Juvenilia.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Literary or artistic works produced by persons in their childhood or youth; usually used to set those works apart from later, mature works.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Drawings, mostly juvenile, by members of the Kirk family.
File
Identifier: Acc.11147
Scope and Contents
Some concern Africa where Sir John Kirk was an associate of Livingstone.
Dates:
19th century.
Entries to "Wanted Poets", a writing competition for Midlothian Primary schools.
File
Identifier: Acc.12137
Dates:
2001.
Incomplete manuscript of a children's magazine, 'The Celt', created by George Mackay Brown.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13906
Dates:
circa 1930.
Letters and papers of Robin Spark to his mother, Muriel Spark.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11620
Scope and Contents
Includes cards and juvenile drawings, copies of Muriel Spark`s replies and letters of her mother to her.
Dates:
1943-1996.
Robert Louis Stevenson, "The History of Moses" (1856).
File
Identifier: Acc.10356
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1856-1919 and undated.