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Autograph manuscript of the novel ‘Deep down: a tale of the Cornish mines’ by R M Ballantyne.
Item
Identifier: MS.20443
Scope and Contents
The preface is signed and dated at Edinburgh in 1868. The manuscript is heavily corrected and includes a page-proof of the preface.
Dates:
1868.
Microfilm of page proofs of ‘Ivanhoe’, ‘Tales of my landlord' ('The bride of Lammermoor' and 'A legend of Montrose’), and ‘The Abbot’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.852
Dates:
[1819, or before; 1820, or before.]
Microfilm of page proofs of ‘The fortunes of Nigel’, and ‘Quentin Durward’, by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.832
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Page proofs of ‘The fortunes of Nigel’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand, [1822, or before] (MS.3402);
Page proofs of ‘The fortunes of Nigel’, and ‘Quentin Durward’, by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand, [1822, or before; 1823, or before.] (MS.3403).
Dates:
[1822, or before; 1823, or before.]
Microfilm of proofs of ‘The fortunes of Nigel’, and ‘Quentin Durward’, by Sir Walter Scott.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.346-347
Dates:
[1822, or before; 1823, or before.]
Page proofs of the first editions of novels or portions of novels of Sir Walter Scott with extensive corrections and additions in Scott's hand.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3401-3404
Scope and Contents
There are also many comments by James Ballantyne, pointing out mistakes or raising questions, in consequence of which Walter Scott frequently alters the text.The quantities of text contained in these proofs are indicated in the descriptions of the individual manuscripts by reference to pages of the volumes of the first editions.At the beginning of MS.3401 is inserted part of the catalogue of the 1868 sale of Cadell's collection of Scott manuscripts, at which all...
Dates:
[1819, or before-1823, or before.]
Typescript and proofs of two novels by Allan Campbell McLean (1922-1989).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26999-27000
Dates:
1962, 1967.