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Ballantyne, Robert Michael, (1825-1894), author

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Surname: Ballantyne
Forenames: Robert Michael
Gender: Male
Date: 1825-1894
Biography: ODNB link for Ballantyne, Robert Michael (1825-1894), author
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P131894 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P1378 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
literary MSS
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MSS 1698-1702, 1760-61, 20443
See Annual Report 1988-89 p13
2
1801-65: corresp and papers incl some of his father
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc.11961
See Annual Return 2001
3
c1870: sketchbook
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc.12640
See Annual Return 2006
4
1887-91: letters from him
Edinburgh Central Library
NRA(S)3563
NRA 38890 Edinburgh CL

See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
5
c1850-68: (copies) diaries and letters
British Library, Manuscript Collections
RP 275
6
1869: autograph manuscript (386 leaves) of R. M. Ballantyne’s Erling the Bold: A Tale of the Norse Sea-Kings, a novel of Viking life, inspired by Icelandic sagas. Working manuscript with alterations, clarifications and revisions
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Coll-2074 (accession number: SC-Acc-2022-0086)
See Annual Return 2022