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Full manuscript scores, 1930 and 1932, of Norman Porteous, "Britannia Invicta", a march for orchestra, and "The Mad Dog of Islington", a musical satire for chorus and orchestra.
File
Identifier: Acc.8048
Scope and Contents
With photocopy of letter, 1979, of Sir Adrian Boult to Elizabeth Crosby Cook, concerning Porteous.
Dates:
1930-1979.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, mostly relating to his historical research.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12488
Dates:
1933-2003.
Letters, 1924, of David Hay Fleming and Alexander Carlyle to John A Fairley.
File
Identifier: Acc.4755
Scope and Contents
With photocopies of births, late 18th century, of members of the Welsh family.
Dates:
circa 1760-circa 1799, 1924.
Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10707-10756
Dates:
1792-1874, undated.
Letters of Donald Mackenzie to Maurice Fleming.
File
Identifier: Acc.11809
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies of typescripts of two plays, "All Change" and "Simone".
Dates:
1993-1999.
Letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Neil Hanson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13601
Scope and Contents
Letters and copy letters, 1981-1983, of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Neil Hanson; with related papers and publications. Neil Hanson was Exhibitions Officer at Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery at the time, and had approached Finlay about possible involvement in a proposed ‘Cumbrian Landscape Exhibition’ and related book (presumably Presences of nature: words and images of the Lake District, published by the Gallery in 1982). The early correspondence chiefly concerns the possibility of commissioning...
Dates:
1981-1983.
Letters of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26672-26674
Dates:
1955-1987, undated.
Manuscripts and photocopies concerning Duncan Glen, "Echoes: Frae Classical and Italian Poetry".
File
Identifier: Acc.10597
Dates:
1992.
Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Poor things', 'Ten tales tall and true' and 'Why Scots should rule Scotland', by Alasdair Gray, with some related correspondence and source materials.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10749/1-89
Scope and Contents
Includes corrected manuscript and typescript drafts and revised versions of 'Poor things', 'Ten tales tall and true', and 'Why Scots should rule Scotland', along with finished copies of all three books. There are some files of correspondence concerning the publication of 'Poor things' and 'Ten tales tall and true', as well as some material concerning 'Something leather'.Most files have an A4 sheet inserted at the beginning by Alasdair Gray with a brief summary of the file's...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1896, 1972-1993.
Manuscripts and typescripts of 'The ends of our tethers', by Alasdair Gray, with some related cuttings and correspondence.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12609/1-23
Dates:
1995-2003, undated.
Manuscripts, typescripts, drafts and proofs of works of Kenneth White, including related correspondence and notes.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10613/1-48
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, short stories, autobiography and travel works.
Dates:
1963-1992, undated.
Microfilm and partial photocopy of transcripts of letters of Marie de Rabutin Chantal to her daughter.
File
Identifier: Acc.8186- is now Rare Book Division.
Dates:
1671-1696.
Microfilm and photocopies of journals, diaries, and letters of David Livingstone, 1853-1866, with some letters of members of his family, 1860-1874.
Series
Identifier: MS.10775
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(1) Journal, 11 November 1853-26 May 1856. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 272, number 4.
(2) Journal, 2 August 1858-9 January 1859. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 272, number 6.
(3) Journal, 1 December 1859-11 June 1860, 3 December 1860-23 March 1861.
See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham,...
Dates:
1853-1874.
Microfilm copy of 'Journal of a voyage to Lima'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.MSS.497 [Acc.10005]
Dates:
1843.
Microfilm of diaries and notebooks, and photocopies of a diary of David Livingstone.
Series
Identifier: MS.10776
Dates:
1850-1871.
Microfilm of photocopy of David Young, "A Collection of Countrey Dances written for... the Duke of Perth".
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.566
Dates:
1734.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
Microfilm of xerox of a manuscript music book containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.743
Dates:
1816, 1825.
Minute book, 1954-1961, of the National Union of Mine Workers, Scotland, Brora Branch.
File
Identifier: Acc.11789
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies of 11 share certificates in Highland Colliery Ltd, the Ross Pit, Brora, 1962-1967, and copies of press cuttings, 1973 and 1988, concerning the closure of the mine.
Dates:
1954-1988.
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Series
Identifier: MS.20311
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents
The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.
Dates:
Mid 20th century-1988, undated.