The contents are as follows. (i) Two typescripts of ‘The Cailleach’ (folio l). The play was published by A and J Donaldson in ‘Seagull plays, second collection’ (Glasgow, 1946), pages 3-16. (ii) Carbon copies of two typescripts of 'The Smuggler' (folio 42). The first has a few manuscripts corrections. The play was published in ‘Chapman’ xliii-xliv (1986), pages 20-33.

Contains the following plays: (i) 'Ae Fond Kiss', undated (folio 1). A play about Robert Burns. For a related play, see MS.26493, folio l40. (ii) 'Aftermath', circa l930 (folio l5); (iii) 'Assassination', circa l935 (folio 40); (iv) 'At the Sign of the Fallen Angel: a thriller', undated (folio 61); (v) 'The Bad Yin: a Scots play', circa l955 (folio 90); (vi) 'Brief Authority', ?circa l950 (folio ll2).

Contains the following plays: (i) 'The Burden of War', circa 1960 (folio 1). This is related to some of the scenes in 'Red Sky at Morning' (MS.26507). (ii) 'The Deer', ?circa 1950 (folio 34); (iii) 'The Editor', circa 1957 (folio 60); (iv) 'The Gold-digger: a Scots comedy', circa 1950 (folio 84); (v) 'The Gold Find', undated (folio ll5); (vi) 'Harry's Wife', undated (folio l36).

Contains the following plays: (i) “The King o' Kinedder”, circa l955 (folio 1); (ii) 'The Last Day', undated (folio 27); (iii) 'The Life Nut: a comedy', ?1939 (folio 50). The first page of dialogue is missing. (iv) 'The Lion and the Lamb', undated (folio 75); (v) 'Love takes a Turn: a comedy', undated (folio l06); (vi)) “A Man's a Man; or Burns amang the Gentry”, undated (folio l40); The beginning of a play on the same theme as 'Ae Fond Kiss' (MS.26490, folio 1).

Contains the following plays: (i) 'The Old Pioneer', 1958 (folio 1); (ii) 'The Old Tradition: a rural comedy', circa 1960 (folio 31); (iii) 'The Palace Chimney Sweep', undated (folio 65); (iv) Three versions of 'Playing with Fire', a comedy, undated (folio 89). The first version, which has the title 'There's many a slip', has been typed on the back of part of a typescript of another play, “The Flo'er o' Lowther”.

There are two different versions (folios 1-44 and 45-109 respectively). The versos of folios 46-109 contain parts of the typescripts of ‘The thirteenth disciple’ and of the stories, 'It is written' and 'The Passage of the Dawn', from ‘The Calends of Cairo’.

The contents are as follows. (i) Chapters 15-17 of ‘Yesterday will return’ (London, 1946) (folio 1); (ii) Chapters 1-4 of 'One summer is all', a novel about an unemployed man in Glasgow, undated (folio 34).

The typescripts, which include revision by both Panels, are signed by Herbert Grierson, and there are manuscript corrections in his hand.

File contains a typescript letter from the scholar and translator Peter Green, dated 13 November 1965, to Jock Murray VI, of John Murray, publishers, alongside two typescript drafts of the translated text, with corrections, and manuscript and typescript editoral notes. A typescript reader's/editor's report is also present.

The contents are as follows. (i) 'A Saint in Armour: a play in four scenes', ?1954 (folio 1); (ii) “The Maid of Domrémy”, undated (folio 123). This is the first scene only of (i), with a few alterations, and may be the text of the play televised on 4 February 1954.

The plays include an adaptation of Tom Hanlin's novel ‘Once in every lifetime’ (London, 1945) (folio 29) and three plays (folios 1, 86, 137) related to his short stories (MS.27421, folios 13, 83, 102). There are two versions of the play 'One more chance' (folios 86, 112).

A journalist by training, Alexander Brown Paterson was a founder and chairman of the Byre Theatre, St Andrews, where many of his plays, including these, were first produced.