Novels.
Found in 497 Collections and/or Records:
Corrected typescript of 'The three brothers' by Edwin Muir., [1931, or before.]
Corrected typescript, undated, of 'Challenge', book II, by Edward Albert., [1920, or after.]
The typescript contains a different version of book II of ‘The challenge’ to that at MS.9129.
Corrected typescripts of Joan Lingard, "The Headmaster" (1967), "The Clearance" (1974), and "The Resettling" (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.
Includes scripts of two unpublished Gaelic novels of the Rev Ewen MacLean, Edinburgh, and photocopies of 'Leabhar nam Prannag', manuscript poems of Ian Paterson.
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.
Correspondence and papers of Derek Stanford.
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of critical works on Muriel Spark, research notes and proofs of works of Muriel Spark.
Correspondence and papers of Tom Scott.
Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.
Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of works of Mollie Hunter.
Includes editorial correspondence, typescripts and proofs of novels, and some book jackets and illustrations.
Correspondence, manuscript drafts and typescripts concerning "MacDiamrid`s Disciple" by Henry Mair.
Correspondence, novels, plays, articles and cuttings of Mairi MacDonald., 1915-1975, undated.
Cover proofs and promotional material for Ian Rankin’s novel anthologies., 2000-2001.
Cover proofs, 2000-2001, of Ian Rankin’s novel anthologies. Folios 1-7.
'Rebus: The St Leonard's Years' (Folios 1-3)
'The Jack Harvey Novels' (Folios 4-7)
Includes letter from Susan Lamb of Orion Publishing Group Ltd regarding the jack Harvey cover proofs. (Folio 4)
Advertisement, 2001, for an anthology of Ian Rankin's Rebus novels, 'Three Great Novels'. Folios 8-10.
Digital archive of literary and personal papers of Christopher Whyte.
Draft novel of Moultrie R Kelsall, being an attempt to finish 'Weir of Hermiston' by Robert Louis Stevenson., Undated.
Including scripts of plays, short stories, articles, talks, broadcast scripts of radio and television documentaries, and associated correspondence.
Draft of chapter XV of the novel ‘The House with the Green Shutters’ by George Douglas Brown., [1901, or before.]
The early draft differs very little from the printed version, except that folio 1 has been slightly expanded, and folios 19-23 have been reduced to a short paragraph on page 157 of the Memorial Edition. A section on pages 158-159 does not appear in the notebook.
Draft of parts of the novel ‘The house with the green shutters’ by George Douglas Brown., [1901, or before.]
Draft translations and other writings of Charles Scott Moncrieff., 1925.
Drafts and proofs of `Close Your Eyes` by Ewan Morrison., 2000-2012.
The titles given to these drafts and files are generally those applied by Ewan Morrison.
Drafts, manuscripts and typescripts of 'Her grace presents' by Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'., [1957, or before.]
'March Cost' wrote manuscript drafts of her books on loose sheets which she numbered herself; some revisions were written on new sheets and inserted into the sequence, using the same numeration.
Drafts of content and stories for `Tales from the Mall` by Ewan Morrison, including several stories not published in the book., Circa 2008-2011.
Early draft and the first fair version of an unpublished novel, 'Gilded Ganymede: letters to the Devil' by Fred Urquhart, written under the pseudonym 'Fred Valdred'., 1929.
Fred Urquhart was educated in Stranraer and Edinburgh and worked as a reader and editor for Cassell and other publishers. Much of his own literary work was in the form of short stories.
Early draft, notes, and part of the manuscript, undated, of an early unpublished novel, 'Peter Potter' by Robert Garioch Sutherland., Mid 20th century.
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.
Early manuscript with numerous corrections of an unpublished novel, 'Hyphen' by Fred Urquhart., 1932.
Fred Urquhart was educated in Stranraer and Edinburgh and worked as a reader and editor for Cassell and other publishers. Much of his own literary work was in the form of short stories.
Editorial notes for ‘Watchman’, a spy novel by Ian Rankin; with a related contract and advertisements., 1987-2004.
Fair copy of an unpublished novel, 'Gilded Ganymede: letters to the Devil' by Fred Urquhart, written under the pseudonym 'Fred Valdred'., 1930-1931.
The copy is preceded (folio i) by three letters from Aldous Huxley, 1931, advising Fred Urquhart against publication.