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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 498 Collections and/or Records:

Notes, typescripts and proofs of the three novels, 'Sunset song', 'Cloud Howe' and 'Grey granite' by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'., [Before 1935.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26040-26043
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

James Leslie Mitchell usually wrote at a typewriter, and few manuscripts survive. For the sake of economy, he frequently used the blank versos of his typescripts for another work at a later date.

Dates: [Before 1935.]

Novels of Stuart MacGregor., Undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9392/2-13
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of novels, plays, poems and short stories, with some correspondence and other writings.

Dates: Undated.

Original manuscript of the novel 'Malcolm' by George MacDonald, in volumes corresponding to the three volumes of the first edition.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.2559-2561
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is incomplete, wanting chapters 1-7 and the first paragraph of chapter 8 of volume i, and all after 'How am I to see? I shall be dead and' on page 317 of volume iii.

It has been much altered; the published work shows still further changes.

Dates: [1875, or before.]

Original manuscript of volume I of 'Malcolm' by George MacDonald., [1875, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.2559
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The manuscript is incomplete, wanting chapters 1-7 and the first paragraph of chapter 8 of volume i, and all after 'How am I to see? I shall be dead and' on page 317 of volume iii.

It has been much altered; the published work shows still further changes.

Dates: [1875, or before.]

Original manuscript of volume II of 'Malcolm' by George MacDonald., [1875, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.2560
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The manuscript is incomplete, wanting chapters 1-7 and the first paragraph of chapter 8 of volume i, and all after 'How am I to see? I shall be dead and' on page 317 of volume iii.

It has been much altered; the published work shows still further changes.

Dates: [1875, or before.]

Original manuscript of volume III of 'Malcolm' by George MacDonald., [1875, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.2561
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The manuscript is incomplete, wanting chapters 1-7 and the first paragraph of chapter 8 of volume i, and all after 'How am I to see? I shall be dead and' on page 317 of volume iii.

It has been much altered; the published work shows still further changes.

Dates: [1875, or before.]

Other literary works of George Moncrieff-Scott., [?1953]-[?1963], undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26964-26969
Scope and Contents From the Series:

George Scott-Moncrieff spent much of his childhood in England, but returned to Scotland in the 1930s. His writing covered a wide range of subjects, including architecture, Scottish topography, fiction, drama and religious works, and the last two of these are well represented in his papers.

Dates: [?1953]-[?1963], undated.

Outline, notes, and draft chapters of the unpublished novel 'The incompatibles' by George Douglas Brown, probably written about 1900-1901., ?1900-?1901.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8173
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Many of the drafts are early compositions, but they include all that apparently now exists of 'The House with the Green Shutters', published in 1901 (MSS.8171-8172), and two items not by George Douglas Brown (MS.8178).

MSS.8171-8176 are written in school notebooks.

Dates: ?1900-?1901.

Outline, notes, and draft chapters of the unpublished novel 'The novelist’ by George Douglas Brown, dated on the first page, 'March 11th. 1899'., 1899.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8174
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Many of the drafts are early compositions, but they include all that apparently now exists of 'The House with the Green Shutters', published in 1901 (MSS.8171-8172), and two items not by George Douglas Brown (MS.8178).

MSS.8171-8176 are written in school notebooks.

Dates: 1899.

Outline, notes, and several chapters of two unpublished novels of George Douglas Brown., 1899-?1901.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8173-8174
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Many of the drafts are early compositions, but they include all that apparently now exists of 'The House with the Green Shutters', published in 1901 (MSS.8171-8172), and two items not by George Douglas Brown (MS.8178).

MSS.8171-8176 are written in school notebooks.

Dates: 1899-?1901.

Page proofs of 'A Judge of Men' by James Allan Ford, with manuscript corrections., [1968, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.27492
Scope and Contents From the Series:

James Allan Ford was educated in Edinburgh and entered the Civil Service in 1938, rising to become Principal Establishment Officer in the Scottish Office. During the second World War he served in the defence of Hong Kong and later drew on this experience for his novel ‘The brave white flag’ (London, 1961).

Dates: [1968, or before.]

Page proofs of ‘Ivanhoe’, ‘Tales of my landlord' ('The bride of Lammermoor' and 'A legend of Montrose’), and ‘The Abbot’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand., [1819, or before; 1820, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.3401 [Proofs]
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'Ivanhoe', proof pages corresponding to: volume i, pages 17-166; volume ii, pages 33-48. The pages corresponding to volume i, pages 87-166 are set in a different type from that of the rest of the proofs and of the published book.(ii) ‘Tales of my landlord' ('The bride of Lammermoor' and 'A legend of Montrose'), proof pages corresponding to: volume iii, pages 49-192; volume iv, pages 145-312, 325-330.(iii) ‘The Abbot’, proof...
Dates: [1819, or before; 1820, or before.]

Page proofs of ‘Ivanhoe’, ‘Tales of my landlord' ('The bride of Lammermoor' and 'A legend of Montrose’), and ‘The Abbot’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand; with original binding., [1819, or before; 1820, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.3401
Scope and Contents From the Series: There are also many comments by James Ballantyne, pointing out mistakes or raising questions, in consequence of which Walter Scott frequently alters the text.The quantities of text contained in these proofs are indicated in the descriptions of the individual manuscripts by reference to pages of the volumes of the first editions.At the beginning of MS.3401 is inserted part of the catalogue of the 1868 sale of Cadell's collection of Scott manuscripts, at which all...
Dates: [1819, or before; 1820, or before.]

Page proofs of the first editions of novels or portions of novels of Sir Walter Scott with extensive corrections and additions in Scott's hand.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3401-3404
Scope and Contents There are also many comments by James Ballantyne, pointing out mistakes or raising questions, in consequence of which Walter Scott frequently alters the text.The quantities of text contained in these proofs are indicated in the descriptions of the individual manuscripts by reference to pages of the volumes of the first editions.At the beginning of MS.3401 is inserted part of the catalogue of the 1868 sale of Cadell's collection of Scott manuscripts, at which all...
Dates: [1819, or before-1823, or before.]

Page proofs of ‘The fortunes of Nigel’, and ‘Quentin Durward’, by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand., [1822, or before; 1823, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.3403
Scope and Contents From the Series: There are also many comments by James Ballantyne, pointing out mistakes or raising questions, in consequence of which Walter Scott frequently alters the text.The quantities of text contained in these proofs are indicated in the descriptions of the individual manuscripts by reference to pages of the volumes of the first editions.At the beginning of MS.3401 is inserted part of the catalogue of the 1868 sale of Cadell's collection of Scott manuscripts, at which all...
Dates: [1822, or before; 1823, or before.]

Page proofs of ‘The fortunes of Nigel’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand., [1822, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.3402
Scope and Contents ‘The fortunes of Nigel’, proof pages corresponding to: volume i, pages i-xlviii, 1-313; volume ii, pages 1-334. There are three complete sets of proofs of the 'Introductory Epistle' (pages i-xlviii), each representing a stage in the process of correction.Thus, the manuscript corrections of the first are incorporated in print in the second, and those of the second in the third, which itself has further manuscript corrections.The first two sets have been...
Dates: [1822, or before.]