Poetry.
Found in 2789 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, 1800-1840, of the Russells of Ashiesteel and their relatives, the Halls of Dunglass; with other papers., 1788-1840, undated.
Correspondence, 1859-1910, undated, of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family; with related papers., 1836-1910, undated.
Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.
Correspondence, 1961-2017, and literary papers, circa 1970s, of David Macleod Black.
Correspondence and contributions relating to issue 22 of "Scotia Review", published spring 1997.
Correspondence and family papers of the Marquesses and Marchionesses of Lothian, received unbound., 1729-1900, undated.
Correspondence and literary papers, including articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts, of Janet Adam Smith.
Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Correspondence and literary papers of the author, Marion C Lochhead (1902-1985).
Correspondence and manuscripts of Agnes Ethel Mackay (died 1980).
Agnes Mackay was born and educated in Scotland, but spent much of her life in France. During the German Occupation, she lived in St Tropez with her cousin, Marion Melville, and they moved to Paris after the war. Her publications included poetry, biographies of Paul Valery and Arthur Melville, and critical works on art and literature.
Correspondence and memoranda of Sir John Sinclair, relating chiefly to his attempts to trace Gaelic manuscripts, to the translation into English of the Gaelic ‘Poems of Ossian’, and to his ‘Fingal; a tragedy, in five acts’.
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Elizabeth Oliver., 1905-1946, undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Letters to Elizabeth Oliver, 1920-1945, undated, with a telegram to her husband Major Edward Oliver, 1905 (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous papers including verses, accounts, inventories, invitations, menu cards, and newspaper cuttings, chiefly concerning India, 1918-1946, undated (folio 21); (iii) Newspaper cuttings, 1912-1946, undated (folio 137).
Correspondence and other papers of John Richardson, of Kirklands, Writer to the Signet, and his family.
A note on John Richardson's children will be found in MS.3989, folio i.
Correspondence and other papers of Rachel Annand Taylor; with copies of poems in several hands., 1892, 1901-1965, undated.
The contents are as follows: (i) Copies of poems, 1892, undated, by different authors in several hands. (Folio 1.) (ii) Correspondence, 1901-1965, undated, including a few accounts and photographs. Many of the letters, 1962-1965, are written to Mrs Taylor's nephew, Walter Annand, on the possibility of publishing parts of 'Renaissance France'. (Folio 25.)