Typescripts.
Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous typescripts and broadcast notes, covering CND, J B S Haldane, J D Bernal, Scotland and Africa and other topics., 1960-1971.
Miscellaneous typescripts and manuscripts from the novel 'Kingisbyres or the end of an old song' by John Dick Scott, with extracts which were not used in the final version., 1931-[1954, or before].
Folios 36-45 are in a different hand.
Miscellaneous typescripts of 'Gemini' by Dorothy Dunnett., Undated.
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Miscellany of papers concerning the Ellice family., 1799-1815, undated.
The contents are as follows: (i) Correspondence, chiefly with George Chalmers, and notes, on antiquarian topics, 1799- 1815, undated (folio 1); (ii) Papers, 1741-1803, undated, concerning the Ellice family, consisting of typed biographical accounts (some incomplete) and copies of portraits of members of the family (folio 75); (iii) A small quantity of unrelated papers, 1844-1921, undated, found loosely enclosed in other parts of the collection (folio 216).
'Mum and Sally: a thirty minute play for television' by Robert McLellan., 1965.
Contains a fragment of the original manuscript (folio l), a heavily corrected typescript (folio 4), a typescript with a few manuscript corrections (folio l9), and the final typescript (folio 37).
Music of G W Crawford for stage works., [?1892-?1941.]
'My dear, dear sister!', a play by Robert McLellan about William and Dorothy Wordsworth, originally entitled 'Dorothy'., 1970, undated.
The play was completed in 1970.
‘My diary. United States 1898-1899’ by Ian Malcolm, several typescripts bound into one volume., 1898-1899.
The typescripts are as follows:
(i) Carbon copy of ‘Tales of a traveller’, with annotations apparently in the hand of Ian Malcolm.
(ii) Top copy of ‘An election in New York’. A revised version appears in ‘Trodden ways 1895-1930’ by Malcolm (1930), pages 209-215.
(iii) Top copy of ‘Washington’.
(iv) Top copy of ‘Niagara in winter’.
Negative photostats of the will, 1800, of James Grahame, author of 'The Sabbath'; of a letter, 1809, to him from his cousin Isabella Hill; and of typescripts of letters, 1808-1811, undated, to him from Robert Southey, Henry Cockburn, Thomas Campbell, and Sir Walter Scott., 1800-1811, undated.
'Niel Gow', a radio biography by Robert McLellan, broadcast in the series 'This is my country'., 1960.
The papers consist of notes (folio l), the orginal manuscript (folio l9), corrected typescript (folio 50), and broadcast script (folio 63).
'Nine Years Old', typescript., N.d.
Note and other material of John Purves concerning Italian literature., [Circa 1907]-1953, undated.
Notebook and notes of Tom Pow relating to 'Scabbit Isle', a novel for children, containing typescript and draft., 2001, undated.
Notebook containing a typescript account, made by the 10th Marquess of Tweeddale in 1907, of ‘The so-called panic at Simla - May 1857’., 1907.
Notebook containing typescripts of original poems and verse translations by George Campbell Hay., 1943-1945.
The notebook contains 60 poems in Gaelic (39), French (9), English (9), Italian (2) and Scots (1), together with an unpublished Gaelic verse sequence beginning ‘Mochtar is Dubhghall’ (folio 18 verso); Gaelic translations of Arabic rhymes, sayings and riddles (folio 38 verso; see “O na ceithir Àirdean”, page 65); and lists of poems (folio 41 verso).
Notebook of David Morrison containing drafts of poems and notes.
Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poems for "Caithness Coronach" (2003).
Notebook of Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost', containing material for 'The bespoken mile'., [1950, or before.]
Contains miscellaneous notes for 'The bespoken mile' (folio 1), revised manuscript drafts of the final chapter (folio 31) and of another chapter omitted from the published text (folio 46), and two pages of typescript (folio 62).
Notebook of Rose Ethel Bassin, containing children’s songs, obtained from Annie Johnston, Barra, and others., 1924-1931.
Notebook of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson containing a typescript inventory and valuation of the contents of Grierson's house at 12 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh., 1940.
Notebook on Africa, and typescripts, of Naomi Mitchison.
Notebook, undated, containing biographical detail, alphabetically arranged, by Mrs Maxtone Graham, on people and events concerned with her Lynedoch book., 1st half of 20th century.
Some entries are in typescript and a few letters are also included.