Drafts. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Preliminary or tentative versions of documents.
Found in 431 Collections and/or Records:
Literary papers of Margaret Elphinstone.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12188
Scope and Contents
Includes drafts of poetry, short stories and novels.
Dates:
1984-2002.
Literary papers of Regi Claire.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13397
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, research and correspondence relating to the following books: Inside-Outside (1998); The Beauty Room (2002); Fighting It (2009); The Waiting (2012).
Dates:
c. 1999-2012.
Literary papers of Ruth Thomas.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13389
Scope and Contents
Literary papers, c.1990-2012, of Ruth Thomas comprising digital archive, print-outs, notebooks and business correspondence.
Dates:
c. 1990-2012.
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 the poet and author, Alastair Reid (born 1926).
Series
Identifier: MSS.27446-27464
Scope and Contents
Born in Whithorn and educated at St Andrews, Alastair Reid lived in Spain and Latin America for many years, translating from Spanish as well as writing his own poetry and prose. His papers reflect these different kinds of work.
Dates:
1953-1981, undated.
Literary, personal and political papers of James Kelman, with digital archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13471
Dates:
circa 1970-2012.
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of single poems and small collections of poems by various poets.
File
Identifier: MS.26800
Dates:
[Circa 1948]-1973, undated.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of a sequence of seven poems of Tom Leonard, "Situations Theoretical and Contemporary".
File
Identifier: Acc.9044
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript and typescript drafts of the second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh, tenth and eleventh poems from Situations Theoretical and Contemporary (Newcastle: Galloping Dog Press, 1986).
Dates:
1985.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of autobiography of Maurice Lindsay, "Thank You for Having Me".
File
Identifier: Acc.8506
Dates:
1983.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of five George Bruce poems.
File
Identifier: Acc.9919
Dates:
1982-1986.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of plays and short stories of William McArthur.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7471/1-78
Dates:
1948-1954, undated.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of 'Something leather', by Alasdair Gray, with proofs, illustrations and related correspondence.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10371/1-32
Scope and Contents
Includes nine manuscript and typescript drafts of the novel, drafts of individual chapters, and related notes, correspondence and illustrations. Post-publication material includes copies of the US hardback edition, revised paperback edition, and cuttings of UK press coverage of the book.Alasdair Gray's descriptions have been retained in the scope and contents notes for each file, and include insights into his working process, comments on how the novel progressed, and how...
Dates:
1968-1991.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of the stage production and published version of "Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off", by Liz Lochhead.
File
Identifier: Acc.10176
Dates:
1989.
Manuscript and typescript revisions for the third edition of Robert McLellan, "The Isle of Arran" (1985).
File
Identifier: Acc.9013
Dates:
circa 1985.
Manuscript and typescript working papers of Prof Archibald A M Duncan for his books: "Scotland: the Making of the Kingdom" (1975), the third edition of W C Dickinson, "Scotland from the Earliest Times to 1603" (1977) and "The Acts of Robert I, King of Scots, 1306-1329" (1986).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10576
Dates:
circa 1970-1986.
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 corrected draft of poem of Hamish Henderson, "The Flying o` Life and Daith".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4526
Dates:
circa 1968.
Manuscript draft and corrected typescript of the novel 'A sort of freedom' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1969) by Joan Lingard.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.5627/1-2
Dates:
Undated, 1969.
Manuscript draft and fair copy of the pipe tune of Andrew R Hunter, "The King of Norway`s Welcome to Riccarton".
File
Identifier: Acc.7571
Dates:
1979.
Manuscript draft of an article addressed to the MP for Lanarkshire, concerning colonial policy in the West Indies.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7544
Dates:
circa 1840.