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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 'Radio Forth Ryhmes' by Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1975-1977.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26589-26590
Scope and Contents

Robert Garioch Sutherland was commissioned by Radio Forth to write and broadcast a light-hearted poem once a week, and he completed a series of a hundred such verses. They are not included in his ‘Complete poetical works’ (Edinburgh, 1983). The manuscript drafts were written on the backs of letters and circulars (the more important of which have been indexed), and other scrap paper.

Dates: 1975-1977.

Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Revelations', 'Selena and Denis Drive Off’, and 'The Serpent's Back’, short stories by Ian Rankin, with related working notes., 1995-2003, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.50464
Scope and Contents 'Revelations'. Manuscript, undated, including working notes. Folios 1-17.'Selena and Denis Drive Off by Ian Rankin'. Annotated typescript, 2003, with author's annotations. Folios 18-38. Annotated typescript, 2003, partial draft, with author's annotations. Folios 39-53. Working notes, 2003. Folios 54-56.'The Serpent's Back: A Short Story by Ian Rankin'. Photocopy typescript, 1995, final draft sent to EQMM. Folios 57-74. Annotated photocopy typescript, 1995, final...
Dates: 1995-2003, undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of reviews, critical works and poetry of Tom Leonard.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11807
Scope and Contents

Includes video and radio cassettes concerning "The City of Dreadful Night" and "Radical Renfrew".

Dates: 1965-1999.

Manuscripts and typescripts of Robert McLellan concerning Arran, Loch Lomond and bee keeping., [1959, or before], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26428
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript and corrected typescripts of 'The Macmillans of Arran', published in the ‘Scottish Field’, volume cvi (1959), pages 29-31 (folio 1); (ii) Corrected typescript of 'The History of Arran', written for the official guide to the island, undated (folio 31); (iii) Manuscript and corrected typescript of an article on Brodick Castle, undated (folio 34); (iv) Manuscript and typescript drafts of the commentary and shot sequence for a documentary film on Loch...
Dates: [1959, or before], undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of selected sets of poems of William Soutar, apparently intended for publication., [Before 1944.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8597-8606
Scope and Contents

Many of the poems appear individually in William Soutar's published works, while the remainder are apparently unpublished.

Since, in MSS.8599-8603, there are a considerable number of unpublished poems, they have been indicated by an asterisk in the contents lists which Soutar compiled for these volumes.

Dates: [Before 1944.]

Manuscripts and typescripts of short stories of Fred Urquhart., 1936-1968.

 File
Identifier: MS.26992
Scope and Contents Some of the short stories are written on the backs of letters and reports on books. The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript of 'I fell for a sailor', 1936. (Folio 1.) It was published in Fred Urquhart's collection ‘I fell for a sailor and other stories’ (London, 1940). (ii) Manuscript and corrected typescripts, 1941, of 'The Tattie Dressers', published in Urquhart's ‘Selected stories’ (London, 1947). (folio 7.) (iii) Typescript, heavily corrected in Manuscript of 'To Skye with Mona...
Dates: 1936-1968.

Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Step Right Up’, ‘Stirling's castle, or how a tiny piece of moss became a king’, 'The Story That I Wrote’, 'A Story That Won't End', 'The Suffering’, and 'Superhumanatural', short stories by Ian Rankin, with related notes and correspondence., 1981-2009.

 File
Identifier: MS.50466
Scope and Contents 'Step Right Up, By Ian Rankin'. Annotated typescript, 2009, with author's annotations. Annotated 'July 09, Tom Waits-themed song for BBC Radio 3'. Folios 1-5.‘Stirling's castle, or how a tiny piece of moss became a king’. Carbon copy typescript, undated, annotated ‘a short story conceived by Ian Rankin, initial impetus by Miranda Harvey’. Folios 6-12. Manuscript, 1983. Folios 13-17.'The Story That I Wrote’. Typescript, 1984, latest draft, with by-line ‘edited by Ian...
Dates: 1981-2009.

Manuscripts and typescripts of ‘Stony limits and other poems’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [1934, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.27004
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise an incomplete contemporary manuscript of the whole collection, with the title 'Forty New Songs' (folio 1), and drafts and fair copies of individual poems (folio 58), including some versions in English and poems deleted from the first edition.

Dates: [1934, or before.]