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Poetry

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

Found in 106 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Robert Calverley Trevelyan from Sophie Weisse, 22 November 1932

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2634
Scope and Contents

Letter, 22 November 1932, Surrey, Sophie Weisse to Robert Trevelyan. Discussion of poetry as an art. Holograph signed.

Dates: 22 November 1932
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from James Brotherstone Laughton, 02 July 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/24
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from James Brotherstone Laughton introducing himself as the only remaining member of the Oineromathic Club, suggesting the publication of some poems by Edward Forbes, and offering some for this purpose.

Dates: 02 July 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence concerning the compilation of 'Memoir of Edward Forbes'

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from O. L. Richmond, c1920

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1516
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Letter, [n.d], O. L. Richmond to Donald Tovey. A poem for Tovey on his wisdom and mastery of music. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Sophie Weisse from Hilaire Belloc, 08 July 1911

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2042
Scope and Contents

Letter, 8 July 1911, Sussex, Hilaire Belloc to Sophie Weisse. Suggesting that Tovey put music to Belloc's children's verses. Typescript signed.

Dates: 08 July 1911
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Sophie Weisse from Mary V, c1900

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2548
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Letter, [n.d], Longniddry, Mary V to Sophie Weisse. Thanking Miss. Weisse for sending a copy of Nettleship's works, and enclosing poems for Miss. Weisse to read, news from Scotland. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letters from George Mackay Brown to Lawrence Millman

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-373, Folder: Coll-1878: Letters from George Mackay Brown to Lawrence Millman.
Identifier: Coll-1878
Content Description This fonds comprises 81 manuscript letters sent by George Mackay Brown to American writer and ethnographer Lawrence Millman, who was George M. Brown's only regular North American correspondent. Brown and Millman met in Stromness in 1977, and were friends for fifteen years. In his letters, Brown talks about his personal life and his writing, and refers to Millman's irish book Our Like Will Not Be There Again, as well as his prose poems. They corresponded...
Dates: 22 July 1977-12 February 1987
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

List of proverbs and vocabulary, c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/30
Scope and Contents

List of proverbs and vocabulary. Also lists some Fenian poems noting that there are '44 verses in the Muileartach'. Carmichael gives the English equivalents for two of the proverbs (folio 60v).

Dates: c1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Maitland, Richard. The selected poems of Sir Richard Metellan of Lydington, Late 16th century

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Identifier: De.3.71
Scope and Contents

This is a volume of collected poems of Sir Richard Maitland, Senator of the College of Justice, an Ordinary Lord of Session from 1561 until 1584, and notable Scottish poet.

Dates: Late 16th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts from the William Drummond of Hawthornden Collection

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections