Fragments.
Found in 112 Collections and/or Records:
Notebooks, diaries and personal papers of Alasdair Gray, with some literary papers and printed material.
Includes notebooks, sketchbooks, diaries, literary fragments and personal documents.
Papers and translations collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
Papers concerning Jane Welsh.
Comprising:
1. letter, 1824, of Jane Welsh to Dugald Gilchrist
2. fragment of play, undated, of Jane Welsh
3. three letters, 1824-1825, of Mrs Welsh to members of the Gilchrist family.
Papers from the library of St Benedict`s Abbey, Fort Augustus.
Includes:
patristic texts, 1080, of Marianus at Regensburg
"Rule of St Benedict", 15th century
Book of Hours, late 15th century, with the signature of Mary of Guise
fragments of music, 15th century to 16th century, from the Inverness song-school
Papers of David Livingstone.
Includes three fragments of letters, a letter of his daughter, Anna Mary, his commission as Consul and a copy of his book, "Analysis of the Language of the Bechuanas".
Papers of Ian Macbeth Robertson.
Includes poems, diaries and fragments of diaries, with various literary and military papers.
Papers of Margaret Mackenzie Scott.
Comprising:
1. five letters, 1928-1930, of Walter de la Mare
2. letter, 1931, of Neil Gunn
3. letter, 1973, of Stanley Cursiter
4. two letters, undated, of Esmé Wynne-Tyson
5. autobiographical fragments, undated, of Margaret Mackenzie Scott
6. letters, 1919, to Mackenzie Scott`s mother.
Papers of Professor John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, comprising letters to him from his first wife, 1923-1926, 1932, 1962, and undated; his step-son, undated; and others, 1924-1959, and undated; also, biographical fragments by his second wife.
Part of a corrected manuscript of an essay of Thomas Carlyle, "The Nigger Question".
Part of an essay concerning the Reformation in Scotland.
Part of the manuscript of David Stewart, "Sketches of the Highlanders of Scotland".
Part of the manuscript of `Sketches of the Highlanders of Scotland` by Major-General David Stewart.
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Photocopies of corrected manuscripts and proofs of fragments, undated, of Thomas Carlyle, "History of Friedrich II of Prussia".
With a letter, 1839, of Carlyle to James Aitken, and a letter, 1920, of Margaret Carlyle Aitken to Mary Walker.
Photocopies of letters, 1859-1860, to Kenneth Morrison, from relatives in Barvas and North Tolsta, Isle of Lewis.
With later family letter, 1874, fragments of letters, and press cuttings.
Photocopies of two fragments of extempore verse in the hand of Robert Burns.
Photocopy of a leaf from an exciseman`s record book of Robert Burns.
Photocopy of an autobiographical fragment of John Saunders.
Describing country life in Perthshire.
Photocopy of music and first line of text of Robert Burns`s "Wha is that at my Bower Door".
Photocopy of part of the journal of Sir James Hall.
Covering the period 7th - 15th April 1781.
Photograph of part of a letter of Ada Goodrich Freer to Lady Bute.
Photograph of two pages of a diary, concerning the expedition to Faroe and Iceland under the leadership of John Thomas Stanley.
Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.
"Section 7. Fourth Objection", a fragment of a philosophical manuscript of David Hume.
Part of a previously unknown early work analysing the problem of evil, possibly a portion of a sequel to the "Treatise of Human Nature", and also anticipating arguments advanced in the "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion".