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Copy, apparently the licence copy, of the play 'The fair Quaker' by Edward Thompson.
Item
Identifier: MS.9045
Scope and Contents
The volume is made up of pages from a copy of the 1769 edition of ‘The Fair Quaker of Deal, or, the Humours of the Navy’ by Charles Shadwell (originally published in 1710), bearing numerous small textual alterations and deletions, and leaves containing a great deal of new or completely revised material, written in a formal contemporary hand.
Dates:
[1769, or after-1773, or before.]
Corrected manuscript of a radio broadcast of Compton Mackenzie, "The Art of Memory".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8053
Dates:
1963.
Drafts and proofs of film scripts, short stories, articles and illustrations of Alasdair Gray, with some related correspondence.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12557/1-21
Scope and Contents
The largest portion of this collection is taken up by drafts of film scripts for 'Poor things', co-written by Alasdair Gray and Sandy Johnson, director, with comments and changes of both, as well as comments and changes of Iain Brown, producer, and Brian Gibson, another director who was later attached to the project.There are also some files of correspondence and drafts of articles and illustrations for other projects, as well as typescripts and proofs of the short story...
Dates:
1988-2003.
Literary papers, including manuscripts, typescripts, radio scripts and correspondence of Kathleen Annie Fidler.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8078/1-880
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, lectures and articles, with scripts of radio broadcasts, notebooks and correspondence.
Dates:
1878-1980.
Literary papers of Alison Fell.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12394/1-85
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry, short stories, novels, and works for radio, film and the theatre.This collection includes papers relating to the following published works:'The bad box' (London: Virago, 1987)'The crystal owl' (London: Methuen, 1988)'Dreams, like heretics' (London: Serpent’s Tail, 1997)'Every move you make' (London: Virago, 1984)'The grey dancer'...
Dates:
1971-2001.
Literary papers of Muriel Spark, containing manuscripts, research material for critical works, and papers concerning her autobiography, 'Curriculum vitae'.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10989/1-280
Dates:
1943-1993.
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 Tom Pow.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12233/1-87
Scope and Contents
Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates:
1969-2003.
Manuscript and typescripts of novels and short stories by Eona Macnicol.
File
Identifier: MS.19706
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Typescript with manuscript corrections of the novel ‘Colum of Derry’, 1954, dated 1946 by the author, Eona Mcnicol (Folio 1.)
(ii) Three pages of corrected typescript of ‘Lamp in the night wind’, 1957. (Folio 128.)
(iii) Corrected typescript, being the second draft of 'Grey boy', published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, volume 301 (1967), pages 537-547. The last page is missing. (Folio 132.)
(iv) Final typescript and broadcast script of 'A night of rain, 1968....
Dates:
1946-[1969, or before.]
Manuscript drafts of Morley Jamieson, "Tam in a Dark Place: a Dramatic Monologue"
File
Identifier: Acc.8624
Dates:
1984.
Manuscript notebook of Edward Boyd.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4747
Scope and Contents
Containing sketches of broadcast scripts.
Dates:
circa 1940-circa 1969.
Papers of, and relating to, Iain Crichton Smith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12600/1-65
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1946, 1962-2000.
Papers of Gael Turnbull.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10256
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry and prose, together with scripts of dramatizations for radio.
Dates:
1953-1990.
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 the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26036-26103
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1915-1979.
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
Typescript drafts of novel of Jessie Kesson, "Where the Apple Ripens" (1978).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7845
Scope and Contents
With manuscript and typescript of associated short story and radio play, undated.
Dates:
1978 and undated.