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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 497 Collections and/or Records:

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Includes scripts of two unpublished Gaelic novels of the Rev Ewen MacLean, Edinburgh, and photocopies of 'Leabhar nam Prannag', manuscript poems of Ian Paterson.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 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, novels, plays, articles and cuttings of Mairi MacDonald., 1915-1975, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.7708/33-83
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Papers of Alexander MacDonald, circa 1886-1962, including manuscripts of poems and essays, and associated correspondence. Also present are the papers of his daughter Mairi A MacDonald, 1915-1977, including manuscripts of novels, plays, and articles, with associated correspondence, including letters of Gordon Daviot. The collection also includes a book of poems by Isobel MacDonald, either the sister or mother of Alexander MacDonald; as well as some magazines and journals relating to Scottish...
Dates: 1915-1975, undated.

Cover proofs and promotional material for Ian Rankin’s novel anthologies., 2000-2001.

 File
Identifier: MS.50444
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2000-2001.

Draft novel of Moultrie R Kelsall, being an attempt to finish 'Weir of Hermiston' by Robert Louis Stevenson., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7716/6
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including scripts of plays, short stories, articles, talks, broadcast scripts of radio and television documentaries, and associated correspondence.

Dates: Undated.

Draft of chapter XV of the novel ‘The House with the Green Shutters’ by George Douglas Brown., [1901, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.8172
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: [1901, or before.]

Draft of parts of the novel ‘The house with the green shutters’ by George Douglas Brown., [1901, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.8171
Scope and Contents The contents of the notebook are as follows:(i) A section of the novel entitled 'Young Gourlay's first home-coming', which appears in a considerably shortened form as chapter XIX of the finished work. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Young Gourlay in Edinburgh', a description of Gourlay's reading habits which is not included in the printed version. (Folio 18.) (iii) 'A Possible for House with Green Shutters', being the description of the Reverend Struthers found in chapter...
Dates: [1901, or before.]

Drafts, manuscripts and typescripts of 'Her grace presents' by Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'., [1957, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27391-27392
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

'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.

Dates: [1957, or before.]

Early draft, notes, and part of the manuscript, undated, of an early unpublished novel, 'Peter Potter' by Robert Garioch Sutherland., Mid 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.26608
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: Mid 20th century.

Early manuscript with numerous corrections of an unpublished novel, 'Hyphen' by Fred Urquhart., 1932.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26996
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1932.

Editorial notes for ‘Watchman’, a spy novel by Ian Rankin; with a related contract and advertisements., 1987-2004.

 File
Identifier: MS.50436
Scope and Contents Editorial notes, 1987, for Ian Rankin's novel 'Watchman', from Sara Kerruish at The Bodley Head. Folios 1-2. Contract, 1987, between Ian Rankin, care of Curtis Brown (agents), and The Bodley Head, for Rankin's novel 'Watchman'. Folios 3-14.Includes correspondence to Rankin from Michael Shaw (agent, Curtis Brown) regarding royalties and the contract (Folios 13-14). Advertisement, 1988, for Ian Rankin's novel 'Watchman' in The Bodley Head catalogue. Folios...
Dates: 1987-2004.