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Manuscript and typescript drafts of 'Something leather', by Alasdair Gray, with proofs, illustrations and related correspondence.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10371/1-32
Scope and Contents
Includes nine manuscript and typescript drafts of the novel, drafts of individual chapters, and related notes, correspondence and illustrations. Post-publication material includes copies of the US hardback edition, revised paperback edition, and cuttings of UK press coverage of the book.Alasdair Gray's descriptions have been retained in the scope and contents notes for each file, and include insights into his working process, comments on how the novel progressed, and how...
Dates:
1968-1991.
Manuscript draft and corrected typescript of the novel 'A sort of freedom' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1969) by Joan Lingard.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.5627/1-2
Dates:
Undated, 1969.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescript of novel of Nigel Tranter, "Past Master".
Series
Identifier: Acc.6303/1-5
Dates:
Majority of material found within [Before 1965.], 1973
Manuscript drafts, corrected typescripts and proofs of 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11203/1-12
Scope and Contents
Drafts, proofs and some source materials and correspondence for 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.
Alasdair Gray's own manuscript drafts are accompanied by typescript transcriptions produced by his typist Scott Pearson, which are then in turn heavily annotated and corrected by Gray. These annotations then inform the next set of manuscript drafts, giving a unique insight into how the book developed and grew.
Dates:
1967, 1985, 1993-1994.
Manuscript drafts of part of an unpublished novel of A J Cronin.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9923
Dates:
20th century.
Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Poor things', 'Ten tales tall and true' and 'Why Scots should rule Scotland', by Alasdair Gray, with some related correspondence and source materials.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10749/1-89
Scope and Contents
Includes corrected manuscript and typescript drafts and revised versions of 'Poor things', 'Ten tales tall and true', and 'Why Scots should rule Scotland', along with finished copies of all three books. There are some files of correspondence concerning the publication of 'Poor things' and 'Ten tales tall and true', as well as some material concerning 'Something leather'.Most files have an A4 sheet inserted at the beginning by Alasdair Gray with a brief summary of the file's...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1896, 1972-1993.
Microfilm of Drafts and notes [1801-1802] of Joseph Strutt for the novel, ‘Emma Darcy, or, the Manners of Old Times’, which Sir Walter Scott completed and published as ‘Queenhoo-Hall’ in 1808.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.280
Dates:
[1801-1802].
Microfilm of eight ledgers of Alasdair Gray, containing work notes for stories, poems, plays, and his last novel, with draft of letters and many diary entries.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2061-2062
Dates:
1945-2008.
Microfilm of manuscripts and drafts of and concerning George Douglas Brown.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.75
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Draft, [1901, or before], of parts of the novel ‘The house with the green shutters’ by George Douglas Brown (MS.8171);
Draft, [1901, or before], of chapter XV of the novel ‘The House with the Green Shutters’ by George Douglas Brown (MS.8172); Outline, notes, and draft chapters of the unpublished novel 'The incompatibles' by George Douglas Brown, probably written about 1900-1901 (MS.8173);Outline, notes, and draft chapters of the...
Dates:
[1896, or before-?1901.]
Notebooks and papers of Janet Caird, mainly relating to her novel "The Umbrella-Maker’s Daughter" (London: Macmillan, 1980).
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13485
Dates:
c. 1977-1980.
Papers and art work of Angela Lemaire, artist and engraver.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12221
Dates:
1962-2003.
Papers, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, sketches and correspodence, of William McArthur.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6878 Box 1(1)-Box 13(30)
Scope and Contents
Including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, and sketches, and circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.
Dates:
1933-1961, undated.
Papers of Emma Tennant.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9870
Scope and Contents
Includes notebooks, drafts and corrected typescripts of novels.
With some correspondence, 1978-1987, including letters of Stephen Spender, Ted Hughes and Liz Lochhead.
Dates:
circa 1970-1988.
Papers of James Kennaway, including literary notebooks and drafts of novels, plays and short stories.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5540 Box 1(1)-Box 28(24)
Dates:
1947-1968, undated.
Papers of Robert Alan Jamieson concerning his novel "A Day at the Office" (1991).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10558
Scope and Contents
Includes five successive manuscript and typescript drafts of the novel and notes by the author on its compilation.
Dates:
circa 1991.
Research papers and typescript drafts of the novel "Light" by Margaret Elphinstone.
File
Identifier: Acc.12865
Dates:
circa 2007.
Two notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.
File
Identifier: Acc.9831
Scope and Contents
With corrected typescript drafts of part of "The Oath Takers".
Dates:
circa 1987.
Two notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5831
Scope and Contents
Containing manuscript corrected drafts, 1970, of an unpublished novel, "The Clone Mums", and notes on travels in India.
Dates:
1970.
Typescript drafts of novel of Jessie Kesson, "Where the Apple Ripens" (1978).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7845
Scope and Contents
With manuscript and typescript of associated short story and radio play, undated.
Dates:
1978 and undated.
Typescript drafts, proofs and setting copy of the novel `The Gabriel Hounds` by Mary Stewart, with manuscript working notes concerning the novel.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.117- is now Acc.4666.
Dates:
1967.
Typescript (mostly carbon) of sections of 'The Witch', an unfinished novel by David Lindsay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14004
Dates:
? 1942.
Typescript, with author`s corrections, of "The Passionate Elopement" (1911) by Compton Mackenzie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11966
Dates:
circa 1910-1911.