Essays.
Found in 174 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of John Buchan.
Comprising photocopies of corrected typescripts of an essay, 1893, "Angling in Still Waters", and two short stories, undated, "Coriolanus" and "Other Gods".
Papers of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.
Including literary notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of literary work, and family and personal correspondence.
With papers of Susan, Baroness Tweedsmuir, including typescripts of essays and addresses, and correspondence.
Papers of John Herdman.
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, autobiography articles, essays and reviews.
Papers of Naomi Mitchison.
Includes poems, beginning of a novel, two plays, sketches of books, two diaries and paper, "The African Solution".
Papers of Naomi Mitchison.
Including:
1. typescript of note, undated, of Elizabeth S Haldane, on lady doctors
2. typescripts, 20th century, of works of fiction and essays on feminisim of Naomi Mitchison, with books
3. 2 letters, 1915, of Mary E Haldane to Naomi Mitchison.
Papers of Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, of Dunglass.
Includes rough drafts of essays, notes and drawings of Hall`s work on perspective.
Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, plays, novels and essays, with correspondence.
Papers of the Reverend Thomas Veitch.
Includes typescripts of sermons, talks, essays, plays and poems.
Papers of the Reverend William Wilson, minister of St Paul’s Free Church, Dundee.
William Wilson, who was dispossessed at the Disruption in 1843, became Moderator of the Free Church in 1866, and moved to Edinburgh in 1877.
Papers of Thomas Aitken.
Includes manuscript drafts of antiquarian, scientific and medical discourses, many of which were read at meetings of Inverness Scientific and Field Club.
Papers of W Oliver Brown.
Mostly concerning the Scottish Nationalist movement.
Includes an essay, press cuttings, and correspondence from amongst others, C M Grieve and Sir Compton Mackenzie.
Part of a corrected manuscript of an essay of Thomas Carlyle, "The Nigger Question".
Part of an essay concerning the Reformation in Scotland.
Personal and political correspondence of Walter E Elliot and of Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood.
Photocopy of a typescript essay of E Parr, "Domestic Life and Letters of James Hogg".
Photocopy of Sir Angus Cunninghame Graham, "Essay on Signalling at the Battle of Jutland".
"Practiques of the Law of Scotland".
Contains:
1 "Actes of Parliament Ordine Alphabetico Anent Crymes"
2 "Practickes re Land", 1666
3 "The Ordinarie Forme of Proces Befor the Lordes of Sessione", 1669.
Prayers, sermons, addresses and lectures of the Very Reverend Andrew Nevile Davidson.
Prize essay on 'The true Interest of Great Britain, with respect to Foreign Alliances', by John Wilson Rae, Advocate; awarded the Graham of Gartmore Gold Medal at Glasgow University.
Quintin Kennedy, "Ane Compendius Tractive", with annotations by the author.
With manuscript copy of "De Praesentia Corporis in Sacramento Altaris".
'Recollections of my boyhood, with open-air-lessons of later years, by Thomas Edward (of Banff, shoemaker)’.
Four letters, 1883-1884, of Thomas Edward to David Douglas, bookseller, Edinburgh; proofs of Edward's apparently unpublished 'Recollections', as in MS.1662, with some manuscript corrections; proofs of other essays, also apparently unpublished, with corrections.
The title is in the hand of David Douglas.
Representation, 1682, of John Riddell of Haining, concerning the breeding of horses for the king, with four unassociated documents.
Other papers:
letter, 1727, of Ludovick Brodie of Whytfield, to Alexander Brodie of Lethen, on business matters
letter, 1797, of Sir George Colebrooke, on the political situation in France
essay, 1835, of David Smith, "An Essay on Sympathy"
essay, 1850, of John MacKinnon, "An Essay on Patriotism".
Robert Louis Stevenson, "The History of Moses" (1856).
Text as dictated to Stevenson`s mother, with his signature and sketches illustrating the work.
With copy of "The Happy Sunday Book of Painted Pictures" (London, undated) given to Stevenson as a prize, and a copy of the privately printed edition of the Stevenson manuscript by A Edward Newton, and a note by Newton on his acquisition of the manuscript.