Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection, in which family correspondence predominates, reflects all aspects of the naval career of Robert Kirk Dickson. He took part in the Battles of the Falkland Islands, 1914, Gallipoli, 1915, and Jutland, 1916. In the Second World War he served as Duty Captain in the Admiralty War Room, 1939-1940, and commanded the fast minelayer, H.M.S. Manxman, 1940-1942, when he took part in a series of offensive minelaying operations in the Channel, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. He was Deputy...

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The most substantial of the alterations are the additions at folios 97-101, 125, 163-164 and 253-254. The chief difference between this final copy and the printed book is the deletion of folios 199-242.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The most substantial of the alterations are the additions at folios 97-101, 125, 163-164 and 253-254. The chief difference between this final copy and the printed book is the deletion of folios 199-242.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...

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This is a copy of MSS.5053-5054 with the leaves arranged differently, in two separate alphabetical sequences, and was the working copy used by the donor, Campbell White, in looking after the collection before Hugh Sharp's death.

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A sheet of paper containing a record of the proposed arrangement of the collection is placed at folio iii.

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There is (folio 84) another, closer, version, also in typescript (carbon copy), and with a few small manuscript corrections in a hand that may be John Davidson's. It is incomplete, wanting Acts I, III (ll. 964-1000), IV (ll. 1325-1328), and V (ll. 1531-1616, 1640-1654).

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There are no significant textual differences between the two copies (which both lack many leaves), but the carbon is not as defective as the typescript. The work was not intended for publication.

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These papers were given to Father Ernest Eugene Laws by Dillon's widow, as research material for a proposed biography of Dillon. Laws transcribed and translated many of the letters and annotated some of the originals.

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Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of novels, short stories, and poems.

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Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of novels, short stories, and poems.

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Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.

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The papers consist of manuscript notes (folio 1), the typescript submitted to the BBC (folio 23), a carbon copy of the same text, heavily corrected in manuscript (folio 71), the corrected typescript of a later version (folio 117), and some fragments (folio 164).

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The contents are as follows. (i) Typescripts, with a few manuscripts corrections, of an early version corresponding to pages 19-40 of the published text (folio 2); (ii) Heavily corrected carbon copies corresponding to pages 19-40 (folio 41); (iii) Typescripts of two preliminary chapters and of two other pages which were not included in the published text (folio 79).

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The contents are as follows. (i) Two typescripts of ‘The Cailleach’ (folio l). The play was published by A and J Donaldson in ‘Seagull plays, second collection’ (Glasgow, 1946), pages 3-16. (ii) Carbon copies of two typescripts of 'The Smuggler' (folio 42). The first has a few manuscripts corrections. The play was published in ‘Chapman’ xliii-xliv (1986), pages 20-33.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Typescript, with manuscript corrections, of 'Children of Eve', a two-act play set in Eastern Europe, undated (folio 1); (ii) Typescript draft of 'The Craftsman's Hand', dramatic sequences for radio about Scottish crafts, undated (folio 48). Two earlier titles were 'Men of Craft' and 'The Thinking Hand'. (iii) Typescript of 'A Keel for Kintail', a play for radio which was produced in 1964 (folio 75); (iv) Carbon typescript of 'Kitty Ann and the Banshee: a play...

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As well as correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of published works, the collection includes a huge number of David Thomson’s notebooks and diaries.

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Small quantities of letters and papers of other members of Mary E Haldane's family are contained in different parts of the collection. Also contained is a small quantity of letters and papers to Anne, wife of General Sir David Baird, and her sister Catherine Campbell Preston.