Scottish literature -- 19th century

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Composite item with two fragments pasted to a third leaf.

First fragment is a clipping of a printed column, detailing the marriage and issue of Walter Scott. At the time of writing, Charlotte Scott has died (15 May 1826) but Anne and Charles are still living (died in 1833 and 1841 respectively).

Second fragment is a handwritten note, relating to the submission of correspondence to Walter Lockhart Scott at Abbotsford, dated 1839.

Scope and Contents The Corson Collection consists of materials assembled by James Clarkson Corson (1905-1988), Deputy Librarian of Edinburgh University and Honorary Librarian of Abbotsford.It is comprised of two sub-divisions. The first consists of materials related to Sir Walter Scott, including manuscripts, artworks, realia, memorabilia, press-cuttings, and critical materials, which were purposely collected by Corson to complement his extensive collection of printed works by or about...

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Letter written by Lady Charlotte Scott from Castle Street on 2 December 1823, inviting Mr Sharpe [potentially Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe] to dinner on 8 December 1823.

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Manuscript extracts from John Gibson Lockhart text, Peter's letters to his kinsfolk, published 1819. Containing parts of Letters LXVII and LXIX, holograph with the author's corrections. Marked as 'matters unfit' by author.

Outside of container bears notes in several more modern hands, suggesting uncertain attribution and provenance. One reads "? Proffessor John William (Christopher North) Moral Philosophy. Born 1785, died 1854."

Scope and Contents Letter from Sir Walter Scott to Professor Josiah Walker, 18 December 1819. Scott declines to provide Walker with a reference for an academic position in a classical field at a university - presumably Chair of Humanity and Laws at the University of Edinburgh. Scott asserts that he is unqualified to pass judgement between Walker and another able candidate, James Pillans. As Scott knows Pillans socially, he fears that he will also be asked to endorse Pillans' application, and would prefer to...

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Manuscript fragment containing extracts from Walter Scott's Tales of a Grandfather, published betweem 1828 and 1830. In Scott's hand.

Recto: 'p.a.p.202. We cannot wonder that a man of Lovat's character... a relation of the Argyle'.

Verso:'of his unfortunate and announced... hint of any discord'. The printed text differs from the MS. at several places.

Content Description A full-length autograph manuscript (386 leaves) of R. M. Ballantyne’s Erling the Bold: A Tale of the Norse Sea-Kings, a novel of Viking life, inspired by Icelandic sagas. This is very much a working manuscript with alterations, clarifications and revisions to every aspect of the text including changes to characterisation, dialogue, narrative development and descriptive writing. From the evidence of this manuscript, this was Bannatyne’s first draft of the...

Scope and Contents This fonds consists of publisher and editor David Douglas' personal copies of The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (1890, vol. I and II) and Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott (1894, vol. I and II), extra-illustrated with correspondence.David Douglas, an Edinburgh publisher, oversaw the editing and publication of The Journal of Sir Walter Scott in 1890 and ...

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Song for the anniversary meeting of the Pitt Club of Scotland, 1814. Authored by Sir Walter Scott, and taken down by Miss [Susan] Ferrier.

Begins: 'O dread was the time [and] more dreadful the omen / when the brave on marching lay slaughter'd in vain...'

Song is compiled of 5 verses, each spanning 8 lines. Dramatic and nationalistic is invoked through broad iambic tetrameter and an approximate ABAB rhyme scheme.

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Transcript of an extract from The Lay of the Last Minstrel, with an engraving of Sir Walter Scott pasted above.

Extract spans Canto IV, verse XXXII, lines 20-28.

Engraving initially published by Thomas Phillips, 1822.