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

 Person

Staff Only

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 23 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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

Chair in study at Abbotsford, Made of the wood of the Wallace Tree. Sir Walter Scott's Hat and Stick, 1843

 piece
Identifier: Coll-10/3/46(ii)
Scope and Contents

Chair in study at Abbotsford, Made of the wood of the Wallace Tree. Sir Walter Scott's Hat and Stick. Wood engraving. 1843. Dickes, William, 1815-1892, Artist; Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909, Engraver; Cadell, Robert, 1788-1849, Publisher.

Published in: Walter Scott, Waverley Novels (Abbotsford Edition), vol. 2 (1843), The Antiquary, p.90.

Note: This state with added title letters.

Dates: 1843
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick

Collection of papers of, and relating to Sir Walter Scott

 Fonds — Box Dk.3.8
Identifier: Coll-2167
Scope and Contents

This is an artificial collection containing letters and papers relating to Sir Walter Scott, acquired by the University as individual items and thus too small to constitute a collection on their own. See the description of each item for more details.

Dates: 1800-1839
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Composite item relating to the history of the Scott family, c 1826-1833, 1839

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2167/1/4
Scope and Contents

Composite item with two fragments pasted to a third leaf.


First fragment is a clipping of a printed column, detailing the marriage and issue of Walter Scott. At the time of writing, Charlotte Scott has died (15 May 1826) but Anne and Charles are still living (died in 1833 and 1841 respectively).


Second fragment is a handwritten note, relating to the submission of correspondence to Walter Lockhart Scott at Abbotsford, dated 1839.

Dates: c 1826-1833; 1839
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of papers of, and relating to Sir Walter Scott / Items relating to Sir Walter Scott from a collection made by Miss Marianne Talbot

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1887

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing material collected mostly in An Apainn/Appin and Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. A large proportion of the stories and biographical information about Appin was collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, who was known as Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair. Amongst the material collected from Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair are proverbs, sayings, customs, stories about local figures and families and historic anecdotes. The other main...
Dates: 1883 to 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Manuscript fragments relating to Sir Walter Scott, c 1800-1829

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2167/1/5
Scope and Contents Manuscript fragment, with two sections of text, author unknown. The first section begins with a copy of an extract from John Gibson Lockhart's Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk. Content centres on Walter Scott, and begins 'His manners are simple [and] unassuming...'.Second section of text describes the landscape and scenery on the approach to Abbotsford. Two illustrative engravings are pasted in. The first engraving shows Abbotsford, drawn by R. Westall...
Dates: c 1800-1829
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of papers of, and relating to Sir Walter Scott / Items relating to Sir Walter Scott from a collection made by Miss Marianne Talbot

Melrose from Turn-Again, 1844

 piece
Identifier: Coll-10/3/85(i)
Scope and Contents

Melrose from Turn-Again. Line engraving. 1844. Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867, Artist; Smith, William Raymond (Engraver), Engraver; Cadell, Robert, 1788-1849, Publisher.

Publisher statement: R. Cadell, Edinburgh.

Published in: Walter Scott, Waverley Novels (Abbotsford Edition), vol. V The Monastery (1844).

Note: Illustrating Scott [http://illustratingscott.lib.ed.ac.uk] ABB0047. Duplicated by Coll-10/3/85(ii).

Dates: 1844
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick