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Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of novels, short stories, and poems.

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The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.

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James Leslie Mitchell is best known for his Scottish novels, ‘Sunset song’ (London, 1932), ‘Cloud Howe’ (London, 1933) and ‘Grey granite’ (London, 1934), published under the pseudonym 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', but he also wrote essays, biographies, and a study of South American history, ‘The conquest of the Maya’ (London, 1934).

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This collection consists of manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and illustrative material relating to a wide range of Alasdair Gray’s work, including twenty-nine stage, radio and television plays, and the following published works:

'Lanark' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1981). 'Lean tales' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1985). 'Lean tales' (London: Abacus, 1987). 'Old negatives' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1989).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) James Hogg's original manuscript of 'Translation from an ancient Chaldee manuscript', and a covering letter, 1817 (folio 1);(ii) Corrected and uncorrected galley proofs of the work (folio 5);(iii) Four sets of corrected and uncorrected page proofs (folio 14);(iv) Four letters of Hogg, 1817, 1818, and 1820, and manuscript notes, undated, on the 'Chaldee Manuscript' (folio 34);(v) Manuscript of 'The...

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Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poetry and prose works, including books, articles, lectures and notes. Much of the material is fragmentary, and some was reworked or copied by Hugh MacDiarmid at a later date.

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Sydney Durward Tremayne, who was born in Ayr, worked for provincial newspapers before becoming a leader-writer for the ‘Daily Mirror’, the ‘Daily Herald’ and the ‘Sun’; he also published several small collections of poems. Apart from his autobiography, the papers do not concern his work as a journalist.

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The contents are as follows. (i) Printed page proofs of parts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volume I, with marginalia in the hands of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and Lord Hailes (folio 1); (ii) Drafts of parts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volumes I and II, with notes by Samuel Johnson (folio 22); (iii) Notes by William Robertson and another on Lord Hailes' work, undated (folio 116).

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The contents are as follows. (i) Galley proofs of ‘A Bride for Heatherhill’ (Glasgow, 1965). (Folio 1.) (ii) Page proofs of ‘Martha’ (Glasgow, 1935). (Folio 7.) The ending differs from the published version. (iii) Corrected galley proofs of the revised version of 'The Poacher', undated. (Folio 11.) For the typescript of this version, see MS.26496, folio 1.

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The volume contains corrected galley proofs of Book II (incomplete) (folio 1), corrected page proofs of Books I and II (incomplete) (folio 12), and two sets (one incomplete) of corrected galley proofs of Book III (folio 101).

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The contents are as follows:

(i) Some galley proofs corrected by Edward Lytton (folio 1); (ii) Two incomplete sets of page proofs, also corrected by the author, the second set representing a later stage in the revision process (folios 23, 168); (iii) Some miscellaneous manuscript pages (folio 232).

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The contents consist of two sets of galley-proofs (folios 1, 42), and a set of page-proofs (folio 83), all with manuscript corrections.

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Included are page proofs of 'Hugh MacDiarmid: a festschrift' (Edinburgh, 1962) (folio 3).

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The typescript is accompanied by two sets of page proofs of the introductory matter (folio 300) and a few manuscript notes.

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The contents are as follows. (i) Typescript, with a few manuscript corrections, of Lady Margaret Sackville, ‘Romantic ballads’ (Edinburgh, 1927) (folio 1); (ii) Typescript of Sir Alexander Gray, 'Gossip’ (Edinburgh, 1928) (folio 13); (iii) Two sets of page-proofs of Marion Angus, ‘The singin' lass’ (Edinburgh, 1929) (folio 35); (iv) Page-proofs of Robert Crawford, ‘In quiet fields’ (Edinburgh, 1929) (folio 87).

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Sydney Durward Tremayne, who was born in Ayr, worked for provincial newspapers before becoming a leader-writer for the ‘Daily Mirror’, the ‘Daily Herald’ and the ‘Sun’; he also published several small collections of poems. Apart from his autobiography, the papers do not concern his work as a journalist.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Sydney Durward Tremayne, who was born in Ayr, worked for provincial newspapers before becoming a leader-writer for the ‘Daily Mirror’, the ‘Daily Herald’ and the ‘Sun’; he also published several small collections of poems. Apart from his autobiography, the papers do not concern his work as a journalist.

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Manuscripts, typescripts, and working papers of the Rebus novels by Ian Rankin.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Fragmentary manuscripts and typescripts of ‘The golden treasury of Scottish poetry’, selected and edited by Hugh MacDiarmid (London, 1940). (Folio 1.) It includes a letter of MacDiarmid to the publisher commenting on the introduction. (Folio 58.) (ii) Draft introduction, notes and partial typescript of an anthology of work by Scottish poets, circa 1950. (Folio 64.) (iii) Introduction and part of the text and page-proofs of ‘Selected poems of William Dunbar’,...