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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.
Drafts of Alan Riddell, "The Seasons", a suite of typewriter drawings.
File
Identifier: Acc.6757
Dates:
1975.
Drafts, proofs, notes, and research materials of Tom Pow, including related correspondence and other literary papers.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12950/1-59
Dates:
[1915]-2007, undated.
Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Dates:
1799-1853, undated.
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.346- is now part of Acc.10884.
Dates:
1671-1692, 1930-1989, and undated.
Eight letters of Joan Hassall to Ruari McLean.
File
Identifier: Acc.10732
Scope and Contents
Letters concern Hassall`s book illustrations. With typescript list, circa 1953, of her work, compiled by Hassall.
Dates:
1950-1959 and undated.
Excerpts from the diary of John Smith, sculptor and builder in Darnick, near Melrose, Roxburghshire; with a typed transcript of the diary.
File
Identifier: MSS.8499-8499A
Dates:
1812-1854.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16
Dates:
1509-19th century.
Final, or fair copies of musical compositions, 1958-1967, by Martin Dalby, many in his autograph, arranged in chronological order.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22142-22143
Scope and Contents
The compositions are preceded (MS.22142, folio ii) by a typescript list of Martin Dalby's compositions to 1968 with additions in ink to 1969.
Most of the compositions are vocal, being settings of poems or scriptural texts, with or without keyboard accompaniment.
Dates:
1958-1969.
Four typescripts of Naomi Mitchison, "The Cleansing of the Knife", "A Matter of Behaviour", "Conversation with an Improbable Future" and "Statement of an Imaginary Situation".
File
Identifier: Acc.10657
Dates:
1941 and undated.
Four typescripts of prose pieces by Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10879
Dates:
circa 1920-1990.
"From Arrochar to Cantebury" typescript account of the Macfarlane family in New Zealand, by James V Macfarlane
Item
Identifier: Acc.9924
Dates:
1989.
Further literary papers and correspondence of and relating to Gael Turnbull.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13322
Dates:
Circa 1946-2006.
Further literary papers of Ron Butlin.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13400
Scope and Contents
Literary papers of Ron Butlin, including various drafts of an unpublished novel titled `The Invisible Woman`, and papers relating to `No More Angels`(2007).
Dates:
2001-2012.
Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14390
Scope and Contents
This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates:
Circa 1925-2014.
'Genealogie of the family of Achinbreck' (Campbell): a typewritten copy of a manuscript, 1741, in Adv.MS.34.6.19 (Genealogical collections), with autograph notes and corrections by Herbert Campbell, Cyprus, circa 1932.
Item
Identifier: MS.810
Dates:
1741, [circa 1932].
Gospel lectionary; with a typescript of an unpublished article concerning the lectionary.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9000-9000A
Dates:
11th century, 1968.
"Grandville`s Illustrations to the Fables of la Fontaine", typescript of essay by James Brown, Minister of Colmonell.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10045
Dates:
1949.
'Green days in forests. Some recollections and reflections of a timber merchant' by James Begg.
Item
Identifier: MS.15931
Scope and Contents
The author, James Begg, belonged to a Glasgow firm of saw millers.
Reproduced from typescript with a few manuscript corrections.
Dates:
[Circa 1944.]
Handwritten and typescript `wartime memories` presented by visitors to the National Library of Scotland summer exhibition, 2005, "Scotland`s Secret War: Hidden Stiries of World War II".
File
Identifier: Acc.12567
Dates:
2005.
Illustrated typescript of "My Bit in the South African War, 1899-1900-1901" by Captain Cecil C Daniel, the Royal Scots.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12396
Dates:
circa 1901.
Illustrated typescript travel journal of a visit to the Dolomites by Carl Marsh, Keyhaven, Hampshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12983
Dates:
1938.