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Typescripts.

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

Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:

Miscellaneous 'antique papers'., 1626-1810, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1915
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Modern list of some of the papers and part of a printed sale catalogue (folio 1);(ii) Contemporary copies of the charges brought by John Selden against the Duke of Buckingham, and of the King's explanation delivered by Buckingham, 1626 (folio 5);(iii) Memorandum, circa 1635, arguing the complicity of the Marquess of Huntly, James Gordon of Letterfourie, and Lady Rothiemay (Katherine Gordon) in the harrying of the lands of...
Dates: 1626-1810, undated.

Miscellaneous articles and lecture notes of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., [Circa 1895]-1947, undated.

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Identifier: MS.9321
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript lecture notes, undated, on the subject of 'Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists, Beaumont and Fletcher' (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript notes for a lecture entitled 'Pope and Tennyson', delivered to the Aberdeen Clerical Society, circa 1895; dated by Sir Herbert Grierson in 1944 (folio 13);(iii) Manuscript notes, undated, on Charles Dickens; possibly material gathered for a lecture or article (folio 76);(iv)...
Dates: [Circa 1895]-1947, undated.

Miscellaneous copies of manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.20768
Dates: 16th century-1914, undated.

Miscellaneous documents concerning the Coltbridge/Roseburn enterprise of Patrick Geddes., 1898-1906, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.10611
Scope and Contents

The papers include business accounts, plans, estimates, and typescripts giving details of the proposed building schemes. There are also several photographs of Roseburn Cliff, Coltbridge, and miscellaneous undated jottings concerning the project.

Dates: 1898-1906, undated.

Miscellaneous documents of the Hays of Yester including copies and typescripts., Early 17th century-[mid 20th century], undated.

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Identifier: MS.14826
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) 'Ane soverane and precious balm for the healing of all the distempers of all the reformed churches in Christen[dom] especially in thir nationes both in spiritualls & temporalles', early 17th century (folio 1);(ii) Notes, 1659, for the funeral sermon of Mr. Justice John Puleston (folio 3);(iii) A history of Drummond in Strathearn, 17th century (folio 39);(iv) ‘An advice for the educating of youth’, 17th...
Dates: Early 17th century-[mid 20th century], undated.

Miscellaneous documents relating to the Ogleface Friendly Society, 1794-1875; with typescript copies, circa 1965, of newspaper articles, 1958, of Nan Milton.

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Identifier: Acc.3827
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Contract, 1794, of the Ogleface Friendly Society concerning the rental of property for a Hearse House (folio 1).(ii) Photograph of a printed sheet, 1795, "Conditions on which the Ogleface Friendly Society's Hearse is let out" (folio 3).(iii) 'Regulations of the Avonbridge New Hearse Society, instituted in 1842', printed, 1867 (folio 4).(iv) Fragments of minutes of the society, 1858, 1860, and the Treasurer's...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1795-1875, circa 1965.

Miscellaneous drafts and fragments of dramatic pieces by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1939-1961, undated.

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Identifier: MS.26141
Scope and Contents

Included are notes and verse for 'Protest: an oratorio', 1939 (folio l), an early version of the beginning of ‘The Stick-up’, broadcast in 1961 and published in ‘Fifteen poems and a play’ (Edinburgh, 1969), pages 1-33 (folio 59), and notes for and the typescript of a film script, 'The Shepherd of Ettrick', undated (folio 74).

Dates: 1939-1961, undated.

Miscellaneous lecture notes and articles, chiefly by Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson, the majority of which are apparently unpublished., 1933-[1952], undated.

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Identifier: MS.9320
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Typescript, undated, of a lecture or article, with autograph corrections, entitled 'Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey, critics and essayists' (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript, 1933, of a lecture or article entitled 'Abraham Lincoln', apparently written on Herbert Grierson's return from America in that year (folio 26);(iii) Manuscript notes, undated, headed 'Lincoln', but apparently concerning Andrew Carnegie and American industry,...
Dates: 1933-[1952], undated.

Miscellaneous letters and documents.

 Series
Identifier: MS.13500

Miscellaneous letters and manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.3112

Miscellaneous letters and papers.

 Series
Identifier: MS.3836

Miscellaneous literary papers of Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot., 1873-1911, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.19568
Scope and Contents

The papers include verses, 1873-1902, undated (folio 1), and notes on and typescript of a lecture delivered by Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot at Durham in 1905 on ‘Tennyson - Poet, Thinker and Statesman’ (folio 12). There are also notices of the ‘Literary Society’, 1906-1911, the ‘Club’, 1908, and the ‘Royal Literary Fund’, 1908 (folio 64).

Dates: 1873-1911, undated.

Miscellaneous manuscripts and typescript pages of Sydney Durward Tremayne., 1973, undated.

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Identifier: MS.26701
Scope and Contents

Includes two introductions for 'Boys do not kiss' (folio 1), and 'Tales from a poet's childhood,' the drafts of three proposed broadcasts based on the autobiography, 1973 (folio 35).

Dates: 1973, undated.

Miscellaneous manuscripts, received unbound., 1650-?1935.

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Identifier: MS.5841
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Declaration by Sir John Smith about the expenses of the 1650 mission to Charles II at Breda, on which he and the 3rd Earl of Lothian were sent. (Folio 1.)(ii) Two letters (one a draft, the second a copy) written by the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire to the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, 1766, and to the Countess of Suffolk, undated, describing his experiences as ambassador at the Russian Court, 1762-1765. Part of the second letter is printed in...
Dates: 1650-?1935.