Between Chiefs", concerning Botswana.
Letter of Andrew Lang to Mr Watson and essay entitled "Cruelty to Poets".
Letter of C M Grieve enclosing an essay on his work and a prospectus for "In Memoriam James Joyce".
Letters and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto and the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1787-1803.
The contents are as follows. (i) Letters and exercises of the 1st Earl's children to their parents, 1787-1803 (folio 1); (ii) Letters of the children's tutors, William Somerville at Minto and James Reed at Eton, to the 1st Earl and Countess of Minto, 1791, 1797 (folio 126); (iii) A Latin prose composition by the 2nd Earl of Minto, 1799, and essays composed by him at Vienna in 1800 (folio 170).
Letters and papers of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury., 1665-1698, and undated.
Letters of and to Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell., 1935-1960.
The contents are as follows. (i) Letters, 1935-1959, of A Walter Marsden, chiefly concerning his own activities. Also included is an essay by Marsden on James Leslie Mitchell, with reminiscences of their meeting, and typescripts of some of Marsden's poems (folio l); (ii) Correspondence, 1935-1960, of John Muriel, the author 'John Lindsey'. It mostly concerns a proposed memorial volume to Mitchell, and includes letters from those asked to contribute (folio 35).
Letters of Elizabeth Mure to John Glassel with an essay and part of a diary of Joan Glassel., 1822, undated.
Papers, 19th-20th century, relating to the family of the 7th and 8th Dukes of Argyll especially the circle of Joan Glassel, second wife of John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, and her children and grandchildren.
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.
Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Stevenson’s tutor in that capacity. Stevenson showed little aptitude or interest in engineering but the two men became firm friends. After Jenkin’s sudden death in 1885, his widow Anne asked Stevenson to write a memoir of her husband and this correspondence arose from that connection.
Letters of Ugo Foscolo to John Murray II, with marked proofs of an article, "The court of beasts", by Foscolo., 1817-1824.
List of and essay on Gaelic technical terms concerning crafts., 1901.
Lists of and essay on Gaelic technical terms concerning wool-working, housewifery, dairy work., 1900.
Lists of and essays concerning Gaelic technical terms., 1898-1909.
Literary and cultural papers of the family of Mure of Caldwell., 1740-1864.
The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.
Literary and personal papers of Marion Lochhead.
Literary and philosophical papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo., [Circa 1735]-1796, undated.
Literary manuscripts, drafts, notes and other papers., 1773-1817, undated.
Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).
Literary manuscripts of Henry Mackenzie, and of members of his family., 18th century-19th century.
There is also some correspondence of the Seaforth family, Henry's son, Joshua Henry, having married Helen, daughter of Lord Seaforth.
Literary papers of Naomi Mitchison.
Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, stories, and essays.