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Typescripts.

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

Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:

Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1655-1741.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.5.1
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Process between John Fairholm of Craigiehall and George Dundas of Dundas concerning the building of a seat in Dalmeny kirk, 1655-1660 (folio 1).(ii) Process at the instance of Jean Dundas of Dundas against George Dundas of Dundas concerning her jointure, 1687-1697, preceded by a typed list of documents (for the final item of which see Adv.MS.80.3.50) (folio 30).(iii) Minutes concerning action by George Wilson...
Dates: 1655-1741.

Legal papers of William Wilson and Son., 1782-1879.

 File
Identifier: MS.9676
Scope and Contents

The papers include the following:

Papers concerning the dispute in 1787 over the right of the country weavers to buy yarn at the Stirling market (folio 1);

Miscellaneous petitions, 1779-1836 (folio 62);

Miscellaneous accounts and receipts, 1783-1878 (folio 88);

A typescript history of the firm, 20th century (folio 110).

Dates: 1782-1879.

Letter, 1964, of Doris Lessing to Naomi Mitchison.

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Identifier: Acc.10307
Scope and Contents

With typescripts of literary works of Mitchison.

Dates: 1964 and undated.

Letter of Robert Louis Stevenson to Robert Allan Mowbray and Louisa Stevenson, from Hyères.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3364
Scope and Contents

The letter is elaborately bound with a typescript copy, and boxed.

Dates: 1884.

Letters and miscellaneous papers of James Hyman Singer, ‘Burns Singer’., 1948-[circa 1970], undated.

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Identifier: MS.27436
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Letters of Singer, 1948-1964, undated (folio 1). They include a letter to Marguerite Caetani, 1952, explaining why he used the name 'Burns Singer' (folio 4), and a letter to the publisher Fredric Warburg, ?1956, with proposals for two books (folio 11). (ii) Miscellaneous papers, 1957-circa 1970, undated (folio 33). A typescript list of works by Singer is included (folio 41).

Dates: 1948-[circa 1970], undated.

Letters and papers of John H Balfour-Browne, Kings Counsel (1885-1921).

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Identifier: MS.19609
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, 1846-1919, undated, chiefly addressed to John H Balfour-Browne. They had been kept as a collection of autographs and include fragments of letters and signatures (which have not been indexed). The correspondence mostly concerns Balfour-Browne's literary work and legal matters. (Folio 1.)(ii) Typescript with manuscript corrections and newspaper cutting of 'A Criticism and a Reminiscence' by Balfour-Browne, published in the...
Dates: 1814-1919, undated.

Letters and papers of Rachel Armand Taylor (1876-1960), poet and journalist, who was a student of Herbert Grierson's at Aberdeen University in the 1890s and with whom he kept up a lifelong correspondence., 1895-1946.

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Identifier: MS.9328
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Letters, 1895-1946, of Rachel Taylor to Herbert Grierson in which she discusses her work and other literary and personal matters (folio 1);(ii) Manuscripts and typescripts of poems by Taylor (folio 67); some of these were published in ‘Some poems’ (London, 1904), and in ‘The end of Fiammetta’ (London, 1923), but the rest, including 'East Coast' (folio 133) and the typescripts dated 1945-1946 (folios 138-167), appear to be...
Dates: 1895-1946.

Letters and papers of Ronald Campbell MacFie, poet and physician (died 1931), who was a friend and contemporary of Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University., [Circa 1895-1931, or after.]

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Identifier: MS.9329
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, circa 1895-1896, and one of 1927, of Ronald MacFie to Herbert Grierson, concerning personal matters, MacFie's pacifism, metaphysics, and chiefly poetry. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letters to Grierson concerning MacFie, written after his death in 1931 by various correspondents, chiefly common friends. (Folio 87.)(iii) Manuscripts and typescripts of MacFie's poems, including a fragment of the first proof of ‘Collected Poems’...
Dates: [Circa 1895-1931, or after.]

Letters and papers of Sir Charles H Firth, and of his wife, Lady Frances Firth, to Professor David Nicol Smith., 1909-1939, undated.

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Identifier: MS.19601
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Letters and papers, 1909-1936, undated, of Sir Charles H Firth. Many of the letters take the form of brief notes but the papers include manuscripts and typescripts of reviews and articles. (Folio 1.)

(ii) Letters and papers, 1926-1939, undated, of Frances, Lady Firth, mostly concerning the disposal of Sir Charles's books. (Folio 186.)

Dates: 1909-1939, undated.