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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 31 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20404-20435
Dates: 1892-1965, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Printed papers of the Highland Society of Scotland chiefly relating to the poetry of Ossian, and bearing occasional notes by Sir John Sinclair.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.17
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(M 1). Prospectus (1804) of ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’. (Folio 1.)(M 2). Sir John Sinclair, ‘A scene from Ossian’ (1806). (Folio 9.)(M 3). Chapter on Ossian from Sinclair’s ‘Correspondence’ (1831). (Folio 13.)(M 4). Pages xcvii-cxii of the ‘Dissertation’ in ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’ (1807). (Folio 18.)(M 5). Sinclair’s ‘Additions to the tragedy of Fingal’. (Folio...
Dates: 1777-1831, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Related material inserted in ‘Our Journall into Scotland, Anno Domini 1629, 5th of November’ by Christopher Lowther (Edinburgh, 1894).

 File
Identifier: MS.20755
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Photographs of the original manuscript (folio 1, 2, 5, 6); (ii) Letters, 1894, 1918, to the publisher, David Douglas, about the edition (folios 3, 7, 10, 18-48); (iii) A copy with manuscript corrections of pages 73-88 of the ‘Thirteenth report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission’, Appendix, Part VII (London, 1893) (the first publication of Lowther's journal) (folio 11); (iv) Press cuttings, 1894, containing reviews of the book (folio 50); (v) A...
Dates: [1893, or after]-1918.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Scripts, programmes and other papers of Marillyn Gray, Scottish actor and theatre director, mostly relating to the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12942/1-124
Scope and Contents

Papers of Scottish actor and theatre director Marillyn Gray (1930-2006), chiefly relating to the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh, in which she was a regular performer. The Gateway papers came into her care at some point after the theatre closed possibly entrusted to her by, or after the death of, Sadie Aitken (1905-85) Gateway Theatre General Manager, some of whose papers are in the collection.

Dates: 1925-1997.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Some papers of Hew Morrison, Fellow of the Society of Antiquities Scotland, Edinburgh City Librarian, and editor of ‘Songs and poems in the Gaelic language’ by Rob Donn.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14953-14955
Dates: 1882-1926, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Twenty-six letters of William Blackwood, publisher (died 1834).

 File
Identifier: MS.3551
Scope and Contents

Twenty-two of the letters are addressed to William Maginn and relate mainly to the affairs of ‘Blackwood's Magazine’, including the dispute between Blackwood and Richard Martin as a result of references to the latter in the 'Noctes Ambrosianae'. Throughout there are references to Sir Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart, John Galt, and other literary figures. At the end (folio 50) is an apparently unpublished review by William Maginn of William Thomas Brande's ‘Manual of Pharmacy’.

Dates: 1824-1825, 1828, 1833.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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