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

 Person

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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 195 Collections and/or Records:

Song for the anniversary meeting of the Pitt Club of Scotland, written out by Susan Ferrier, 1814

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Identifier: Coll-2167/1/10
Scope and Contents

Song for the anniversary meeting of the Pitt Club of Scotland, 1814. Authored by Sir Walter Scott, and taken down by Miss [Susan] Ferrier.


Begins: 'O dread was the time [and] more dreadful the omen / when the brave on marching lay slaughter'd in vain...'


Song is compiled of 5 verses, each spanning 8 lines. Dramatic and nationalistic is invoked through broad iambic tetrameter and an approximate ABAB rhyme scheme.

Dates: 1814
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

Song titled "Stanzas on visiting Rokeby", 1810-1857

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Identifier: Coll-1839/7/pp.59-60
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Song titled "Stanzas on visiting Rokeby." Referring to Rokeby Park, a country house in Teesdale. Sir Walter Scott is referenced in the verses, as "the bardie spirit" presumably because his 1813 narrative poem Rokeby was also set at there.

Dates: 1810-1857
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Louisa Matilda Crawford, nee Montagu / Manuscript notebook containing 165 poems and songs written at Southwood Hall by Louisa Matilda Crawford

Story about Sir Walter Scott, 29 August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/86
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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

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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 Abbotsford family, 1837

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Identifier: Coll-10/3/57
Scope and Contents The Abbotsford family. Line engraving. 1837. Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841, Artist; Smyth, John Talfourd, Engraver; Cadell, Robert, 1788-1849, Publisher.Publisher statement: R. Cadell, Edinburgh.Published in: Walter Scott, Waverley Novels (Abbotsford Edition), vol. XII (1847), frontispiece.Note: Subjects (L-R): Lady Charlotte Scott; daughters Anne and Sophia; youngest son Charles; Sir Adam Ferguson. To rear: shepherd Thomas Scott; Scott's eldest son Walter....
Dates: 1837
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick

The Author of Waverley, 1831

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Identifier: Coll-10/3/53
Scope and Contents

The Author of Waverley. Coloured lithograph. 1831. Crombie, Benjamin W. (Benjamin William), 1803-1847, Artist, Lithographer; Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, Publisher.

Dates: 1831
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick

The Author of Waverley, in his Study, 1828

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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

Transcript of an extract from The Lay of the Last Minstrel, with portrait of Sir Walter Scott, early nineteenth century

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Identifier: Coll-2167/1/7
Scope and Contents

Transcript of an extract from The Lay of the Last Minstrel, with an engraving of Sir Walter Scott pasted above.


Extract spans Canto IV, verse XXXII, lines 20-28.


Engraving initially published by Thomas Phillips, 1822.

Dates: early nineteenth century
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

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

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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