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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:

Manuscript of Ruthven Todd of part of a novel set in Majorca., 1963.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26837
Scope and Contents From the Series: Much of Ruthven Todd's prose writing, especially in his later life, was repetitious: he not only made numerous drafts and re-writings, but he used the same material in both books and articles. In particular, he made use of his own reminiscences in his work on Dylan Thomas and Fitzrovia as well as in the more autobiographical 'Dead and other friends and places'. MSS.26834-26856 contain material intended for full-length books; MSS.26857-26863 consist of shorter works and...
Dates: 1963.

Manuscript of the novel ‘Now and then’ by Samuel Warren.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9640
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is dated (folio 153) 9 December [1847]. Heavily corrected by the author, it does not vary greatly from the published version.

Dates: [1847.]

Manuscript of the novel ‘Witchwood’ by John Buchan, here called 'The minister of Woodilee'.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9865
Scope and Contents

There is a presentation inscription by the author on the flyleaf, dated 1928, followed by the note: "Written at Elsfield Oct 1925-May, 1926. Published under the title 'Witch Wood' July 1927." The manuscript has been heavily corrected by the author, but does not vary greatly from the printed version.

Dates: 1925-1926.

Manuscript of ‘The people of the palace’, a satirical novel by Marryat Ross Dobie, former Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6304
Scope and Contents The novel is greatly influenced, and its subject was probably suggested, by the discoveries in Crete of Sir Arthur Evans and others, 1899-1911; authentic characteristics of the Cretan civilisation of the period appear in drawings and are described in the text. The volume is illustrated and bound by the author himself. A note, dated 1955 (folio i verso), by Sir John Spencer Muirhead explains that 'The people of the palace' was ‘one of a series of stories written on holiday on the island of...
Dates: 1912.

Manuscript of 'The scorpion's nest' by Hugh D M McCutcheon., [1967, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.26988
Scope and Contents

Included is a draft of part of a speech on the probable effects of local goverment reorginisation (folio 76 verso).

Dates: [1967, or before.]

Manuscript, typescripts and proof of 'A judge of men' by James Allan Ford., 1966-1967, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27489-27492
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: 1966-1967, undated.