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Typescripts.

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

Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:

Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents

Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.

Dates: 1799-1853, undated.

Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.346- is now part of Acc.10884.
Dates: 1671-1692, 1930-1989, and undated.

Duplicated typescript, undated, of the play ‘The flouers o Edinburgh’ by Robert McLellan., [Before 1952.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26464
Scope and Contents

The typescript contains annotations, probably by a member of the Citizens' Theatre for their production in 1952.

Dates: [Before 1952.]

Early plays of Robert McLellan., 1934-1950.

 File
Identifier: MS.26331
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Corrected typescript and page-proofs of ‘Jeddart Justice: a Border comedy’ (Glasgow, 1934) (folio l); (ii) Corrected typescript of 'The Flight of Graidhne: a Celtic folk-tale in one act', ?1934 (folio 25); (iii) Typescripts, ?1935 and 1950, of ‘The Changeling’ (folio 49). This was first published in ‘Scottish one-act plays’, edited J M Reid (Edinburgh, 1935).

Dates: 1934-1950.