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Letters of Anders Naessil, including five from Arthur Koestler

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1141
Identifier: Coll-1936
Content Description This fonds includes seven letters of Anders Naessil: five from Arthur Koestler to A. Naessil, one from A. Naessil to Newsweek magazine, and one from Marie Whiteside, Editor of Newsweek to A. Naessil. Letter from Koestler to Naessil replying to a previous letter, mentioning Naessil's book on Hemingway, Sartre, and a Nobel banquet that Koestler attended. Dated 21 June 1980. Letter from...
Dates: 1980-1983

Letters of Samuel Smiles

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-373
Identifier: Coll-1877
Scope and Contents Collection of 17 autograph letters signed (ALS), from Samuel Smiles (Scottish author and government reformer) to various correspondents, discussing literary and publishing matters, his works and lectures, and various business and financial matters. 29 November 1852: letter to Thomas Nunneley, one page, 4to., relating to 'the amount of compensation which was to be offered to...
Dates: 1852-1896

Malawi Writers Group

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1135
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of copies of printed matter which includes: - 'The rain-maker', by Steve Chimombo - a play - 'African literature in English and the Malawi cultural background' by Steve Chimombo, 22 December 1974 - 'The Muse', Thursday 13 November 1975, edited by Ken Lipenga - the bulletin of the Writers Workshop - circular of the Writers'...
Dates: 1974-1976

Manuscript of "Erling the Bold" by R. M. Ballantyne

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1728
Identifier: Coll-2074
Content Description A full-length autograph manuscript (386 leaves) of R. M. Ballantyne’s Erling the Bold: A Tale of the Norse Sea-Kings, a novel of Viking life, inspired by Icelandic sagas. This is very much a working manuscript with alterations, clarifications and revisions to every aspect of the text including changes to characterisation, dialogue, narrative development and descriptive writing. From the evidence of this manuscript, this was Bannatyne’s first draft of the...
Dates: 1869
Detail of page from the Compendium of Chronicles by Rashid al-Din. Shows text with central miniature depicting the Sultan Luhrasp seated on a throne, surrounded by attendants. [Please click twice to see the full manuscript]
Detail of page from the Compendium of Chro...

Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

 Fonds
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates: 10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)

Material relating to the French Studies of E. R. Anderson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1093
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of the following material relating to French Studies and a piece of work on Charles-Georges Le Roy, noted as per content of each box: Box 1 8 x files/folders - Notes on: Eugene; Condillac; Athalie; Mithridate; Berenice; and Phedre; and French magazine cuttings Box 2 ...
Dates: 1960-1999

Maurice Lindsay Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-56
Scope and Contents The Maurice Lindsay Papers contain poetry notebooks; drafts, manuscripts and typescripts; radio scripts; incoming correspondence and some carbon replies; articles by Lindsay; C.M. Grieve manuscripts; and, outgoing correspondence. Within the Maurice Lindsay Papers are up to three boxes containing private and personal letters (dated 1943-46) between Lindsay and his future wife and which are not available for general study until after the deaths of the writer and recipient without their express...
Dates: 1943-1977

MS letter (autograph signed) by Violet Jacob

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1462
Scope and Contents This MS letter, addressed to 'Dear Sir', was written by Violet Jacob at Domaine de la Congue, Vence, in the Alpes Maritimes, France, on 6 April [no year] and presumably in 1936, given the reference in the letter to 'the honour done'. 1936 was the year in which she received the LL.D. from Edinburgh University. Domaine de la Congue is the location of a French 'Maison de retraite', a sanatorium for veterans today. The letter tells of how the letter reached her 'after various adventures' and...
Dates: 1915-1917

Notes taken at lectures on Cicero by John Pringle

 Collection — Volume: Gen.74
Identifier: Coll-1726
Scope and Contents

Notes taken by R. Brown at lectures on Cicero given by John Pringle. Near complete transcript here.

Dates: 1741

Notes taken by William S. Mitchell at lectures by Charles Sarolea

 Fonds — Box: Gen.784, Folder: Gen.784/2
Identifier: Coll-1659
Scope and Contents

Notes taken by William S. Mitchell at lectures on French literature given by Charles Sarolea. This is most likely William Smith Mitchell, who graduated MA in 1932.

Dates: 1927-1928

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MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 4
Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 4
Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 4
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 3
Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 (folklorist, poet, songwriter, soldier, intellectual) 3
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Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 (New Zealand writer and critic) 2
Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 2
Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman, 1845-1933 (literary critic and historian) 2
The Royal National Mòd (1892-) 2
Agnew, Lady Agnew, Swanzie, 1916-2000 (Professor of Geography (University of Malawi)) 1
Anderson, Elizabeth R., fl. 1947-1952 1
Asquith, Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn, 1887-1960 (English writer and socialite) 1
Auden, W. H., Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973 (poet) 1
Bacon, J T, fl 1880s 1
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, 1825-1894 (Scottish writer) 1
Bickley, Frances, 1885-1976 1
Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896-1974 (English poet, author and critic) 1
Bonar, Horatius, Rev, 1808-1889 (Free Church of Scotland minister | hymn writer ) 1
Borthwick, John, fl 1800s (of Crookston | Edinburgh University student) 1
British Association for Early Childhood Education (1973-) 1
British Broadcasting Corporation (1922-:) (radio and television broadcasters) 1
Brown, Andrew, 1763-1834 1
Brown, George Mackenzie, 1869-1946 (publisher and politician) 1
Brown, Gerard Baldwin, 1849-1932 (Watson-Gordon Professor of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh) 1
Brown, R (student, University of Edinburgh) 1
Bruford, Walter Horace, 1894-1988, Professor of German 1
Brunner, Hugo, b. 1935 (publisher) 1
Buchan, John, Baron Tweedsmuir, 1875-1940 (Scottish novelist and historian) 1
Burke, Bernard, fl 1860s 1
Burns, Margaret, fl 1890s (Edinburgh University student) 1
Butcher, Samuel Henry, 1850-1910 (classicist, politician and professor of greek, University of Edinburgh) 1
Butt, John, 1906-1965 1
Campbell, Colin, 1644-1726 1
Campbell, Daisy Helen Burnley-, 1891-1973 (later Warrand) 1
Cape, Herbert Jonathan, 1879-1960 (Founder of Jonathan Cape Publishers) 1
Carnall, Geoffrey D., 1927-2015 (Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh University) 1
Chimombo, Professor, Steve Bernard Miles, b. 1945 (Poet: Writer; Journalist; Essayist; Publisher) 1
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BCE (Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer) 1
Clark, Arthur Melville 1
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963, writer, designer, playwright, artist, filmmaker 1
Corke, Hilary Topham (writer, composer, mineralogist, lecturer) 1
Corson, James Clarkson, 1905-1988 (Scottish librarian and scholar) 1
Craw, Barbara M, fl 1900s (Edinburgh University student) 1
Dalzel, Andrew, 1742-1806 (Professor of Greek and Honorary Librarian, University of Edinburgh) 1
Dobrée, Bonamy, 1891-1974 (Professor of English Literature, University of Leeds) 1
Douglas, David, fl 1890-1894 (Edinburgh publisher and editor) 1
Durcan, Paul, b. 1944, Literary critic 1
Eddie, Graeme D, b 1951 (librarian) 1
Elborn, Geoffrey, 1950-2022 (biographer) 1
Focus, Georges, 1644-1708 (French artist) 1
Gallegan, Peter (Peadar Uí Gealacáin), 1792-1860 (teacher, poet and scribe) 1
Giles, Alexander Falconer, 1881-1963 (Lecturer in Classical History, University of Edinburgh) 1
Goodhart, Harry Chester, 1858-1895 (English footballer and Professor of Humanity, University of Edinburgh) 1
Green, Martin, fl. 1969-1970, Literary critic 1
Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 1
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889 (antiquarian and scholar) 1
Hannay, Robert Kerr, Professor, 1867-1940 (historian, palaeographer) 1
Harris, Amelia 1
Harris, Jane 1
Hayes, Thomas, fl 1870s 1
Hogg, James, 1770-1835 ("The Ettrick Shepherd") 1
Hunt, William, 1842-1931 (Church historian) 1
Hunter, Margaret Jane Campbell, 1857-1938 (Gaelic culture advocate and suffragist) 1
Jacob, Violet, 1863-1946 (Scottish writer and poet) 1
Jamieson, F R, fl 1890s (lecturer in Latin Literature, University of Edinburgh) 1
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804, Philosopher 1
Koestler, Arthur, CBE, 1905-1983 (Hungarian-British author and journalist) 1
Koteliansky, Samuel Solomonovich, 1880-1955, Translator 1
Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 (Scholar Folklorist Poet Historian) 1
Lang, Leonora Blanche, 1851-1933 1
Lawrence, David Herbert, 1885-1930 (poet novelist and essayist) 1
Lawrence, David Herbert, Poet Novelist and Essayist (1885-1930) 1
Le Roy, Charles-Georges, 1723-1789 (Naturalist) 1
Leith, Dick, d 2011 (linguist) 1
Lemon, Ethelwyn Lilias, fl 1890s-1940s (Edinburgh University student) 1
Lindsay, John Maurice, 1918-2009 (Scottish poet) 1
Lodge, Richard, Professor Sir, 1855-1936 (historian) 1
MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746 (mathematician) 1
Mackinnon, Donald, 1839-1914 (Professor of Celtic, University of Edinburgh) 1
Malawi Writers' Group (Chancellor College, University of Malawi) 1
Malloch, James, fl. 1878-1879 1
Mapanje, Jack, b. 1944, Poet; Lecturer 1
Mason, Perry, fl 1880s 1
Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 1
Millman, Lawrence, b 1948 (American writer, ethnographer, mycologist) 1
Mitchell, William Smith (Librarian) 1
Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625-1695 1
Morrison, Hubert Peter, c1886-1971 (scholar and publisher) 1
Naessil, Anders, fl 1980s-2010s (writer; acquaintance of Arthur Koestler) 1
Neilson, Thomas, 1780-1861 (bookseller and publisher) 1
Nelson, Thomas, 1822-1892 (publisher) 1
Nelson, William, 1816-1887 (publisher) 1
Newsweek (1933-) (weekly news magazine) 1
Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 1
Nunneley, Thomas, fl 1850s 1
Nursery School Association (1923-1973) 1
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