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Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1771 - 1832

Biography

For a complete biography of Sir Walter Scott, please see The Walter Scott Digital Archive.

Barnaby, Paul, The Walter Scott Digital Archive (Last updated: 25/06/2019) <http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/index.html> [Accessed on 25 September 2023]

Found in 180 Collections and/or Records:

2 letters from H J C Grierson to Dear Sir

 Fonds
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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick, circa 1850 (spine-dated 1849)

 Item
Identifier: Coll-10/3
Scope and Contents The third volume of Adam White’s set of eight scrapbook albums covers the historical Scottish Border counties of Peeblesshire, Selkirkshire, Roxburghshire and Berwickshire.As with the other albums, the arrangement is broadly by locality. Topographical and architectural views – from the eighteenth-century antiquarians Grose, de Cardonell and Archibald Rutherford onwards – are accompanied by other material including newspaper and magazine cuttings and portrait illustrations of, and...
Dates: Other: circa 1850 (spine-dated 1849)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae

4 notes for lectures, remarks and speeches by Edward Appleton, January 1950-March 1950

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/D.42
Scope and Contents

4 notes for lectures, remarks and speeches by Edward Appleton. The material consists of a speech at Valedictory Dinner to Members of Parliament, Scottish Universities Constituency, January 1950, 6 pages, typescript; toast to 'The City of Edinburgh', Walter Scott Club, January 1950, 4 page typescript; chairman's remarks at University Industrial Liaison Committee Symposium, March 1950, 5 pages, typescript; and speech at Institute of Brewing Dinner, March 1950, 9 pages, typescript.

Dates: January 1950-March 1950
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Lectures, speeches, publications

A sermon by Sir Walter Scott on Matthew V.17 (MS and printed version), nd

 Item — Box CLX-A-289
Identifier: Coll-1147/00-13
Scope and Contents

A sermon by Sir Walter Scott on Matthew V.17 (MS and printed version)

Dates: nd
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Letters of, and other papers relating to, Sir Walter Scott

Abbotsford Library papers, 1950s-1980s

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1022/JC/AL
Scope and Contents This series includes material relating to James Clarkson Corson's work as Honorary Librarian of Abbotsford House from 1953 to 1988. It includes: Correspondence addressed to Corson in his capacity as Honorary Librarian of Abbotsford, primarily from the Maxwell-Scott family Transcripts of MSS held at Abbotsford; Transcripts of Abbotsford-related Walter Scott...
Dates: 1950s-1980s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Corson Collection / Papers of James Clarkson Corson

Abbotsford (Roxburghshire), 1838

 piece
Identifier: Coll-10/3/37(ii)
Scope and Contents

Abbotsford (Roxburghshire). Line engraving. 1838. Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872, Artist; Prior, Thomas Abiel, 1809-1886, Engraver; Virtue, George, 1793?-1868, Publisher.

Published in: W. Beattie, Scotland Illustrated in a Series of Views (1838), vol. I.

Dates: 1838
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick

Advocates, 1811

 piece
Identifier: Coll-10/1/75
Scope and Contents Advocates. Etching. 1811. Kay, John, 1742-1826, Artist, Etcher.Published in: Edinburgh Portraits (1837), CCCXXVI.Note: Full title: 'Advocates (Twelve advocates who plead without wigs)'; 'The names of the men in the image are as follows from top to bottom, left to right: Adam Gillies, Alexander Irving, James Millar, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Corbet, George Joseph Bell, William Rose Robinson, John Wright, John Graham Dalyell, Francis Jeffrey, John Jardine, and John Cunninghame'...
Dates: 1811
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

Album of sketches by James Skene of Rubislaw

 Fonds — Box Coll-2019
Identifier: Coll-2019
Content Description This is an album of sketches by James Skene of Rubislaw (1775-1864), comprising approximately 420 sketches. A talented amateur artist, James Skene of Rubislaw was a close friend of Sir Walter Scott who accompanied him on riding excursions to localities that Scott planned to feature in his novels and poems. There, at Scott’s suggestion, Skene made sketches of landscapes and buildings that Scott then used as an inspiration and aide-memoire for his own work. Many of the sketches in this album...
Dates: c 1804-c 1830
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Autograph formal letter from Walter Scott to an unidentified correspondent, c 1814

 Item — Box CLX-A-393
Identifier: Coll-1147/23-0081
Scope and Contents This is an autograph formal letter in the third eprson from Walter Scott to an illegible correspondent, possibly Mr Hurst. Abbotsford, undated, Sunday evening, ca 1814.The letter is sending "a small volume of rare tracts which must be taken great care of, the first to be copied is of "the present Miserable State of Ireland". The introduction is on paper aparte as laid in at the place. Mr Scott's servant returns to Abbotsford on Wednesday &...
Dates: c 1814
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Letters of, and other papers relating to, Sir Walter Scott

Autograph letter from Walter Scott to an unnamed correspondent, 1823

 Item — Box CLX-A-393
Identifier: Coll-1147/17-0177
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter from Walter Scott to an unnamed correspondent, with the signature removed. Also includes a small black-and-white photocopy of a portrait of Walter Scott.

Dates: 1823
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Letters of, and other papers relating to, Sir Walter Scott

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