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Typescripts.

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

Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:

Writings of Vero Bosazza on various African explorers., 1955-1978.

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Identifier: MS.20340
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) 'The end of the Lawhill', 1955 (with some later additions) (folio 1);(ii) “Dr Livingston's geological description omitted from I. Schapera (1953) ‘Livingstone's African journals 1853-1856'”, 1973 (folio 8);(iii) 'The pioneer surveys in the Zambesi and Shire Valleys and the mapping of Malawi', 1974 (folio 29);(iv) 'Transcription of a letter from Thomas Maclear to Dr Livingstone, Royal Observatory C. G. Hope July...
Dates: 1955-1978.

Writings of Vero L Bosazza on nineteenth century explorers of African countries, chiefly David Livingstone.

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Identifier: MSS.20333-20340
Scope and Contents Vero L Bosazza, a South Africa geologist who worked in various African countries, became interested in the nineteenth century travellers there, especially David Livingstone. In retirement he wrote extensively on them, his personal knowledge of the localities giving his work a dimension frequently lacking in other scholarship. His writings are almost entirely unpublished, except in the sense that he distributed copies of them to various libraries with interests in African history....
Dates: 1861-1865, 1955-1979.

Xeroxed typescript of Alasdair Gray`s `Lanark`, book 3, chapters 1-7.

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Identifier: Acc.13403
Scope and Contents

The typescript is slightly different from the chapters as published in `Lanark`. The manuscript dedication on the title page states that the copy was given by Alasdair Gray to his friends, ---- and Frances McIlhenny, in Glasgow, xxx.

Dates: 1969.