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Manuscripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.

Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript of act I, and typescripts of 'True Minds', a play by Nancy Brysson Morrison about Thomas and Jane Carlyle, broadcast in 1952 and 1954., 1952, 1954, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27302
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript of Act I, entitled 'The Flint and the Flame', undated (folio 1). This is not the version written for broadcasting. (ii) Two typescripts of a version intended for broadcasting, undated (folio 15). The second (folio 56) is heavily corrected and has pencilled remarks by Peggy Morrison. (iii) Annotated typescript of the broadcast, 1954 (folio 90). (iv) Fragments of typescripts, 1952, undated (folio l36).

Dates: 1952, 1954, undated.

Manuscript of Agnes Mure Mackenzie entitled 'Seven kings and a queen'., 1934-1935.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9174-9175
Scope and Contents

The manuscript consists of a series of forty-two sections, with numbers 7-11, 13, 16-21, and 23 missing. Each section is marked 'R', probably because they are revised copies of MS.9173. They correspond to ‘The rise of the Stewarts’, except for chapter 6 and part of chapter 7, which are missing.

Dates: 1934-1935.

Manuscript of Alexander Scott's biography of the poet William Soutar, 'Still life'., [1958, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26479
Scope and Contents

The manuscript differs considerably from the published version. It is written in a series of eighteen notebooks with continuous foliation, and includes a few notes on vocabulary by William Soutar (folio i).

Dates: [1958, or before.]

Manuscript of an account by John Cam Hobhouse of his visit to Switzerland between the summer of 1816 and October 1817., ? 1831-? 1854.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42295
Scope and Contents This manuscript recounts a visit Hobhouse made to Switzerland in 1816. It details meetings with Lord Byron and Madame de Stael, as well as other people and places Hobhouse encountered during his journey.This work by Hobhouse was published by John Murray in 1859 as the first chapter of 'Italy : remarks made in several visits from the year 1816 to 1854'.The language of the manuscript is English, but where a remark was made in French, Hobhouse has recorded it...
Dates: ? 1831-? 1854.

Manuscript of an apparently unpublished article, 'A correct account of the escape of James Henry Attwood and his family from Odessa in the south of Russia', by James Henry Attwood., ?1841.

 Item
Identifier: MS.4762
Scope and Contents

James Henry Attwood, a British resident in Odessa, had become involved in proceedings with the Russian police.

The article contains copies of letters to his brother, Benjamin Attwood, and to Lord Heytesbury, British Ambassador at St. Petersburg.

Dates: ?1841.