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Typescripts.

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

Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:

Series of manuscript and typescript notes, undated, of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson on Chaucer., ?Early 20th century

 File
Identifier: MS.9323
Scope and Contents The notes include biographical material, notes on his sources (especially the influence on him of mediaeval French poetry and of Boccaccio), and notes on his various works, including several of ‘The Canterbury tales’, ‘Troilus and Cressyde’, and the ‘Boke of the Duchess’.The notes do not form a complete series, as some of the sections are fragmentary. It seems likely that they are part of 'a historical course on English Literature which began with Anglo-Saxon Poetry and went on...
Dates: ?Early 20th century

Seven letters of Eric Linklater.

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Identifier: Acc.6756
Scope and Contents

On literary matters.

With typescript notes of Linklater, for a projected television programme on Sir Walter Scott.

Dates: 1954-1966.

Seven typescript letters of Ruthven Todd.

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Identifier: Acc.11431
Scope and Contents

Todd discusses his work on William Blake, loans of prints to the National Library of Scotland, his teaching activities, art, literature, personalities and life in Mallorca.

Dates: 1969-1972.

Short plays for radio with titles from B-C by Joe Corrie., [Circa 1955]-[circa 1960.]

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Identifier: MS.26517
Scope and Contents

Contains the following plays: (i) 'The Bridge', circa l960. (Folio 1.) A stage version of this play was published in Glasgow in 1948. (ii) 'Colour Bar', circa l955. (Folio 26.) A radio version of the play published in London in 1954. (iii) 'Coventry'. Typescript with manuscript corrections and additions (folio 50), and the BBC script of the production, 1957. (Folio 70.) (iv) 'Enough of Murder', circa l960. (Folio l05).

Dates: [Circa 1955]-[circa 1960.]