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:
Note and other material of John Purves concerning Italian literature., [Circa 1907]-1953, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15875-15881
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...
Dates:
[Circa 1907]-1953, undated.
Notebook of Agnes Mure Mackenzie labelled ‘Ritchie Normans in Sc. for T.L.S.’., [?1954.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9206
Scope and Contents
The notebook includes drafts of text and notes mostly on themes and people in history. The first entry is a draft of a book review by Mackenzie for the ‘Times Literary Supplement’ of ‘The Normans in Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1954), by Robert Lindsay Graeme Ritchie.
Dates:
[?1954.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, historical and literary works, speeches, and broadcasts, together with correspondence, of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Commander of the British Empire, Master of Arts, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws (1891-1955).
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Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, speeches, articles and broadcasts of Agnes Mure Mackenzie.
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Notebooks of Agnes Mure Mackenzie containing drafts of speeches and articles on Scottish history and literature.
Notebook of Agnes Mure Mackenzie labelled ‘Trefoil Guild, Glasgow, draft’, ‘B.B.C. comments’ ... ‘Notice for T.L.S. of clan record’., [?1954, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9208
Scope and Contents
The notebook includes various drafts of articles, reviews and letters arranged tête-bêche.
Dates:
[?1954, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, historical and literary works, speeches, and broadcasts, together with correspondence, of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Commander of the British Empire, Master of Arts, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws (1891-1955).
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Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, speeches, articles and broadcasts of Agnes Mure Mackenzie.
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Notebooks of Agnes Mure Mackenzie containing drafts of speeches and articles on Scottish history and literature.
Notebook of Edwin Muir., 1947-1948.
Item
Identifier: MS.19663
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains drafts of poems (passim); two essays on Robert Burns (folios 2, 38 verso); the preface to Jan Lukas, ‘Light and shade’, 1947 (folio 13); 'Robert Henryson' (folio 15) and ‘A note on Franz Kafka' (folio 42), both of which were published in Edwin Muir's ‘Essays on literature and society, 1949; 'Father and son' (folio 54), published in ‘The Listener’ xxxvii (1947), page 680; review of Frantisek Halas, ‘Old women’, 1948 (folio 65); article on Hugh Kingsmill, ‘The fall’,...
Dates:
1947-1948.
Notebook of Edwin Muir., 1956-1957.
Item
Identifier: MS.19965
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains a draft for the broadcast 'Revisiting Orkney' (folio 1); 'The ballads' published in ‘The New Statesman’, 53 (1957), pages 174-175 (folio 39 verso); reviews of work by Christopher Logue, C A Trypanis and Anna Kavan (folios 55, 96 verso); a translation from Kafka (folio 70 verso); and articles on 'Story and novel' (folio 30), Christopher Logue (folio 53), contemporary poetry (folio 61), ballads (folios 67, 90 verso) and 'The thirties' (folio 87 verso).
Dates:
1956-1957.
Notebook of J B S Haldane containing papers on various topics, including some book reviews, probably intended as articles for various periodicals., 1948-1949.
Item
Identifier: MS.20609
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
In many of the notebooks, leaves left blank after the original use were reused later and most are written on the rectors only, the versos being used for additions and corrections, and occasionally for other unrelated writings and calculations. A few papers are in French.
Dates:
1948-1949.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
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Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane.
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Notebooks of J B S Haldane containing notes on various topics and first versions of lectures, books and papers on scientific topics, and on some of public concern.
Notebooks and translations of Charles K Scott Moncrieff.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20448-20464
Dates:
1924-1929.
Notebooks containing draft translations by Charles Scott Moncrieff of ‘The letters of Abelard and Heloise’ and of works by Stendhal and Luigi Pirandello; and reviews and letters., 1924-1925.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20448-20452
Dates:
1924-1925.
Notebooks of Agnes Mure Mackenzie containing drafts of speeches and articles on Scottish history and literature., [?1954, or before.].]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9200-9214
Scope and Contents
The notebooks include drafts of speeches, articles, letters, and also miscellaneous jottings. The final versions of some of these texts are included in the series MSS.9194-9197. Where this association is clear the reference has been provided.
Dates:
[?1954, or before.].]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, historical and literary works, speeches, and broadcasts, together with correspondence, of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Commander of the British Empire, Master of Arts, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws (1891-1955).
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Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, speeches, articles and broadcasts of Agnes Mure Mackenzie.
Notebooks of George Campbell Hay., [Circa 1938-1983.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26734-26740
Scope and Contents
These notebooks chart George Campbell Hay's return to regular poetic activity. They contain drafts of most of the poems he composed from circa 1975 to 1983, as well as some book reviews, translations and linguistic notes.
Dates:
[Circa 1938-1983.]
Notes and copies or extracts from documents and printed books on historical and other subjects, titled ‘Miscellaneous Papers and Notes’; several of the notes are in Sir Walter Scott’s autograph., 1821-1850, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.911
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains material accumulated by John Gibson Lockhart.The papers include :Copies of four letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1824, 1829 (folios 15-22);Information regarding Jonathan Swift supplied by Irish correspondents (folios 33, 70);Maria Edgeworth’s note of the tour which she took with Scott in August 1825 (folio 50);Thomas Moore’s journal, in his hand, of his visit to Abbotsford in 1825, used by Lockhart in his ‘Life...
Dates:
1821-1850, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Miscellaneous material, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Notes and other material concerning place-names and personal names; Gaelic in Lowland Scots; Gaelic writers of Perthshire; the loss of 'Mac' in names; reviews of books, etc., [Before 1928.]
File
Identifier: MS.411
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
“An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates:
[Before 1928.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning Gaelic place names and personal names compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Notes, essays and other material of John Purves on English literature., [Circa 1898-circa 1916.]
File
Identifier: MS.15871
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) ‘Are proper names connotative?’ an essay, [circa 1898] of John Purves (folio 1);
(ii) Typescript of an essay, ‘A note on Shakespeare's references to Africa’ written by Purves for the Shakespeare Tercentenary in 1916 and apparently unpublished, with notes on other literary references to Africa (folio 8)
(iii) A catalogue, [circa 1916], of John Milton's works (folios 69);
(iv) Extracts, [circa 1916], from the works of Horace (folio 76);
(v) Extracts from a...
Dates:
[Circa 1898-circa 1916.]
Notes of John Purves., 1822-1959, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15869-15887
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...
Dates:
1822-1959, undated.
Notes of John Purves on English literature., [Circa 1898]-1945, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15869-15874
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...
Dates:
[Circa 1898]-1945, undated.
Notes of John Purves on ‘Shakespeare’s public’ by Martin Holmes, with extracts of reviews of the work., [1960-1961.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15629
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
[1960-1961.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves containing notes on English language and literature.
Other manuscript and typescript material of Gavin Maxwell., Circa 1960-circa 1969, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10555/58-66
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 1960-circa 1969, undated.
Papers and photographic plates collected by James Bell Salmond for the 1st and 2nd editions of his ‘Wade in Scotland’; with correspondence and press cuttings concerning the book.
Series
Identifier: MSS.7188-7190
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-1942.
Papers, including correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of sermons, lectures, reviews, and reports, of the Reverend Prof John Foster.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6087 Box 1(1)-Box 5(4)
Dates:
Circa 1920-circa 1973.
Papers, including correspondence, research notes, press cuttings and printed materials, of Dr Sue Innes, mostly concerning her research into the subjects of citizenship, women and gender studies.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12633/1-45
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, manuscript and typescript research notes, annotated typescripts of research papers, newscuttings and printed materials. Most of the material is undated.
Dates:
Circa 1990-2005, undated.
Papers, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles and reviews, of Robert Nye; with manuscript and typescript drafts of the anthologies, 'The English sermon, 1750-1850' (1976), and 'The faber book of sonnets' (1976), edited by Nye, with associated correspondence.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6885 Box 1(1)-Box 3(5)
Dates:
Circa 1963-1976, undated.
Papers of Alasdair Gray, relating to 'The fall of Kelvin Walker' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1985)., Circa 1966-1968, 1984-1986.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8799/37-45
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of novels, short stories, and poems.
Dates:
Majority of material found within Circa 1966-1968, 1984-1986.
Papers of and concerning Robert James Batchen Sellar, containing tpescripts of plays and short stories, associated correspondence, and other related material.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8802/1-124
Dates:
1912-1978.
Papers of and concerning Sir Walter Scott., [?1622-?1844], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1583
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Writings and notes of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly in his autograph. They include letters to James Bailey, 1812, 1817, 1825, with Bailey's annotations, 1837; fragments of the essay on Pepys published in the ‘Quarterly Review’ for March 1826; two drafts of an address from the Magistrates and Freeholders of Selkirkshire to the House of Commons (see the 'Journal', 7-10 March 1831); a draft letter on the political situation, undated; epitaphs on Colonel...
Dates:
[?1622-?1844], undated.
Papers of Aonghas MacNeacail, including poems, articles, reviews, television and radio scripts, sound recordings of interviews, and correspondence on literary and personal matters.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11223/1-185
Dates:
1970-1995, undated.