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2 letters from H J C Grierson to Dear Sir

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Identifier: Coll-1556
Scope and Contents The letters are: 1 x ts dated 23 October 1944, written 12 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, and addressed to 'Dear Sir'. Grierson suggests that 'you will look at that interesting book' entitled 'Sir Walter Scott's Friends' by Florence MacCunn (1909). In it 'you will find that it was Mrs Ann Murray Keith [...] who declared that she recognised stories she had told Scott'. 1 x ms dated 30 October...
Dates: 1944

Album and scrapbook collected by Jessie Aitken Wilson

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Identifier: Coll-1504
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: 1 x book of photographic portraits containing portraits of Albrech Duerer, Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, George Sand, Matthew Arnold, and cardinal newman, and others. The album was given to Jessie Aitken Wilson by novelist Mrs. Oliphant and is inscribed, 'This Book was the gift of Mrs. Oliphant'. 1 x packet of (4) loose photographic...
Dates: 1850-1870

Archive of illustrators Alison Douglas Tod and Richard Tod

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2029
Scope and Contents This is an extensive archive of material relating to the children's stories and illustrations produced by this Newport-on-Tay father and daughter duo: Richard, who was active between 1901 and 1917 and who worked both under his own name and as "Uncle Jack", and Alison, who appears to have been busy in the 1940s. The collection comprises draft manuscripts and typescripts, final typescript versions, preliminary sketches on paper and on tracing paper, finished artwork, and a small amount of...
Dates: c 1900-1940s

Autograph ms from 'The Shepherd's Calendar' by James Hogg, being a leaf from the draft for 'Class IV. Dogs'

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1713
Content Description

Autograph manuscript from 'The Shepherd's Calendar', by James Hogg, 1824. It is a leaf from the draft of 'Class IV. Dogs', and is large folio size laid onto paper.


The ms has some Borders stories about dogs e.g. 'the late Mr. Steel's nephew in Peebles had a bitch [...] whose feats in taking home sheep from the neighbouring farms into the market at Peebles by herself form innumerable anecdotes in that vicinity...'.

Dates: 1824

Bound lecture notes of Ethelwyn Lemon

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1933
Scope and Contents This fonds consists of 15 volumes of bound lecture notes that belonged to Ethelwyn Lemon. These notes were taken by Ethelwyn Lemon herself, or by other fellow female students, in the late 19th-early 20th century at the University of Edinburgh. Notes of lectures on British history given by Sir Richard Lodge, taken down by Barbara M Craw. Edinburgh University, 1904. (4 vols) Notes of...
Dates: 1892-1931

Colin Campbell Collection

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Identifier: Coll-38
Scope and Contents The Colin Campbell Collection contains Gaelic verse, mainly songs; sermon notes and scripture expositions, the earliest being 1703; manuscript treatises; Colin Campbell correspondence, the earliest being 1664; miscellaneous manuscripts including domestic accounts, medical papers, minutes etc; notebooks, accounts, letters and scraps of Patrick Campbell of Achnaba; letters from mathematicians to Colin Campbell, and mathematical papers; a body of accounts, the earliest being 1553; a body of...
Dates: 1553-1836

Collection of Correspondence, Alfred Edward Thiselton

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Identifier: Coll-626
Scope and Contents

The correspondence is that between a number of persons and Thiselton on his Shakespearean publications. The correspondents, of some 40 in number, include W. Salt Brassington, F. J. Furnivall, and Israel Gollancz.

Dates: [circa 1895]-1916

Collection of correspondence from and relating to Hugh MacDiarmid and the publication of Stony Limits

 Collection — Box: CLX-A-1594
Identifier: Coll-2005
Content Description This collection consists of correspondence between Hugh MacDiarmid, his publisher Victor Gollancz, and other interested parties concerning the publication of his poetry volume Stony Limits (1934). The correspondence largely concerns Gollancz’s fears that certain poems might expose the publisher to prosecution under libel, blasphemy, and obscenity legislation. Although he rigorously defended his verse, MacDiarmid was eventually persuaded to substitute the...
Dates: 1934-1986

Collection of James O. Halliwell-Phillipps

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Identifier: Coll-103
Scope and Contents The Halliwell-Phillipps Collection includes 16th-century works by Italian, French and Spanish authors. Its strength lies in English books however, especially English drama of the 17th and 18th centuries. The Collection also includes more than 600 plays including works by Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, George Chapman, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, and William Wycherley. Several are playhouse copies with contemporary stage directions added in manuscript....
Dates: 16th century-19th century

Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon

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Identifier: Coll-98
Scope and Contents The collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon includes lecture notes on the Gaelic language and culture, copies of Gaelic songs and poetry, religious texts such as hymns and sermons, fragments of medieval manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and photographs. As the first Chair in Celtic at the University of Edinburgh, Professor Mackinnon was very diligent in his work to document and share Gaelic language, literature, and history. The collection not only includes primary and secondary sources, it...
Dates: 15th-19th century

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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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