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Photocopies.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: General term for copies produced by photocopying, that is, in a machine employing a light-sensitive process, and usually at a one-to-one scale. In the early to mid-20th century, used regarding copies made by various specific processes; since the mid-20th century, most often refers to xerographic copies.

Found in 1148 Collections and/or Records:

Continuation of Morrison's autobiography from 1866 onwards., ca. 1930.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14317/10
Scope and Contents

Photocopies from a notebook containing the continuation of Morrison's handwritten autobiography, beginning "On the 10th October 1866 I began teaching in Eriboll". The writing covers 48 leaves, mainly written on the recto sides only. The versos of pages 34-36 contain the additional story of the "Tongue piano". The original notebook remains in private hands.

Dates: ca. 1930.

Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11085
Scope and Contents

Indluding:

1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland

3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated

4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated

5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.

Dates: 16th century to 17th century.

Copies of letters, 1889, 1894, of Alexander and Duncan Matheson to their parents in Duirmish.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7029
Scope and Contents

With a biographical sketch, 1921, of Duncan Matheson from the Hudson`s Bay Company journal, "The Beaver"

Dates: 1889, 1894 and 1921.

Copies of manuscript music of Georges Bizet and Percy Grainger., 1943-1954.

 File
Identifier: MS.21560
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Negative photostats of the manuscript full score of Bizet's 'Valse avec Choeur' in G major; with other fragments (Paris Conservatoire MSS 428 and 431) (folio 1); (ii) Photocopies of the autograph manuscripts of pieces, 1943-1954, by Percy Grainger: Two Faroese dances, and 'Walking tune' for piano duet, 'Bristol town' for piano 6 hands, and "The widow's party" for piano solo prepared for the projected "Music lover's Grainger" (folio 79).

Dates: 1943-1954.

Copies of papers concerning a threatened legal action of The United Turkey Red Company against George Dallas, "Forward", and Tom Johnston.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6088/1-4
Scope and Contents Copies, typescript and xerox, of papers, 1911, of George Dallas of the Independent Labour Party concerning a threatened legal action of the United Turkey Red Company Ltd, against him and The “Forward” printing and publishing Company and Thomas Johnston, for the publication of statements on the working conditions of women employees in the Company’s Alexandria and other Vale of Leven plants by George Dallas, published in Forward. For statements on working conditions in the Company`s plant in...
Dates: 1911.

Copies of registration books and related documents of three Merchant Navy seamen.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11555
Scope and Contents

Papers mostly document work for shipping companies based or registered in Leith.

Dates: 1937-1981.

Copy of typescript of "With the Jocks" by Peter White, circa 1945-1960.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12887
Scope and Contents

Typescript includes text of unpublished opening to the work. Contained in a box displaying author`s own artwork. A brief memoir of Peter White by Frank Coutts accompanies the typescript.

Dates: circa 2007.

Correspondence, 1977-1982, mostly to Dr Michael J. McGrath, gathered as research for his thesis, 'James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon): A Study in Politics and Ideas in Relation to his Life and Work' (University of Edinburgh, 1983); with photocopies of letters, 1928-1932, of Gibbon to H G Wells.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10540
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:Ken Alexander (1), undated.John Campbell Arbuthnott (2), 18 July 1978, 26 October 1982.Gerald Austin (1), 12 January 1979.Peter Ritchie Calder (1), 11 June 1979.Ian Carter (1), 30 March 1979.Brenda R. Cluer (1), 28 June 1978.Robert Duncan (1), undated.Jon Evans (1), 8 March 1979.John Fraser (1), 1 August 1978.Margaret H. Fraser (1), 20 December...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1926, 1928-1932, 1977-1982, undated.

Correspondence and literary papers, including articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts, of Janet Adam Smith.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12342/1-203
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Dates: 1930-2005.

Correspondence and papers, 1996-1999, of Ronald Black concerning the publication of his work 'An tuil: anthology of 20th century Scottish Gaelic verse' (Polygon: Edinburgh, 1999); with papers, 1937-1999, relating to other work on 20th century Gaelic literature.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12035/1-38
Scope and Contents

Includes scripts of two unpublished Gaelic novels of the Rev Ewen MacLean, Edinburgh, and photocopies of 'Leabhar nam Prannag', manuscript poems of Ian Paterson.

Dates: 1937-1999, undated.

Correspondence and papers of and concerning Edward Arthur Walton., 1891-1925, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.19245
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Xerox copies of correspondence between Edward Arthur Walton and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and newspaper cuttings concerning Whistler's portrait of Thomas Carlyle, 1891-1905 (folio 1);(ii) Letters to Edward Arthur Walton, 1900-1911, undated, including letters from Andrew Carnegie and John Singer Sargent (folio 24);(iii) Letters, 1922-1925, to Walton's widow, chiefly letters of condolence on the artist's death, but...
Dates: 1891-1925, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Sir William Craigie (1867-1957), the philologist and lexicographer.

 File
Identifier: MS.9987
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters to William Craigie, 1886-1923, undated, chiefly from other scholars concerning philological and editorial problems. A few unrelated letters, 1825-1885, from Palmerston, Peel, and others, have been placed at the beginning. (Folio 1.) (ii) Correspondence, 1923-1957, undated, with C T Onions and the Clarendon Press, concerning the ‘Oxford English dictionary’ and its supplements. ‘The dictionary of American English’ and other lexicographical...
Dates: 1825-1957, undated.