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Typescripts of two poems of George S Fraser.
File
Identifier: Acc.4715
Scope and Contents
Corrected for printing in a Reading University magazine.
Dates:
circa 1969.
Typescripts of works by Norman MacDonald, Lewis.
File
Identifier: MS.14972
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Gaelic play for stage, titled ‘Shonnie’ (folio 1);(ii) Gaelic play for radio, titled ‘Buisneachd’ (folio 19);(iii) Gaelic play for stage, titled “An Ceistear ‘s am Bard ‘s na Boirionnaich” (Published under that title) (folio 64);(iv) English radio feature, titled ‘Iolaire’ (folio 91);(v) English short story, titled ‘Potatoes and Herring’ (folio 125);(vi) ‘The first Day of the Season’. Do...
Dates:
[1971, or before]-[1975, or before.]
Typescripts of works by Sydney Goodsir Smith, Crieff Williamson and John Guthrie.
File
Identifier: Acc.11806
Dates:
circa 1935-1988.
Typescripts, photographs and other material concerning Chapel House in Potterow, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15990-15991
Dates:
[Circa 1904-circa 1952.]
Typescripts, proofs, notes and drawings relating to Nigel Tranter`s "The Fortified House in Scotland".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12666
Scope and Contents
Includes sound recordings of this and other works by Tranter.
Dates:
circa 1962-1995.
Typescripts, with manuscript corrections, of two historical plays in Scots, 'Greenside' and ‘The Winnock’ by Margaret T Monro.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19626-19627
Dates:
[1937, or before-1938, or before.]
Unpublished bound carbon typescript of "The Educational Writings of Simon Somerville Laurie...(1829-1909)" by Henry Macdonald Knox.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12732
Dates:
circa 1950.
Volume containing typed copies of diaries of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson of journeys to India in the winters of 1885-1886 and 1888-1889 for the sake of her health; with associated papers.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20668-20669
Dates:
1885-1889.
Working notes by Alexander Philip, the author of several books on the calendar.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10307-10308
Dates:
1887-1929, undated.
Writings of Vero L Bosazza on nineteenth century explorers of African countries, chiefly David Livingstone.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20333-20340
Scope and Contents
Vero L Bosazza, a South Africa geologist who worked in various African countries, became interested in the nineteenth century travellers there, especially David Livingstone. In retirement he wrote extensively on them, his personal knowledge of the localities giving his work a dimension frequently lacking in other scholarship. His writings are almost entirely unpublished, except in the sense that he distributed copies of them to various libraries with interests in African history....
Dates:
1861-1865, 1955-1979.
Xeroxed typescript of Alasdair Gray`s `Lanark`, book 3, chapters 1-7.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13403
Scope and Contents
The typescript is slightly different from the chapters as published in `Lanark`. The manuscript dedication on the title page states that the copy was given by Alasdair Gray to his friends, ---- and Frances McIlhenny, in Glasgow, xxx.
Dates:
1969.