Literature
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Album and scrapbook collected by Jessie Aitken Wilson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1504
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of:
1 x book of photographic portraits containing portraits of Albrech Duerer, Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, George Sand, Matthew Arnold, and cardinal newman, and others. The album was given to Jessie Aitken Wilson by novelist Mrs. Oliphant and is inscribed, 'This Book was the gift of Mrs. Oliphant'.
1 x packet of (4) loose photographic...
Dates:
1850-1870
Autograph Letter Signed from Andrew Lang to Walter Leaf, late 19th-early 20th century (before 1912)
Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0038
Scope and Contents
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to "Dear Leaf' (Walter Leaf, 1852-1927, Businessman & Banker), in which he "accept[s] and shall injest, the 'belief in' emendation, and the French Republic in your review. But do you think your society does know a lot of the historical matter? They keep their science pretty dark. I own I think that the coincidence of stories does point to sort of facts, either genuine, hallucination, or conjuring, for where conditions very so much as between Australian, New...
Dates:
late 19th-early 20th century (before 1912)
Autograph Letter Signed from John Murry to "Dear Eddie", early/mid-20th century
Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0037
Scope and Contents
Affectionate Autograph Letter Signed from John Murry to "Dear Eddie", asking his correspondent to "do what you can with these two books? The Vigo anthology was edited by W.W.G. I shall probably be up again on Friday. Shall we see each other? I think that Ihlee is extraordinary good - now that I have seen more of his work." Ructon Cottage, near Chichester, Wednesday, no year. Signed with Murry's nickname "Jack Tiger"."Ihlee" is Rudolph Ihlee (1883-1968), an artist who was a member...
Dates:
early/mid-20th century
EU Arts: English Literature, 1906-1907
File
Identifier: BAI 1/2/1
Scope and Contents
2 booklets of notes taken at 42 lectures in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
Dates:
1906-1907
'Farewell Miss Logan' by James Mathew Barrie, 24 December 1931
Item
Identifier: Coll-99/10/9
Scope and Contents
Newspaper supplement from the Times of a short story by James Mathew Barrie, Farewell Miss Logan, ( 1931) .
Dates:
24 December 1931
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
Lectures and sermons of George Gilfillan (1813-1878), minister of School Wynd Secession Church, Dundee
Fonds
Identifier: MS GIL 1
Scope and Contents
7 notebooks of lectures and sermons.1. Sermon notes, 1835-1836[?]. End leaves bear repeated ownership marks and pen trials.2. Two lectures 'On the existence and character of God', beginning front and back within the volume3. A popular history of British Poetry (continued).4. Lecture 2 - 4 on 'Robertson of Brighton'.5. Lecture 7 - 13 'On Christ'.6. Five lectures on British Literature7. Notes of sermons...
Dates:
1835-1871
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letter from Walter de la Mare to John Atkins, 2 April 1948
Item — Box CLX-A-371
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0117/2
Scope and Contents
Long autograph letter signed, from Walter de la Mare to John Atkins, dated 2 April 1948, The Old Park. The letter says that "Alas, I didn't deserve one word of your reference to the R.L.F [Royal Literary Fund]. I wish it were otherwise. Illness as you know prevented my attending the Meeting of the Committee. ... I was very glad to hear that a grant has been awarded... . All that you said concerning the writing of books keenly interested me. There are outstanding exceptions, of course, but,...
Dates:
2 April 1948
Letter to Robert Calverley Trevelyan from Sophie Weisse, 22 November 1932
Item
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
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