Manuscripts.
Found in 6590 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph manuscript of `The fair Unfortunate; or, the Tragedy of Jane Douglas, the Lady Glamis’, an unpublished drama in blank verse by Alexander Campbell, the editor Of ‘Albyn’s Anthology’.
The manuscript is undated, but another hand has added the date 27 November, 1819 (folio 89 verso).
Two sheets of musical accompaniment to songs in the text have been inserted (folios 41, 51).
Tipped in at the front of the volume is a letter, 1821, from the proprietors of Covent Garden Theatre, rejecting the play.
Autograph manuscript of "The Raid of Rittersford" by Walter Scott, later published with variations as "Jamie Telfer of the Fair Donhead" in "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" (1802)
Autograph manuscripts and typescripts of James Ramsay MacDonald entitled "Parliament and Revolution" and "India: Imprsessions and Opinions".
Autograph manuscripts "Autumn" and "The Celtic Genius", poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
Autograph manuscripts of 'A child's history of Scotland' and 'The life and death of Jeanne d'Arc the maid of France' by Margaret Oliphant., [1895 or before], [1896 or before.]
The contents are as follows. (i) Chapters ix-xxii (last) of ‘A child's history of Scotland’, which was published (London, 1895) (folio 1); (ii) 'The life and death of Jeanne d'Arc the maid of France' which was published under the title ‘Jeanne d'Arc her life and death’ (London, 1896) (folio 65). Some of the sheets used are fragments, and some of these are stuck together to form composite sheets.
Autograph manuscripts of ten poems by Edwin Morgan on "Scotland`s favourite paintings" as selected by readers of `The Herald`.
With related papers and notes by Lesley Duncan, and a copy of the resulting book "Beyond the Sun" (Edinburgh, 2007).