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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:

Miscellaneous papers of Gavin Maxwell, containing typescripts and manuscripts., [Circa 1968-circa 1969], undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10555/61-66
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Dates: [Circa 1968-circa 1969], undated.

Miscellaneous papers of Sir Alexander Gray., 1921-1954, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26014
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Notes on the Diderik ballads, and the text of a broadcast on 'Sir Halewyn', 1947, undated (folio l); (ii) An address at a graduation in Edinburgh University, 1954 (folio l2). This was printed in Sir Alexander Gray's ‘A timorous civility’ (Glasgow, 1966), pages 32-40. (iii) Press-cuttings of poems and articles by Gray, with some reviews of his work, 1921-1940, undated (folio 25).

Dates: 1921-1954, undated.

Miscellaneous papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1935-1980, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26157-26162
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in New Zealand and educated in England, Sydney Goodsir Smith's first poems were in English, but he began writing in Scots in about 1940 and published several volumes of poetry. He also wrote for the stage, radio and television, as well as editing works of Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson. All these interests are reflected in his papers, but his work as an art critic survives in only a few fragmentary items.

Dates: 1935-1980, undated.

Miscellaneous papers of the Ernest Press., 2000-2008, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13445/104-105
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The book files include generally correspondence, accounts, photographs, art work and reviews.

Dates: 2000-2008, undated.

Miscellaneous prose works or drafts by William Sharp and 'Fiona MacLeod', largely unpublished., [Before 1906.]

 File
Identifier: MS.8777
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Five apparently unpublished stories by William Sharp (folio 1);(ii) Six apparently unpublished stories by 'Fiona MacLeod' (folio 46);(iii) Part of an apparently unpublished article by William Sharp on 'Pélleas et Mélisande' by Maurice Maeterlinck (folio 64);iv) Reviews by 'Fiona MacLeod' of ‘The Cuchullin saga’ (London, 1898); of 'A field for modern verse' by Stephen Phiilips, in ‘The Dome’, February 1899; and of...
Dates: [Before 1906.]

Mountaineering notes, correspondence and articles., 1909-1997.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/130
Scope and Contents Containing:Printed articles and correspondence on 'The Ladies Alpine Club' and female mountaineers, 1909-1985.Press cuttings and Janet Adam Smith notes on the Cairngorms and accidents there, 1932-1995.Letters to Janet Adam Smith on writing for 'The Alpine Journal', 1949-1951.Book reviews and articles by Janet Adam Smith for 'The Alpine Journal' – May 1950, May 1952, May 1957, 1990-91.'Book reviews and articles by Janet Adam Smith...
Dates: 1909-1997.

Negative microfilm of papers of, concerning, or collected by Sir Walter Scott., [?1622-?1844.]

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.579
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Transcript of ‘Memoirs of the Insurrection in the year 1715 by John, Master of Sinclair’, [1799, or after-1803, of after] (MS.1574);

Fragments, early 19th century, of reviews in the autograph of Robert Southey, with some notes on John Dryden by Sir Walter Scott (MS.1575);

Papers, [?1622-?1844], of and concerning Sir Walter Scott (MS.1583).

Dates: [?1622-?1844.]

Newspaper cuttings collected by Joe Corrie concerning his own work., 1923-1939.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26553-26559
Scope and Contents

Joe Corrie wrote numerous stories and articles for newspapers; much of his early work (including the novel ‘Black raw’, 1928) was published in ‘Forward’. MSS.26553-26559 are volumes of cuttings, arranged by Corrie, which contain his own work, reviews of his plays, and articles about him.

Dates: 1923-1939.

Newspaper cuttings collected by Joe Corrie concerning his own work., 1923-1950.

 File
Identifier: MS.26553
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Joe Corrie wrote numerous stories and articles for newspapers; much of his early work (including the novel ‘Black raw’, 1928) was published in ‘Forward’. MSS.26553-26559 are volumes of cuttings, arranged by Corrie, which contain his own work, reviews of his plays, and articles about him.

Dates: 1923-1950.

Newspaper cuttings collected by Joe Corrie, containing reviews of his novel 'Black earth'., 1939.

 File
Identifier: MS.26559
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Joe Corrie wrote numerous stories and articles for newspapers; much of his early work (including the novel ‘Black raw’, 1928) was published in ‘Forward’. MSS.26553-26559 are volumes of cuttings, arranged by Corrie, which contain his own work, reviews of his plays, and articles about him.

Dates: 1939.

Newspaper cuttings of Magnus Magnusson’s journalism and literary reviews of his work., 1961-2006.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/175-185
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...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1961-2006.

Newspaper cuttings of reviews and articles about Robert Crawford., 1924-1931.

 File
Identifier: MS.26026
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Robert Crawford, who was a miner in Ayrshire and later in Stirlingshire, published three collections of poems and also wrote philosophical essays.

Dates: 1924-1931.

Newspaper cuttings, reviews, photocopied essays on BBC series ‘BC – The Archaeology of the Bible Lands’., 1977-1978.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/361
Scope and Contents From the Series: This section contains scripts and research undertaken by Magnusson for a variety of television and radio programmes running from 1961 until 2006. There are a significant number of scripts for the BBC archaeology programme 'Chronicle' which Magnusson presented from 1966. There are individual scripts and research materials on various programmes that Magnusson presented throughout his televsion career. There are a number of scripts and interviews for Magnusson's radio series "Tales...
Dates: 1977-1978.

Newspaper review of the 'Life of Goethe' by P Hume Brown, with a prefatory note by Viscount Haldane, titled 'A new Goethe biography', by Leonard L Mackall., 3 September 1922.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6013 [2 of 2]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Elizabeth Haldane seems to have preserved most of the letters which her brother, Richard Burdon Haldane, wrote to her. Although fewer in number, they are often fuller and more interesting than those to his mother. Haldane, on the other hand, kept very few of his sister's letters; they have been incorporated in the main series of his correspondence (MSS.5901-5926).

Dates: 3 September 1922.

Newspapers and newspaper cuttings, chiefly on political matters., 1847-1922.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19561-19564
Scope and Contents

There are also French newspapers of the time of the siege of Paris, 1871, in which the 3rd Earl of Minto and the Countess were involved, and reviews of Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot's literary works, particularly ‘The life of George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen’, 2 volumes (London, 1911), and ‘The traditions of British Statesmanship’ (London, 1918).

Dates: 1847-1922.

Newspapers and newspaper cuttings, chiefly on political matters, collected by Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family., May 1911-1922.

 File
Identifier: MS.19564
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

There are also French newspapers of the time of the siege of Paris, 1871, in which the 3rd Earl of Minto and the Countess were involved, and reviews of Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot's literary works, particularly ‘The life of George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen’, 2 volumes (London, 1911), and ‘The traditions of British Statesmanship’ (London, 1918).

Dates: May 1911-1922.