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 31 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Typescript draft of 'The Haggis' by Alexander Maclean.
File
Identifier: Acc.14551
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was found among the possessions of the donor's father, James Myles, a sub-editor at 'The People’s Journal' (DC Thomson). Alexander Maclean was a local stringer on Mull. They became friends and visited each other on several occasions. The work was later published with illustrations by Mairi Hedderwick.With a photograph, annotated 'The Newshound', of an Airedale Terrier dog looking out of the window of Alexander Maclean's press agency van ('Alexander Mac Lean's News...
Dates:
1969.
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.
Volume containing verse and prose, chiefly Jacobite and satirical.
File
Identifier: MS.3807
Scope and Contents
The longer pieces include 'The Tragedie of Glenco', 'Proelium Gilliekrankianum', 'Bellum Bothwellianum', 'Tarquin and Tullia', and Dr Archibald Pitcairne's 'Assembly' and 'Babell'.
There is a recipe for stomach-ache on folio x verso.
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.