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Press cuttings. Information artifacts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Illustrations, pages, articles, or columns of text removed from books, newspapers, journals, or other printed sources. (AAT) 'Press cuttings' NLS preferred form.

Found in 2179 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript and marked galley proofs of a speech, "Peel`s reply to Palmerston Augt. 1852 [=1842]", by Robert Peel., 1842.

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Identifier: MS.42519
Scope and Contents

The title has been taken from the front cover. The date on the cover is given as 1852, but an annotation on the galley proofs, in Peel`s hand, confirms the date of the speech as 19 August 1842.

Dates: 1842.

Manuscript and marked proofs of a speech on the repeal of the Corn Laws, by Robert Peel., [1839]

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Identifier: MS.42521
Scope and Contents

Annotated 'Sir Robert Peel's speech on the repeal of the Corn Laws on the 4th night of the debate 1846', but the speech in fact is in support of the Corn Laws, delivered in February 1839 when Peel was in Opposition.

Dates: [1839]

Manuscript drafts and typescripts of papers by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: ‘What is the Super Ego?’; ‘The Super Ego Conception’; ‘Modern Views about Mental Disease’; ‘Some Points in the Analysis of a Woman without Genitalia’: and, ‘The Super Ego and Unconscious Sense of Guilt’., 1929-1931.

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Identifier: MS.50176
Scope and Contents The papers are arranged chronologically.1929.‘What is the Super Ego?’.Manuscript draft and publicity, 1929, of a paper, ‘What is the Super Ego?’ read at the British Psychological Society, Scottish Branch meeting, 2 November 1929. Folios 1-36.Manuscript draft, 1929, of Fairbairn’s paper, ‘What is the Super Ego?’. Folios 1-34. Typescript and press cutting, 1929, of publicity for Fairbairn’s paper, ‘What is the Super Ego?’. Folios...
Dates: 1929-1931.

Manuscript of John Cam Hobhouse concerning the destruction of the memoirs of Lord Byron; with related letters., 1824-1869.

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Identifier: MS.43534
Scope and Contents Following the death of Lord Byron in April 1824, various interested parties met at the house of John Murray on 17th May of that year. These included John Murray [II], Thomas Moore, John Cam Hobhouse and representatives of both Lady Byron and Augusta Leigh. After a discussion, the group decided that the manuscript containing the memoirs of Lord Byron should be burned and they proceeded to do so in the drawing room fireplace. This act caused great controversy and the items in this folder...
Dates: 1824-1869.

Manuscript of part 3 of ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1943-1946, 1951-1957.

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Identifier: MS.50198
Scope and Contents Another copy of the manuscript, the typescript portions of which are carbon copies of those in MSS.50203-50204. Like the other copy this is a composite of articles in typescript and offprint arranged in the sequence in which they were to be published in ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’. Each of the articles has been amended by Fairbairn in preparation for its inclusion in ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’.Part 3.Amended offprint from...
Dates: 1943-1946, 1951-1957.

Manuscript of ‘The Trans-Caucasian campaign of the Turkish army under Omar Pasha: a personal narrative’ by Laurence Oliphant., [1855, or after.]

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Identifier: MS.4855
Scope and Contents

Pages of "Blackwood's Magazine", November 1855, containing Laurence Oliphant's article, 'The eastern shores of the Black Sea', and press-cuttings from Oliphant's articles in 'The Times' have been incorporated into the manuscript, with emendations and additions.

Also included (folio 223) are corrected pages of Oliphant's pamphlet, ‘The coming campaign', with page proofs of an introduction, printed as an appendix to the second edition of ‘The Trans-Caucasian campaign’.

Dates: [1855, or after.]

Manuscript, "The History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814", volume one, by William Napier., ? 1826-1928.

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Identifier: MS.42501
Scope and Contents

The manuscript has been annotated, "Copied out by Col. W. Napiers Lady". Included are three maps, in manuscript, of battle plans.

Also included is a letter, 27 December 1901, of J.B. Hughes relating an anecdote about Napier; and a newspaper cutting, "Napier`s `Peninsular War`", from "The Times", 29 March 1928.

Dates: ? 1826-1928.

Manuscripts and proofs of stories, articles and poems of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDairmid'., 1927-1968, undated.

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Identifier: MS.26035
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Corrected galley proof of the short story, 'The Dead Harlot'. (Folio l.) This was published in ‘New tales of horror by eminent authors’ (London, 1935), pages l44-148, but had already appeared in ‘Scottish Nation’, volume 2, number 7 (1923), page 8, under the title 'In the fulness of time’.(ii) Newspaper cuttings and galley proof of the story 'A' body's lassie'. (Folio 3.) The cuttings from the ‘Scots Observer’, 14 May 1927, have...
Dates: 1927-1968, undated.

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

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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, correspondence, and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12765/1-42
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, publications and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie (1913–1998) and his family. Robert Blair Wilkie was the curator of the Old Glasgow Museum 1965-1998 (formerly known as the People’s Palace Museum). Active member of the Scottish Nationalist movement (joined Scottish Nationalist Association under John MacCormick in 1937), in 1945 he was the SNP candidate in West Renfrewshire, and in the following year he was appointed editor of the Scots Independent...
Dates: 1870-2001.