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Correspondence, photographs and antiquarian collections on Pictish symbol-stones, of Cosmo Gordon.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.272- is now Acc.12803.
Dates:
20th century.
Correspondence, production files, scripts, cuttings and other papers of John McGrath.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11615/1-110
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the material dates from ca.1979-1990, though there are some earlier and later items. Much of it concerns McGrath’s work outside 7:84, the theatre company which he and others established in 1971.
Dates:
Circa 1926-1997.
Drafts and notes of and for the two volumes of ‘The life and letters of James Hogg’ by Alan Lang Strout, Professor of English in the Texas Technological College.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10492-10497
Dates:
1800-1832, 1933-1937, 1946, undated.
Drafts for an unpublished history of the Independent Labour Party and the Labour movement in Bo`ness, West Lothian from 1903-1932, by James Livingstone.
File
Identifier: Acc.11087
Scope and Contents
Includes research notes from original sources.
Dates:
circa 1986.
Drafts of, and notes for, Dennis Smith`s contribution to "For the Encouragement of Learning" (1989)
File
Identifier: Acc.12607
Dates:
circa 1980-1989.
Drafts of lectures, notes, and other papers on ecclesiastical subjects by John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3555-3563
Dates:
Late 19th century-[before 1911].
Drafts, proofs, notes, and research materials of Tom Pow, including related correspondence and other literary papers.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12950/1-59
Dates:
[1915]-2007, undated.
Fragments, drafts and notes in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald, mainly on Scottish antiquities and topography.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.21
Dates:
[?Late 17th century-?1722.]
George Home of Wedderburn`s copy of "The Mirror", with manuscript notes and essay drafts inserted.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7665
Dates:
1779-1780.
Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7723
Scope and Contents
Comprising:1. Eastern journal, 1838-1839, of Roberts, in two volumes ("Egypt" and "Syria"), in the hand of his daughter, Christine Bicknell2. "The Roberts Festival", 1842, album containing press cuttings, reports and correspondence with or concerning Roberts3. Family correspondence, 1836-1863, of Roberts, including 60 letters to Christine and Henry Bicknell4. Draft essay, 1851, on the Royal Academy of Arts, and a page of notes, 1862, on...
Dates:
1836-1863 and undated.
Letters of Thomas and Jane Carlyle, with a few of Mary Carlyle Aitken, afterwards Carlyle.
Series
Identifier: MS.3823
Dates:
1825-1882, undated.
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.511-518
Scope and Contents
There are no letters of Thomas Carlyle to his father. Several letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle (sometimes added to Carlyle’s letters as postscripts) and of various members of Carlyle’s family are included. Other writers are Daniel Corrie, Bishop of Madras, 1836; W H Wills, ‘Editor and factotum‘ of Charles Dickens, 1855; and Rudolf Sonnenburg, who brought out a German edition of ‘Frederick’, 1867. There are also letters of Carlyle to Whewell, 1861, Emerson, 1869, and others.
Dates:
1821-1870, undated.
Literary and personal papers of Christopher Whyte, including diaries and journals, correspondence, notes for lectures on Scottish literature, and manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry, fiction and critical works.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12673
Dates:
circa 1972-2004.
Literary papers and notebooks of Ewan Morrison relating to `Close Your Eyes` (2012) and `Tales from the Mall` (2012).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13605/1-64
Dates:
2000-2012.
Literary papers of Doug Johnstone.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13618
Scope and Contents
The papers relate to `Gone Again` (London: Faber and Faber, 2013) and `The Dead Beat` (London: Faber and Faber, 2014).
Dates:
2011-2013.
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 and typescript working papers of Prof Archibald A M Duncan for his books: "Scotland: the Making of the Kingdom" (1975), the third edition of W C Dickinson, "Scotland from the Earliest Times to 1603" (1977) and "The Acts of Robert I, King of Scots, 1306-1329" (1986).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10576
Dates:
circa 1970-1986.
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 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.
Microfilm of correspondence, 1726-1800, lecture notes, 1787, and an early manuscript draft, [?1767], of ‘Case for the respondents', which concerns the Douglas Cause.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.763
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1726-1800, of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee (MS.3431, folios 225-226);
Early manuscript draft, [?1767], of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail, written by Professor Hugh Blair (MS.5356, folios 59-122);
Notes, 1787, of a series of lectures on rhetoric (MS.9974).
Dates:
1726-1800.
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.]