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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 corrected draft of poem of Hamish Henderson, "The Flying o` Life and Daith".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4526
Dates:
circa 1968.
Manuscript draft and corrected typescript of the novel 'A sort of freedom' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1969) by Joan Lingard.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.5627/1-2
Dates:
Undated, 1969.
Manuscript draft and fair copy of the pipe tune of Andrew R Hunter, "The King of Norway`s Welcome to Riccarton".
File
Identifier: Acc.7571
Dates:
1979.
Manuscript draft of an article addressed to the MP for Lanarkshire, concerning colonial policy in the West Indies.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7544
Dates:
circa 1840.
Manuscript draft of George Douglas Brown, "How Janet Goudie Came Home", a short story.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13486
Scope and Contents
This much-revised draft of the story appears to be an earlier version than NLS MS.8179. "How Janet Goudie Came Home" was published in "The Speaker" in 1899.
Dates:
?1899.
Manuscript draft of map of Berwickshire of John Blackadder, published in 1797.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7115
Dates:
circa 1797.
Manuscript draft of Morley Jamieson, "Recollections of Edwin and Willa Muir".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8443
Dates:
1983.
Manuscript draft of part of chapter 22 and all of chapter 23 of the novel 'Dear Mrs Boswell' by Marie Muir.
Item
Identifier: MS.19709
Dates:
[1953, or before.]
Manuscript draft of Piano Concerto by Edward Harper.
Item
Identifier: Dep.160- is now Acc.5019.
Dates:
1969.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescript of autobiography of Naomi Mitchison, "All Change Here", covering the years 1910-1918.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6388
Dates:
1975.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescript of Morley Jamieson, "The Creative Need: Notes on the Short Story".
File
Identifier: Acc.7541
Dates:
1979.
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 collection of poems of Joseph MacLeod, "An Old Olive Tree" (1971).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5622
Dates:
1971.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of four poems of Alan Riddell.
File
Identifier: Acc.4711
Dates:
circa 1969.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of Naomi Mitchison, "You May Well Ask".
File
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.
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 37 poems of Christopher Murray Grieve, alias Hugh MacDiarmid, and of parts of a larger work probably related to 'Impavidi Progrediamur'.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11451
Scope and Contents
Some of the poems are apparently unpublished, but, where possible, references have been given to page numbers of the Complete Poems edited by Michael Grieve and W R Aitken, (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1994). [CP].Manuscripts of individual poems:‘Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone’, undated [CP 874, 1069](A Point in Time; Wedding of the Winds; Composition (1934); Knight; of William Johnstone’s Art; Ode to the North Wind).‘To my friend the...
Dates:
Circa 1920-1970.