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Manuscript and typescripts of novels and short stories by Eona Macnicol.

 File
Identifier: MS.19706
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Typescript with manuscript corrections of the novel ‘Colum of Derry’, 1954, dated 1946 by the author, Eona Mcnicol (Folio 1.) (ii) Three pages of corrected typescript of ‘Lamp in the night wind’, 1957. (Folio 128.) (iii) Corrected typescript, being the second draft of 'Grey boy', published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, volume 301 (1967), pages 537-547. The last page is missing. (Folio 132.) (iv) Final typescript and broadcast script of 'A night of rain, 1968....
Dates: 1946-[1969, or before.]

Manuscript and typescripts of short stories and novels by Fred Urquhart (1912-1995).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26992-26997
Scope and Contents

Fred Urquhart was educated in Stranraer and Edinburgh and worked as a reader and editor for Cassell and other publishers. Much of his own literary work was in the form of short stories.

Dates: 1929-1968.

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 and corrected typescripts of autobiographical work of Naomi Mitchison, "Small Talk" (1973).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5942
Scope and Contents

With corrected typescripts of three autobiographical articles.

Dates: 1973.

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of Naomi Mitchison, "You May Well Ask".

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Identifier: Acc.7219
Scope and Contents

Being a volume of autobiography covering the years 1918-1940.

Dates: 1978.

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of poems of Alan Jackson.

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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, corrected typescripts and proofs of 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.

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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 of the first part of 'The howdie', an unfinished story by John Galt.

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Identifier: MS.5207
Scope and Contents

With the manuscript are the pages of "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine" containing the first part of the story, a typescript of the second part, and a memorandum on the history of the manuscript by Sir Robert Simpson, the latter reprinted and supplemented by William Roughead in his edition.

Dates: [Circa 1831.]

Manuscript poems of Forbes Macgregor.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10549
Scope and Contents

With manuscripts and typescripts of three articles, 1932 and undated, of Macgregor.

Dates: 1921-1990 and undated.

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Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 33
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 18
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 15
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 13
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 12
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Morrison, Trevor, poet, d 2013 12
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 10
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 9
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 9
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 9
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 8
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 8
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 7
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 7
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 7
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 7
Soutar, William (poet) 7
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 6
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 6
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 6
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 5
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 5
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 5
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 5
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 5
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 5
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 5
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 5
Scott, Margaret Mackenzie, writer and journalist, pseudonym Beatrice Nairn, b 1888 5
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 5
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 5
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 4
Brown, Ian, Professor of Drama, Kingston University, London, b 1945 4
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 4
National Library of Scotland 4
Purves, David, poet and playwright, b 1924 4
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 4
Akros, literary magazine 3
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 3
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 3
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 3
Fulton, Robin, poet, b 1937 3
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 3
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 3
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 3
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 3
Lingard, Joan, author, b 1932 3
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 3
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 3
McIlwraith, Maureen (novelist, pseudonym Mollie Hunter) 3
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 3
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 3
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 3
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 3
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 3
Owens, Agnes (author) (1926-2014) 3
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 3
Robert I, King of Scots, 1274-1329 3
Roy, James Alexander, Professor of English, Queen's University, Kingston, 1884-1973 3
Scotia Review, literary journal 3
Scottish National Party 3
Spender, Stephen Harold, Sir, Knight (poet and critic) (1909-1995) 3
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 3
Stewart, Mary Florence Elinor, novelist, wife of Sir Frederick Henry, geologist, née Rainbow, b 1916 3
Allan, Michael, Stirling, fl 1975-1990 2
Begg, James, fl. 1890-1944 (timber merchant of Glasgow) 2
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 2
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 2
British Broadcasting Corporation 2
British Broadcasting Corporation, Scottish Home Service, 1939-1967, public service broadcaster 2
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 2
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 2
Campbell, Donald, poet and dramatist, b 1940 2
Canongate Books (publishers, Edinburgh) 2
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984 2
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 2
Craigen, James Mark, politician and author, b 1938 2
Cruickshank, Helen Burness, poet, 1886-1975 2
Cursiter, Stanley, Director, National Galleries of Scotland, 1887-1976 2
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Downie, Anne, playwright, b 1939 2
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 2
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 2
Edinburgh International Festival 2
Ellis, Frances Sterling, Walter Scott scholar, fl 1968-1998 2
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 2
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 2
Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson, philanthropist and author, 1862-1937 2
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Hildebrandt, Franz, Minister of Slateford-Longstone Church, 1909-1985 2
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 2
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 2
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 2
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 2
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 2
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
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