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.
- Coll-2959/2
- Fair copy of a manuscript essay by James Robbie titled 'The Tyranny of Liberty'. 15 numbered pages.
- Coll-2959/3
- Typescript copy of PhD thesis by Herbert James Lidell Robbie titled 'A history of English religious poetry'. Submitted to Emanuel College, University of Cambridge in 1928. 324 numbered pages.
- Coll-2959/4
- Lecture notes on English literature given by Herbert J. C. Grierson, taken down by Herbert Robbie, 1920-1921
- Coll-2959/5
- Lecture notes on English literature given by Herbert J. C. Grierson, taken down by Herbert Robbie, 1923-1924
- Coll-2959/6
- Lecture notes on English literature given by Herbert J. C. Grierson, taken down by Herbert Robbie, 1924-1925
- Coll-2959/7
- Herbert. J. L. Robbie. “An Undescribed MS. of Donne’s Poems.” The Review of English Studies, vol. 3, no. 12, 1927, pp. 415–19.
Papers accompanied by 2 leaves regarding donation in 1976. Donation facilitated by Dr. George Elder Davie, Department of Philosophy.
Dates
- Creation: 1893-1976
Creator
- Robbie, Herbert James Liddell, 1904-1964 (Headmaster of Erskine Stewart Melville) (Author, Person)
- Robbie, James, 1870-1964 (Student of political economy, University of Edinburgh) (Author, Person)
- Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, 1866-1960 (literary critic and professor of English Literature) (Presenter, Person)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Open. Please contact the repository in advance.
Full Extent
7 Volumes
Physical Location
Gen. 2002/1-7
Custodial History
Coll-2959/4-6 previously catalogued "Coll-245" (Lectures and Correspondence of Sir Herbert J. C. Grierson)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated in June 1976. Accession no. E.1976.28
Physical Description
7 volumes in various sizes, mostly in manuscript. Accompanied by 2 leaves regarding donation in 1976.
Processing Information
Catalogued by Elin Crotty in August 2026.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Contact:
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk