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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notes added as comment or explanation, such as those accompanying an entry in a bibliography, reading list, or catalogue intended to describe, explain, or evaluate the publication referred to.

Found in 408 Collections and/or Records:

Duplicated typescripts of 'Blood upon the Rose: a play in three acts' by George Moncrieff-Scott, with annotations, probably used in the production of the play at the Edinburgh Festival in 1957., [?1956.]

 File
Identifier: MS.26947
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

George Scott-Moncrieff wrote a number of plays, of which only ‘Fotheringhay’ was published (Edinburgh, 1953), although others were performed on the stage or broadcast. Most of the surviving typescripts are undated.

Dates: [?1956.]

Early typescript of 'The moth trap', with annotations by Frances Corcoran., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12233/62
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates: Undated.

Educational, literary, cultural and miscellaneous papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 1637, 1675-1694, 1714-1867.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15508-15518
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1637, 1675-1694, 1714-1867.

'Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language', (Stirling, 1911) by Alexander Macbain, with numerous manuscript additions and corrections., 1911.

 Item
Identifier: MS.456
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: 1911.

File containing typescripts, some annotated, of the poem 'Watter', by Janet Paisley; with a draft of the script for a dramatised documentary 'Redding 1923' , by Adam Stafford, and a photocopy of the story board for the same., 2011.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 1(8)
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This is a box list of the papers of Janet Paisley, as received by the Library. No attempt has been made currently to review the order of the papers, to date them or to otherwise interpret them. The aim of the box list is to facilitate access in advance of any fuller arrangement and description.

Dates: 2011.

'First [Second, Third] Report from the Select Committee on Sites for Churches (Scotland)', ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 29 March [26 April, 5 July] 1847, with a few annotations., 1847.

 File
Identifier: MS.19197
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Dates: 1847.

Geological sketchbook of John Francis Campbell for the most part containing annotated rock rubbings made on his travels in Great Britain, along with various other geological notes and sketches., 1862-1864.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.23
Scope and Contents The volume begins by describing several visits Campbell made to mines in Wales and the South of England while he was involved in collecting information and witnesses for the Mines` Commission, of which he was Secretary, in 1863 (folios 3-17). There are also a few watercolours made on a visit to Ireland in 1863 (folios 19 verso-30).One or two letters have been inserted in the volume, mainly from Sir Kenneth S Mackenzie of Gairloch and his gamekeeper, 1863-1864, and a few press...
Dates: 1862-1864.

Grangerised and heavily corrected copy of ‘A handful of heather’ (Aberdeen, 1893) by Charles Murray., 1893.

 File
Identifier: MS.27258
Scope and Contents

Only twelve copies were printed, some of which Charles Murray later destroyed. Some of the poems are annotated with references to magazines in which they were published. The insertions are cuttings of published poems and (page 73) extra copies of pages 37-44 of ‘A handful of heather’.

Dates: 1893.

Heavily reworked manuscript of Acts I-III of the play ‘The Wallace’ by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1958.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26169
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The play was broadcast in 1959; the first stage production was in 1960, and an edition of the text was published in the same year.

Dates: 1958.