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Typescripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Typewritten documents.

Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:

Typescript draft of ‘The will’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with some revisions in Barrie's hand, and with others (in blue pencil, mostly cuts) that may be in another hand.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6644
Scope and Contents

This version is very close to that printed in ‘The definitive edition of the plays of J M Barrie’, page 809, but with fewer details of setting and stage direction. Corrections made in the draft have been incorporated into the printed text.

Dates: [Circa 1913.]

Typescript draft of, with manuscript corrections and additions to, 'A pageant of Dumbarton' by Robert McLellan., 1972.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26387
Scope and Contents

The draft includes (folio 85) several scenes in Part III which do not appear in Robert McLellan's second typescript (MS.26388), but parts of which were used in Richardson and Baptiste's adaptation (MS.26389).

Dates: 1972.

Typescript drafts, both much corrected and added to, with parts of a third, of a history of the lower Niger in the nineteenth century; a brief account of the administrations is followed by a detailed postal history.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20327-20332
Scope and Contents

The authors appear from internal evidence to be William W Forsyth and H G Porter, the date of composition the late 1930s.

Dates: [?1935-?1939.]

Typescript drafts of a paper, ‘Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Psycho-Analysis’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1951-1952.

 File
Identifier: MS.50200
Scope and Contents The papers are arranged chronologically.1951.Letter, 1951, of James Inglis, Honorary Secretary of the Edinburgh University Psychology Society, to William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The letter concerns an invitation to Fairbairn to speak at the Society, where Fairbairn later read his paper ‘Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Psycho-Analysis’. Folio 1.1952.Amended typescript, 1952, of a draft paper, ‘Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of...
Dates: 1951-1952.

Typescript drafts of act 1 of ‘Shall we join the ladies?’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with corrections and revisions in the hand of the author.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.6625-6635
Scope and Contents The drafts represent six, rather late, stages of composition. They are not entirely consecutive and would seem to be the remains of a total of nine immediately preceding the published text. MSS.6625 and 6626 represent the first of these stages; MSS.6627 and 6628 the second; MSS.6629 and 6630 the fourth; MSS.6631, 6632, and 6633 the fifth; MS.6634 the sixth; and MS.6635 the eighth. A stemma, with explanatory notes, has been inserted in MS.6625. The drafts are of interest as showing Sir James...
Dates: [Circa 1921.]

Typescript drafts of George Davie, "The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect".

 File
Identifier: Acc.9287
Scope and Contents

With manuscript drafts of part of the work.

Dates: 1986.

Typescript drafts of novel of Jessie Kesson, "Where the Apple Ripens" (1978).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7845
Scope and Contents

With manuscript and typescript of associated short story and radio play, undated.

Dates: 1978 and undated.

Typescript drafts of 'Old friends' by Sir James Matthew Barrie, annotated, apparently for the original production of March 1910., Early 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.6636-6638
Scope and Contents

There are indications that this group of manuscripts was corrected and annotated with the original production of March 1910 in mind. In particular, MS.6638 has no corrections in James Barrie's hand, but has many stage and lighting directions in another hand, probably that of the 'D. McRae' whose name is written on the cover label. It may well have been the electrician's or stage manager's copy.

Dates: Early 20th century.