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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:

Correspondence and papers, chiefly undated, of the family of Forbes of Culloden., [1625-1800.]

 File
Identifier: MS.2970
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) General correspondence (folio 1);(ii) Papers concerning property of the Forbeses: Ferintosh (including Inverallochie's debts and the Ferintosh excise) (folio 41) and lands in general (folio 59);(iii) Papers concerning private business (folio 65);(iv) Inverness: petitions of the town for relief from taxation, levies, and the maintenance of the garrison, and instructions to John Forbes, 2nd of Culloden, as...
Dates: [1625-1800.]

Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 1(1)-Box 46(2)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1962-1976, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Alexander 'Jupiter' Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, and of his trustees and later relations.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.23761-23930
Scope and Contents

Alexander Carlyle's papers consist chiefly of journals, sermons, lectures, autobiographical writings, writings on various topics, poetry and papers on church and other affairs. The later papers (MSS.23927-23930) consist of a list of his books, excerpts from his writings and excerpts of proceedings in the action against him by the Presbytery of Dalkeith.

Dates: 1743-1944, undated.

Correspondence and papers of and concerning John MacDougall Hay., 1904-1956, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26793
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence, chiefly concerning 'Gillespie', 1904-1922 (folio 1); (ii) Manuscripts and cuttings of poetry, drama and other work by John MacDougall Hay, 1908-1914, undated (folio 61); (iii) Presscuttings about Hay and 'Gillespie', 1913-1956 (folio 104).

Dates: 1904-1956, undated.

Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes., 1714-1782, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.25281-25292
Scope and Contents

Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes (1692-1751) was MP for Haddington Burghs, 1722-1734, and Auditor-General of the Exchequer, 1721-1751. He married Lady Christian Hamilton, daughter of Thomas, 6th Earl of Haddington in 1725.

Dates: 1714-1782, undated.

Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14842-14847
Scope and Contents

Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.

Dates: 1792-mid 20th century.

Correspondence and papers of and relating to James Hogg.

 File
Identifier: MS.2245
Scope and Contents

The contents include: letters of James Hogg, 1814, 1820, 1826, 1831, 1835; an unpublished poem, 'The Fall of Idumea', written by him shortly before his death; letters and verses of his literary acquaintances in Scotland and London and his family; information supplied to his daughter and biographer, Mary Garden; portraits of Hogg; and a receipt, 1819, for duty paid by him on 'one work horse', on which someone has written, 'Mr. Hogg has no Horse nor never had one' (folio 333).

Dates: 1813-1905, undated.

Correspondence and papers of and relating to Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family., 1681-1853.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12092/87-101
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of more than 3000 documents, dating from the 1420s to 1980s, mainly relating to the family of Skene of Rubislaw (near Aberdeen). At its centre are the papers of James Skene (1775-1864), artist and friend of Sir Walter Scott. Skene corresponded with notable individuals in the cultural circles of his day and was connected with such organizations as the Royal Institution, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institute for the...
Dates: 1681-1853.

Correspondence and papers of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson., 1854-1908, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20025-20029
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.

Dates: 1854-1908, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Helen B Cruickshank., 1909-1975, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26706
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence, mostly concerning Helen Cruickshank's publications, 1909- 1975, undated (folio 1); (ii) Copies of poems by Helen Cruickshank and others, 1917-1972, undated (folio 68); (iii) Miscellaneous papers, 1928-1975, undated (folio 100). They include autobiographical notes written by Helen Cruickshank for use with an application for a grant (folio l09).

Dates: 1909-1975, undated.

Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20005-20036
Scope and Contents

There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.

Dates: 1833-1925, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Patrick William Campbell, Writer to the Signet.

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Identifier: Acc.10349
Scope and Contents

Includes material on investments in Argentina, genealogy, biography and poetry.

Dates: 1880-1920.

Correspondence and papers of Prof Derick S Thomson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11047
Scope and Contents

Includes proofs concerning the publication of George Campbell Hay`s "Mochtar is Dughall" (Glasgow, 1982).

Dates: 1982-1983.

Correspondence and papers of Sir William Craigie (1867-1957), the philologist and lexicographer.

 File
Identifier: MS.9987
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters to William Craigie, 1886-1923, undated, chiefly from other scholars concerning philological and editorial problems. A few unrelated letters, 1825-1885, from Palmerston, Peel, and others, have been placed at the beginning. (Folio 1.) (ii) Correspondence, 1923-1957, undated, with C T Onions and the Clarendon Press, concerning the ‘Oxford English dictionary’ and its supplements. ‘The dictionary of American English’ and other lexicographical...
Dates: 1825-1957, undated.

Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.8501-8770
Scope and Contents

William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

Dates: 1898-1955.