Poetry.
Found in 2789 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Works and portions of works, verses, anagrams, and impresas, chiefly in draft, of William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James IV; and extracts from the works of others., Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Also included are 'Noates for Basilicon Doron' (folio 94) and part of the translation of Machiavelli's 'Prince' (folio 144).
'Works, in prose and verse, of Alexander Pennecuik, Esq., of Newhall, M.D.’, volume i (Leith, 1814), containing corrections to the text and additions in the margins of many of the pages made at different times by Robert Brown of Newhall and Carlops, advocate, who edited this edition and provided an introductory memoir of the author.
According to a note at the top of the title page this was a 'Corrected Copy, for a New Edition', but no such edition appears to have been published, and the whereabouts of the 'Additions and Corrections in a separate M.S. written more accurately and fully' are not known.
Attached to the flyleaf preceding the title page are a cutting from an unidentified sale catalogue, and notes in an unknown hand concerning plants found on and about Habbie's How and Newhall in August 1897.
‘Works of Henry Mackenzie’ (Edinburgh, 1808), volume viii, containing autograph additions.
Works of John H Balfour Browne.
With manuscript and printed material of Balfour Browne and others, including poetry, essays, plays and novels.
Worksheets and corrected proofs of Hugh MacDiarmid, "On a Raised Beach".
With drawings by Reinhard Behrens.
Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott., 1762-1768, 1804-1807.
The sheets which Sir Walter Scott published in his edition of Anna Seward's ‘Poetical works’, 1810, were evidently taken out by him, and this collection consists of the unpublished remainder. These writings are described in her letter of 17 July 1807, sent to Scott posthumously (MS.870, folio 14, printed in her ‘Poetical works,’ volume i, page xxxiii).
Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott., 1762-1768, 1804.
The contents are as follows:
Juvenile Letters, 1762-1768 (folio 1);
The remains of two volumes which originally contained Anna Seward's poems (folio 86), from which only the lists of contents (folios 86, 114) and copies of poems addressed to her by literary friends (folio 94) survive;
‘Last Lay of the Lichfield Minstrel’, 1804 (folio 117).
Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott., 1743-[1789], undated.
The volume contains ‘Telemachus’, the first three books of an epic poem (folio 1); ‘Poems’, by the Reverend Thomas Seward (folio 92); “Observations upon Professor Spence's Essay on Pope's Odyssey” (folio 110); and four sermons (folio 144).
Writings of David Gray, chiefly in manuscript, but some in print, including poems, part of an attempt at drama, essays, and miscellaneous notes., [1861, or before.]
Several of the poems appear to be unpublished.
Writings of James Hogg, with letters of Hogg's children to Robert Blackie., [1827, or after]-1873, undated.
Writings of Robert Lochore, cordiner, poet, and miscellaneous writer.
Youthful poems of Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet of Ulbster, begun in 1770.
The poems include satires 'On Doctor Johnson not seeing a tree till he came to Aberdeen' and 'On Doctor Johnson abusing the Scots' (folio 4), and a poem in two cantos, 'In Ridicule of Dr. Johnsons tour through the western isles of Scotland' (folio 19).