Satires. Document genre.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Literary compositions in verse or prose in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
'Collection of Ballads, collected chiefly from tradition, by R. Pitcairn . . . Commenced Edinr., 1817', volume II: Jacobite, comic, humorous and satirical songs., 1817-1823.
File
Identifier: MS.2914
Scope and Contents
The Jacobite songs begin on page 1; the comic songs on page 109; the humorous and satirical songs on page 153; and the convivial songs on page 209.
Dates:
1817-1823.
Commonplace book in the hand of William Clydesdale., 1823, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.2746
Scope and Contents
William Clydesdale was a Glasgow character and a fellow student of Thomas Muir, the political reformer (note inside front cover).
The commonplace book contains satirical, comic, and reflective verses by Clydesdale in Scots and English, some dated 1823, a few anecdotes, and annotations by Peter Mackenzie, author of ‘The life of Thomas Muir’ (Glasgow, 1831).
Dates:
1823, undated.
Copy, seventeenth century, of the satirical poem, 'La Rome ridicule' by Marc Antoine de Gerard, Sieur de Saint-Amant., [1643, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.5752
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Dates:
[1643, or before.]
Correspondence and papers, chiefly undated, of the family of Forbes of Culloden., [1625-1800.]
File
Identifier: MS.2970
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) General correspondence (folio 1);(ii) Papers concerning property of the Forbeses: Ferintosh (including Inverallochie's debts and the Ferintosh excise) (folio 41) and lands in general (folio 59);(iii) Papers concerning private business (folio 65);(iv) Inverness: petitions of the town for relief from taxation, levies, and the maintenance of the garrison, and instructions to John Forbes, 2nd of Culloden, as...
Dates:
[1625-1800.]
Essays and other writings chiefly of John Dover Wilson., 1899-1959, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14357
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Early unpublished essay, 1899, of John Dover Wilson on 'Literature and its relation to national life' (folio 1);
(ii) Typescript of an unpublished essay, 1903, on 'The philosophy of George Meredith', by Dover Wilson (folio 27);
(iii) List, undated, of books read by Dover Wilson with a criticism of each work (folio 54);
(iv) Typescript of a review published in ‘Modern language review’, volume L, of 'Polydore Vergil' by Denys Hay (folios 65);
(v)...
Dates:
1899-1959, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and correspondence of Professor John Dover Wilson (1881-1969), the Shakespearean scholar.
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Papers concerning the literary and scholarly activities and interests of John Dover Wilson.
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Papers of John Dover Wilson concerning education and English literature.
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Essays and miscellanea of John Dover Wilson.
Humorous, satirical account of members of the Town Council, titled 'The Edinburgh corporation pack of hounds'., 1826.
Item
Identifier: MS.176
Dates:
1826.
Miscellaneous material concerning poetry, genealogy, and other matters., 1558-1885.
File
Identifier: MS.6503
Scope and Contents
One of the most important sections is that on poetry (folios 1-18). Included here (folio 1) is an anonymous translation into English made in ?1710 of George Buchanan's ‘Francisci Valesii et Mariae Stuartae regum Franciae et Scotiae, epithalamium’. An interesting and anonymous ballad (folio 8) is called 'The Westland Letany', being a satire on the misgovernment of Scotland by Lauderdale, written circa 1673. There is also a copy of 'Hardyknute' (folios 14-16), a ballad attributed to Lady...
Dates:
1558-1885.
Miscellaneous papers of members of the families of Campbell, Ker, Galbraith, and others., 1622-1735, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.976
Scope and Contents
The papers include the correspondence of George Bannerman, Advocate, 1674-1675 (folio 1), of Mr Duncan Robertson, Writer, 1676-1685 (folio 15), and of Ronald Campbell, Writer to the Signet, 1693-1713, undated (folio 54); an account of ships laden at Grange Works, the fees of which went to the upkeep of the May light, 1640-1642 (folio 96); complaints against Robert Russell, Provost of Stirling, [circa 1673] (folio 100); the declaration of the Presbyterians now in the West of Scotland, 1679...
Dates:
1622-1735, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the Fleming family., Mid 17th century-19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.20800
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Anonymous poems, chiefly on public affairs and personages of the early eighteenth century. (Folio 1.) Those placed first are numbered E.56-84 (with gaps; for the earlier part of this series see MS.20773 (i)). This is XVIII A in the ‘Inventory’ (MS.20770). At the end is added 'The Song of the Ridsquare fought on the 7 of July 1576 [sic]', formerly loosely enclosed in MS.20779.
(ii) 'Character of Sultan Galga Cham of Tartary', a satire, [circa 1720], on George...
Dates:
Mid 17th century-19th century.
Papers in the hand of Lady Elliot (wife of Sir Gilbert, 3rd Baronet)., 1758-[?Circa 1777], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.12822
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Memorandum of family and political events, 1758 (folio 1); (ii) Biographical sketches of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, ?ca. 1777 (folio 5); (iii) Satirical notes on some of Lady Elliot's friends, undated (folio 13); (iv) Devotional papers, 1766, undated (folio 15).
Dates:
1758-[?Circa 1777], undated.
Papers of John Dover Wilson concerning education and English literature., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14356-14369
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Photostats of manuscript material bound in a volume of Sir Robert Sibbald's printed works presented by him to Matthew Mackaile, apothecary, Aberdeen., 1685-1686.
File
Identifier: MS.2257, folios 1-8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript material consists of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald on his changes of religion, 1685-1686; satirical verses on the same subject; and verses on the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1685.
Dates:
1685-1686.
Poems, chiefly elegies and personal satires, and Jacobite political satires, and a few other documents, Scottish and English, chiefly of the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century., 1644-1821, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2092
Scope and Contents
Several of the papers are in the hand of Robert Mylne.
Dates:
1644-1821, undated.
Satirical and genealogical manuscripts, written in the late eighteenth century., 16th century-18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5721A
Scope and Contents
The contents are follows.(i) 'Historia y papeles de el Duende Politico', 1735-1736, possibly by Manoel Freire de Silva. It consists of satires on contemporary politics in verse and prose, including an attack on the economic policy of Don José Patiño, chief Secretary of State. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Vida del sutil critico Duende de Madrid', Manoel Freire de Silva. A biography of him was published in Madrid in 1788. (Folio 144.)(iii) 'Pequeña Pieza Jocoseria...
Dates:
16th century-18th century.
Student essays written by John Hill Burton, circa 1829-1831, together with miscellaneous notes on philosophy, Greek vocabulary, and a political satire, all undated., 1829-1831, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9430
Dates:
1829-1831, undated.
‘Town eclogue’, a satire on the City of Edinburgh, dedicated to the Highland Society by ‘A Calm Observer’., 1804.
Item
Identifier: MS.156
Scope and Contents
A key to the characters (for example, the Earl of Buchan) is given in a later hand.
Dates:
1804.
Typescripts and printed copies of fiction and drama by James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’., 1924-1935, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26059
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Typescript, with manuscript corrections, of part of a work on Sir William Wallace with the deleted title, 'Lang Syne', circa l935 (folio l);
(ii) Typescript of the beginning of a satire, 'Lowland Scots as a literary medium', undated (folio ll);
(iii) Typescripts of two unfinished versions of the story, 'Walpurgis Eve', undated (folio l3). The title has been altered to 'Lost Tribes', but only the opening page of one version (folio l4) corresponds to the story...
Dates:
1924-1935, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.
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Papers chiefly typescripts of the publications of James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'.
Typescripts, with a few manuscript annotations, of satirical verses about events in Milngavie by Robert Mclellan., 1915-1921.
File
Identifier: MS.26459
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.
Dates:
1915-1921.