Literature
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 8 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
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
Letters from Walter de la Mare
Fonds — Box CLX-A-352
Identifier: Coll-1836
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a total of 23 Walter De la Mare letters dating from 1926 to 1953 including: 14 letters to Mrs. Verity (7 autograph letters signed and 7 typed letters signed); 3 autograph letters signed to Marie Lamigeon; 6 typed letters signed to various other people. More perspective on Walter De la Mare's thinking can be understood regarding this important and accomplished English poet and novelist.
Dates:
1926-1953
Letters of Anders Naessil, including five from Arthur Koestler
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1141
Identifier: Coll-1936
Content Description
This fonds includes seven letters of Anders Naessil: five from Arthur Koestler to A. Naessil, one from A. Naessil to Newsweek magazine, and one from Marie Whiteside, Editor of Newsweek to A. Naessil.
Letter from Koestler to Naessil replying to a previous letter, mentioning Naessil's book on Hemingway, Sartre, and a Nobel banquet that Koestler attended. Dated 21 June 1980.
Letter from...
Dates:
1980-1983
Papers of Andrew Lang
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-732
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of letters to various individuals including: those to H. Massie; those to Frances Bickley; letter to Mrs. Allhusen; letter to W. E. Henley; letter to Brookfields; letter to Frank Harris; letter to Miss Wynne; and, a batch of circa 20 letters including correspondence with Courtney Hill, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Smalley, 'My dear Page', Mr. Ashcroft, Miss Neaves, Mr. Deane, Mr. Rideing, and unnamed correspondents. Also includes manuscript letters written by his wife Leonora...
Dates:
1887-1910
Papers of Arthur Melville Clark
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-65
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Arthur Melville Clark contain lecture notes; lectures and articles on Sir Walter Scott; material on Shakespeare; Edinburgh University examinations material; some work on rhyme; material on heraldry and genealogy, and on the Order of St. Lazarus; correspondence, personal material and some photographs; speeches; reviews; and, books and a notebook containing poems with some inserted letters....
Dates:
circa 1920
Papers of Professor Andrew Brown
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-9
Scope and Contents
The papers of Andrew Brown consist of notes and papers on the history of North America during the War of Independence and including material on Indians, Nova Scotia and colonial history, and general miscellaneous material.
Dates:
circa 1820
Records of Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-25
Scope and Contents
The records of Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. consist of: general day books, ledgers, account books, details of sundry creditors, letter books, and commission books for the years 1861-1915; general correspondence and letters to and from a variety of individuals 1895-1960; material from trade representatives, editorial notices, sales department material; and other miscellaneous material. Within the Nelson Papers there is a very large body of correspondence between John Buchan and...
Dates:
1861-1961