Essays.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Short literary compositions on single subjects, often presenting the personal view of the author.
Found in 567 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript contributions to "The Peripatetic: a Quarterly Magazine"
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8911
Dates:
1865-1881.
Manuscript essay of Alexander Bryce, probably Minister of Kirknewton.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5016
Scope and Contents
Concerning rainfall.
Dates:
1770.
Manuscript essay or talk entitled "Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe" of Mary S Thomson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11257
Dates:
circa 1960.
Manuscript, "Henry Taylor`s Essays. - M.S." : the manuscript of "Notes from life in six essays", by Henry Taylor., 1847, or before.
Item
Identifier: MS.42567
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript has been taken from the spine of the volume. Of the six essays in the published work the manuscript contains only the first two :
"Of Money", folios 1-37; and,
"Humility and Independence", folios 38-53.
Dates:
1847, or before.
Manuscript of an apparently unpublished essay by William Cross[e], 'Some considerations by way of Essay, upon the means of civilizing the Highlands and extinguishing Jacobitism in Scotland'.
Item
Identifier: MS.5201
Scope and Contents
The author of the essay, who was Sheriff of Lanark and Professor of Law at Glasgow, recommends a policy of severity, to be enforced by garrisons of troops.
Dates:
1748.
Manuscript of an essay by Whitwell Elwin : "The first question is did [Alexander] Pope intend the character of Alossa for a satire on the Duchess of Marlborough?"., ? 1860-? 1870.
Item
Identifier: MS.42211
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The manuscripts, proofs and notebooks here reflect the interests and writing of Whitwell Elwin. There are items relating to Alexander Pope, William and Charles Napier, James Boswall and Samuel Johnson, and William Cowper among others. Many of these items relate to the work of Whitwell for the 'Quarterly Review' and his other published works, including 'Some XVIII century men of letters'.
Dates:
? 1860-? 1870.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning Whitwell Elwin.
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Manuscript, notebooks, proofs and copies of published articles by Whitwell Elwin, and relating to his work as an editor.
Manuscript of ‘Ane Essay Relating to the Natural History of Scotland by way of Supplement to the Prodromus Naturalis Historae Scotae published anno 1684’ in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.19
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains, for the most part, discourses on natural history and scientific and medical phenomena found in Scotland, taken from manuscript and printed sources.Accounts taken from printed sources include ‘Philosophical Transactions’, ‘Description of the Islands of Orkney’ and ‘Large Description of Galloway’. Manuscript sources include letters and extracts of letters to Sibbald from Dr George Garden of Aberdeen and Matthew MacKaile, an Aberdeen apothecary....
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
Manuscript of George Macintosh, "Researches Relative to the Cyclopian Ruins of Antiquity, Written Originally 1822, Rewritten 1826".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7435
Dates:
1826.
Manuscript of Henry Myers, "Hegelian Dialectics of Moses, Jesus, and Paul. "What was the Real Jesus?""
Item
Identifier: Acc.8458
Dates:
1938.
Manuscript of portions of 'Essay XIX: motive power' by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton., [1863, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.4838
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Manuscript of portions of 'Essay XIX: motive power' (folio 1);
(ii) Corrected proof of part of the essay(folio 64).
Dates:
[1863, or before.]
Manuscript of Sir William Purves`s work on the revenue of the Crown in Scotland., 1667-1681.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.14
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Purves does not seem to have altered the figures of the rental after compiling his work in 1667, but he did expand the section of the introduction on the Court of Exchequer. The final form which the work took in 1681 was published by D Murray Rose as ‘Revenue of the Scottish Crown, 1681’, from a manuscript in the British Museum (Addit. MS. 33,238). The original work of 1667 (entitled ‘Ane Abbreviat of his Majesties proper and constant rent peyit be the severall ffewars for their...
Dates:
1667-1681.
Manuscript of Sir William Purves`s work on the revenue of the Crown in Scotland., 1667-1681.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.14a
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is imperfect, the section on Argyll being the last extant.
Dates:
1667-1681.
Manuscript of Sorley MacLean, "My Relationship with Poetry".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10117
Dates:
1976.
Manuscript volume by Sir Robert Sibbald, containing two unpublished discourses.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.16
Scope and Contents
(i) `Caetologia or Memoirs for composing the Naturall Historie of Whales from the Remarks made upon thos cast in or taken upon the Scottish coast in which ther are descriptions also of the smaller fishes and aquatick animals of the whale Kynde and accounts how they may be taken and prepared and what uses may be gott of them’ (folio 6).(ii) `Discourses anent the improvements may be made in Scotland for advancing the wealth of the Kingdom’ (folio 76) which is mainly concerned with...
Dates:
1701.
Manuscript, written in the 14th century, containing extracts from 'De Clementia' and an incomplete text of 'Epistolae morales' by Seneca; with many contemporary annotations.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.16
Scope and Contents
(i) Extracts from the ‘De clementia’, in two series, concerning respectively ‘clementia’ and ‘crudelitas’: i.1.5 ‘rarissimum’ – ‘est’, ‘nemo’ – ‘Romano’, i.1.6 ‘difficile’ – ‘procedunt’, i.1.7 ‘iam’ – ‘sunt’, ‘fecit’ – ‘assecuti’, i.2.2 ‘nec’ – ‘praeponderet’, 1.3.3 ‘nullum’ – ‘struendum est’, i.4.1 ‘ille’ – ‘fidem’, i.4.3 ‘olim’ – ‘capite’, i.5.1 ‘uides’ – ‘parcere’, i.5.3 ‘decet’ – ‘conspicitur’, i.5.5 ‘magnam’ – ‘despicere’, i.7.4 ‘humili’ – ‘liberius est’, i.8.1 ‘eorum’ - i.8.2 ‘timore’,...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscripts and typescripts of talks and essays of James Archibald Campbell of Achanduin and Barbreck (1854-1926).
Series
Identifier: MSS.10260-10269
Dates:
[Circa 1878]-1913, undated.
Manuscripts and typescripts of William Soutar of miscellaneous prose compositions, consisting of essays, stories and dramas., [Before 1944.]
File
Identifier: MS.8759
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.
Dates:
[Before 1944.]
Manuscripts by William Gladstone., 1838-1891.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42266-42272
Scope and Contents
William Ewart Gladstone published many books, pamphlets and articles throughout his political career. Some of these were published by John Murray and the manuscripts and proofs here relate to some of those publications. The manuscripts relate to the works of Gladstone on the Church, foreign politics and domestic political issues. In addition, there is also a chapter of an autobiography and the manuscript of a review entitled 'Memoir of John Murray'. The manuscripts have been revised and...
Dates:
1838-1891.
Manuscripts collected by Walter Biggar Blaikie, Doctor of Laws, editor of volumes concerning Jacobitism in the publications of the Scottish History Society, etc.
Series
Identifier: MSS.278-318
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Manuscripts of biographical articles for the 8th edition of the `Encyclopaedia Britannica` by Lord Macaulay.
File
Identifier: Acc.11868
Scope and Contents
Essays on Atterbury, Bunyan, Goldsmith, Johnson, and William Pitt
Dates:
circa 1852-1859.
Manuscripts of books, articles and essays on historical subjects of William Ferguson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11277
Dates:
1959-1991.
Manuscripts of reviews for the "Quarterly Review" by John Wilson Croker; with pages from "Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, and her second husband, the Hon. George Berkeley", edited by Croker., 1817-? 1838.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42146-42149
Scope and Contents
John Wilson Croker wrote numerous articles for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are manuscripts for four of these articles in this subseries - his review of 'Endymion' by John Keats; his review of 'France' by Lady Morgan; an article entitled 'Art on Maddens Impurities of Genius'; and an article entitled 'Versailles'. There are also galley proofs for the review of 'France' by Lady Morgan. In addition, there are printed but unpublished pages of the suppressed sections of 'Letters to...
Dates:
1817-? 1838.
Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871., 1859-1862, 1870-1871.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.1-50.2.4
Scope and Contents
The terms, `Gaelic version` or `English version` refer to the original manuscript texts produced by (`transcribed by` or `told to`) one of his team of collectors or by Campbell. Unless stated otherwise, all English versions of the tales and textual notes are the work of Campbell.
Dates:
1859-1862, 1870-1871.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Manuscripts, typescripts and newspaper cuttings of published essays and articles of Edwin Muir., 1934-1959.
File
Identifier: MS.19661
Scope and Contents
The papers include 'The decline of the imagination', a broadcast published in 'The Listener', xlv, pages 753-754 (folio 3) and the essaay constituting section III of 'Essays on literature and society', revised edition, (London, 1965) papges 166-235 (folio 11).
Dates:
1934-1959.
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles and essays of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1933-1977, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27056-27063
Scope and Contents
While most of the articles and essays are on literary topics, they also include such diverse subjects as the Faroe Islands, hill-farming, politics, and the Edinburgh Festival. Many were published in a wide range of newspapers and periodicals. Some are incomplete and some survive only as drafts.
Dates:
1933-1977, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Literary papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Prose works of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Articles and short pieces of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.