Publications of James Clarkson Corson

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-1022/JC/JCRS/PUBS
• Dates of Creation:20th century
• Name of Creator:
  Corson, James Clarkson, 1905-1988 (Scottish librarian and scholar)
• Physical Description:
  9 linear metres (approx) 17 boxes, 34 sheaves or bundles, 6 folders

• Scope and Content

  Working materials (typescripts, manuscripts, proofs, notes, index slips) for publications by James Clarkson Corson, including:
  A Bibliography of Sir Walter Scott (Oliver and Boyd, 1943)
  William Gell's Reminiscences of Sir Walter Scott's residence in Italy, 1832, ed. Corson (Nelson, 1957)
  Notes and Index to Sir Herbert Grierson's Edition of The Letters of Sir Walter Scott (Clarendon Press, 1979)
  Miscellaneous articles and lectures by Corson

  There are also materials for the following publications to which Corson contributed:
  The History of the University of Edinburgh 1883-1933, ed. A. Logan Turner (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1933: biographical notes by Corson)
  John Knox's History of the Reformation in Scotland (Thomas Nelson, 1949: indexed by Corson)
  D. W. Grieve's English Course for Secondary Schools, Bk 3 (Thomas Nelson, 195-?: indexed by Corson)

  This series also includes working materials for the following works that were commissioned by publishers but remained unpublished:
  The Thomas Nelson Edition of the Waverley Novels (series editor: Corson)
  Walter Scott: The Critical Heritage (Routledge)

  Routledge eventually published an entirely different text on Scott in the 'Critical Heritage' series by John O. Hayden (1970).

• Personal Names

  Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet)