Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Grahame, James.Letters, 1809-1810, of James Grahame to John Murray II. Folios 1-6.Folio 5. Contains a copy of an estimate, 1810, from J Pillans and Sons for ‘The Sabbath and Sabbath Walks’ by James Grahame.Grahame, James.Letters, 1815 and 1816, of James Grahame to John Murray II. Folios 7-13.Folios 7-11. Review, 1815, by James...

Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Greg, Edward Hyde.Letter, 1854, of Edward Hyde Greg to John Murray III. Folios 1-2.Greg, Percy.Letters, 1873 and 1885-1886, of Percy Greg to John Murray III, John Murray IV and Alexander Henry Hallam Murray. Folios 3-117.Folio 13. List, 1885, of book sent by John Murray publishers to Percy Greg.Folios 108-112. Anonymous review,...

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The letters are chiefly appreciations of Violet Jacob’s poetry, and the writers include Charles Murray and John Buchan (folio 1). The newspaper cuttings begin on folio 96.

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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.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Most, but not all, of Magnusson's published works are represented. Also included here are the translations that Magnusson undertook on the work of the Icelandic author and Nobel prize winning novelist Halldór Laxness (1902-1998). Material relating to Magnusson's book on Mastermind "I've started so I'll finish" can be found in the Mastermind section.The material includes correspondence relating to book proposals, research notes compiled by Magnusson while working on his books, and...

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Most of the material was written before 1948, but some later book reviews are included.

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Correspondence and papers, 1936-1992, of William Winter Hamilton (b.1917), writer politician, Labour MP for West Fife, 1950-1974 and for Central Fife, 1974-1987.

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The manuscript is not in the hand of Sir James Steuart Denham, but the work may be attributed to him by the fact that the economic opinions expressed in it are similar to those he put forward in 1767 (compare, for example, folio 58 with ‘An inquiry into the principles of political economy’, page 350).

The 'Observations' were apparently bound up at a later date (end papers, 1807); but the paper of the manuscript itself appears to be of an earlier date, possibly circa 1760.

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In the descriptions, references to publication generally give only the earliest traceable place and date.

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In the descriptions, references to publication generally give only the earliest traceable place and date.

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In the descriptions, references to publication generally give only the earliest traceable place and date.

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In the descriptions, references to publication generally give only the earliest traceable place and date.

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Correspondence and papers, 1936-1992, of William Winter Hamilton (b.1917), writer politician, Labour MP for West Fife, 1950-1974 and for Central Fife, 1974-1987.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of two articles, 'The vision of sudden death', and 'The dream fugue', published in "Blackwood's Magazine", December 1849. (Folio 1.) (ii) Manuscript, undated, of an apparently unpublished article in the form of a letter "To the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine". This concerns his own article, 'On murder considered as one of the fine arts', published in "Blackwood's Magazine" in two parts, in February 1827, and November 1839....

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of part of a review of ‘The man of Ton: a satire’ by Sir John Dean Paul, published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, June 1828. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript of the conclusion of an article, "On Hogg's memoirs", published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, August 1821. Also included are the manuscripts of an apparently unpublished article, circa 1814, and fragments of an article, circa 1821, both concerning James Hogg. (Folio 5.)...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript of an autobiographical work, 'Function of x', 1940 (folio l); (ii) Notes, manuscript and typescript of part of a story, 'Storm Drum', undated (folio 6); (iii) Newspaper cutting and typescript of a broadcast review of Robert Garioch, ‘Chuckies on the Cairn’ (Hayes, 1949) (folio 21); (iv) Corrected typescript of a broadcast review of editions of Byron's letters, 1950 (folio 25); (v) Corrected typescript of a lecture on modern Scottish literature,...

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Many of the manuscripts are written on the backs of letters and other papers.

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Many of the manuscripts are written on the backs of letters and other papers.

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Many of the manuscripts are written on the backs of letters and other papers.

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(i) Manuscript, undated, of a poem by Philip Stanhope Worsley, published as 'Night' in ‘Poems and Translations’ (folio 1);

(ii) Manuscript of an apparently unpublished article of Worsley reviewing ‘Poems and Songs’ by David Wingate (folio 2).

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In the descriptions, references to publication generally give only the earliest traceable place and date.