Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, 1866-1960 (literary critic and professor of English Literature)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1866 - 1960
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
2 letters from H J C Grierson to Dear Sir
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1556
Scope and Contents
The letters are:
1 x ts dated 23 October 1944, written 12 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, and addressed to 'Dear Sir'. Grierson suggests that 'you will look at that interesting book' entitled 'Sir Walter Scott's Friends' by Florence MacCunn (1909). In it 'you will find that it was Mrs Ann Murray Keith [...] who declared that she recognised stories she had told Scott'.
1 x ms dated 30 October...
Dates:
1944
A List of Contributors to a Fund to Commemorate Professor Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson
Fonds — Box Dk.3.35
Identifier: Coll-2172
Scope and Contents
A List of contributors to a fund to commemorate the retirement in 1935 and 70th birthday in 1936 of Professor Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson. 1935-1936. With an undated greetings telegram to Professor Grierson from "Darrie", despatched from Guildford, probably on one of the above occasions.
Dates:
1935-1936
Collection relating to James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1270
Scope and Contents
At E2010.22 is an archive of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize retained by its first judge, Herbert Grierson, Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University, comprising letters from prizewinners including D.H. Lawrence, Arnold Bennett, Lytton Strachey and Robert Graves. While most of the letters in the collection are solicitor's typed carbon letters (letters to the administrating solicitor Robert Welsh of Ayr), five are original letters to Herbert Grierson from winners: Henry...
Dates:
1920-1935
Edinburgh Centre, 1934-1944
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-2962/1/2
Scope and Contents
Minute books of the Edinburgh Centre of the society, containing minutes, lists of membership, and clippings from periodicals. Arranged chronologically, with printed matter laid and pasted in.
Dates:
1934-1944
Essays and lectures of James Robbie and Herbert James Liddle Robbie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2959
Scope and Contents
Collection of student lecture notes and essays collated by the Robbie family.
Coll-2959/1
Fair copy of a manuscript essay by James Robbie titled 'Ought the United Kingdom to grant Differential Duties to her colonies and on what conditions?', written in 1892-1893. Appendix features comment by Prof Joseph Shield Nicholson, awarding the work a 1st prize. 42 numbered pages with 3 appendicies. 3 leaves with sums and music score laid in the back.
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Dates:
1893-1976
Five signed letters from Bonamy Dobrée to Sir Herbert Grierson relating to a planned Oxford History of English Literature
Fonds — Box CLX-A-373
Identifier: Coll-1873
Scope and Contents
Three autograph and two typed letters signed, nine pages in total, written in Leeds from 25 December 1937 to 14 May 1939. Sent from Bonamy Dobrée to Sir Herbert Grierson, suggesting a commission for a collaboration with Edmund Blunden to produce a volume on the late 18th century for a planned Oxford History of English Literature and subsequently discussing aspects of its progress.
Dates:
25 December 1937-14 May 1939
Lecture notes on English literature and English Language, taken down by Janet H. Kirkwood
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2952
Scope and Contents
5 volumes of notes on lectures on English literature and English language, taken down by Janet H. Caird. Further item detail below:
Coll-2952/1
Shakespeare, taught by Professor Grierson.
Coll-2952/2
17th Century literature, taught by Professor Grierson. With additional page of notes laid in.
Coll-2952/3
English Language, taught by Angus MacDonald. Volume 1. With additional pages of notes laid in.
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Dates:
1934-1935
Lecture notes on English literature and language, taken down by Marie Wilson Stuart
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2950
Scope and Contents
8 notebooks with lecture notes relating to English literature, language and dramatic performance, taken down by Marie Wilson Stuart. The first 7 volumes date from 1916-1919 when Stuart was a full time student at the University of Edinburgh, and the final volume is from a period of later study in the 1940s. See further detail below:
Coll-2950/1
English, 1916-1917. Professor Herbert Grierson. Printed reading list pasted to front board.
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Dates:
1916-1919; 1943-1944
Lecture notes on English Literature given by Professor Herbert Grierson, taken down by Margaret Low and David Macrae Aitken
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2951
Scope and Contents
Fair copy of notes on lectures given by Herbert Grierson on English Literature, first taken down by Margaret Low. 77 lectures spanning October 1925-June 1926.A donation letter [22 January 1986] laid into volume 1 informs the then University Librarian, Brenda Moon, of the complex process behind creating these fair copies. The notes were written by Rev. David Macrae Aitken on behalf of his son, James Macrae Aitken. James was a Classics student at the University of Edinburgh in...
Dates:
1925-1926; Event: 20 January 1986
Letter from John Buchan to Herbert Grierson, relating to his work on the Marquis of Montrose
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1555, Folder: Coll-1788 / SC-Acc-2016-0169
Identifier: Coll-1788
Content Description
This letter from John Buchan to Professor Herbert J. C. Grierson was written from Elsfield Manor, Oxford, 7 March 1928. It is addressed to Grierson at his home on Regent Terrace, Edinburgh.The letter refers to Buchan's work on James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose. The Duke of Montrose had sent him verses 'which he believes were written by the Great Marquis'. He had gotten them from 'some old book which he cannot now identify, and in which they were so...
Dates:
7 March 1928