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Transcripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written, printed, or typed copies of an original text or of words originally spoken, such as of court proceedings, broadcasts, or oral histories. Transcripts are extremely accurate copies with any editorial explanations or notations clearly distinguished from the original, including indications of misspellings or editorial omissions. For less formal copying, or for short documents or single words such as in a vocabulary, use "transcriptions."

Found in 618 Collections and/or Records:

Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11154/1-47
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).

Dates: 1959-1990.

Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).

 File
Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated

Poems and letters of Robert Louis Stevenson.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3788-3794
Scope and Contents

All, except the poems in MS.3791, are accompanied by transcripts.

Dates: 1881-1887, undated.

Poems of George Lauder, transcribed, 17th century, chiefly from printed copies indicated in the manuscript.

 File
Identifier: MS.1806
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains the following poems. (i) Valedictory Address, 1622. (Folio 1.)(ii) On the Execution of Charles I. Printed: Delft, 1649. (Folio 2.)(iii) 'Good Wishes to His Highnes the Prince upon His Birth Day, 14 November'. (Folio 3.)(iv) 'The wnconstant Lover', 1624. (Folio 3 verso.)(v) 'For the Heroycall L: Colonel Lauder ... A Christmas Carol'. Signed: F G. (Folio 4.)(vi) 'The Souldiers Wishe'. Printed: Edinburgh, J...
Dates: 17th century.

Poems of John Donne transcribed by William Drummond of Hawthornden; and notes on civil law taken by William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort to James IV., 1580-early 17th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2067
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows.

'Thirre poems belonginge to Jhon Don transcribed by William Drummond', used in John Donne's ‘Poems’ (Oxford, 1912), edited by Herbert J C Grierson. (Folio 1.)

Notes and accounts in the hand of Sir William Drummond. (Folios 1 verso, 39 verso-40.)

Notes on civil law taken by William Fowler in Paris (folio 49), signed, 1580 (folio 65).

Dates: 1580-early 17th century.

'Proceedings [of the] Home Department [of the] Government of India: Legislation for the purposes of assuming some degree of control over the newspaper press in India' ([Simla], 1907), with correspondence and other papers., 1907.

 File
Identifier: MS.12632
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Miscellaneous correspondence and papers relating to sedition and to the control of the press, 1907-1911 (folio 1); (ii) Papers relating to the resignation of Sir Bampfylde Fuller as Lietenant-Governor of East Bengal and Assam, 1906 (folio 149); (iii) Transcripts of letters and a petition against the partition of Bengal, 1906 (folio 190).

Dates: 1907.

‘Psyche, or, The Legend of Love’, a transcript of Mary Tighe’s poem., 1802, 1805.

 Item
Identifier: MS.162
Scope and Contents

On the title-page are the words, ‘M. Tighe, London, July 20th, 1805’. The preface is dated, Rossanna, January 1802.

Dates: 1802, 1805.

'Random Memories', being Robert Louis Stevenson's rough draft of the beginning of an autobiographical work, with a typed transcript., Late 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3112, folios 304-311
Scope and Contents

Robert Louis Stevenson speaks of his birth in Edinburgh, and describes a visit made to Homburg when he was twelve.

Dates: Late 19th century.