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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:

Manuscript and typescript drafts of novels and other works of Mary Stewart, with related papers and digital resources.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13680/1-29
Scope and Contents

The papers relate mainly to the following books by Mary Stewart:

‘Madam, Will You Talk?’ (London, 1954)

‘The Crystal Cave’ (London, 1970)

‘A Walk in Wolf Wood’ (London, 1980)

‘The Wicked Day’ (London, 1983)

‘Thornyhold’ (London, 1988)

‘Frost on the window, and other poems’ (London, 1990)

‘Stormy Petrel’ (London, 1991)

‘Rose Cottage’ (London,1997).

Dates: Circa 1954-1997.

Manuscript and typescript drafts of 'Something leather', by Alasdair Gray, with proofs, illustrations and related correspondence.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10371/1-32
Scope and Contents Includes nine manuscript and typescript drafts of the novel, drafts of individual chapters, and related notes, correspondence and illustrations. Post-publication material includes copies of the US hardback edition, revised paperback edition, and cuttings of UK press coverage of the book.Alasdair Gray's descriptions have been retained in the scope and contents notes for each file, and include insights into his working process, comments on how the novel progressed, and how...
Dates: 1968-1991.

Manuscript and typescripts of short stories and novels by Fred Urquhart (1912-1995).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26992-26997
Scope and Contents

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: 1929-1968.

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescript of novel of Nigel Tranter, "Past Master".

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6303/1-5
Dates: Majority of material found within [Before 1965.], 1973

Manuscript drafts, corrected typescripts and proofs of 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11203/1-12
Scope and Contents

Drafts, proofs and some source materials and correspondence for 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.

Alasdair Gray's own manuscript drafts are accompanied by typescript transcriptions produced by his typist Scott Pearson, which are then in turn heavily annotated and corrected by Gray. These annotations then inform the next set of manuscript drafts, giving a unique insight into how the book developed and grew.

Dates: 1967, 1985, 1993-1994.

Manuscript novel entitled 'Knave of diamonds', apparently unpublished, by Alexander Leighton.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5726
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is written on paper watermarked 1856.

Dates: [1856, or after.]

Manuscript of "No one to worry us", a novel by Tony Strachan.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12954
Scope and Contents

With a related letter of Rebecca West.

Dates: 1947-1949.

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.

Manuscripts and papers of and concerning the novelist, Neil Munro (1863-1930).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26901-26937
Scope and Contents

Born in Inveraray, Neil Munro became a journalist in Glasgow, rising to the post of editor of the ‘Glasgow Evening News’. His papers consist largely of manuscripts of his novels and short stories, though some of his newspaper articles are represented by presscuttings.

Dates: 1863-1964.