Novels.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Invented prose narratives of considerable length and a certain complexity that deal imaginatively with human experience through a connected sequence of events involving a group of persons in a specific setting.
Found in 215 Collections and/or Records:
11 literary notebooks and other papers of Morley Jamieson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9160
Dates:
circa 1980-1984 and undated.
22 notebooks, 1942, containing the corrected manuscript of A J Cronin, "The Keys of the Kingdom".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9873
Scope and Contents
With a copy of the novel inscribed by Cronin and a letter, 1950, of Cronin.
Dates:
1942-1950.
Account book, early 19th century, of Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael.
File
Identifier: Acc.4299
Scope and Contents
With drawings for "A new Edition of Pennecuick`s Works, 1816", and a monologue, 19th century, "Lady Gifford".
Dates:
19th century.
Author`s manuscript of "The Skipper of Barncraig" by Gabriel Setoun [Thomas Nicoll Hepburn].
Item
Identifier: Acc.11508
Dates:
1901.
Autograph manuscript of the novel ‘Deep down: a tale of the Cornish mines’ by R M Ballantyne.
Item
Identifier: MS.20443
Scope and Contents
The preface is signed and dated at Edinburgh in 1868. The manuscript is heavily corrected and includes a page-proof of the preface.
Dates:
1868.
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)
Item
Identifier: Acc.12712
Dates:
1796.
Carbon copy of typescript of a novel, "Fanny Campbell", by J M Gordon.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11593
Dates:
20th century.
Carbon copy of typescript of "Poor Angus", a novel by Robin Jenkins.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12593
Dates:
circa 2000.
Corrected manuscript of Hume Nisbet, "The Swampers: a Romance of the Westralian Goldfields".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8866
Dates:
1897.
Corrected manuscript of Sir Compton Mackenzie, "Figure of Eight"
Item
Identifier: Acc.10169
Dates:
1936.
Corrected page proofs of George Mackay Brown, "Greenvoe" (1972).
File
Identifier: Acc.9920
Dates:
circa 1972.
Corrected typescript and page proofs of Fionn Mac Colla, "Scottish Noël".
File
Identifier: Acc.3944
Dates:
1958.
Corrected typescript drafts and page proofs of a novel of Robert Nye, "Falstaff" (1976), with associated manuscript notes.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7076
Scope and Contents
With corrected typescript versions of the play of Robert Nye and John Abulafia, "Falstaff" (1977).
Dates:
circa 1976-circa 1977.
Corrected typescript of Naomi Mitchison, "Cousin James", here called "Hide and Seek".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9914
Dates:
1989.
Corrected typescripts of Joan Lingard, "The Headmaster" (1967), "The Clearance" (1974), and "The Resettling" (1975).
Series
Identifier: Acc.6624/1-4
Dates:
1967-1975.
Correspondence and papers, 1996-1999, of Ronald Black concerning the publication of his work 'An tuil: anthology of 20th century Scottish Gaelic verse' (Polygon: Edinburgh, 1999); with papers, 1937-1999, relating to other work on 20th century Gaelic literature.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12035/1-38
Scope and Contents
Includes scripts of two unpublished Gaelic novels of the Rev Ewen MacLean, Edinburgh, and photocopies of 'Leabhar nam Prannag', manuscript poems of Ian Paterson.
Dates:
1937-1999, undated.
Correspondence and papers of David Fletcher, mainly arising from acting as literary agent for Kathleen Jamie, Marion Lochhead, Colin Mackay, Ruari McLean, David Muriston and James Ritchie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12920
Dates:
circa 1979-2001.
Correspondence and papers of Derek Stanford.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11050
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of critical works on Muriel Spark, research notes and proofs of works of Muriel Spark.
Dates:
circa 1955-1976.
Correspondence and papers of Tom Scott.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11750/1-122
Scope and Contents
Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.
Dates:
1950-1995.
Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of works of Mollie Hunter.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11073/1-122
Scope and Contents
Includes editorial correspondence, typescripts and proofs of novels, and some book jackets and illustrations.
Dates:
1960-1993, undated.
Correspondence, manuscript drafts and typescripts concerning "MacDiamrid`s Disciple" by Henry Mair.
File
Identifier: Acc.12033
Dates:
2000-2001.