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Papers of Margaret Clark (b. 1920)

 Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 32
Scope and Contents The collection consists of: circular letters from Clark describing her work in Gambia and Nigeria (1947-1963); material on the mobile bookshop including lists of books sold and examples of Christian literature (1958-1964); a Christian book list for Nigeria compiled by the Christian Council of Nigeria; material on the Methodist Girls' League in Eastern Nigeria (1938-1963); programmes and other items, including tape recordings, relating to the formation of the Methodist Church Nigeria (1962);...
Dates: 1947-1964

Papers of Professor Alexander Augustine Parker

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-647
Scope and Contents The material is composed of student and later notebooks on Spanish literature, language, including notes on: criticism of Galdos; Conceptismo, metaphysical wit; minor dramatists, Golden Age; mystics and religious literature; plays, Tirso; criticism, Tirso de Molina; plays, criticism of Lope; criticism, plays, mythology of Calderon; picaresque novel in Europe; Unamuno; Gongora, criticism; Cervantes, criticism; Quevedo; Rojas Zorrilla, plays; Gracian, critical; Ruiz de Alarcons, plays; Libro...
Dates: 20th century

Papers of Professor Andrew Brown

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-9
Scope and Contents

The papers of Andrew Brown consist of notes and papers on the history of North America during the War of Independence and including material on Indians, Nova Scotia and colonial history, and general miscellaneous material.

Dates: circa 1820

Papers of Professor David Talbot Rice

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-85
Scope and Contents

The Papers of Professor David Talbot Rice are mainly notes for Fine Art lectures in the 20th century.

Dates: circa 1938-1972

Papers of Professor George Saintsbury

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-79
Scope and Contents

The Papers of Professor George Saintsbury include articles, introductions, addresses, lectures, obituaries, reviews, letters and postcards, and notes. The collection consists of holographs, typescripts, galley proofs, page proofs, and corrections. There is an autograph manuscript ofA last scrap book, and others of miscellaneous articles.

Dates: circa 1886-1930

Papers of Professor John Everett Butt

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-76
Scope and Contents

The Papers of Professor John Everett Butt consist of notes for lectures on English literature at the Universities of Leeds, London, Newcastle and Edinburgh.

Dates: 1929-1965

Papers of Professor John Orr

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-77
Scope and Contents This fonds consists of the papers, lectures and correspondence of Professor John Orr, mainly relating to Romance linguistics. The correspondence includes 20 letters from the poet Jules Supervielle, dating from 1947-1955. The collection also includes 7 diplomas: Hon. Doct. University of Caen (1945); Officier de la Legion d'Honneur (1946); Encomienda de Alfonso x el Sabio (1953); Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur (1955); LL.D, St Andrews University (1955); Hon. Doct. Paris University (1956);...
Dates: 1912-1965

Papers of Professor Otto Schlapp

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-231
Scope and Contents Gen.2187 - The papers of Professor Otto Schlapp include: class certificates, session 1880-81, for Rhetoric and English Literature, and Sanskrit and Comparative Philology; a medal, session 1880-81, for Sanskrit; LL.D diploma dated 1930; letters, tributes and a decorated formal address on retirement, 11 July 1929; a copy of Schlapp's thesis; a copy of his letter of application to the Chair along with testimonials and other documents; an address on the place of modern languages in examinations...
Dates: 1880-[193-]

Papers of Professor R.L.G. Ritchie

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-93
Scope and Contents

The papers of Professor Ritchie consist mainly of material relating to a projected work on the French element in Scots. The collection is composed of general and introductory material, notes on purely Scots words, material on phonology, a glossary, a bibliography, and unworked notes on French loanwords and personal names. There is also material on Arthurian studies.

Dates: circa 1916

Papers of Professor Robert Bertram Serjeant

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1062
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of 11 unsorted boxes of papers which contain research notes (linguistics, ethonology and anthropology in South Arabia), bibliography notes, newspapers related to events in South Arabia, photocopies of Arabic manuscripts, typed notes on the political and military situation in Yemen during the 1960s (North Yemen Civil War). Papers relating to academic research, containing...
Dates: 1940-1980

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Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 -- Corespondence 3
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MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 4
Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 4
Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 4
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 3
Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 (folklorist, poet, songwriter, soldier, intellectual) 3
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 3
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 3
Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, 1866-1960 (literary critic and professor of English Literature) 2
Hamish Henderson Archive Trust 2
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 (New Zealand writer and critic) 2
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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