Poetry.
Found in 1531 Collections and/or Records:
Volume containing fair copies of poems in the hand of Margaret Loudoun., 1803-1809.
Margaret Loudoun's pencilled signature, dated 1809, is at folio i. (Some of the poems, at folios 28 verso and 42 verso, and possibly at folios 5 verso and 8, are addressed to her.) The poems, several of which are by (or a few, to) Francis Jeffrey are dated between 1793 and 1809: the leaves are watermarked 1803. A leaf has been cut out between folios 19 and 20.
Volume containing manuscript poems of Lord Byron and some letters of various correspondents; with a manuscript catalogue relating to manuscripts and correspondence of Lord Byron., ?1811-1831, undated.
Volume containing manuscripts of miscellaneous early poems of Lord Byron., 1807-1811.
Volume entitled 'Come Lasses and Lads', containing fair copies of poems by William H Hamilton, apparently compiled with a view to publication, probably after 1921., [?1902-?1919.]
Volume entitled 'La Messe des Morts and other poems', containing fair copies of poems by William H Hamilton., 1902-1919.
Volume entitled 'Scotch Ballads. Materials for Border Minstrelsy', chiefly containing ballads sent to Sir Walter Scott when he was collecting material for his ‘Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border’, but with, in addition, many other poems and songs, ancient and modern, English and Gaelic., 1800-[1832].
Volume of Gaelic songs in the hand of Dugald MacNicol, son of Rev. Donald MacNicol., ca. 1816
Volume of manuscript verse of Margaret Oliphant, Clifton., 1829.
Volume of miscellaneous poetic manuscripts by Lord Byron; with some related correspondence., 1808-1822, 1930-1973, undated.
Volume of poems of Alexander Ross., 1753-1754, undated.
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.
Volume of poems of Alexander Ross., 1761, undated.
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.
Volume of poems of Alexander Ross., 1782, undated.
Volume of verse and leaf-rubbings compiled by Jane Whitefoord as a gift for Christian Dalrymple., 1799.
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.
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.
Volume of verse of Lieutenant Colonel James Dalrymple., 1752-1782.
The volume is inscribed by Anne Fergusson.
Volume of verse of Lieutenant Colonel James Dalrymple., 1752-1782.
Folio 25 has been mutilated.
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.]
Volumes of verse of Lieutenant Colonel James Dalrymple., 1752-1782.
Many of the poems have been copied into both volumes.
Wartime notebook of George Campbell Hay, including drafts and fragments of "Mochtàr is Dùghall"., 1943-1945.
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.
Wartime notebook of George Campbell Hay, including drafts and fragments of "Mochtàr is Dùghall"., 1944-1945, 1980.
The notebook has also been used for drafts of later poems.
Wartime notebooks of George Campbell Hay, including drafts and fragments of "Mochtàr is Dùghall"., 1943-1945.
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.
Work by other authors collected by Hector MacIver., 1921-1954, undated.
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.
Work by other writers collected by Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1939-1980, undated.
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.
Work by others collected by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1936-1985, undated.
The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.
Workbook of Alastair Reid containing drafts of poems and miscellaneous notes., 1970-1975.
Alastair Reid both wrote poetry himself and translated work by Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges and others. MSS.27446-27448 contain his own poems, and MSS.27449-27457 his translations.