Scope and Contents File containing biographies of D. E. Stevenson written by different people. "D. E. Stevenson - Authoress" by her son Major J. R. S. Peploe; "Face to Face with D. E. Stevenson, our South West Scotland 'Best Seller'" (interview); "The Novels of D. E. Stevenson" by her son Robin Peploe; "DE Stevenson: Her Life" from The Persephone Biannually; "Obituary" and "The Loch Ness Monster"; "D.E. Stevenson as I...

Scope and Contents This is a bound collection of Scottish and English popular songs and ballads assembled and transcribed by John Robinson, an alumnus of Appleby Grammar School, who later served as Member of Parliament for Westmoreland.The volume is divided in two parts: part one, "Chiefly English", starts on p. 1, and ends on p. 74. The very first poem, entitled "Dedication", is taken from Scottish bookseller-poet Allan Ramsay's Tea-table miscellany:...

Content Description Ths is a bound volume of manuscript material, correspondence and verse, by and about Thomas Brown, Scottish poet and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1810 until the end of his life in 1820. The collection was almost certainly put together by his friend and colleague William Erskine, to whom the vast majority of the manuscripts are addressed.Contents: ...

Content Description Collection of loose-leaf manuscript verses by Jacobite poet and army officer William Hamilton of Bangour (1704-1754), together with related material. The collection appears to have emanated from a member of the Pringle family, who were related to Hamilton by marriage.The majority of the poems in this collection can be found either in the contemporary editions of Hamilton's poems, or in the later 1850 edition (see Bibliography). However, most of the present manuscript poems differ...

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Script or notes for a lecture about Dr. Smith's 'Seann Dàna' ('Old Poems').

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Manuscript entitled 'Linton Parish Poets', probably by the Rev. Samuel McLintock, minister of West Linton from 1871 to 1922. West Linton is a Scottish village in the Borders.

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This poem appears to be unpublished. It is presumably an epitaph to his wife Catherine (or Kathleen) Hall who died in 1745. It is written in a very neat cursive hand, somewhat neater than the other poems.

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Manuscript poem entitled "A Prious Epigram on Ch_ h_n". First and last lines: "Cease Criticks! Cease vour weak impertinence / Who blame a G-—n blae a providence" … "Submiss obey” for one Disposing Care / Made him a Dull Dalrymple made so fair & Hamilton so bright".

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Manuscript poem entitled "Chloe’s Picture, Writ in ye Isle of Arran by M. W. Wallace". First and last lines: "As Pleasure’s richest Cup I fil'd w[i]t[h] wine / Mellifluous silling from that Source divine" ... "To Cyprus Isle, none ever came so fair / Tho late I hung up both my Hepburns there."