Fragments.
Found in 372 Collections and/or Records:
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Photocopied typescript of a fragment of an unidentified play, scenes 1-6., Undated.
Includes prompt scripts, scripts of unperformed plays, production photography and press cuttings.
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.
Photostat of a fragment of a letter of Sir Walter Scott, with a note of Miss Anne Scott, to Hector Macdonald Buchanan., 1826.
Poem and fragments of verse, undated, by Robert Louis Stevenson., Late 19th century.
Includes: 'I knew you by your pallid face'; 'You of the pale face and cloven feet'; 'I, whom Apollo sometime visited' (‘Collected poems’, page 320); 'Let now your soul in this substantial world' (‘Collected poems’, page 281); 'The angler rose, he took his rod' (‘Collected poems’, page 354); 'In the highlands in the country places' (‘Collected poems’, page 255); 'As with heaped bees at hiving time' (‘Collected poems’, page 321).
Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.
Production files of 'Out of our heads' by John McGrath., 1976, undated.
Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.
"Scholia ad 'Poesin Philosophicam' per H. Stephanum anno 1573 editam. Huic editioni accessere insuper fragments a Stephano praetermissa, nunc demum collecta suisque locis aptata, præcipue Empedoclis Agrigentini, 1750. Addita Spicelegia Antiqua, sive ex veteris poætis Græcis deperditis fragmenta, vol.i"., 1750.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
"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".
Sermons and papers of John Sime with papers of the Philadelphian Society.
Sermons of Alexander Carlyle., 1746-1803, undated.
Seven bifolia, possibly a fragment from a bound volume, containing a series of drawings depicting different stages in the construction of a church., 164?4.
Single pages and fragmentary jottings of passages, from unidentified poems of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid' in manuscript and typescript., [1925, or before]-[1978, or before.]
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poetry and prose works, including books, articles, lectures and notes. Much of the material is fragmentary, and some was reworked or copied by Hugh MacDiarmid at a later date.
Six disassociated pieces of parchment, four with writing, but all apparently from the same manuscript., ?14th century.
Six small discontiguous fragments of vellum, apparently all from what appears to be a theological work of French provenance, one of the fragments containing a description or a definition of adoration., 14th century.
The text is written possibly in double columns in folio, with each sentence introduced by a rubric. The fragments are difficult to read, and two of them are damaged.
The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark NE.775.h.14) of ‘Tomus I (II) Paraphraseon D. Erasmi in Nouum Testamentum’ (Basileae, 1556), where they had been used to strengthen the spine.
Small quantity of strips of paper stuck together to form two strips, containing text which cannot be identified but may be of a philosophical or theological character; and four small vellum fragments, which appear to be from a formal document written in French in a hand possibly of the 16th century., ?16th century.
The fragments were recovered from the spine of a copy (pressmark K.62.g) of “L`Histoire Universelle de Trogue Pompée” (Rouen, 1661). The vellum fragments were also recovered from the same binding.
Society of Writers to Her Majesty`s Signet manuscripts.
Including mediaeval vellum fragments, facsimiles of letters and documents (with some original manuscripts), and annotated printed items.