Scottish literature
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to Dr. Mary Ringsleben, 30 August 1958
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1384
Scope and Contents
The letter was written by Hugh MacDiarmid on 30 August 1958 from 'Brownsbank', Candymill, Biggar, Lanarkshire. It is addressed to Dr. Ringsleben - Mary Ringsleben having been awarded her Ph.D. two years earlier in 1956 (Aberdeen). MacDiarmid apologises for having 'retained your thesis so long'. He refers to having seen Dr. David Murison (deputy editor of the Scottish National Dictionary) in Edinburgh and that he had 'just missed you'. He describes the Ringsleben thesis as 'an...
Dates:
fl. 1956-1968
Letters of Samuel Smiles
Fonds — Box CLX-A-373
Identifier: Coll-1877
Scope and Contents
Collection of 17 autograph letters signed (ALS), from Samuel Smiles (Scottish author and government reformer) to various correspondents, discussing literary and publishing matters, his works and lectures, and various business and financial matters.
29 November 1852: letter to Thomas Nunneley, one page, 4to., relating to 'the amount of compensation which was to be offered to...
Dates:
1852-1896
Literature: St Columba, Late 19th or early 20th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/38
Scope and Contents
This item does not seem to have been recorded in the collection. The component unique identifier has been added as 'Mackinnon B.63(?)' so as to ensure it is maintained with this collection as this is where it was found during the digital cataloguing process.
It appears to be a script for a lecture about the literature involving or influenced by St Columba. There is no indication of the dates when the lecture was delivered, but it was presumably delivered by Mackinnon.
Dates:
Late 19th or early 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:
- Manuscripts all or partly in Sir Walter Scott's hand;
- Original manuscript letters from, to, or about Sir Walter Scott;
- Manuscripts of works about or relating to Sir Walter Scott;
- Copies of manuscripts relating to Sir Walter Scott.
Dates:
18th-20th century
Papers of William Saunders, 1900s-1940s
Series
Identifier: Coll-1022/JC/WS
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of:
Correspondence;
Lecture notes (from Saunders' time as an Edinburgh University Student);
Notebooks covering a variety of musical, literary, and historical subjects;
Typescripts of two dramas by Gordon Roberts (submitted to Saunders for review);
Typescripts of 8 articles on musical subjects by Janet, Baroness...
Dates:
1900s-1940s
Section I. Documents of Scottish literature and history, 15th century-18th century
Series
Identifier: La.I
Scope and Contents
Documents of Scottish literature and history constitute Section I of the Laing Collection with shelfmarks La.I. The collection contains historical documents and royal letters from the time of King James III to the Union of Scotland with England in 1707. There are documents with original autograph signatures or holograph documents by various statesmen and noblemen, and papers relating to, and letters by, ecclesiastical persons. This Section also defines a band of material including papers,...
Dates:
15th century-18th century
The Harris Transcript of old Scottish Ballads - bound volume with manuscript transcript of Scottish ballads
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1818
Content Description
This important bound volume with ms transcript of Scottish ballads had been in the ownership of Mr. Hilary Corke, a Lecturer at Edinburgh University, 1951-1955. It is one of two ms volumes known as the Harris Repertoire. Corke had 're-discovered' it in 1955. Much earlier it had been sought after by collectors Norval Clyne, the Aberdonian advocate, and by Francis James Child. It contains a book-plate with arms on the inside front-board - 'Hilary Corke'. On one...
Dates:
1850-1860
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
- Printed illustrations relating to the life and works of Sir Walter Scott
- Postcards and photographs of places associated with Sir Walter 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