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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:

Piobaireachd Manuscript of Colin Cameron, piper to the Duke of Fife, and son of Donald Cameron, piper to Seaforth.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3745
Scope and Contents The volume, that is, the blank volume, was presented to Donald Cameron by Alexander Corbit, 5 May 1859; and Donald may have written the first few pages. But most of the volume, according to a note (folio i) by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society, appears to have been written by Colin Cameron; the last piobaireachd is described as having been 'noted by Colin Cameron, Nov. 22nd 1869' (folio 77 verso).The sources of the first 46 tunes are...
Dates: 1859-1869.

Plays written by Robert McLellan., 1934-1970, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26331-26391
Scope and Contents

Robert McLellan's early plays were intended for the stage, but he later wrote for both radio and television. Not all were published, and many circulated in typescript copies.

Dates: 1934-1970, undated.

Poem, 1956, of Joseph Macleod.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8647
Scope and Contents

With letter, 1983, of Macleod to George Bruce, enclosing a typescript poem.

Dates: 1956-1983.

Poem of unknown authorship entitled `The Valiant Christian` written in six chapters in rhyming pentameter couplets.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.8
Scope and Contents The manuscript is written in a formal italic hand: whether this is the original poem or a contemporary or near-contemporary copy is unclear. It is incomplete, lacking leaves after folios 4 and 9 (containing the end of chapter 1 and the beginning of chapter 2, and the end of chapter 2 and the beginning of chapter 3); and it ends, or breaks off, in the middle of folio 36 verso.The subject of the poem is George Gordon, 6th Earl (later 1st Marquess) of Huntly, and his part in the...
Dates: Late 16th century-early 17th century.

Poems and correspondence of Robert Crombie Saunders (born 1914).

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Identifier: MS.26799
Scope and Contents Robert Crombie Saunders, was the editor of ‘Scottish Arts and Letters' and the 'Scots Independent’. Many of his poems appeared in literary magazines.The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscripts and typescript drafts of poems, (circa 1940-1969, undated (folio 1). There are several versions of each poem. (ii) Letters to Saunders from Christopher Murray Grieve, Sydney Goodsir Smith, and others, 1943-1961, undated (folio 70); (iii) Fair copies of poems, 1969, undated...
Dates: [Circa1940]-1970, undated.

‘Poems’ by Allan Ramsay, volume 1 (Edinburgh, 1721), with, inserted at the front, a manuscript of two poems in Ramsay's hand, and two pen sketches of heads., 1721, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.9749
Scope and Contents

Tipped in to page 269 is a press cutting (folio 2) concerning the song ‘Polwart on the green’. On page xxviii is a contemporary note of the numbers of subscribers to the ‘Poems’.

Dates: 1721, undated.