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Photocopies.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: General term for copies produced by photocopying, that is, in a machine employing a light-sensitive process, and usually at a one-to-one scale. In the early to mid-20th century, used regarding copies made by various specific processes; since the mid-20th century, most often refers to xerographic copies.

Found in 1153 Collections and/or Records:

Typescript and photocopies for the AA Guide to Scotland by Tom Weir. , circa 1980.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13059/193
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Weir published many works over the course of his career. The first, 'Highland Days', was published in 1948, with the last, 'Weir's World' coming out in 1994.

The records here relate to those and other various works within that time.

Dates: circa 1980.

Typescript copy of the journal, 1831-1832, of the Reverend James Robert Boyd.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7316
Scope and Contents

Kept during a visit to Edinburgh and the Borders.

With notes and comments by the transcriber John S B Pratt Junior, undated

photocopy of a charcoal sketch, circa 1838, of Dr Boyd

biographical note, 1882.

Dates: 1831-1882.

Typescript of Donald W Nichol, "Pope`s Literary Legacy: the Book-Trade Correspondence of William Warburton and John Knapton".

 File
Identifier: Acc.10837
Scope and Contents

Contains material not printed in the version published, 1992, by The Oxford Bibliographical Society. Includes photocopies of some of the original letters from various libraries.

Dates: 1990.

Typescript review, probably by Don Paterson, of "The tale of the mayor's son", by Glyn Maxwell, and, 'Longings of the acrobats: selected poems' (1990), by Nicholas Moore. , 1990.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12689/76
Scope and Contents

Also included is a photocopied typescript, 'The assassination of the poets (with apologies to Apollinaire, and everyone else below)'. Don Paterson is one of the poets 'assassinated'.

Dates: 1990.

Typescript with manuscript corrections of ‘Consider the lilies’ by Iain Crichton Smith., [1968, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.27499
Scope and Contents

The preface (folio i) is original, but the rest of the text is a photocopy with pencilled deletions. There are some minor differences from the published version, which includes the deleted passages.

Dates: [1968, or before.]

Typescripts, 1961, of three versions of Alastair Fowler, "The Confidence Man", including copies of three associated letters.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8703
Scope and Contents

With typescript, 1965, of Kitty W Scoular, "Natural Magic", and a photocopy of the Blage Manuscript, circa 1530-1550.

Dates: 1961-1965 and undated.

Typescripts and other material for “Joan Miró”: a fragmentary and personal memoir' by Ruthven Todd., 1947, 1971-1973, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26854
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Typescript, heavily corrected in manuscript, 1971 (folio 1); (ii) Photocopies with manuscript corrections, of a later typescript incorporating the corrections in (i) (folio 37); (iii) Notes, photographs, and other material, 1971-1973, undated (folio 110). They include a photocopy of part of a commentary accompanying the film 'Joan Miro makes a color print', 1947.

Dates: 1947, 1971-1973, undated.

Typescripts and photocopies relating to John Cam Hobhouse., 1958, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.42304
Scope and Contents

Carbon copy of a typescript list entitled ‘Hobhouse and Broughton MSS at Monkton Farleigh in the possession of Sir Charles Hobhouse, Bt.’. The list was compiled by Mrs Doris Langley Moore in September 1958: folios 1-3;

Photocopies of material concerning Hobhouse, with reference to the Roe-Byron collection, undated: folios 4-10.

Dates: 1958, undated.

Typescripts of novellas, short stories and plays of Agnes Owens.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14086/1-61
Scope and Contents

This collection contains typescripts of the novellas and short stories of Agnes Owens, including many of the stories which formed part of 'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985) and 'People like that' (Bloomsbury, 1996). Several short stories present in this collection were only published for the first time in 'The complete short stories' (Polygon, 2008).

Many of the typescripts have annotations and corrections in the hands of Agnes Owens, Alasdair Gray and others.

Dates: 2007, undated.

Unfinished and unpublished book, entitled 'Cactus and Columbine', relating to the United States, containing manuscript and typescript notes and drafts., Undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13220/33-35
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Articles and poems published in newspapers and magazines are all faithfully preserved in 16 large albums of press cuttings.She was a keen supporter of the Democratic Party and the correspondence files contain some letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. The papers include several travel journals, and manuscripts and typescripts of many articles, verses, songs and hymns - which she had a gift for writing, despite her own agnosticism. Also significant are the manuscripts...
Dates: Undated.

Volume of miscellaneous poetic manuscripts by Lord Byron; with some related correspondence., 1808-1822, 1930-1973, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.43346
Scope and Contents The manuscripts here have been largely arranged in chronological order. The original foliation of the volume has been retained, although some of the folios have been removed prior to arrival at the Library.For poetical works, first lines are given in brackets after the title of the poem. The manuscripts are in the hand of Byron unless otherwise stated.‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by Jermone McGann, has been used in some of the following descriptions...
Dates: 1808-1822, 1930-1973, undated.

William Gallacher Memorial Library Archive Special Collections., 1920s-2017.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections
Scope and Contents The WGMLA Special Collections comprise over 60 collections relating to notable individuals, organisations, and themes in the Scottish labour, trade union, and suffrage movements. In a number of cases, collections do not contain the personal papers of the named individuals or organisations but rather comprise of primary or secondary materials collected by WGML librarian Audrey Canning, or third parties, relating to that individual or organisation and collated for public research purposes....
Dates: 1920s-2017.

Writings of Vero L Bosazza on nineteenth century explorers of African countries, chiefly David Livingstone.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20333-20340
Scope and Contents Vero L Bosazza, a South Africa geologist who worked in various African countries, became interested in the nineteenth century travellers there, especially David Livingstone. In retirement he wrote extensively on them, his personal knowledge of the localities giving his work a dimension frequently lacking in other scholarship. His writings are almost entirely unpublished, except in the sense that he distributed copies of them to various libraries with interests in African history....
Dates: 1861-1865, 1955-1979.

Xerox copies of letters to Jean, Lady Hunter, from members of the family of Sir James Hall of Dunglass.

 File
Identifier: MS.14196
Scope and Contents

The contents comprise a series of letters from Captain Basil Hall and his wife Margaret (folios 1-72) and another series chiefly from Helen, Lady Hall (folios 73-209).

Dates: 1807-1844.

Xerox of a manuscript music book containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane., 1808.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14949(a)
Scope and Contents

This music book is the source of much of the Clephanes’ privately printed collection of 1808 (Microfilm MS.266). Almost half is Gaelic. Includes (folio 57) an otherwise unrecorded air for “Eachann Bacach’s Thriall ar bunadh gu Phàro”.

Dates: 1808.