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

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. ...

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...