The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript of Act I, entitled 'The Flint and the Flame', undated (folio 1). This is not the version written for broadcasting. (ii) Two typescripts of a version intended for broadcasting, undated (folio 15). The second (folio 56) is heavily corrected and has pencilled remarks by Peggy Morrison. (iii) Annotated typescript of the broadcast, 1954 (folio 90). (iv) Fragments of typescripts, 1952, undated (folio l36).

Act III scenes 1 and 2 are omitted, and there are two manuscripts of Act II scene 2. It is followed (folio 123) by drafts of the songs and of Act III scene 4, and by a few pages of typescript.

Sydney Goodsir Smith wrote a number of plays, of which the best known is ‘The Wallace’ (Edinburgh, 1960). Most of the manuscripts of his plays are unpublished and undated.

The manuscript lacks one leaf at the beginning of Act III. The first act is much shorter than in the printed text.

The plays 'Some day' and 'The Purple Patch' are represented by pages from the ‘Scottish Nation’, 30 October 1923, and the ‘Northern Review’, May 1924 (folios 76, 122). The manuscript also contains designs for the dust-jacket and titlepage which were not used (folio 193).

Many of the scenes are heavily reworked, and some exist in several versions.

John Westland Marston wrote his version of the play for the actor Hermann Vezin, to whom this manuscript belonged. There are numerous annotations of the actors' movements and cuts in the text.

John Westland Marston wrote his version of the play for the actor Hermann Vezin, to whom this manuscript belonged. There are numerous annotations of the actors' movements and cuts in the text.

On folio 41 is a note in the same hand as the text, 'G.H. Gates. Prompter. Royal Lyceum Theatre 1863'.

The play is based on the life of Aimée Du Buc de Rivéry (1763-1817), mother of Sultan Mahmoud II. 'March Cost' later rewrote the play as a novel which was published under the same title, (London, 1969). The text is preceded by notes and the draft of a letter about the play (folio 1-8).

The first part of Act I is a heavily corrected typescript (folio ll). Also included are two pages of typescript corrections made for the production in the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in 1975 (folio l96).

Episodes 2-4; 'Ghosts' (folio 1), 'Poachers' (folio 46) and the 'Tinkers' (folio 96).

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of plays, novels and poems, with over 500 letters of and to various correspondents.

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of plays, novels and poems, with over 500 letters of and to various correspondents.

Robert McLellan's early plays were intended for the stage, but he later wrote for both radio and television. Not all were published, and many circulated in typescript copies.

Sydney Goodsir Smith wrote a number of plays, of which the best known is ‘The Wallace’ (Edinburgh, 1960). Most of the manuscripts of his plays are unpublished and undated.

The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript synopsis of the plot (folio l); (ii) Incomplete manuscript of the play (folio 7). The opening pages and a few leaves between folios 74 and 75 are missing. (iii) Early typescripts with manuscript corrections (folio 80).

William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

The dramatic peices are 'Morocco land', 1961 (folio 1), 'David Kinnaird', 1961 (folio 64), and Irish Immigrant', 1962 (folio 122).