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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 581 Collections and/or Records:

Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1660-1792.

 File
Identifier: MS.25453
Scope and Contents The papers include ‘The Earl of Gowrie's Conspiracie against the King;s Majesty of Scotland, At Saint Johnstoun upon Tuesday the 5th of August, 1600’, 1751, with annotations by Lord Hailes. The work is inscribed 'This is the narrative printed by authority a few weeks after the death of Gowrie, there are only 24 copies of this impression. Dav. Dalrymple.' For another copy see RB.s.305 (folio 1). Also ‘The City Cleaned and Country Improven’ (Edinburgh, 1760), inscribed to Sir David Dalrymple...
Dates: 1660-1792.

‘Notices of the life of the Rev. John Carstaires’ by William Ferrie (Edinburgh, 1843), with annotations and corrections to the genealogical tables by John Dunlop of Gairbraid and J G Dunlop., 1843, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9300
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Much of the collection concerns William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University, his son Alexander, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and his grandson John, Tide Surveyor at Greenock. The papers of William Dunlop include material on the colony of South Carolina, the Darien Scheme, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland, while those of Alexander chiefly concern the University of Glasgow. The collection also includes diaries and literary works of John Dunlop of Gairbraid, the temperance...
Dates: 1843, undated.

Outreach and collaborative production files of 'The war in heaven' by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin., 1995-1996, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12911/192-198
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.

Dates: 1995-1996, undated.

Papers and letters of Ruthven Todd., [1940]-1972.

 File
Identifier: MS.26890
Scope and Contents From the Series:

These papers are composite manuscripts formed from various accessions. The source of acquisition of each of the accessions is recorded under the relevant description

Dates: [1940]-1972.

Papers and printed material relating to the literary and artistic work of Alasdair Gray.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11338/1-40
Scope and Contents

Includes a thesis entitled "The World of 4 to 7 Years", 1960, together with printed items illustrating Gray`s work as a graphic artist and book designer.

Dates: circa 1960-1991.