Typescripts.
Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:
Spiral-bound A4 notebook, circa 1993, of Don Paterson containing notes and draft poems; with corrected typescripts of '19:00 Auchterhouse' and '01:00: Rosemill', and a loosely inserted leaflet for the 1993 National Competition of The Poetry Society., Circa 1993.
Titles listed on the front cover: '21:00 Baldragon'; 'Gen. advice and hints ...'; 'Software'; and 'Notes []/ S Robb, libraries'.
Storylines, developmental notes, and episode pitch of Ian Rankin for an episode of television show ‘The Bill’. , 1988-1989.
Typescripts, 1988-1989, of possible storylines for ‘The Bill’ by Ian Rankin. Folios 1-43.
Notes, 1989, of Ian Rankin from a meting with Barbara Cox, writer on television show ‘The Bill’, about Rankin’s development of a screenplay 'Swings and Roundabouts' for 'The Bill'. Folios 44-47.
Episode pitch, circa 1988, ‘Missing Person’, by Ian Rankin, to the television show 'The Bill'; fax. Folios 48-50.
Successive typescript, printed and postcard versions of poem of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "Net/Planet", and photographs of final version; with a letter to 'Private Eye' and a copy of issue 11 of the 'Private Tutor' magazine.
The contents are as follows:
'Net/Planet' Poem
Original typescript, [circa 1966]
Form 3, 15 December 1966.
Proof of postcard published by the Wild Hawthorn Press, 1968.
2 colour photographs, undated.
Carbon copy of letter to Private Eye concerning 'The Dancers Inherit the Party', 1970.
'Private Tutor', number 11, May 1970.
Successive typescript texts, fragmentary notes, and revisions of 'The last heir', a dramatization, in four acts, of ‘The bride of Lammermoor’ by Sir Walter Scott, made for Sir John Martin-Harvey by Stephen Phillips; together with an orchestral score by Norman O'Neill.
The first four drafts (MSS.7151-7157) are entitled 'The bride of Lammermoor'.
Summaries and typescripts of plays of Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1956, undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) 'The Bluidy Hert', 1956. (Folio 1). A summary of the plot, typescript of the prelude, and letters from Helena Shire and Kenneth Elliott about the music. (ii) Typescripts, undated, of 'The Guaird! The Guaird! A dramatic version of the history of the Edinburgh Town Guard'. (Folio l7.) Some passages are closely related to scenes in Robert Garioch Sutherland's play, 'The masque of Edinburgh’ (Edinburgh, 1954).
Summary and corrected typescript of Don MacCaskill`s autobiographical work `Listen to the trees`., 1999
Synopses, manuscripts and corrected typescripts of the fourth series of the Linmill stories by Robert McLellan., 1965.
Synopsis, manuscript and corrected typescript of 'Culloden', a play by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1962.
Synopsis, notes and early typescript, undated, of the play 'Rab Mossgiel' by Robert McLellan., 1957, undated.
The typescript (folio 6), which has numerous manuscript corrections, is undated but is earlier than MS.26357.
Talks of Moultrie R Kelsall., 1946-1976, undated.
'Tam', manuscript., N.d.
Television scripts of 'The story of a recluse' by Alasdair Gray, including correspondence and notes., 1965-1987.
Text, without the author's preface, of ‘In memoriam James Joyce’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., ?1937-?1956.
The text consists of pieces of manuscripts and typescript, written at different times, put together and foliated by Hugh MacDiarmid. There are a number of variants from the published text.
Texts of lecture recitals given by the singer Miss Annie Grey (Mrs Wade).
'The Bright Spade', two manuscript drafts and a corrected typescript., January 1963.
"The Humble Complaint of Geo[rge] Eglisham Doctor of Physicke" addressed to Charles I.
Includes typescript transcription.
The Icelandic Sagas (1999) and (2002)., 1998-2002.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing press-cuttings pasted inside the front cover, and typed notes and a letter, 1933, tipped in inside the back cover., 1933.
'The Old Byre at Clashmore', a play for radio by Robert McLellan., 1965.
The part of Nessie was written for the actress Effie Morrison.
'The Tragic Greek Campaign of 1941', a typescript account, compiled by Arthur Murray apparently in 1955, of the expedition under Wavell organised in 1941 by Winston Churchill to relieve Greece., [?1955]-1960.
The typescript is accompanied by a note, 1960 (folio i), and copies of correspondence, 1956 (folios ii-xi).
The work was intended but not accepted for publication.
'The Wheel', a play by Joe Corrie about Cain and Abel., 1946, [circa 1955], undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Carbon copy of the original typescript, undated (folio 1); (ii) BBC script of the broadcast, 1946 (folio 22); (iii) BBC script of a broadcast in Hindustani, 1946 (folio 42); (iv) Typescript of a version for television, circa l955 (folio 66).
Third incomplete draft of a history of the lower Niger in the nineteenth century., [?1935-?1939.]
The manuscript consists of loose sheets removed from the booklets of the second draft, and some printed matter.