NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS

Part 4: The Correspondence and Papers of John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854), Editor of the Quarterly Review, from the National Library of Scotland

Detailed Listing

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MS.142   Letters to Lockhart from Scott and others, 1818-1823, 1825, nd

Letters 1-48 regarding publishing, contemporary literature, criticism and other subjects.  Includes letters by James Murray of The Times, William Gifford, and Sir William Rae, and a bill of James Ballantyne and Co, 1824, accepted by Scott, 1818-1823, 1825, nd.

MS.143   Letters to Lockhart from Scott and others, 1825-1828, nd

Letters 49A-97 regarding publishing, contemporary literature, criticism and other subjects.  The long postscript to No 76 is by Anne Scott.

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MS.145   Letters from Lockhart to the Rev Whitwell Elwin, 1850-1854

Letters 1-15 regarding contemporary authors, politics (f29), and the current number of The Quarterly Review (f33). 34ff.

MS.341   Letters from Lockhart to the Rev Whitwell Elwin, 1843, 1850-1852

Letters 1-20 regarding R P Gillies, Lord Glenlee, Lord Jeffrey, Wordsworth and S T Coleridge. 37ff.

MS.820   Letters from Lockhart to Allan Cunningham, 1822-1841, nd

Letters regarding Cunningham’s Lives of … British Painters and other matters. 89ff.

MS.859   Letters to Lockhart from Scott, 1821-1832

Received bound in date order and rebound with some corrections of the arrangement.  Includes a letter from John Murray to Scott relating to the copyright of Marmion, 1829 (f100).  ii + 183ff.

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MS.923   Letters to Lockhart, 1812-1854, mostly as Editor of the Quarterly Review

Contains 178 letters, including items by:

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MS.924   Letters to Lockhart, 1812-1854, mostly as Editor of the Quarterly Review

Contains 138 letters, including items by:

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MS.925   Letters to Lockhart, 1812-1854, mostly as Editor of the Quarterly Review

Contains 122 letters, including items by:

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MS.926   Letters to Lockhart, 1812-1854, mostly as Editor of the Quarterly Review

Contains 129 letters, including items by:

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MS.927   Letters to Lockhart, 1812-1854, mostly as Editor of the Quarterly Review

Contains 98 letters, all from John Wilson Croker.

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MS.928   Letters to Lockhart, 1812-1854, mostly as Editor of the Quarterly Review

Contains 123 letters, all from John Wilson Croker.

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MS.929   Letters to Lockhart, 1812-1854, mostly as Editor of the Quarterly Review

Contains 97 letters, including items by:

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MS.930   Letters to Lockhart, 1812-1854, mostly as Editor of the Quarterly Review

Contains 143 letters, including items by:

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MS.931   Letters to Lockhart, 1812-1854, mostly as Editor of the Quarterly Review

Contains 152 letters, including items by:

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MS.932   Letters to Lockhart, 1812-1854, mostly as Editor of the Quarterly Review

Contains 114 letters, including items by:

MS.933   Letters to Lockhart, 1812-1854, mostly as Editor of the Quarterly Review

iv + 97ff.  Contains mainly family letters.

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MS.934   Letters to Lockhart, 1812-1854, mostly as Editor of the Quarterly Review

303ff.  Contains miscellaneous letters, including items by Sidmouth, Count Vladimir Davidoff and others.

MS.935   Letters to Lockhart, 1812-1854, mostly as Editor of the Quarterly Review

314ff.  Contains miscellaneous letters, with much on education and Sir Walter Scott.

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MS.936   Correspondence of James and Sophia Lockhart  with Maria Edgeworth, 1826-1847

Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) was a friend of Scott and the Lockharts.  70ff.

MS.1552   Correspondence of James and Sophia Lockhart and the Scott Family, 1820-1827

In addition to letters by James and Sophia Lockhart there are many letters of Anne (1803-1833), Charles (1805-1841), and the second Sir Walter Scott (1801-1847), down to the years of their respective deaths.   There are also letters by Southey and Baillie. 247ff.

MS.1553   Correspondence of James and Sophia Lockhart and the Scott Family, 1828-1831

In addition to letters by James and Sophia Lockhart there are many letters of Anne, Charles, and the second Sir Walter Scott, down to the years of their respective deaths.  There is also an important letter by Cadell (f21) concerning Sir Walter Scott’s debts.  253ff.

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MS.1554   Correspondence of James and Sophia Lockhart and the Scott Family, 1832-1836

In addition to letters by James and Sophia Lockhart there are many letters of Anne, Charles, and the second Sir Walter Scott, down to the years of their respective deaths.   271ff.

MS.1555   Correspondence of James and Sophia Lockhart and the Scott Family, 1837-1840

In addition to letters by James and Sophia Lockhart there are many letters of Anne (1803-1833), Charles (1805-1841), and the second Sir Walter Scott (1801-1847), down to the years of their respective deaths.   295ff.

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MS.1556   Correspondence of James Lockhart  with his daughter Charlotte, together with Scott Family correspondence, 1841-1850

In addition to letters by James and Sophia Lockhart there are many letters of Anne, Charles, and the second Sir Walter Scott, down to the years of their respective deaths.   343ff.

MS.1557   Correspondence of James Lockhart  with his daughter Charlotte, together with Scott Family correspondence, 1851-1854

In addition to letters by James and Sophia Lockhart there are many letters of Anne, Charles, and the second Sir Walter Scott, down to the years of their respective deaths.   194ff.

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MS.1558   Correspondence of James Lockhart  and the Scott Family, undated

In addition to letters by James and Sophia Lockhart there are many letters of Anne, Charles, and the second Sir Walter Scott, down to the years of their respective deaths.   I i + 207ff.

MS.1623   Notebook of J G Lockhart

MS.1624   Notebook of J G Lockhart

Note-books of J G Lockhart, nd, containing sketches of German students and other subjects, notes of autobiographical allusions in the Waverley novels, notes of law cases etc.  52 + 54ff.

MS.1625   Ladies’ Album with caricatures by J G Lockhart

An undated copy of the Ladies’ Album (Edinburgh), in which are pasted caricatures of persons, some of which are probably by Lockhart.  The title-page bears an engraving of Abbotsford. 12 portraits.

MS.1626   Scrapbook of J G Lockhart

Scrap-book, containing caricatures, some dated 1813, and other drawings, chiefly by J G Lockhart, engravings, etchings, lithographs, etc.  They include the drawing of Fenella dancing before Charles II (by C K Sharpe?) (no 78), that of Lockhart and others riding to Selkirk (no 80), and the portrait of Charles Scott, 1820 (no 82), all reproduced in Andrew Lang’s Life and Letters of… Lockhart,  and a portrait of Tom Purdie, 1822 (no 79). The album also contains Select Sonnets by George Huntly Gordon (printed, nd) with an autograph dedication by the author to Mrs Hope-Scott, 1857 (no 63).  87 items.

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MS.2262   Letters from Lockhart and others to Whitwell Elwin, 1849-1859

Letters addressed chiefly to the Rev Whitwell Elwin on matters relating to The Quarterly Review  by J G Lockhart, W E Gladstone, Lord Brougham, and others, 1849-1859, preceded by a copy of a letter of Byron to Edward Noel Long, 1807, and including letters of Mrs Gaskell relating to the breach between the Ruskins, Charlotte Brontë’s marriage, etc, 1854, nd. 137ff.

MS.3995   Poems by Lockhart

Autograph manuscripts of “Farewell to the Year”, from a German Taschenbuch of 1828 , and “To the Virgin” and “Prayer”, from the Spanish. 2ff.

MS.4817   Manuscript and corrected proofs of postcript to the 3rd edition of Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk by Lockhart

Commences with the manuscript (f1), followed by the corrected proof (f31). The 3rd edition was published in Edinburgh in 1819.  42ff.

MS.4818   Manuscript of Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair

Published in Edinburgh in 1822.  80ff.

MS.4819   Corrected proofs of Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair

Published in Edinburgh in 1822.  i + 339pp.

MS.4820   Corrected proofs of The History of Matthew Wald by Lockhart

Covers pages 1-9, 11-17, 33-36, 49-80, 129-130, 139-144, and 369-372.  Published in Edinburgh in 1824.  38ff.

MS.4821   Manuscript of part of Valerius by Lockhart

The manuscript covers part of Chapter V and all of Chapter VI.  Published in Edinburgh in 1821.  6ff.

MS.4822   Corrected proofs of The Mad Banker of Amsterdam, a poem by Lockhart and On the Cockney School of Poetry, a review by Lockhart

The poem was published, in part in Blackwood’s Magazine, January 1820, in “Letter from the Ettrick Shepherd.”  The review was published in Blackwood’s Magazine, October 1817, with the omission of a passage on Leigh Hunt.  3ff.

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