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Typescripts.

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

Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscripts and typescripts of Robert McLellan concerning Arran, Loch Lomond and bee keeping., [1959, or before], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26428
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript and corrected typescripts of 'The Macmillans of Arran', published in the ‘Scottish Field’, volume cvi (1959), pages 29-31 (folio 1); (ii) Corrected typescript of 'The History of Arran', written for the official guide to the island, undated (folio 31); (iii) Manuscript and corrected typescript of an article on Brodick Castle, undated (folio 34); (iv) Manuscript and typescript drafts of the commentary and shot sequence for a documentary film on Loch...
Dates: [1959, or before], undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of selected sets of poems of William Soutar, apparently intended for publication., [Before 1944.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8597-8606
Scope and Contents

Many of the poems appear individually in William Soutar's published works, while the remainder are apparently unpublished.

Since, in MSS.8599-8603, there are a considerable number of unpublished poems, they have been indicated by an asterisk in the contents lists which Soutar compiled for these volumes.

Dates: [Before 1944.]

Manuscripts and typescripts of short stories of Fred Urquhart., 1936-1968.

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Identifier: MS.26992
Scope and Contents Some of the short stories are written on the backs of letters and reports on books. The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript of 'I fell for a sailor', 1936. (Folio 1.) It was published in Fred Urquhart's collection ‘I fell for a sailor and other stories’ (London, 1940). (ii) Manuscript and corrected typescripts, 1941, of 'The Tattie Dressers', published in Urquhart's ‘Selected stories’ (London, 1947). (folio 7.) (iii) Typescript, heavily corrected in Manuscript of 'To Skye with Mona...
Dates: 1936-1968.

Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Step Right Up’, ‘Stirling's castle, or how a tiny piece of moss became a king’, 'The Story That I Wrote’, 'A Story That Won't End', 'The Suffering’, and 'Superhumanatural', short stories by Ian Rankin, with related notes and correspondence., 1981-2009.

 File
Identifier: MS.50466
Scope and Contents 'Step Right Up, By Ian Rankin'. Annotated typescript, 2009, with author's annotations. Annotated 'July 09, Tom Waits-themed song for BBC Radio 3'. Folios 1-5.‘Stirling's castle, or how a tiny piece of moss became a king’. Carbon copy typescript, undated, annotated ‘a short story conceived by Ian Rankin, initial impetus by Miranda Harvey’. Folios 6-12. Manuscript, 1983. Folios 13-17.'The Story That I Wrote’. Typescript, 1984, latest draft, with by-line ‘edited by Ian...
Dates: 1981-2009.

Manuscripts and typescripts of ‘Stony limits and other poems’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [1934, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.27004
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise an incomplete contemporary manuscript of the whole collection, with the title 'Forty New Songs' (folio 1), and drafts and fair copies of individual poems (folio 58), including some versions in English and poems deleted from the first edition.

Dates: [1934, or before.]

Manuscripts and typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith concerning the poet Robert Fergusson., 1950, 1974, undated.

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Identifier: MS.26146
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Typescript, with manuscript corrections, additions and deletions, of 'Fergusson and Burns', a programme for the BBC series 'Chapbook', broadcast on the Scottish Home Service, 1950 (folio l); (ii) Corrected typescript of Sydney Goodsir Smith's introduction to ‘Fergusson: a bi-centenary handsel’ (Edinburgh, 1974) (folio 23). For another copy, see MS.26187, folio 34. (iii) Manuscript and typescript drafts of "'The Tricky Callant"; a tribute to Robert Fergusson',...
Dates: 1950, 1974, undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith; with letters to Hazel Goodsir Smith.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12006
Scope and Contents Manuscripts and Typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith:Corrected carbon copy of typescript, circa 1948, of 'Under the Eildon Tree'.Manuscripts, circa 1952-1953, of four poems dedicated to Hazel Goodsir Smith.‘Tis Late’ was published in 'Lines Review', 6 (1954), page 23; ‘Mareeld’ was published in 'Omens' (Edinburgh: M.Macdonald, 1955), page 16.Letter, undated, to Hazel Goodsir Smith.Manuscript drafts, undated, of ‘Said Heraclitus’....
Dates: Circa 1948-1976, undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of the first and second series of the Linmill stories by Robert McLellan., 1960-1961.

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Identifier: MS.26412
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Preliminary notes on the series (folio 1); (ii) Typescripts, with manuscript additions and corrections, of the first series, broadcast in 1960 (folio 9). It includes the manuscript of 'The Daftie' (folio 72); (iii) Manuscripts and some typescripts of the second series, 1961 (folio 93).

Dates: 1960-1961.