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Autograph manuscripts of three apparently unpublished poems by Sir Edwin Arnold.
Autograph musical scores of David Dorward containing sketches and some final versions of works for various combinations of instruments, including voices.
Two of the pieces are dated 1961 and 1967. The remainder, though undated, appear to have been written at about the same period.
Autograph of Queen Mary on the fly-leaf of 'Buckingham Palace: its furniture, decoration and history (London, 1930), by Harold Clifford Smith.
This copy of the book was made specially for Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary.
Autograph score, 1953, of ‘Sonata for violoncello and piano’ by Hans Gál.
The score bears a few corrections, one of which is written on a scrap of paper (folio 13) pasted to folio 14. Folio 15 consists of two leaves pasted together.
Autograph score of 'Quintet No 1' for pianoforte and strings by Cyril Scott.
Apparently unpublished, this is not the ‘Quintet’ published, 1926, as part of the Carnegie collection of British Music.
A leaf is cut out after folio 6 and a few more after folios 49.
Autograph score of the overture “Tam o' Shanter”, Opus 51, by Malcolm Arnold, bearing several marks from use in performance.
Autograph score of 'Three Songs of Night' for baritone and strings, composed by Leon Coates from ‘Pomes Penyeach’ by James Joyce, for the Music Society of St Peter's College, Oxford.
Autograph score of 'Two invocations for tenor and piano', opus 25, by John Joubert, with amendments in coloured inks.
Settings of 'To winter' (folio 2) and 'To spring' (folio 9) by William Blake.
The work was published in 1960 and received its Scottish premiere at the National Library of Scotland, 28 August 1969.
Autograph scores of musical compositions by David Stephen, Director of Music to the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Autograph scores of orchestral works by William Wordsworth.
Autograph scores of original compositions and arrangements of William Bowie, organist and music teacher at the Royal High School, Edinburgh.
Autograph second draft with alterations and additions of short score of Concerto for String Orchestra, opus 39, by Kenneth Leighton, when Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Autograph sermons, apparently unpublished, of Hugh Anderson of Udol, Presbyterian minister of Cromarty.
Most of the sermons are undated, but one is written on the back of a letter of 1702, another is of 1662, and two others of 1666. These last refer to the plague in England, while another was used as a 'presbyterial exercise'.
The papers also includes a summons, ?1662, ordering Hugh Anderson to answer charges before the Bishop of Ross.
Autograph settings by Robin Orr of “The Kimmers o' Cougate” and Three Songs of Innocence by William Blake.
Autograph version, apparently unpublished, of 'Peebles to the Play' by James Ballantine.
The manuscript does not appear to have been published. However, a version of the poem was prepared for the inauguration of the Chambers' Institution, Peebles, 1859.
Autograph vocal scores of works by Hamish MacCunn.
Bābar-nāmah, being memoirs of the Emperor Ẓahîr al-Dîn Muḥammad Bâbar in the original Turkî.
Bagpipe music, consisting of both piobaireachd and more popular pieces, collected and copied by Donald Dow, Glasgow.
Donald Dow died in Glasgow in 1892, aged 56.
'Ballad of Bond Street or the Careful Choice', an apparently unpublished poem, probably by Alexander Maclehose, addressed to his parents Dr and Mrs James Maclehose.
Band parts of Scottish dance tunes originally the property of Jockie Reid, a dance band leader and dancing instructor.
Each volume contains a number of additional pieces on loose sheets which have been tipped in, but the latter half of each volume is blank.