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Typescripts.

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

Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and papers, including manuscripts, typescripts, articles and reviews, of Nigel Tranter.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9402/1-58
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of novels, topographical works, and articles, together with correspondence comprising around 2000 letters.

Dates: [?1955]-1986.

Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 1(1)-Box 46(2)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1962-1976, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Charles Augustus Muir.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9522
Scope and Contents

Concerning Muir`s literary work and to his history of the Royal Scots, "The First of Foot" (1961).

Dates: 1915-1987.

Correspondence and papers of Derek Stanford.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11050
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of critical works on Muriel Spark, research notes and proofs of works of Muriel Spark.

Dates: circa 1955-1976.

Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including papers and printed material of the Scottish National Party, PEN International and other political and cultural bodies.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6419 Box 1(1)-Box 108(3)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles, reviews and lectures.

With letters of and to various correspondents, including James Bridie, C M Grieve, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Naomi Mitchison, and Edwin Muir.

And documents and correspondence concerning the SNP, PEN, the Saltire Society, and other organisations.

Dates: 1890-1973, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including printed material, mostly concerning Scottish politics.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7085 Box 1(1)-Box 32
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles, reviews, addresses, and broadcast talks, with letters on literary, academic and political matters.

Also printed items concerning the Scottish National Party, PEN, and other organisations.

Dates: 1938-1973, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Dudley Sommers., 1952-1964, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20661-20665
Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists chiefly of letters to Dudley Sommer, with a few drafts and, from 1958, several copies in typescript carbon of his replies. A few transcripts of letters of J S Haldane sent to him during his researches are also enclosed.

Press cuttings containing reviews, some of which give rise to correspondence with reviewers and editors, are contained in the chronological sequence (chiefly May-July 1960).

Dates: 1952-1964, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Gilbert Askew, concerning his research into the history of the bagpipe.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14222/1-5
Content Description

A collection of papers of Gilbert Askew (1893-1950), numismatist and expert on the Northumbrian bagpipe. It contains correspondence and press cuttings concerning Askew's published works 'The bibliography of the bag-pipe', 'Two sets of miniature bagpipes in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland' and 'The bagpipe in Early Britain', and material collected for an unpublished work entitled 'The bagpipe in England'.

Dates: 1929-?1950.

Correspondence and papers of James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde, concerning the Grant trust., 1929-1944.

 File
Identifier: MS.24722
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Further Grant Trust correspondence and papers, 1940-1944 (folio 1); (ii) Copy, agreement and deed of trust between the trustees of the National Library, and Sir Alexander Grant and his trustees, January 1929 (folio 93); (iii) Copies of supplementary agreements (2) between the same parties, March-April 1933 and August-September 1935 (folio 103); (iv) Copy, memorandum by Lord Clyde on the Grant Trust, 24 June 1939 (folio 121); (v) Manuscript draft and...
Dates: 1929-1944.

Correspondence and papers of John Wilson, missionary in Bombay., 1826-1875, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.8955
Scope and Contents The principal contents are: letters (with typescript copies) of John Wilson as secretary of the Edinburgh Association of Theological Students (folio 1); his plans for missionary work (folio 36); letters to him from various orientalists and politicians (folio 46); papers on George Strachan (folio 116); ninth-century accounts of India (folio 122); notes on Indian history (folio 134); a translation by Aviet Aganoor of Eznik's treatise against the Parsis (folio 159); and a paper (imperfect at...
Dates: 1826-1875, undated.

Correspondence and papers of or concerning General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.16407-16420
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.

Dates: 1759-[circa 1947.]

Correspondence and papers of Robert Duncan Macleod, editor of the ‘Library review’.

 File
Identifier: MS.10330
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Corrected typescripts and manuscripts of articles by Frederick Niven and others, published in the ‘Library review’, volumes iii-iv (1932-1934), and in ‘Modern Scottish literature’, edited by R D Macleod (Glasgow, 1933), pages 13-16. (Folio 1.)(ii) Correspondence between Macleod and L Stanley Jast, 1930-1944, concerning libraries and Jast's contributions to the ‘Library review’. It includes the manuscript of an article by Jast, 'The man...
Dates: 1930-1944.