Typescripts.
Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:
Material for 'Hidden doors' by Neil Gunn., [1929, or before.]
The material consists of typescripts of the stories 'The White Hour' and 'Gentlemen' (folio 2), and printed copies of 'The Moor', 'Between Headlands', 'Hidden Doors' and 'The Sleeping Bins' (folio 21). There are a few manuscript corrections throughout.
Material for Robert Garioch Sutherland's edition of selections from the work of Sir David Lindsay, intended for publication by the Carcanet New Press., 1979-1980.
Material for the adaptation by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid' and Elspeth Harley Schubert of Harry Martinson's poem, ‘Aniara’., 1956-1960.
Material for the article 'Digging up Scotland' by Alastair Reid., [1981, or before.]
Material for 'The Isle of Arran' by Robert McLellan., 1968-1975, undated.
Material for ‘The socialist poems of Hugh MacDiarmid’, edited by T S Law and Thurso Berwick., [1978, or before.]
The material includes photocopies of poems taken from printed texts (folio 2), a corrected typescript of the introduction (folio 107), and page-proofs of pages i-xviii (folio 148).
Material in the process brought by Matthew Sharp of Hoddam, reviving one started by John Sharp of Hoddam in 1712, with a view to dividing the common lands of Ecclefechan and Hoddam.
Material of Alexander Philip on the reform of the calendar, including an interleaved copy of ‘The determination of Easter Day’ (London, 1915) by A M W Downing, typescript and manuscript notes, press-cuttings and letters., 1914-1929.
Material of and concerning Nancy Brysson Morrison relating to the play 'The gowk storm'., 1948.
The contents are as follows. (i) Heavily corrected typescript, [?1948], of 'The gowk storm', a play in three acts by Nancy Brysson Morrison and Dorothy Black (folio 1). This is a dramatised version of N Brysson Morrison's novel of the same name, published in 1933. (ii) Photographs of the production by Dundee Repertory Theatre, 1948 (folio 34).
Material of Nancy Brysson Morrison for a play on Edward Irving., 1947-1948, undated.
Material of Ruthven Todd on islands., 1962-1967, undated.
This material was probably part of Ruthven Todd's projected 'Love Letter to Three Islands', an account of his experiences on Mull, Martha's Vineyard and Majorca.
Material of Ruthven Todd probably intended for books., 1962-1976, undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscripts, typescripts, photocopies and notes concerning mushrooms, 1962-1976, undated (folio 1); (ii) Notes, introduction and contents lists for a recipe book for visitors to Majorca, 1976, undated (folio 30); (iii) Notes for a book about garlic, ?1968 (folio 67); (iv) Typescript introduction and notes for a work on extinct and newly-discovered animals, undated (folio 84).
Material on the Rossetti family., 1826-[1931], undated.
Material regarding the Setons and other families, compiled by Colonel R S Marshall.
Material relating to Professor Derick S Thomson’s collection of poems ‘Eadar Samhradh is Foghar’.
Material relating to Thomas Muir, the political reformer.
Memoirs of Dr Emile Joseph Dillon., Undated.
'Memorandum for the Committee on Scottish Administration, February, 1937', a typescript copy of Sir George Macdonald's memorandum on the Scottish Office, with his recommendations for its reorganisation.
The report of the Committee was published in October 1937 (Command paper 5563).
'Merrag and Her Sons', three manuscript drafts and a corrected typescript., August 1962.
Microfilm of a Gospel lectionary, 11th century, and a typescript, 1968, of an unpublished article concerning the lectionary.
The contents are as follows:
Gospel lectionary, 11th century, containing the synaxarion (week days, Saturdays and Sundays), menologion, and morning lessons (MS.9000);
Typescript of an unpublished article, 1968, concerning MS.9000, a Gospel lectionary in Greek (MS.9000A).