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 7 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
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
Corson Collection
Collection
Identifier: Coll-1022
Scope and Contents
The Corson Collection consists of materials assembled by James Clarkson Corson (1905-1988), Deputy Librarian of Edinburgh University and Honorary Librarian of Abbotsford.It is comprised of two sub-divisions. The first consists of materials related to Sir Walter Scott, including manuscripts, artworks, realia, memorabilia, press-cuttings, and critical materials, which were purposely collected by Corson to complement his extensive collection of printed works by or about...
Dates:
18th-20th century
Manuscripts and copies of manuscripts relating to Sir Walter Scott, 18th-20th century
Series
Identifier: Coll-1022/CCWS/MSS
Scope and Contents
This series contains:
- Manuscripts all or partly in Sir Walter Scott's hand;
- Original manuscript letters from, to, or about Sir Walter Scott;
- Manuscripts of works about or relating to Sir Walter Scott;
- Copies of manuscripts relating to Sir Walter Scott.
Dates:
18th-20th century
Personal copies of David Douglas of "The Journal of Sir Walter Scott" (1890) and "Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott", extra-illustrated with correspondence
Fonds — Box CLX-A-481
Identifier: Coll-2098
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of publisher and editor David Douglas' personal copies of The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (1890, vol. I and II) and Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott (1894, vol. I and II), extra-illustrated with correspondence.David Douglas, an Edinburgh publisher, oversaw the editing and publication of The Journal of Sir Walter Scott in 1890 and ...
Dates:
1890-1894
Visual materials illustrative of the life and work of Sir Walter Scott, 18th-20th century
Series
Identifier: Coll-1022/CCWS/ILL
Scope and Contents
This series contains:
- Original artworks inspired by the novels and poems of Sir Walter Scott
- Printed illustrations relating to the life and works of Sir Walter Scott
- Postcards and photographs of places associated with Sir Walter Scott
Dates:
18th-20th century
Watercolour painting depicting a scene from Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake, c 1815
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0050
Scope and Contents
This is a watercolour painting of a scene from Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake, by Thomas Stothard, signed. The scene depicts Ellen Douglas and James Fitz-James (i.e. King James V of Scotland in disguise) on a rocky shore (of Loch Katrine), with him in a skiff, holding a pole. This is either the moment of going ashore, in Canto I of Scott's poem, or the moment in Canto II, when he departs the next day. The hunting horn (small) with which he...
Dates:
c 1815