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Typescripts.

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

Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript and typescript drafts of novels and other works of Mary Stewart, with related papers and digital resources.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13680/1-29
Scope and Contents

The papers relate mainly to the following books by Mary Stewart:

‘Madam, Will You Talk?’ (London, 1954)

‘The Crystal Cave’ (London, 1970)

‘A Walk in Wolf Wood’ (London, 1980)

‘The Wicked Day’ (London, 1983)

‘Thornyhold’ (London, 1988)

‘Frost on the window, and other poems’ (London, 1990)

‘Stormy Petrel’ (London, 1991)

‘Rose Cottage’ (London,1997).

Dates: Circa 1954-1997.

Manuscript and typescript drafts of prose pieces by Alastair Reid., 1967-1977, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27463
Scope and Contents

The papers include part of Alastair Reid's translation of Mario Vargas Llosa, 'Los Cachorros' with an introductory note (folio 1).

Dates: 1967-1977, undated.

Manuscript and typescript of '40 Years', George Scott-Moncrieff's autobiography., [?1950.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26968-26969
Scope and Contents

The autobiography describes George Scott-Moncrieff's childhood and life as a writer in London and Scotland, his marriage, and family life up to his departure from Eigg in 1950 after the death of his first wife.

Dates: [?1950.]

Manuscript and typescript of an autobiography, "The Buzzing Fly" by Fanny Susan Copeland.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11904
Scope and Contents

Concerns Copeland`s life in Slovenia and wartime internment in Italy. Includes poems and biographical notes.

Dates: circa 1960-1975.

Manuscript and typescript of 'Carotid Cornucopius' by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1945.

 File
Identifier: MS.26163
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Fragments of the original manuscript of ‘Carotid Cornucopius’, containing part of the third and fourth chapters (folio l); (ii) Typescript, with manuscript corrections, of the first chapter of ‘Carotid Cornucopius’, 1945 (folio 5).

Dates: 1945.

Manuscript and typescript of 'Extravagaria', Alastair Reid's translation of Pablo Neruda's work., [1972, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.27450
Scope and Contents

The contents consist of manuscript drafts of the translator's note and some of the poems (folio 1), and a typescript, with a few manuscript corrections, of the whole collection (folio 29).

Dates: [1972, or before.]