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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 216 Collections and/or Records:

22 notebooks, 1942, containing the corrected manuscript of A J Cronin, "The Keys of the Kingdom".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9873
Scope and Contents

With a copy of the novel inscribed by Cronin and a letter, 1950, of Cronin.

Dates: 1942-1950.

Account book, early 19th century, of Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4299
Scope and Contents

With drawings for "A new Edition of Pennecuick`s Works, 1816", and a monologue, 19th century, "Lady Gifford".

Dates: 19th century.

Autograph manuscript of the novel ‘Deep down: a tale of the Cornish mines’ by R M Ballantyne.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20443
Scope and Contents

The preface is signed and dated at Edinburgh in 1868. The manuscript is heavily corrected and includes a page-proof of the preface.

Dates: 1868.

Corrected typescript drafts and page proofs of a novel of Robert Nye, "Falstaff" (1976), with associated manuscript notes.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7076
Scope and Contents

With corrected typescript versions of the play of Robert Nye and John Abulafia, "Falstaff" (1977).

Dates: circa 1976-circa 1977.

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Includes scripts of two unpublished Gaelic novels of the Rev Ewen MacLean, Edinburgh, and photocopies of 'Leabhar nam Prannag', manuscript poems of Ian Paterson.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 George Mackay Brown, with some personal correspondence and audiovisual material.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13134/1-17
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of 'Greenvoe' and 'Hawkfall and other stories', with assorted personal correspondence and photographs of or relating to George Mackay Brown and his works.

Dates: 1969-1996.

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.