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 200 Collections and/or Records:
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
Other research on Sir Walter Scott, 20th century
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-1022/JC/JCRS/OR
Scope and Contents
This series consists of research materials on Sir Walter Scott that are not immediately relatable to a specific publication by Corson or to the management and documentation of the Corson Collection. Closer study may, however, reveal such connections. The material consists of: Sheaf indexes of editions of Scott’s works; Sheaf index to the Waverley Novels; Catalogue of engraved illustrations of the Waverley Novels; Sheaf index to illustrations of Scott’s works; Sheaf index of quotations in the...
Dates:
20th century
Papers of Arthur Melville Clark
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-65
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Arthur Melville Clark contain lecture notes; lectures and articles on Sir Walter Scott; material on Shakespeare; Edinburgh University examinations material; some work on rhyme; material on heraldry and genealogy, and on the Order of St. Lazarus; correspondence, personal material and some photographs; speeches; reviews; and, books and a notebook containing poems with some inserted letters....
Dates:
circa 1920
Papers of James Clarkson Corson, 20th century
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1022/JC
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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:
20th century
Pencil Portrait of Sir Walter Scott by Robert Scott-Moncrieff, c 1816-1820
Item — Box CLX-A-393
Identifier: Coll-1147/25-0040
Scope and Contents
Pencil Portrait of Sir Walter Scott, from life, head and shoulders, facing left, by Robert Scott-Moncrieff, c. 1816-1820. Very worn inscription on reverse of frame: "Robert Scott-Moncrieff, born 1793, decd. 18[69], father of Canon William Scott-Moncrieff, also of Fossaway, died in 1901; father of Susan Mary, afterwards, Mrs Herbert L[unn]; her daughter, Constance Lunn, afterwards Mrs Colin Scott-Moncrieff. Pencil portrait of Sir Walter Scott from life, by Robert Scott-Moncrieff of Fossaway....
Dates:
c 1816-1820
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
Photograph album showing people and locations in Perthshire
Item
Identifier: Coll-2942
Scope and Contents
This is an album containing 63 mounted and 14 laid in albumen print photographs dating primarily to the late 1850s and 1860s, which mainly depict community life, people and locations in the Blair Castle area of Perthshire. It also include some portraits, and a few photographs of Funchal and Pico Fort (São João Batista Fort), in Madeira.A label on the inner front cover has the owner’s name, William Stewart Arnott, who might have been a merchant in Perth. The identity of the...
Dates:
1850s-1860s
Press Cuttings Relating to Sir Walter Scott, 1818 - 1995
Series
Identifier: Coll-1022/CCWS/PRS
Scope and Contents
This series contains cuttings from British and international newspapers and periodicals, which relate, in the widest possible sense, to the life and works of Sir Walter Scott.
Dates:
1818 - 1995
Publications of James Clarkson Corson, 20th century
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-1022/JC/JCRS/PUBS
Scope and Contents
Working materials (typescripts, manuscripts, proofs, notes, index slips) for publications by James Clarkson Corson, including: A Bibliography of Sir Walter Scott (Oliver and Boyd, 1943); William Gell’s Reminiscences of Sir Walter Scott's residence in Italy, 1832, ed. Corson (Nelson, 1957); Notes and Index to Sir Herbert Grierson’s Edition of The Letters of Sir Walter Scott (Clarendon Press,...
Dates:
20th century
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