Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, 1866-1960 (literary critic and professor of English Literature)

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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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.

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. ...

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...