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Poets

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

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

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

Material relating to Sorley MacLean

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1271
Scope and Contents At E2010.23 there is an autograph letter signed as 'S. MacLean' to Mr Stephen (probably Meic Stephens), placed and dated Plockton, 5 August 1969. The brief letter is about the Taliesin Congress and how Maclean will 'accept your invitation to attend the Taliesin Congress'. Meic Stephens (born 1938) was then Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council.Three later additions: 1) autograph letter signed to David Morrison (poet and editor) referring to a previously unpublished...
Dates: 1969-1987
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Hamish Henderson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1438
Scope and Contents The papers of Hamish Henderson consist of letters, journals, article off-prints, newsletters, notebooks, printed work, miscellaneous ephemera and photographs, books, School of Scottish Studies material, along with fragments of poems and songs, some unpublished. There are also articles, scripts and essays which had been sent by others to Henderson. Henderson's correspondents include many of the 20th century's leading folk singers, musicians, and scholars, political figures and...
Dates: 1900-2002
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Poet tells how 'puritanical' Scotland kept him from coming out (Scotland on Sunday), 9 Apr 2000

 Item
Identifier: GD61/11/2/4/246
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Dates: 9 Apr 2000
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) / Information Resources / Press Cuttings / Press Cuttings

Recent Gaelic poets, 1896

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/30
Scope and Contents

A script for a lecture delivered by Makinnon on 16 March 1896.

Dates: 1896
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Lecture notes / University lectures

Scotsgay Issue 56, Feb 2004

 Item
Identifier: GD61/11/2/8/15
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Dates: Feb 2004
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) / Information Resources / Press Cuttings / Press Cuttings

Signed copies of poems of George Mann MacBeth

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1459
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of 3 x mimeographed typescript copies of poems, being:


  1. 'The Wasp-Woman', after Ponge - signed George MacBeth
  2. 'Noah's Journey' [1966] - signed George MacBeth
  3. 'The Castle', after le Chastel d'Amours - signed George MacBeth
Dates: 1969-1971
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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