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Lecture notes of John Borthwick of Crookston

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Identifier: Coll-1951
Scope and Contents Seven notebooks containing lecture notes taken down by John Borthwick of Crookston at the University of Edinburgh between 1802 and 1807. Notes on "Humanity" lectures Notes on lectures of Greek, translation from Fenelon's Télémaque and observations upon the maxims of La Rochefoucauld Notes on lectures on moral philosophy by Dugald...
Dates: 1802-1807

Lecture Notes, Rhetoric and English Literature, 1878-1879

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Identifier: Coll-1125
Scope and Contents On a title page of one of the two volumes the contents are stated as being notes of Edinburgh University, Rhetoric and English Literature 1878-1879, Historical Course, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The name of James Malloch appears there too. Similar information appears on a title page of the second volume. These contents are stated as being notes of Edinburgh University, Rhetoric and English Literature 1878-1879, Theoretical Course, Mondays and Tuesdays. This volume shows the name, James...
Dates: 1878-1879

Lecture notes taken down by David H. Stam

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1028
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of Lecture notes on English Literature and Divinity taken down during 1955-1956, with the English Literature notes including: - Dr. Johnson - Critical Theory, given by A. M. Clarke - The seventeenth century, also given by A. M. Clarke There are also Supplementary notes on: Wordsworth; Shelley; Matthew...
Dates: 1955-1956

Lecture on George Mackay Brown by Geoffrey Elborn

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1794 / SC-Acc-2017-0005
Identifier: Coll-1794
Content Description

This typescript lecture by Geoffrey Elborn on George Mackay Brown has many manuscript corrections. Elborn refers to "a new novel Time in a red coat is to be published next month by the Hogarth Press". This dates the lecture to 1984 when the GMB title came out.


The incomplete typescript consisting of 10pp is numbered pages 1-9, then page 11.

Dates: 1984

Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to Dr. Mary Ringsleben, 30 August 1958

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Identifier: Coll-1384
Scope and Contents The letter was written by Hugh MacDiarmid on 30 August 1958 from 'Brownsbank', Candymill, Biggar, Lanarkshire. It is addressed to Dr. Ringsleben - Mary Ringsleben having been awarded her Ph.D. two years earlier in 1956 (Aberdeen). MacDiarmid apologises for having 'retained your thesis so long'. He refers to having seen Dr. David Murison (deputy editor of the Scottish National Dictionary) in Edinburgh and that he had 'just missed you'. He describes the Ringsleben thesis as 'an...
Dates: fl. 1956-1968

Letters (1973-1982) from Hamish Henderson to Michael Sharp

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1264
Identifier: Coll-1492
Scope and Contents 1 x letter - from Henderson, on School of Scottish Studies headed paper, to Sharp - 15 July 1973 - Content on: having 'fractured my elbow a month ago'; plans to go 'up to Aberdeenshire today to do some recording'; and, possible meeting with Sharp 'on Saturday or Sunday' and 'the Staff Club for a drink'. 1 x letter - from Henderson, on School of Scottish Studies headed paper, to Sharp - 26 July 1973...
Dates: 1973-1982

Letters from George Mackay Brown to Lawrence Millman

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-373, Folder: Coll-1878: Letters from George Mackay Brown to Lawrence Millman.
Identifier: Coll-1878
Content Description This fonds comprises 81 manuscript letters sent by George Mackay Brown to American writer and ethnographer Lawrence Millman, who was George M. Brown's only regular North American correspondent. Brown and Millman met in Stromness in 1977, and were friends for fifteen years. In his letters, Brown talks about his personal life and his writing, and refers to Millman's irish book Our Like Will Not Be There Again, as well as his prose poems. They corresponded...
Dates: 22 July 1977-12 February 1987

Letters from Professor George Saintsbury to Rev. William Hunt

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1692
Identifier: Coll-2020
Content Description This collection consists of typescript letters sent by Professor George Saintsbury to Rev. William Hunt D Litt., arranged in chronological order, dating from 1895 to 1932. The subjects of these letters are diverse, from family and personal matters, to literature and political discussions. First lot: "Letters Christmas Eve 1895 to Dec. 1917. Autograph letters and typescript copies of these letters have...
Dates: 1895-1932

Letters from Walter de la Mare

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-352
Identifier: Coll-1836
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a total of 23 Walter De la Mare letters dating from 1926 to 1953 including: 14 letters to Mrs. Verity (7 autograph letters signed and 7 typed letters signed); 3 autograph letters signed to Marie Lamigeon; 6 typed letters signed to various other people. More perspective on Walter De la Mare's thinking can be understood regarding this important and accomplished English poet and novelist.

Dates: 1926-1953

Letters from Walter de la Mare to Charles Jasper Sisson and Rosemary Sisson

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-480
Identifier: Coll-2101
Content Description This collection consists of three typed letters from Walter de la Mare to academic and author Charles Jasper Sisson (1885-1966), dated 6, 23, and 27 November 1933, and two typed letters to Sisson's nine-year-old daughter Rosemary Anne Sisson (1923-2017), a future novelist and television dramatist, dated 24 August and 27 September 1933.In his letters to Rosemary, de la Mare is mostly talking about his poems and answering her comments and stories about her own occupations; and in...
Dates: 24 August - 27 November 1933

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Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 4
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Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 2
Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman, 1845-1933 (literary critic and historian) 2
The Royal National Mòd (1892-) 2
Agnew, Lady Agnew, Swanzie, 1916-2000 (Professor of Geography (University of Malawi)) 1
Anderson, Elizabeth R., fl. 1947-1952 1
Asquith, Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn, 1887-1960 (English writer and socialite) 1
Auden, W. H., Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973 (poet) 1
Bacon, J T, fl 1880s 1
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, 1825-1894 (Scottish writer) 1
Bickley, Frances, 1885-1976 1
Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896-1974 (English poet, author and critic) 1
Bonar, Horatius, Rev, 1808-1889 (Free Church of Scotland minister | hymn writer ) 1
Borthwick, John, fl 1800s (of Crookston | Edinburgh University student) 1
British Association for Early Childhood Education (1973-) 1
British Broadcasting Corporation (1922-:) (radio and television broadcasters) 1
Brown, Andrew, 1763-1834 1
Brown, George Mackenzie, 1869-1946 (publisher and politician) 1
Brown, Gerard Baldwin, 1849-1932 (Watson-Gordon Professor of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh) 1
Brown, R (student, University of Edinburgh) 1
Bruford, Walter Horace, 1894-1988, Professor of German 1
Brunner, Hugo, b. 1935 (publisher) 1
Buchan, John, Baron Tweedsmuir, 1875-1940 (Scottish novelist and historian) 1
Burke, Bernard, fl 1860s 1
Burns, Margaret, fl 1890s (Edinburgh University student) 1
Butcher, Samuel Henry, 1850-1910 (classicist, politician and professor of greek, University of Edinburgh) 1
Butt, John, 1906-1965 1
Campbell, Colin, 1644-1726 1
Campbell, Daisy Helen Burnley-, 1891-1973 (later Warrand) 1
Cape, Herbert Jonathan, 1879-1960 (Founder of Jonathan Cape Publishers) 1
Carnall, Geoffrey D., 1927-2015 (Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh University) 1
Chimombo, Professor, Steve Bernard Miles, b. 1945 (Poet: Writer; Journalist; Essayist; Publisher) 1
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BCE (Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer) 1
Clark, Arthur Melville 1
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963, writer, designer, playwright, artist, filmmaker 1
Corke, Hilary Topham (writer, composer, mineralogist, lecturer) 1
Corson, James Clarkson, 1905-1988 (Scottish librarian and scholar) 1
Craw, Barbara M, fl 1900s (Edinburgh University student) 1
Dalzel, Andrew, 1742-1806 (Professor of Greek and Honorary Librarian, University of Edinburgh) 1
Dobrée, Bonamy, 1891-1974 (Professor of English Literature, University of Leeds) 1
Douglas, David, fl 1890-1894 (Edinburgh publisher and editor) 1
Durcan, Paul, b. 1944, Literary critic 1
Eddie, Graeme D, b 1951 (librarian) 1
Elborn, Geoffrey, 1950-2022 (biographer) 1
Focus, Georges, 1644-1708 (French artist) 1
Gallegan, Peter (Peadar Uí Gealacáin), 1792-1860 (teacher, poet and scribe) 1
Giles, Alexander Falconer, 1881-1963 (Lecturer in Classical History, University of Edinburgh) 1
Goodhart, Harry Chester, 1858-1895 (English footballer and Professor of Humanity, University of Edinburgh) 1
Green, Martin, fl. 1969-1970, Literary critic 1
Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 1
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889 (antiquarian and scholar) 1
Hannay, Robert Kerr, Professor, 1867-1940 (historian, palaeographer) 1
Harris, Amelia 1
Harris, Jane 1
Hayes, Thomas, fl 1870s 1
Hogg, James, 1770-1835 ("The Ettrick Shepherd") 1
Hunt, William, 1842-1931 (Church historian) 1
Hunter, Margaret Jane Campbell, 1857-1938 (Gaelic culture advocate and suffragist) 1
Jacob, Violet, 1863-1946 (Scottish writer and poet) 1
Jamieson, F R, fl 1890s (lecturer in Latin Literature, University of Edinburgh) 1
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804, Philosopher 1
Koestler, Arthur, CBE, 1905-1983 (Hungarian-British author and journalist) 1
Koteliansky, Samuel Solomonovich, 1880-1955, Translator 1
Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 (Scholar Folklorist Poet Historian) 1
Lang, Leonora Blanche, 1851-1933 1
Lawrence, David Herbert, 1885-1930 (poet novelist and essayist) 1
Lawrence, David Herbert, Poet Novelist and Essayist (1885-1930) 1
Le Roy, Charles-Georges, 1723-1789 (Naturalist) 1
Leith, Dick, d 2011 (linguist) 1
Lemon, Ethelwyn Lilias, fl 1890s-1940s (Edinburgh University student) 1
Lindsay, John Maurice, 1918-2009 (Scottish poet) 1
Lodge, Richard, Professor Sir, 1855-1936 (historian) 1
MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746 (mathematician) 1
Mackinnon, Donald, 1839-1914 (Professor of Celtic, University of Edinburgh) 1
Malawi Writers' Group (Chancellor College, University of Malawi) 1
Malloch, James, fl. 1878-1879 1
Mapanje, Jack, b. 1944, Poet; Lecturer 1
Mason, Perry, fl 1880s 1
Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 1
Millman, Lawrence, b 1948 (American writer, ethnographer, mycologist) 1
Mitchell, William Smith (Librarian) 1
Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625-1695 1
Morrison, Hubert Peter, c1886-1971 (scholar and publisher) 1
Naessil, Anders, fl 1980s-2010s (writer; acquaintance of Arthur Koestler) 1
Neilson, Thomas, 1780-1861 (bookseller and publisher) 1
Nelson, Thomas, 1822-1892 (publisher) 1
Nelson, William, 1816-1887 (publisher) 1
Newsweek (1933-) (weekly news magazine) 1
Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 1
Nunneley, Thomas, fl 1850s 1
Nursery School Association (1923-1973) 1
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