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Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of poems of Alan Jackson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6053/1-33
Scope and Contents
Poems and notebooks of Alan Jackson, Edinburgh poet, some of them used in his book 'Underwater wedding' and 'Salutations'.
Dates:
1955-1968, undated.
Manuscript drafts and printed copy of "Robin`s Christmas Song", original lyrics attributed to Robert Burns.
File
Identifier: Acc.10680
Dates:
circa 1850-1900.
Manuscript drafts and typescript copies of 50 poems of Gavin Ewart, most being included in his collection, "85 Poems" (1993).
File
Identifier: Acc.10819
Dates:
1988-1992.
Manuscript drafts and typescript of Tom Scott, "The Harp", a poem.
File
Identifier: Acc.9904
Dates:
mid to late 20th century.
Manuscript drafts and typescripts of 37 poems of Liz Lochhead.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7799
Dates:
circa 1972-1980.
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 29 poems of Sir Joseph Noël Paton.
File
Identifier: Acc.6219
Dates:
circa 1877-circa 1887.
Manuscript drafts of "George Scott Moncrieff and a Few Friends; a Brief Memoir", by Morley Jamieson.
File
Identifier: Acc.9419- is now MSS.26974-26976
Dates:
1987.
Manuscript drafts of Morley Jamieson, "Tam in a Dark Place: a Dramatic Monologue"
File
Identifier: Acc.8624
Dates:
1984.
Manuscript drafts of part of an unpublished novel of A J Cronin.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9923
Dates:
20th century.
Manuscript drafts of poems of W Price Turner, "Impasse" (1956), and "As Advertised" (1963).
File
Identifier: Acc.4789
Scope and Contents
With manuscript draft of novel, "Circle of Squares".
Dates:
1956-1969.
Manuscript of a commentary by Michael Miniclardi on 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.3
Scope and Contents
The main text ends on folio 221 verso. Folio 222 contains 30 hexameters on Boethius (incipit 'Floruit hic doctor clarusque Boetius autor'). Folios 223-228 recto contain an 'exortatio' 'ad honorem dei et sanctorum apostolorum petri et pauli', written by Miniclardi in 1444. Folio 228 verso-230 verso contain, in a different hand, a draft speech against Q Ligarius (defended by Cicero in his extant speech 'Pro Ligario'), presumably a school exercise; interlinear corrections are possibly by...
Dates:
1443.
Manuscript revisions by Robert McLellan for "The Isle of Arran" (2nd edition, 1976).
File
Identifier: Acc.9625
Dates:
circa 1976.
Manuscripts and drafts of and concerning George Douglas Brown.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8171-8180
Scope and Contents
Many of the drafts are early compositions, but they include all that apparently now exists of 'The House with the Green Shutters', published in 1901 (MSS.8171-8172), and two items not by George Douglas Brown (MS.8178).
MSS.8171-8176 are written in school notebooks.
Dates:
[1896, or before-?1901, ?1923.]
Manuscripts and typescript drafts of George Davie, "The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect".
File
Identifier: Acc.9287
Scope and Contents
With manuscript drafts of part of the work.
Dates:
1986.
Manuscripts and typescripts of fifty poems of Robert Alan Jamieson, with a prose article on Hugh MacDiarmid.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10781/1-2
Scope and Contents
These manuscripts and typescripts represent Robert Alan Jamieson's work in this medium since the publication of his last volume of poems in 1986. They are intended for inclusion in a forthcoming collection, but have been compared with the published versions which have already appeared in periodicals, where this has been possible. As the collection itself has not yet been published, the main assessment of then has been a comparison between the various manuscript and typescript versions of...
Dates:
Circa 1989-1993.
Manuscripts and typescripts of poems by George MacBeth (1932-1992).
File
Identifier: MS.26940
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript and typescript drafts of 'The Silver Needle' (folio 1). The poem was published in ‘Ambit 30’ (1966/1967), pages 22-26, and ‘New Worlds SF’, 1, number 170 (1967), pages 77-83. (ii) Manuscripts, two typescript drafts with manuscript corrections, and a carbon typescript of the final version of ‘Lusus: a verse lecture’ (London, 1972) (folio 24).
Dates:
[1966, or before]-[1972, or before.]
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.
Manuscripts and typescripts of 'The ends of our tethers', by Alasdair Gray, with some related cuttings and correspondence.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12609/1-23
Dates:
1995-2003, undated.
Manuscripts notes for and drafts of reviews and articles of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7675- is now MSS.26180-26187.
Scope and Contents
Mostly on artistic subjects.
Dates:
circa 1960-circa 1967.
Manuscripts of a French Officer named La Rochette, who appears to have been acting, at least in 1763, in the services of the Duc de Nivernais, then Ambassador at St James, in connection with Acadian and other French prisoners.
File
Identifier: MS.3803
Scope and Contents
In a note on folio i the officer is called Colonel de la Rochette; on folio 42 he describes himself as being addressed as General.The manuscripts consist of notes and drafts (some of these latter in several versions), chiefly on the following subjects. Some or all may have been intended for the Duc de Nivernais.(i) The campaigns of Agricola and Roman antiquities in Scotland, with some notes on early Britain in general. (Folios 1-42, 45-47, 58, 63.)(ii) A...
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Manuscripts of the song, "An Immorality" and preliminary draft score of "Obliques", both of Thea Musgrave.
File
Identifier: Acc.4735
Dates:
1951-1958.
Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence and other papers of Gavin Ewart, poet.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12908/1-114
Dates:
1890-1996.