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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:

Manuscripts and typescripts of 27 poems of Joe Corrie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10040
Scope and Contents

With four inscribed copies of published collections of Corrie`s poems and short stories.

Dates: 1927-1928 and undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of 'A Clyack Sheaf' by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1957, 1968, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27015
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscripts and typescripts of some individual poems published in the collection, 1957, undated (folio 1); (ii) Fair manuscript copy probably made from the published text, undated, (folio l8). A page is missing between folios 59 and 60. (iii) Typescript, marked up for the printer, 1968 (folio 83).

Dates: 1957, 1968, undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of Alastair Reid's translations of poems by Jorge Luis Borges., 1976, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27457
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript drafts and typescripts, 1976, undated, of some of the poems in 'The Gold of the Tigers', published as part of ‘The book of sand’ (New York, 1977) (folio 1); (ii) Manuscripts and typescripts of five poems printed in ‘Borges, a reader’, edited by E Rodriguez Monegal and Alastair Reid (New York, 1981) (folio 32); (iii) Drafts of other poems, undated (folio 38).

Dates: 1976, undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of articles, reviews and talks by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1940-1964, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26149
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript of an autobiographical work, 'Function of x', 1940 (folio l); (ii) Notes, manuscript and typescript of part of a story, 'Storm Drum', undated (folio 6); (iii) Newspaper cutting and typescript of a broadcast review of Robert Garioch, ‘Chuckies on the Cairn’ (Hayes, 1949) (folio 21); (iv) Corrected typescript of a broadcast review of editions of Byron's letters, 1950 (folio 25); (v) Corrected typescript of a lecture on modern Scottish literature,...
Dates: 1940-1964, undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of articles, short stories, and part of a novel of Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1938-?1980, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26612
Scope and Contents

The papers include (folio 12) the manuscripts of the autobiographical pieces, 'Growing up' (‘A Garioch miscellany’, edited by R Fulton, Edinburgh, 1986, pages 11-12) and 'Early days in Edinburgh' (‘As I remember’, edited by M Lindsay, London, 1979, pages 45- 58). Many of the manuscripts are written on the backs of letters and other scrap paper.

Dates: 1938-?1980, undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of Eric Linklater., 1916-1922, 1952-1962, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10282/22-41
Dates: Majority of material found within 1916-1922, 1952-1962, undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of fifty poems of Robert Alan Jamieson, with a prose article on Hugh MacDiarmid.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10781/1-2
Scope and Contents These manuscripts and typescripts represent Robert Alan Jamieson's work in this medium since the publication of his last volume of poems in 1986. They are intended for inclusion in a forthcoming collection, but have been compared with the published versions which have already appeared in periodicals, where this has been possible. As the collection itself has not yet been published, the main assessment of then has been a comparison between the various manuscript and typescript versions of...
Dates: Circa 1989-1993.