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Poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

Commonplace book of Edith A. Vernon, 1859-1901

 Item — Box CLX-A-371
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0114
Scope and Contents This interesting piece of Edinburgh educational history is a commonplace book composed in two periods, 1856 and from 1891-1901, from the teacher training college at Dairy House, Edinburgh and probably the Edinburgh Institution For The Education Of Young Ladies at 23, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh.1856 entries make up a leavers book with a charming large collection of signed and dated entries of verse quotations, well-wishes and original prose/verse in English, German & French...
Dates: 1859-1901

Commonplace Notes, c1925

 Item
Identifier: BAI 1/1/6
Scope and Contents

A set of loose-leaf notes containing mostly quotations from poetry and philosophical and theological works.

Dates: c1925

Correspondence, late 19th-early 20th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-99/4
Scope and Contents

Correspondence consists of:


  1. family letters
  2. photographs
  3. poems & songs
  4. postcards
  5. presscuttings
  6. professional correspondence
Dates: late 19th-early 20th century

Early correspondence, c1908-c1922

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/1
Scope and Contents

Correspondence received by John Baillie and related items, from his early years as a student at the University of Edinburgh through until just after the First World War, including poet & friend William Watson (Willie) Peploe, John & Jeannie (Jane Mary) MacColl (his cousin and her husband), (Sir) Duncan Colvin Baillie (his cousin), Hugh Ross Mackintosh and James Seth.

Dates: c1908-c1922

Early poetry, c1900

 Item
Identifier: BAI 1/1/10
Scope and Contents

A notebook containing early poetry by John Baillie, including one about Gairloch and another about the Boer War.

Dates: c1900

Eglisham, George. George Eglis[ham] aduersus Andreae Meluini cauillum in aram regiam epigrammata prophylactica., Early 17th century

 piece
Identifier: De.1.12/12
Scope and Contents

This is a reply by the Scottish physician and poet George Eglisham to the Scottish scholar, theologian and religious reformer Andrew Melville's Epigramma in aram Regiam ... This poem was published in George Eglisham's Duelleum Poeticum. London, 1618.

Dates: Early 17th century

Family papers, 1723-1935

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-51/1
Scope and Contents 1 .1: 'Family dates C.K.M. 25.2.1935'. 1 fol. 1.2: 'Chronological table of the family of the Murchisons or as called in Gaelic McColman'. Notebook. 1 .3: 'Notes on Murchison family papers at Hargrave made by A.F.Rowe Aug. 1924'. 1.4: 'List of letters & papers acquired from Haffenden 1921 ...' with correspondence between various lawyers, Dec. 1920 - April 1922. 25 fols. 1.5: 'Incidents in the life of Colonel Donald Murchison'. 7pp, with postcards...
Dates: 1723-1935

Favourite poems, c1910-c1940

 Item
Identifier: BAI 1/1/14
Scope and Contents

A loose-leaf bundle of pieces of poetry (some identified) and lists of poems/poets

Dates: c1910-c1940

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW105
Scope and Contents

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing proverbs; Fenian tales; stories about shipwrecks; Roderick Morison 'An Clàrsair Dall' and his father John Morison tacksman of Bragar; the Beaton family; and about sea-faring; notes about islands in the Sound of Harris; and a small amount of vocabulary.

Dates: 1864-1869

For Prof McIntyre, c1909-1960

 File
Identifier: BAI 11/11
Scope and Contents

Files of items relating to John Baillie, compiled by Florence Jewel Baillie and/or other members of the Baillie family, and including notes on English literature, press and magazine cuttings on theological and other matters, poetry and correspondence.

Dates: c1909-1960