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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 20 Collections and/or Records:

Note about the miller at Innerfola, 27 September 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/153
Scope and Contents

Note, probably collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, that the millar at Innerfola [Inbhir Pholla/Inverfolla, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] when [Sir Walter] Scott was there was Cailean Livingston [Colin Livingston].

Dates: 27 September 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Notes on index-cards made by Clive Wainwright while researching for works on Abbotsford

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1299
Scope and Contents This collection of around 200 index-cards with manuscript research notes written in ink (cards 20 cm x 13 cm dimension) are divided by 15-index tabs into the following sections: WS Visits Hay, Bullock, Terry, Blore, Atkinson WS Tradition and Folklore WS Friends and Visitors WS on Collecting and Architecture Abbotsford...
Dates: 1979-1989
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Queen Mary's Bed Chamber, 1835

 piece
Identifier: Coll-10/1/127(ii)
Scope and Contents

Queen Mary's Bed Chamber. Line engraving. 1835. Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, Artist; Lewis, James, Engraver; Longman & Co., Publisher.

Publisher statement: London: Published for the Proprietors by Longman & Co., Paternoster Row, & Rittner & Co., Paris.

Published in: Leigh Ritchie, Scott and Scotland (Heath's Picturesque Annual, 1835).

Dates: 1835
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

Story about Sir Walter Scott, 29 August 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/86
Scope and Contents

Story about Sir Walter Scott that he stood at Cregan [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] facing Shian and said he would build a house there, with the wood on one hand, Shian on the other and facing the sea.

Dates: 29 August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story entitled 'La-fheil bride' about Mrs Major MacLeod, c1875

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/48
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'La-fheil bride' [Latha Fheille Bhrìde or St Bridget's Day] telling how on hearing that it was St Bridget's Day, Mrs Major MacLeod, the daughter of Flora MacDonald, 'started up got a stocking put something in it probably a piece of peat and proceded to pound it down with a mallet' repeating a rhyme beginning 'La-fheil-Bride thig niean Imhir as an toll'. This was a custom believed to stop snakes from stinging the person who did this for the whole year. St Bridget's Day was when...
Dates: c1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael
pp. 8-9
pp. 8-9

Symbolae Scoticae

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-10
Scope and Contents The Symbolae Scoticae [= ‘Scottish contributions’] is a set of eight purpose-bound scrapbooks containing more than 2000 items relating to Scottish history, geography and culture.The bulk of this material consists of 18th and early 19th century prints illustrating Scottish topography and antiquities; but the collection also includes original historical documents, printed maps, portrait engravings, newspaper and magazine clippings, two calotypes,...
Dates: circa 1850 (spine-dated 1849)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

The Author of Waverley, in his Study, 1828

 piece
Identifier: Coll-10/3/42
Scope and Contents

The Author of Waverley, in his Study. Line engraving. 1828. Allan, William, 1782-1850, Artist; Goodall, Edward, 1795-1870, Engraver; Sharpe, John, 1777-1860, .

Published in: Allan Cunningham, The Anniversary, or Poetry and Prose for MDCCCXXIX (1828).

Dates: 1828
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick

[Turn-again. Sir Walter Scott's favourite seat in the woods of Abbotsford, looking down the Vale of Melrose], 1844

 piece
Identifier: Coll-10/3/47
Scope and Contents [Turn-again. Sir Walter Scott's favourite seat in the woods of Abbotsford, looking down the Vale of Melrose]. Wood engraving. 1844. Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867, Artist; Dalziel, George, 1815-1902, Engraver; Cadell, Robert, 1788-1849, Publisher.Published in: Walter Scott, Waverley Novels (Abbotsford Edition), vol. 5 (1844), The Monastery, p.192.Note: Pencil annotation: 'Turn-again. Sir Walter Scott's favourite seat in the woods of Abbotsford, looking down the Vale of...
Dates: 1844
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick

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:


  1. Original artworks inspired by the novels and poems of Sir Walter Scott
  2. Printed illustrations relating to the life and works of Sir Walter Scott
  3. Postcards and photographs of places associated with Sir Walter Scott
Dates: 18th-20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Corson Collection / Corson Collection of Sir Walter Scott materials

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

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