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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 282 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript of John Galt's ‘The last of the lairds’, chapter XIX to the end, edited with additions by David Macbeth Moir, and related material., 1826, [1841, or before].

 File
Identifier: MS.6522
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) The first part of David Macbeth Moir's ‘Biographical memoir of John Galt’, 1841, covering the published pages i-ix (folio 1), probably a fair copy for publication. Alterations found in it appear in the printed text.(ii) Manuscript of John Galt's novel, ‘The last of the lairds’, chapter XIX to the end (folio 10). Galt left this manuscript with Moir on his departure for Canada in 1826 with 'the Charge of editing it', according to Moir's...
Dates: 1826, [1841, or before].

Manuscript of ‘John Splendid’ by Neil Munro., 1897-1898.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26901
Scope and Contents

The manuscript, which does not differ greatly from the published text, was written in a series of notebooks. There are a number of lacunae, corresponding to the following pages of the first edition: pages 49- 66 (after folio l37), 158-163 (after folio 410), 175-194 (after folio 436), 232-237 (after folio 554), 247-263 (after folio 578), 332-339 (after folio 751).

Dates: 1897-1898.

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 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.]