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

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...

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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.

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...

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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 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...

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...

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Letter, 17 July 1952, Cambridge, Horg Grierson to Mary Grierson. Praising Grierson's biography of Tovey. Holograph signed, with stamped envelope.

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Letter, 14 December 1923, Edinburgh, H. J. C. Grierson to Donald Tovey. Thanking Tovey for support given to Grierson's daughter, Janet, and a question about Vienna. Holograph signed.