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Typescripts.

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

Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:

Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).

 File
Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated

Photographs and transcripts of poems by Allan Ramsay, with related correspondence.

 File
Identifier: MS.9748
Scope and Contents The collection was made by Professor John Burns Martin for his edition (with J W Oliver, completed by A M Kinghorn and A Law) of ‘The works of Allan Ramsay’, (Scottish Text Society, 1951-1974).The contents of the collection are as follows.(i) Photostats of Allan Ramsay's autograph manuscript of fourteen poems, now in the Henry Huntington Library, San Marino, California (H.M.211). (Folio 1.)(ii) Photostats of a manuscript, now in the Huntington Library...
Dates: Majority of material found within 18th century, 1929.

Photographs and translations of documents concerning the trial of George Buchanan by the Inquisition at Lisbon.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.9
Scope and Contents

Photographs of five documents connected with the imprisonment, trial, sentence and release of George Buchanan by the Inquisition in Portugal, 16 August 1550 to 28th February 1552, with descriptive notes (typewritten) by Guthrie.

Dates: 1550-1552.

Photographs and typescript copies of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson for the centenary edition of Scott's letters.

 File
Identifier: MS.1846
Scope and Contents

Some of the letters have not been printed.

At the end are catalogues of letters of Sir Walter Scott to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe and other correspondents, 1927, and to his brother Thomas and the latter's wife, undated.

Dates: 1796-1828, 1927, undated.

Photographs, by Hamish Brown, of expeditions from Braehead School, Buckhaven.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12595
Scope and Contents

Inlcudes photograph of the Bass Rock from MV Gardyloo and related printed material.

Dates: circa 1965-1985.

Photographs of a typescript diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward L Strutt, entitled 'Three months of 1919'.

 File
Identifier: MS.10797
Scope and Contents

The diary covers the period from February to April 1919, during which Edward Strutt arranged the departure of the Emperor Charles and his family from Austria to Switzerland. The diary is preceded by some notes in typescript by the donor (folio i).

Dates: 1919.

Photographs of notes on respiration, illustrated by graphs, of J S Haldane., 1889-1948, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.20260, folios 37-72
Scope and Contents

Also included (folio 46) are a letter, 1947, of the county clerk of Argyll to Naomi Mitchison, and a draft in typescript carbon, with alterations in her hand, of a report, 1948, on fishing by the Highlands and Islands Advisory Panel.

Dates: 1889-1948, undated.

Photostat of a short Scottish prose chronicle to 1482 entitled 'Heir is assignyt ye cause quhy oure natioun vas callyt fyrst ye Scottis'., [1482, or after]-circa 1500.

 File
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 17-36
Scope and Contents

In the original manuscript in the British Library (Royal MS.17.D.XX) the work forms a continuation of Wyntoun's Chronicle.

The chronicle is followed by a Scottish text, circa 1500, based on a fourteenth-century Latin original, of the supposed letter of Prester John to the Emperor Frederick I (folio 28). A typescript of the latter is also included (folio 32).

Dates: [1482, or after]-circa 1500.

Plays of Margaret H Noël-Paton., ?1932-1952, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27465-27470
Scope and Contents

Margaret Noël-Paton wrote a number plays, chiefly in the 1930s and 1940s. Few were published, although several were performed.

Dates: ?1932-1952, undated.

Plays written by Robert McLellan., 1934-1970, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26331-26391
Scope and Contents

Robert McLellan's early plays were intended for the stage, but he later wrote for both radio and television. Not all were published, and many circulated in typescript copies.

Dates: 1934-1970, undated.

Plays written under the pseudonym 'Gordon Daviot'., Circa 1953.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.4771/3-4
Scope and Contents

Published London: Duckworth, 1953.

Dates: Circa 1953.

Poem, 1956, of Joseph Macleod.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8647
Scope and Contents

With letter, 1983, of Macleod to George Bruce, enclosing a typescript poem.

Dates: 1956-1983.