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Drafts and sketches of the "Organ Sonata" by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
File
Identifier: Acc.9982
Dates:
1982.
Drafts for an unpublished history of the Independent Labour Party and the Labour movement in Bo`ness, West Lothian from 1903-1932, by James Livingstone.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 Alan Bold, "A Celtic Quintet".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8325
Scope and Contents
With proofs and litho plates.
Dates:
1982.
Drafts of Alan Riddell, "The Seasons", a suite of typewriter drawings.
File
Identifier: Acc.6757
Dates:
1975.
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 deeds, apparently used as a style book for deeds and other writs.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.5.14-24.5.16
Dates:
Mid-18th century.
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 and plates of lithographs of William Johnstone for "Twenty Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid".
File
Identifier: Acc.7230
Dates:
circa 1977.
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.
Editorial correspondence and papers of Ian Cunningham concerning "The Nation Survey`d: the Maps of Timothy Pont" (East Linton, 2001).
File
Identifier: Acc.12027
Dates:
1998-2001.
Editorial papers of Gaelic literary and topical magazine, 'Gairm'.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10491/1-31
Dates:
1953-1991.
Editorial papers of "Gairm" magazine and Gairm Publications, Glasgow.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11028
Dates:
1991-1993.
Editorial papers of Professor Ian A Gordon for an unpublished edition of John Galt`s "The Ayrshire Legatees" based on the 1823 edition.
File
Identifier: Acc.12362
Dates:
1987.
English translation of ‘Petri Gyllii de Topographia Constantinopoleos et illius Antiquitatibus’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.2
Scope and Contents
It would appear to be a draft translation, and two stages can be discerned in its text. Books I-II (folios 1-31) are a first draft, written in a hand that is rather difficult to read, and extensively disfigured by large numbers of deletions and insertions; Book I Chapter 1 is misplaced at folio 21. Books III-IV (folios 32-67) are a later draft, written in a clearer hand, and bear fewer amendments. Apart from Book I Chapter 1, which is incomplete and in some confusion, the translation is...
Dates:
18th century.
Estate and personal accounts, 1893-1933, possibly of Perthshire provenance.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7392
Scope and Contents
With draft deeds drawn up by Russell and Dunlop, "Drafts 1917 A-E".
Dates:
1893-1933.
Examples of lettering and correspondence of the calligrapher Edward Johnstone (1872-1944).
Series
Identifier: MSS.21398-21399
Dates:
1899-1929, undated.
Final draft of an unpublished Appendix to his ‘Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary’ by Edward Dwelly (1864-1939), Fleet, Hants.
Item
Identifier: MS.14957
Scope and Contents
The draft consists largely of material in A-D received too late for inclusion in the appropriate early parts of his published work.
Dates:
Early 20th century.
First draft of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem ...’ of Sir John Skene (Edinburgh, 1609), written by Charles Lumsden, Minister of Duddingston.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.1.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:the dedication (folio 1);laws of Malcolm Makkenneth (folio 3), with notes (folio 6);Regiam Maiestatem books i (folio 8 verso), with notes (folio 19);ii (folio 29), with notes (folio 49);iii (folio 66 verso);iv (folio 80 verso);Quoniam attachiamenta (folio 89);The Form and Maner of Baron Court (folio 109);acts of William (folio 124);...
Dates:
1601-1602.
Formal documents from the papers of George Combe, lawyer, phrenologist and educationist.
Series
Identifier: Ch.7595-7610
Dates:
1741-1841.
Formal documents of J B S Haldane.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15522-15524
Scope and Contents
Comprised of: a publishers` agreement, 1937, a draft deed of covenant with his first wife Charlotte, 1946, and a certificate of election to the National Institute of Sciences of India, 1953.
Dates:
1937-1953.
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.]
Further literary papers of Ron Butlin.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13400
Scope and Contents
Literary papers of Ron Butlin, including various drafts of an unpublished novel titled `The Invisible Woman`, and papers relating to `No More Angels`(2007).
Dates:
2001-2012.
Further literary papers of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor.
File
Identifier: Acc.13611
Scope and Contents
Papers and drafts relating to proposed publication of collected minor writings of Patrick Leigh Fermor, including; Peru in 1971, Spain in 1975, Pyrenees in 1978, Hellespont in 1984 and Albania in 2007
Dates:
1971-2001.