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Correspondence, production files, scripts, cuttings and other papers of John McGrath.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11615/1-110
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the material dates from ca.1979-1990, though there are some earlier and later items. Much of it concerns McGrath’s work outside 7:84, the theatre company which he and others established in 1971.

Dates: Circa 1926-1997.

Eleven playscripts; with three television scripts and parts of scripts mainly relating to Scottish Television productions.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13579
Scope and Contents

A small collection of theatre and television scripts, 1967-1975 and undated, gathered by Michael Barry, writer and producer, when he was working in Scottish television and theatre during that period. With a copy of Barry’s play, ‘The Tay Bridge Disaster’.

Dates: 1967-1975, 2003, and undated.

Literary and personal papers of Jo Clifford.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13458
Scope and Contents

Literary and personal papers, c. 1966-2013, of Jo Clifford, comprising mainly playscripts, notebooks and journals. With some earlier family papers including: two travel journals by an unidentified family member, to North Carolina in 1828 and a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1829; First World War letters of Bertram Clifford, grandfather of Jo Clifford.

Dates: Circa 1966-2013.

Literary papers of Ronald Frame.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12045
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of short stories, novels, plays, and works for radio.

Dates: circa 1980-2000.

Literary papers of Stewart Conn.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12098/1-57
Scope and Contents Literary papers, 1961-1999, of Stewart Conn (b. 1936), a poet and playwright who was for many years a drama producer for BBC Radio Scotland. These papers includes correspondence, typescripts and a small number of manuscript drafts of poetry, and scripts of plays and adaptations for stage, radio and television.Many of the scripts in this collection have never been published, but it includes manuscripts and typescripts relating to the following published works: 'The Chinese tower'...
Dates: 1961-2005.

Literary papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12937
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, articles and plays, and radio scripts, with some related correspondence.

Dates: 1938-1964.

Papers of James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9887
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, theatre programmes and manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, films and short stories.

Dates: 1928-1951.

Papers of Moultrie R Kelsall.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7716/1-328
Scope and Contents

Including scripts of plays, short stories, articles, talks, broadcast scripts of radio and television documentaries, and associated correspondence.

Dates: 1931-1977.

Papers of the Fifth Estate Theatre Company.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11443/1-131
Scope and Contents

Includes prompt scripts, scripts of unperformed plays, production photography and press cuttings.

Dates: 1965, 1981-1997 and undated.

Papers of the Traverse Theatre.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9285
Scope and Contents

Includes minutes, accounts, correspondence and play scripts

Dates: 1969-1985.

Papers of William Douglas Home.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9406
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence and play scripts.

Dates: 1936-1987.

Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008

Script archive of the Traverse Theatre.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13381
Scope and Contents

The playscripts, with some related correspondence and readers` reports, constitute the literary archive of the Traverse Theatre, in continuation of earlier deposits, principally Dep.256.

Dates: c. 1972-2011.

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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 4
Barry, Michael, writer and producer, b 1942 1
Barry, Michael, writer and producer, b 1942: former owner 1
British Broadcasting Corporation 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
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Brown, Ian, Professor of Drama, Kingston University, London, b 1945 1
Campbell, Austin, film director, fl 1960-1971 1
Citizen's Theatre, TAG, Glasgow, theatre company 1
Clifford, Bertram, electrical engineer, 1877-1954 1
Clifford, Jo, playwright, b 1950 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Cooper, June, Pittenweem, fl 1994 1
Cording, Alastair, actor and playwright, fl 1971-2008 1
Dallmeyer, Andrew (playwright, theatre director and actor) 1
Dundee Repertory Theatre 1
Dunlop, William, playwright, b 1951 1
Fifth Estate Theatre Company 1
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 1
Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh 1
Gerson, Jack, author and scriptwriter, 1928-2012 1
Hamilton, James Hay, playwright, fl 1975-1977 1
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Hignett, Sean, playwright and novelist, fl 1971-1987 1
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 1
Kelsall, Moultrie Rowe, actor and producer, 1904-1980 1
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 1
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 1
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 1
McGrath, John Peter, playwright, director, 1935-2002 1
McLaren, Moray David Shaw, author, 1901-1971 1
Parker, William Mathie, author, 1891-1973 1
Prebble, John (writer and historian) (1915-2001) 1
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 1
Roxburgh, Robert Anderson (playwright and Depute Clerk of Session, Edinburgh) 1
Royal Lyceum Theatre Company Ltd, Edinburgh 1
Scott, Thomas Ross, physician and playwright, fl 1913-1948 1
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 1
Smith, Jonathan, writer and Head of English, Tonbridge School , b 1942 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Smith, W Gordon (photographer, broadcaster and playwright) 1
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 1
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 1
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: collector 1
Ure, Joan, playwright and director, 1918-1978 1
Waverley Broadcasting Limited 1
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