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Manuscript and typescript drafts of novels and other works of Mary Stewart, with related papers and digital resources.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13680/1-29
Scope and Contents

The papers relate mainly to the following books by Mary Stewart:

‘Madam, Will You Talk?’ (London, 1954)

‘The Crystal Cave’ (London, 1970)

‘A Walk in Wolf Wood’ (London, 1980)

‘The Wicked Day’ (London, 1983)

‘Thornyhold’ (London, 1988)

‘Frost on the window, and other poems’ (London, 1990)

‘Stormy Petrel’ (London, 1991)

‘Rose Cottage’ (London,1997).

Dates: Circa 1954-1997.

Manuscript and typescript drafts of 'Something leather', by Alasdair Gray, with proofs, illustrations and related correspondence.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10371/1-32
Scope and Contents Includes nine manuscript and typescript drafts of the novel, drafts of individual chapters, and related notes, correspondence and illustrations. Post-publication material includes copies of the US hardback edition, revised paperback edition, and cuttings of UK press coverage of the book.Alasdair Gray's descriptions have been retained in the scope and contents notes for each file, and include insights into his working process, comments on how the novel progressed, and how...
Dates: 1968-1991.

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, 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Manuscript novel entitled 'Knave of diamonds', apparently unpublished, by Alexander Leighton.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5726
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is written on paper watermarked 1856.

Dates: [1856, or after.]

Manuscript of "No one to worry us", a novel by Tony Strachan.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12954
Scope and Contents

With a related letter of Rebecca West.

Dates: 1947-1949.

Manuscript of the novel ‘Now and then’ by Samuel Warren.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9640
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is dated (folio 153) 9 December [1847]. Heavily corrected by the author, it does not vary greatly from the published version.

Dates: [1847.]

Manuscript of the novel ‘Witchwood’ by John Buchan, here called 'The minister of Woodilee'.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9865
Scope and Contents

There is a presentation inscription by the author on the flyleaf, dated 1928, followed by the note: "Written at Elsfield Oct 1925-May, 1926. Published under the title 'Witch Wood' July 1927." The manuscript has been heavily corrected by the author, but does not vary greatly from the printed version.

Dates: 1925-1926.

Manuscript of ‘The people of the palace’, a satirical novel by Marryat Ross Dobie, former Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6304
Scope and Contents The novel is greatly influenced, and its subject was probably suggested, by the discoveries in Crete of Sir Arthur Evans and others, 1899-1911; authentic characteristics of the Cretan civilisation of the period appear in drawings and are described in the text. The volume is illustrated and bound by the author himself. A note, dated 1955 (folio i verso), by Sir John Spencer Muirhead explains that 'The people of the palace' was ‘one of a series of stories written on holiday on the island of...
Dates: 1912.

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Names
Gray, Alasdair (author) 9
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 9
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 8
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 5
Johnstone, Doug, author, b 1970 4
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Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 4
Stewart, Mary Florence Elinor, novelist, wife of Sir Frederick Henry, geologist, née Rainbow, b 1916 4
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 3
Lingard, Joan, author, b 1932 3
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
McIlwraith, Maureen (novelist, pseudonym Mollie Hunter) 3
Smith, Annie Shepherd Burnett, novelist, pseudonym "David Lyall", née Swan, 1859-1943 3
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, novelist, 1825-1894 2
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 2
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 2
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 2
Butlin, Ronald Y, writer, b 1949 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 2
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 2
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 2
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 2
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 2
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 2
Lemaire, Angela, artist, engraver, b 1944 2
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 2
Mackay, Colin, poet, 1951-2003 2
Mair, Henry, Founder of the Scottish Open Poetry Cup Competition, b 1945 2
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 2
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 2
Tennant, Emma Christina, novelist, b 1937 2
Thomson, David, author of "Nairn in Darkness and Light", 1914-1988 2
Whyte, Christopher, poet and novelist, b 1952 2
Abulafia, John, writer and director, b 1947 1
Allan, Michael, Stirling, fl 1975-1990 1
Andrews, Cicily Isabel, Dame, author, née Fairfield, pseudonym 'Rebecca West', 1892-1983 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Beith, John Hay, writer, pseudonym Ian Hay, 1876–1952 1
Bell, James Horst Brunnerman (mountaineer) (1896-1975) 1
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
Black, William, novelist, 1841-1898 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Bochanan, Dùghall, poet, 1716-1768 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Browne, John Hutton Balfour-, barrister, 1845-1921 1
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) 1
Caimbeul, Aonghas Phàdruig (poet and writer) 1
Carmichael, Sir Thomas Gibson, 7th Baronet, of Skirling, 1774-1849 1
Claire, Regi, author, b. 1962 1
Columba, Saint, monastic founder, c 527-597 1
Crampsey, Robert Anthony, teacher, writer and broadcaster, 1930-2008 1
Davison, Meredith Henry Armstrong, anaesthetist and Lecturer on the History of Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1911-1970 1
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 1
Erskine, Charles, of Shielfield, Sheriff Substitute for Selkirkshire, 1771-1825 1
Fletcher, David, literary agent, David Fletcher Associates, fl 1979-2001 1
Friel, George, George (novelist) 1
Galsworthy, John, author, 1867-1933 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Gordon, J M, author of "Fanny Campbell", fl 1900-1998 1
Graham, Angus, forester and architectural historian, 1892-1980 1
Graham, Maggie, author, fl 2000 1
Grant, Alan Alexander, writer, b 1949 1
Graves, Robert Ranke, poet and author, 1895-1985 1
Greig, Andrew, poet, b 1951 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Hendry, Diana Lois, poet and children's writer, b 1941 1
Hendry, Hamish, poet, fl 1924 1
Hendry, James Findlay, poet and essayist, 1912-1986 1
Hepburn, Thomas Nicoll, author, pseudonym Gabriel Setoun, 1861-1930 1
Horne, John, writer, 1861-1934 1
Howe, Alexia F, Assistant Keeper, National Library of Scotland, writer, née McAlpine, fl 1948-1951 1
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 1
Jackson, Marshall, Edinburgh, fl 1983 1
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 1
Jenkins, John Robin, novelist, 1912-2005 1
Kennaway, James Peebles Ewing, novelist and scriptwriter, 1928-1968 1
Kennedy, A L, writer, b 1965 1
Kennedy, Campbell, artist, fl 1967-2011. 1
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, intelligence officer and author, called Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935 1
Lindsay, David, writer, 1876-1945 1
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 1
Lochhead, Marion Cleland, journalist, editor and author, 1902-1985 1
MacDonald, George, poet and novelist, 1824-1905 1
MacDonald, Mary, née Doyle, wife of Thomas Joseph Douglas MacDonald, author , 1911-1999: recipient 1
MacGregor, James Murdoch, science fiction writer, pseudonym J T McIntosh, 1925-2008 1
MacLeod, Ken (writer) 1
Macdonald, Norman Malcolm, writer and dramatist, 1927-2000 1
MacilleDhuibh, Raghnall, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Celtic Department, University of Edinburgh, b 1946 1
Mackay, Charles, journalist and songwriter, 1812-1889 1
Marshak, Samuil Iakovlevich , poet and translator, 1887-1964 1
Massie, Allan Johnstone (Scottish journalist, columnist, sports writer and novelist) 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
McLean, Allan Campbell, novelist, 1922-1989 1
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