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Poetry.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms. (AAT) All poetry, except ballads, was indexed under this heading in the published catalogues. (NLS) .

Found in 2789 Collections and/or Records:

Volume of miscellaneous letters and a poem of Robert Louis Stevenson, together with letters of Sir Sidney and Lady Colvin concerning Stevenson.

 Series
Identifier: MS.8790
Scope and Contents

The letters are unpublished unless otherwise stated.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1873-1893, 1921.

Volume of miscellaneous poetic manuscripts by Lord Byron; with some related correspondence., 1808-1822, 1930-1973, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.43346
Scope and Contents The manuscripts here have been largely arranged in chronological order. The original foliation of the volume has been retained, although some of the folios have been removed prior to arrival at the Library.For poetical works, first lines are given in brackets after the title of the poem. The manuscripts are in the hand of Byron unless otherwise stated.‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by Jermone McGann, has been used in some of the following descriptions...
Dates: 1808-1822, 1930-1973, undated.

Volume of poems of Alexander Ross., 1753-1754, undated.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.18A
Scope and Contents

The volume contains "A Dream in Imitation of the Cherry and the Slae" (1753), folios 10-24; a set of four pastorals entitled "Religious Dialogues" (1754), folios 25-64; and Scriptural Paraphrases taken from the Old Testament, undated, folios 90-116. In this volume folios 22-24 have been bound after folio 38.

Dates: 1753-1754, undated.

Volume of poems of Alexander Ross., 1761, undated.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.18B
Scope and Contents

The volume includes several Scriptural Paraphrases, "The Book of Job rendered in verse" (1761), folios 30-94 and a prose "Dialogue of the Right of Government among the Scots" (undated), folios 97-191.

Dates: 1761, undated.

Volume of poems of Alexander Ross., 1782, undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.18C
Scope and Contents The volume contains a translation of Andrew Ramsay`s ‘Poemata Sacra’, folios 6-100; two versions of "The Description of the Creation", folios 6-25 and folios 59-68, both of which are undated, but the Preface to the translation (folio 55), bears the date 1782, and in the preface the author states that the translation `was made in the 82nd year of my age`. The Scots poem ‘The Fortunate Shepherd or the Orphan’ (folio 105) was published in part in ‘The Scottish works of Alexander...
Dates: 1782, undated.

Volume of poetry, 1858-1862, of Corporal William Beattie Hadden, 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch), in India.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13781
Scope and Contents Miscellaneous poetry and other writings by William Beattie Hadden, Corporal in the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (the Black Watch), Lucknow, March 1858. Contains poems on various subjects, many regarding the author`s home in Scotland, other on his acquaintances, reflections on life, and general thoughts and opinions, such as `Lines on leaving India`, and `Lines on woman`s virtue`. A later note from 1862 places Hadden in Dugshai [Dagshai], in the foothills of the Himalayan mountains, and...
Dates: 1858-1862

Volume of Robert Burns’ poems, in manuscript, undated, by an unknown transcriber.

 File
Identifier: MS.6302
Scope and Contents

The text appears to have been copied from the subscribers' edition of ‘Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect’ (Edinburgh, 1787). Between pages 36 and 37 is inserted a newspaper cutting giving an explanation of two lines in the second stanza of 'Death and Doctor Hornbook'.

Dates: [1787, or after.]

Volume of unpublished poetry by Henry Murray Scott, a relative of the 4th Duke of Atholl.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13130
Scope and Contents Three soft-cover notebooks, bound in one volume, containing poems, drafts of poems and some translations probably by Henry Murray Scott. The first notebook has entries dating from 31 October 1827 to 26 March 1828, some of the poems were written in Hanau, Germany, (page 1); the second notebook dates from 29 March to 14 November 1828 (page 90); the third notebook dates from 24 November 1828 to 26 June 1832 (page 156). The three notebooks are numbered and sequentially paginated, possibly by a...
Dates: 1827-1832.

Volume of verse and leaf-rubbings compiled by Jane Whitefoord as a gift for Christian Dalrymple., 1799.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25499
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Christian Dalrymple (1765-1838) was the heiress of Lord Hailes, being his daughter by his first marriage to Anne Brown. Although she inherited the Newhailes estate in 1792, the title passed to her cousin, James Dalrymple, who became 4th Baronet of Hailes. Christian Dalrymple did not marry. Her papers consist largely of family correspondence and her journals which provide a detailed record of her daily life over nearly forty years.

Dates: 1799.

Volume of verse entitled 'Reminiscences of a cruise in H.M. Frigate le Egyptienne in the years 1804-5, when commanded by Captain the Honble. C.E. Fleeming, by Wm. Fras. Wolfe of H.M.S. York, 1839', addressed, with a letter of presentation, to Lord John Hay by W F Wolfe., 1839.

 File
Identifier: MS.14824
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates: 1839.

Volume VII of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., [1836, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.2135
Scope and Contents There are two poems, with notes, sent to Donald Gregory by 'A.S.' (Alexander Stewart?). They are watermarked 1834. (i) "An saoil sibh féin nach foghainteach", 18 lines. To Gregor MacGregor (Grigar Odhar Ard mac Dhonncha nan Gleann) (page 299); (ii) "A Righ, gur mór mo chuid mhulaid", 22 lines. Said to be by a daughter of Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy on his beheading her husband, Gregor MacGregor of Glenstrae. Cf."Bárdachd Gháidhlig", page 244; A and A Macdonald, 'Macdonald collection of...
Dates: [1836, or before.]

War diaries of Lt David Black Barclay, Royal Artillery, in North Africa and Italy.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12181
Scope and Contents

Accession includes:

1. sketchbook, 1943-1944,

2. an earlier volume of poetry written by Barclay,

3. Barlcay`s wartime record kept by his wife, Annie.

Dates: 1943-1948.

Wartime notebook of George Campbell Hay, including drafts and fragments of "Mochtàr is Dùghall"., 1943-1945.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26729
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

In November 1942, George Campbell Hay went to North Africa with the Ordnance Corps. During his service there he learnt French, Arabic and Italian. By 1945 he was in Italy, and in the autumn of that year he was transferred to the Education Corps and posted to Greece before being sent home in 1946. His notebooks contain poetic, linguistic and political material in several languages.

Dates: 1943-1945.

Wartime notebooks of George Campbell Hay, including drafts and fragments of "Mochtàr is Dùghall"., 1943-1945.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26729-26730
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

In November 1942, George Campbell Hay went to North Africa with the Ordnance Corps. During his service there he learnt French, Arabic and Italian. By 1945 he was in Italy, and in the autumn of that year he was transferred to the Education Corps and posted to Greece before being sent home in 1946. His notebooks contain poetic, linguistic and political material in several languages.

Dates: 1943-1945.

‘Wizard Peter’ by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (Edinburgh, 1834), with notes and corrections by the author, and a presentation inscription to James Gibson Craig on the half title-page.

 File
Identifier: MS.9808
Scope and Contents

There are several manuscript insertions, including Charles Sharpe's draft of five verses, written on the back of a letter, 1832, from the printseller Hugh Paton (folio 2), and explanatory notes and variant readings by James Gibson Craig (folio 3).

Dates: 1832-1834.

Work by other authors collected by Hector MacIver., 1921-1954, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26291-26294
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.

Dates: 1921-1954, undated.

Work by other writers collected by Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1939-1980, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26620-26636
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

Dates: 1939-1980, undated.

Work by others collected by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1936-1985, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27215-27220
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.

Dates: 1936-1985, undated.