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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:

Drafts and typescripts of articles and papers by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: ‘The Study of Mental Abnormality: Prolegomena to the Establishment of a National Laboratory for this Purpose’; ‘Dissociation and Repression’; and, notes for tutorials and lectures by Fairbairn., 1928-circa 1930.

 File
Identifier: MS.50173
Scope and Contents The articles and lectures are arranged chronologically. Where material concerning a particular work spans two or more years the papers are placed by the earliest date.1928.‘The Study of Mental Abnormality: Prolegomena to the Establishment of a National Laboratory for this Purpose’.Annotated typescript, 1928, of an article, ‘The Study of Mental Abnormality: Prolegomena to the Establishment of a National Laboratory for this Purpose’, contributed to the...
Dates: 1928-circa 1930.

Drafts, in two hands, of chapters 1-8 and 15-19 of 'Account of all the religious houses that were in Scotland' by John Spottiswoode., [1734, or before.]

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Identifier: MS.10284
Scope and Contents

The chapters are preceded by a list of contents in another hand of the 1734 edition of ‘Minor practicks’.

Dates: [1734, or before.]

Dramatic works by George Scott-Moncrieff., [1945]-[circa 1970], undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26941-26963
Scope and Contents

George Scott-Moncrieff wrote a number of plays, of which only ‘Fotheringhay’ was published (Edinburgh, 1953), although others were performed on the stage or broadcast. Most of the surviving typescripts are undated.

Dates: [1945]-[circa 1970], undated.

Dramatisation by Robert McLellan of 'The fire at Wolf's Crag Tower' from ‘The bride of Lammermoor’ by Sir Walter Scott., 1962.

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Identifier: MS.26399
Scope and Contents

the papers consist of preliminary notes (folio 1), manuscript and corrected typescript of the first draft (folio 12), partial manuscript and corrected typescript of the second draft (folio 61), and the broadcast script (folio 112).

Dates: 1962.

Dramatisations by Robert McLellan of episodes from 'Guy Mannering' and 'A legend of Montrose' by Sir Walter Scott., 1963.

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Identifier: MS.26400
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript of 'Lady Singleside's Will' from ‘Guy Mannering’, 1963 (folio 1); (ii) Manuscript and corrected typescript of 'Mission to Inveraray' from ‘A legend of Montrose’, 1963 (folio 31).

Dates: 1963.

Dramatisations by Robert McLellan of episodes from 'Old mortality' by Sir Walter Scott., ?1962-1963.

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Identifier: MS.26398
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Notes on the series, ?1962 (folio l); (ii) Manuscript and typescript of 'A Fight in a Change-House' from ‘Old Mortality’, 1962 (folio 4); (iii) Manuscript and incomplete typescript of 'Dragoons at Milnwood' from ‘Old Mortality’, 1963 (folio 44).

Dates: ?1962-1963.

Dramatisations, undated, by Robert McLellan of episodes from 'Redgauntlet' and 'The heart of Midlothian' by Sir Walter Scott., Mid 20th century.

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Identifier: MS.26401
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript of 'Peter Peebles' from 'Redgauntlet', undated (folio 1); (ii) Two manuscripts of 'Jeanie Deans goes to London' from 'The heart of Midlothian', undated (folio 34). The first breaks off half-way through; the second (folio 60) lacks the beginning. (iii) Typescript, with manuscript corrections, of 'Jeanie Deans goes to London', undated (folio 78).

Dates: Mid 20th century.