Typescripts.
Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:
Typescript copy of a detailed examination of ‘The Report ... of the Board ... on their examination into the conduct ... of Lieut.-General Sir John Cope’ by John Murray of Broughton, sometime Secretary to Prince Charles Edward., [1749, or after.]
The volume is lettered 'Vol. III'.
Typescript copy of a journal of a tour to Italy, made from London in 1891 by James John MacLehose, printer, Glasgow; bound with a volume of pamphlets from the library of the author.
The outward journey was made by sea to Brindisi, and the homeward by land, through Switzerland, France, and Belgium.
Typescript copy of a letter, 1918, of Norman Leys, medical officer in Nyasaland, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies concerning the political situation in British East Africa; together with a letter, 1960, of George Bennett to the Reverend Dr J W C Dougall concerning the letter of Leys., 1918, 1960.
Typescript copy of a letter concerning the Nore Mutiny., 1874.
Typescript copy of a letter, of Sarah Hodgson, Newcastle, to Leonard Pickard, York, referring to James Thomson's description of Mrs Robertson in ‘The seasons'., 1797.
Typescript copy of a letter of Sir Walter Scott to Maria Edgeworth on her novels and on the small Scottish lairds., 1812.
Typescript copy of a letter of William K Dickson on manuscripts in Paris relating to Scottish history., 1896.
Typescript copy of a manuscript register of Leith Races, 1753-1770.
Typescript copy of A Pearson, "Lays of Laurencekirk, Luce and Glenderon".
Typescript copy of a play of Robert Laing, "The Knight Errant".
Typescript copy of "A Soldier`s Story" by Captain Gregor Macdonald, Queen`s Own Cameron Highlanders.
Typescript copy of an apparently unpublished article entitled 'The Fallacy of the Douglas Scheme' by Maurice H Dobb, with a typewritten letter from the firm of Routledge and Kegan Paul to Mr C K Ogden concerning its publication., 1925.
Typescript copy of an early, unpublished version of James Kelman, "A Chancer" (1985).
With a note by the author on the composition of the novel.
Typescript copy of an incomplete diary of Charles McKelvie, Isca, near Campbeltown.
Describing journey on S S Dunedin, with his sister, as an emigrant to Port Chalmers, New Zealand.
Typescript copy of an interview between Hugh Fortescue, Viscount Ebrington, later 2nd Earl Fortescue, and the Emperor Napolean I, written originally by France Horner.
Typescript copy of an unpublished history of Broughton Secondary School, Edinburgh, by John G Sinclair.
Typescript copy of "Bibliography of George Thomson's Folio Collection of Scottish Airs, with supplementary sections for separate accompaniments, sonatas, & other works, compiled by Thomas Davidson Cook"., [Circa 1922.]
Leaves of a carbon copy containing additional details have been inserted after the corresponding leaf of the main typescript. The Bibliography is preceded by two letters, 1922, of Frank Kidson on Thomson (folio i) and "Notes on the bibliography of George Thomson's Scottish Airs" (folio xiii).
Typescript copy of chapters i-xv of 'Recollections of a long and busy life' by George Smith., 1895.
Typescript copy of chapters xvi-xxvi of 'Recollections of a long and busy life' by George Smith., 1895.
Typescript copy of collection of poems of Gorman Benton, "Report from Java 1976".
Typescript copy of "Country Magazine", nos 25-50, a series of BBC Home Service broadcasts, 1943-1944, annotated by Francis Collinson, and a typescript copy of a Scottish Home Service broadcast, 1955.
The Scottish Home Service broadcast typescript is of "A Scottish Journey", in which Collinson makes a musical journey of Scotland.
Typescript copy of David Purves, "The Knicht o the Riddils: a Comedy in Three Acts".
Typescript copy of diary of Captain D P Apthorp, Royal Norfolk Regiment.
Concerns time as prisoner of war of the Imperial Japanese Army.
Typescript copy of dissertation concerning Alasdair Gray, by Neil Irons.
Typescript copy of 'Green days in forests. Some recollections and reflections of a timber merchant' by James Begg, with original photographs.
The volume contains photographs, pasted in, of loggers and timber merchants and their horses and machinery at work in and around Glasgow; farm animals and birds; landscapes and scenery encountered in the course of Begg's work; and a portrait photograph of the author's father.