Literature
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Gay Scotland, Issue 22, Aug 1985
Item
Identifier: GD61/10/2/24
Scope and Contents
This front cover reads: “Fest Extra” and shows dancer Michael Clark and a short article included in this issue discusses his Edinburgh International Festival show, which was designed by Leigh Bowery. This issues discusses: the Edinburgh Gay and Lesbian Pride rally and the London “Lesbian and Gay Pride Carnival Parade ; a forum for the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG); the suicide of a gay man who had been evicted from his lodgings; discrimination against gay men and...
Dates:
Aug 1985
Gay Scotland, Issue 23, Sep 1985 - Oct 1985
Item
Identifier: GD61/10/2/25
Scope and Contents
The front covers reads "Toronto Exclusive", and shows a large crowd with some holding banners. An article in this issue discusses the first International Gay Association (IGA) Conference held Toronto between 1 July 1985 and 7 July 1985. This issues discusses: funding for Scottish AIDS Monitor (SAM); funding for the London Lesbian and Gay Centre; the suicide of a gay man who had been evicted from his lodgings and a report in the Scotsman relating to a speech given by Robin Cook...
Dates:
Sep 1985 - Oct 1985
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
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
Manuscript: 'Love Thy Neighbour', by Mary D Geikie, early 20th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-99/10/15
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of story: Love Thy Neighbour by Mary Dorothea Geikie.
Dates:
early 20th century
Mimeographed typescript of the 1962 International Writers Conference in Edinburgh, 20-24 August 1962
Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0086
Scope and Contents
Complete mimeographed typescript of the entire proceedings of the 1962 International Writers Conference, held on 20-24 August 1962 at the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh, during that year's Edinburgh Festival.The conference's list of delegates included such luminaries as Norman Mailer, Colin McInnes, Henry Miller, Alexander Trocchi, Mary McCarthy and a host of other over 70 writter in all. The career of William Burroughs was effectively launched by his contributions to the event, on the...
Dates:
20-24 August 1962