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Scottish literature

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

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

2 letters from H J C Grierson to Dear Sir

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1556
Scope and Contents The letters are: 1 x ts dated 23 October 1944, written 12 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, and addressed to 'Dear Sir'. Grierson suggests that 'you will look at that interesting book' entitled 'Sir Walter Scott's Friends' by Florence MacCunn (1909). In it 'you will find that it was Mrs Ann Murray Keith [...] who declared that she recognised stories she had told Scott'. 1 x ms dated 30 October...
Dates: 1944

Corson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-1022
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...
Dates: 18th-20th century

Manuscripts and copies of manuscripts relating to Sir Walter Scott, 18th-20th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1022/CCWS/MSS
Scope and Contents

This series contains:


  1. Manuscripts all or partly in Sir Walter Scott's hand;
  2. Original manuscript letters from, to, or about Sir Walter Scott;
  3. Manuscripts of works about or relating to Sir Walter Scott;
  4. Copies of manuscripts relating to Sir Walter Scott.
Dates: 18th-20th century

Visual materials illustrative of the life and work of Sir Walter Scott, 18th-20th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1022/CCWS/ILL
Scope and Contents This series contains: Original artworks inspired by the novels and poems of Sir Walter Scott; Engravings of scenes and characters from Scott's novels and poems, of geographical locations associated with Scott's life and works, of people associated with Scott, and of Scott himself; Photographs of Abbotsford House and other places associated with Scott; ...
Dates: 18th-20th century

Watercolour painting depicting a scene from Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake, c 1815

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0050
Scope and Contents This is a watercolour painting of a scene from Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake, by Thomas Stothard, signed. The scene depicts Ellen Douglas and James Fitz-James (i.e. King James V of Scotland in disguise) on a rocky shore (of Loch Katrine), with him in a skiff, holding a pole. This is either the moment of going ashore, in Canto I of Scott's poem, or the moment in Canto II, when he departs the next day. The hunting horn (small) with which he...
Dates: c 1815