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Autograph manuscript of the novel ‘Deep down: a tale of the Cornish mines’ by R M Ballantyne.
The preface is signed and dated at Edinburgh in 1868. The manuscript is heavily corrected and includes a page-proof of the preface.
Lexicographical fragments found loose in MS.14957, written by Edward Dwelly and various of his informants.
Includes some cuttings and proofs.
Literary papers of the poet Edith Anne Robertson (1883-1973).
Educated in Glasgow and Germany, in 1919 Edith Anne married James A Robertson who became Professor of Biblical Criticism at Aberdeen University. Her publications included a life of St Francis Xavier as well as poems in English and Scots.
Manuscript and page-proofs of parts of ‘Better dead’, Sir James Matthew Barrie's first book, published at his own expense in November 1887.
Manuscript of chapter I (folios 1-11) and page-proofs of chapter I and part of chapter II (folios 12-19 verso). There are considerable differences between the texts of the manuscript and the proof, the latter being generally condensed. There are two corrections in the page-proof (folio 15 verso) which are incorporated into the final text.
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.
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.
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).
Microfilm of page proofs of volume I of ‘The history of Scotland’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive additions and corrections by Scott.
Microfilm of papers relating to 'Translation from an ancient Chaldee manuscript' by James Hogg.
Microfilm of proofs of ‘The fortunes of Nigel’, and ‘Quentin Durward’, by Sir Walter Scott.
Page-proofs and revised page-proofs with corrections by Professor James Moor and others, of each of the two volumes of "ʻH του̑ ʻΟμήρоυ ʼΙλιάς" (Homer's 'Iliad'), printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, 1756.
Page-proofs of ‘Cleg Kelly’ by Samuel Rutherford Crockett, as it appeared in the ‘Cornhill magazine’, July 1895-March 1896, with extensive manuscript corrections by the author.
The proofs represent a subsequent and almost final revision of the manuscript (see MS.6517).
Page-proofs of ‘History of St Andrews’ by the Reverend Charles J Lyon, with numerous corrections and additions by the author, related notes and miscellaneous papers.
The ‘History’ was first published in one volume in 1838; the 1843 edition was considerably enlarged in two volumes. Only a small number of the corrections on these proofs appear in the 2nd edition; the remainder, with the additions and insertions, were probably intended for a 3rd edition.
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.
Page proofs of volume I of ‘The history of Scotland’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive additions and corrections by Scott.
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.
James Leslie Mitchell is best known for his Scottish novels, ‘Sunset song’ (London, 1932), ‘Cloud Howe’ (London, 1933) and ‘Grey granite’ (London, 1934), published under the pseudonym 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', but he also wrote essays, biographies, and a study of South American history, ‘The conquest of the Maya’ (London, 1934).