Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Photograph of H.M.S. Canopus leaving Valetta, [?December 1914] (folio 1);(ii) Sketch map of naval action in the North Sea, 24 January 1915 (folio 8);(iii) 'Account of the Engagement with the German High Seas Fleet off the Jutland Bank May 31st 1916', by Midshipman Robert Kirk Dickson, dated H.M.S. Benbow, 18 June 1916, with a typescript carbon copy of the same (folio 3);(iv) Unsigned typescript 'Report of...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Typescript carbon copies of official reports, 1942, by Robert Kirk Dickson from H.M.S. Manxman, with 'Chronological summary of the first commission of H.M.S. Manxman, 1941-2, written by R.K.D, in 1944 at the request of the Deputy Director, Operations Division (Mining), Admiralty' (folio 1);(ii) Typescript carbon copy of 'Boil down of Cossac (43) 28. Appreciation and Outline Plan for Operation Overlord', by Captain Robert Kirk Dickson,...

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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The typescripts are as follows:

(i) Carbon copy of ‘Tales of a traveller’, with annotations apparently in the hand of Ian Malcolm.

(ii) Top copy of ‘An election in New York’. A revised version appears in ‘Trodden ways 1895-1930’ by Malcolm (1930), pages 209-215.

(iii) Top copy of ‘Washington’.

(iv) Top copy of ‘Niagara in winter’.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of:

'Unlikely stories, mostly' (Canongate, 1983);

'1982, Janine' (Cape, 1984);

'The fall of Kelvin Walker' (Canongate, 1985);

'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985);

'Old negatives' (Cape, 1989).

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The archival box housing these files has been annotated by Alasdair Gray '12 folders containing these attempts at a verse autobiography'.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of:

'Unlikely stories, mostly' (Canongate, 1983);

'1982, Janine' (Cape, 1984);

'The fall of Kelvin Walker' (Canongate, 1985);

'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985);

'Old negatives' (Cape, 1989).

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of:

'Unlikely stories, mostly' (Canongate, 1983);

'1982, Janine' (Cape, 1984);

'The fall of Kelvin Walker' (Canongate, 1985);

'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985);

'Old negatives' (Cape, 1989).

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Concerning Hopkinson`s bibliographies of Berlioz and Verdi.

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

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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Also included (folio 46) are a letter, 1947, of the county clerk of Argyll to Naomi Mitchison, and a draft in typescript carbon, with alterations in her hand, of a report, 1948, on fishing by the Highlands and Islands Advisory Panel.

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Contains correspondence and papers concerning radar in World War II, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1951, and other activities and interests.

Includes photographs, articles and printed books.

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A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.

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Including scripts of plays, short stories, articles, talks, broadcast scripts of radio and television documentaries, and associated correspondence.

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A collection of prompt scripts, programmes and printed items relating to The Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh.

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The contents are as follows. (i) Corrected galley proofs of ‘Instances’ (Edinburgh, 1967) (folio 1); (ii) Drafts of translations from Swedish of poems by Göran Sonnevi, 1971 (folio 10); (iii) Draft of 'A Shadow', 1971 (folio 25). For another draft, see MS.27496, (folio 112 verso); (iv) Carbon typescript, 1969, of a note about Robin Fulton and his poetry (folio 26).

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The papers include a carbon typescript of an early version of part 3, chapter 2 of G E Davie's ‘The democratic intellect’ (Edinburgh, 1961) (folio 42).

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A sequence of 15 volumes, 1912-1920, with four other volumes for 1893, 1897-1898, 1898 and 1901/1910.

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A sequence of 621 volumes, 1912-1943, with two other volumes for 1903 and 1907.