Reviews. Document genre.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Reports or essays giving critical estimates of a relatively recent work, performance, or event. For other critical descriptions and analyses, prefer ""criticism"" .
Found in 316 Collections and/or Records:
19th century printed material, mostly of or relating to Professor James Lorimer., 1862-1933, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.8695/226-251
Dates:
1862-1933, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers, correspondence, cuttings and photographs of Esther Barbara Chalmers and the extended Chalmers and Lorimer families, including research notes and drafts concerning the histories of the families.
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Printed material, including lectures, reports, poetry and minutes.
Academic and literary correspondence of Professor Alastair Fowler, with some drafts of works and press cuttings.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12015/1-57
Scope and Contents
This accession is one of several in the National Library of Scotland covering mainly incoming correspondence, but also containing copies of some outgoing letters and other literary material.
Acc.12015/57 gives biographical details on individual correspondents.
Dates:
[Circa 1971-2000], undated.
Album of press cuttings, undated, collected by John Purves chiefly on literary topics., [?1913-?1960.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15896
Scope and Contents
The cuttings include reviews of a series of six lectures which John Purves gave to the Helensburgh Lecture Association, an article by Purves on Italian contemporary writers and a group of articles on Thomas Hardy.
Dates:
[?1913-?1960.]
Albyn Place School Magazine including a book review of Hugh Walpole’s 'The Duchess of Wrexe', by Janet Adam Smith., June 1923.
File
Identifier: Acc.13861/42
Dates:
June 1923.
Albyn Place School Magazines., 1919-1920, 1923.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13861/40-42
Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1789-1821.
File
Identifier: MS.4889
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of a pamphlet entitled ‘Ten minutes of reflection on the late events in France. Recommended by a plain man to his fellow citizens’ (Woodbridge, 1793). (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript, 1803, of two apparently unpublished poetical letters, 'The new Oxford guide', which follow very closely the form and style of Christopher Anstey's ‘The new Bath guide’ (London, 1766), and therefore may possibly be by Christopher Anstey himself. (Folio...
Dates:
1789-1821.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication.
Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1823-1840.
File
Identifier: MS.4890
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of two poems by Robert Brown Cunnynghame entitled “Tales o' the daft days. The mistress's tale or The hunt the gowk” and “Tale third. The boarding school Miss's tale or Bailie Blair's courtship”. These are apparently unpublished continuations of the three parts of “Tales o' the daft days” published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, November and December 1822, and March 1823. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript, 1823, of an apparently...
Dates:
1823-1840.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication.
Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1842-1885, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.4891
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of an apparently unpublished article describing Queen Victoria's visit to Edinburgh in 1842. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript of an apparently unpublished article, 'The finances', concerning Peel's introduction of income tax in 1842, written by George Croly. (Folio 3.)(iii) Manuscript of an apparently unpublished article reviewing the portion of the final volume of Sir Archibald Alison's ‘History of Europe during the...
Dates:
1842-1885, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication.
Art work, budgets, schedules, reviews, publicity and other material relating to 'Men should weep'., 1983, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/112
Dates:
1983, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Papers and productions of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files relating to the Clydebuilt season, 1982, in which Scottish plays from the 1920s-1940s were revived.
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Production file of 'Men should weep' by Ena Lamont Stewart.
Articles and reviews., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.11750/102
Articles by John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, also containing broadcasts, speeches, essays and other papers., 1948-1978, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11628/245-260
Dates:
1948-1978, undated.
Articles, memorials and reviews of the life and work of Ivor Armstrong Richards, containing seven photographs dated 1950, 1971 and 1979 of Ivor and Dorothea Richards., 1950, 1971, 1979.
File
Identifier: Acc.13861/126
Scope and Contents
Photographs contain 6 black and white photographs and 1 colour photograph in 3 sleeves.
Dates:
1950, 1971, 1979.
Articles of Hew Morrison, with press cuttings, chiefly reviews of his edition of ‘Songs and poems in the Gaelic language’ by Rob Donn., 1898-1926, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14954
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Beginning of article on Rob Donn’s contemporaries, with some notes (folio 1);
(ii) Press cuttings, 1898-1926, chiefly reviews of Hew Morrison’s edition of Rob Donn, the controversy regarding the poet’s surname, and (folio 26) Morrison’s articles (1926) on his contemporaries.
Dates:
1898-1926, undated.
Articles, reviews and lectures., 1964-1989, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10876/25
Dates:
1964-1989, undated.
Author’s own copy of ‘The Gareloch as military port no. 1’ by Arnold Fleming (Helensburgh, [1949]); with corrections and additions throughout in manuscript, and numerous inserts.
File
Identifier: MS.16483
Scope and Contents
Pasted in at beginning and end are newspaper cuttings, typescripts, and manuscripts, consisting of reviews of the book and of articles and notes on its subject, on Clyde steamers, and on Madeleine Smith.
Dates:
[1949], [1949, or after.]
Book files for publications produced by the Ernest Press., 1990-2002.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13445/55-105
Scope and Contents
The book files include generally correspondence, accounts, photographs, art work and reviews.
Dates:
1990-2002.
Book reviews and reports by A N Jeffares, for newspapers, publishers, 'British book news', and others., Undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9271/453-465
Book reviews by Paul Henderson Scott., 2000-2004.
File
Identifier: Acc.13505/51
Book reviews for 'I’ve started so I’ll finish'., 1997.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/487
Book reviews of publications by the Ernest Press., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.13445/105
Box of Reverend William Matheson, containing lectures at Edinburgh University, speeches, reviews and papers., 1952-1953, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 13(1-23)
Dates:
1952-1953, undated.
Collection of lists of ballads and chapbooks, literary notes for ‘Adversaria’, reviews of books, newspaper cuttings, correspondence, etc., made by John Camden Hotten., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.182
Dates:
19th century.
Corrected page proofs, page proofs, references and notes of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, for ‘Antient metaphysics’., [1779, or after]-[1799, or before], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24526
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Corrected page-proofs of ‘Antient metaphysics’ vi, pages 25-27 (pages 27-29 in the published edition). Followed by proofs of pages 291-296, possibly intended for volume ii, but not used. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Page-proofs of ‘Antient metaphysics’ iv, pages 1-61, 'Of the state of Man before his existence in the present state’ (Folio 10.) These do not correspond to the published edition. They contain marginal notes by one of Lord Monboddo's amanuenses, and also by...
Dates:
[1779, or after]-[1799, or before], undated.
Correspondence, agreements with agent and publishers, and reviews of 'My Queen and I'., 1972-1975.
File
Identifier: Acc.10951/67
Dates:
1972-1975.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of William Winter Hamilton.
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Writings of William Winter Hamilton.
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Manuscript and typescript drafts and other papers, circa 1971-1975, concerned with the composition of 'My Queen and I', by William Winter Hamilton, published by Quartet Books, London, 1975.