Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript and typescript material from collection around George Sims and the Tragara Press
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1452
Identifier: Coll-1613
Scope and Contents
The ms and ts collection, and printed ephemera, is composed of correspondence, cards and book-labels, some of which are items which had been placed inside volumes within the George Sims and the Tragara Press monograph collection (Folders 1-6), and a few gifted separately by the same seller (Folder 7). The items are: Folder 1 - Cards, with poems:
All that has follied with the sun is done,...
Dates:
1938-2000
Manuscript poems by Josiah Conder
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1308
Scope and Contents
This is a substantial manuscript book of poems all written by Josiah Conder - quarto, 4-page index followed by 192-pages of poetry, and containing 79 poems. Most of the poems are dated and a few towards the end of the volume are signed. The poems were all written by Conder when he was aged between fifteen and nineteen, and 25 of them may have been published in various places including Conder's first book, The associate minstrels (1810). Perhaps five of...
Dates:
1805-1812
Manuscripts from the William Drummond of Hawthornden Collection
Collection
Identifier: De
Scope and Contents
This collection is some of the manuscripts that William Drummond of Hawthornden collected and is the proportion donated to the University of Edinburgh.
Dates:
1482 to early 17th century
Material relating to Tessa Ransford
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1727
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of the following materials:
1 x spiral bound copy of Granny's Guest 1902-1945, by Torfrida, which is an account of Ransford family life from the birth of Torfrida, her mother, in 1902, until Tessa and her family returned to Britain in the 1940s, pp.73
1 x bundle correspondence from Walter to Tessa, Duncan [Glen] to Tessa, and...
Dates:
1975-2010
Papers of Louisa Matilda Crawford, nee Montagu
Fonds — Box CLX-A-336
Identifier: Coll-1839
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of loose leaf songs and poems, letters, notes, 10 stitched booklets and a manuscript notebook all relating to, or produced by, Louisa Matilda Jane Crawford (1789-1857) a songwriter. There is both professional correspondence relating to the publication of her work and personal love letters between herself and her husband. Most of the records date from the latter half of Louisa’s life, when she was married, living in London and earning an income through her songwriting....
Dates:
1650-1930; Majority of material found within c 1789-c 1857
Papers of Professor William T. Baxter
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1160
Scope and Contents
Professor Kenneth E. Boulding had kept in touch with Professor William T. Baxter throughout his career, and the collection of Baxter papers here at Edinburgh is composed largely of American-style circular letters distributed to friends at Christmas and describing family life, visits, events during the year past, and ambitions for the coming year. There are letters from: 1967; 1968; 1969; 1971; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1984; 1985; 1986; and 1990. The collection is also composed...
Dates:
1963-1993
Poems of Alison Murray Oliver
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1246
Scope and Contents
The collection of around 24 pieces of poetry and prose on Scottish themes by Alison Murray Oliver are contained in a hand-made file or folder.
Dates:
1928-1980
Receipts and other papers of the Campbell and Arthur families of Patna, Ayrshire
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1552
Scope and Contents
The papers in this small collection are from the Campbell and Arthur families of Patna, Ayrshire. They date between 1779 and 1887. They include:
Receipt dated Edinburgh 29 May 1862. received from Mr. David Arthur five punds fifteen shillings being Years Rent for subjects occupied by him at Patna Village
Order or Receipt, dated Dallmellington 27 November 1867, Wm. stewart to...
Dates:
1860-1870
Robert Nye papers
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-54
Scope and Contents
The collection includes, largely: working notes; drafts; typescripts; correspondence; source material; and, publishing house material. The collection, received at various points since the 1990s, is formed by the following components: MSS 2881-2916 (35 archive boxes), containing material relating to:
Merlin - working notes, drafts, typescript, copies of source...
Dates:
1969-2005
Scrapbook album compiled by Violet de la Mare, including two manuscript poems by Walter de la Mare
Item — Box CLX-A-354
Identifier: Coll-1834
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook album compiled by Violet de la Mare, sister-in-law of poet Walter de la Mare. It contains numerous newspaper clippings, some relating to de la Mare's fiction and articles by him; and two unpublished poems by Walter to his nephew James Roy Delamare.
Dates:
1884-1950