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 3 Collections and/or Records:

Booklet entitled The Professional Photographer, and a newspaper clipping from The Scottish Field entitled "A Characteristic Portrait of Sir Walter Scott", February and April 1918

Piece

Identifier: Coll-1073/6/96

Scope and Contents Booklet entitled The Professional Photographer, February 1918, published by Kodak Limited, Kingsway London, containing an article about David Octavius Hill and reproductions of his portraits. Pasted next to it is a newspaper clipping from The Scottish Field entitled "A Characteristic Portrait of Sir Walter Scott", dated April 1918, starting: "Mr Andrew Elliot, bookseller and publisher, Edinburgh, has just...

Dates: February and April 1918

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Hill and Adamson Calotypes / Calotype Portraits VI. Saphir-End.

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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Reference note to 'Legend of Montrose', August 1886

Item

Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/29

Scope and Contents

Reference note to 'Legend of Montrose' which reads 'See Legend of Montrose Scott for Children of the mist " - Aoidh clann Aoidh".

Dates: August 1886

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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

Related Names

Scott, Walter, 1729-1799 (Writer to the Signet, Father of the Scottish Writer) (Child of Related)
Scott, Anne, 1803-1833 (daughter of Sir Walter Scott) (Parent of Related)

Mitchell, James, Rev., 1763-1835 (Church of Scotland minister and tutor to Sir Walter Scott) (Associative with Related)

Description

Sir Walter Scott was given private tuition by Rev. James Mitchell in arithmetic and writing. Rev. James Mitchell also taught Sir Walter Scott the history of the Church of Scotland with emphasis on the Covenanters.