Scripts. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written texts of stage plays, screenplays, and radio or television broadcasts.
Found in 529 Collections and/or Records:
Letters of and to and papers of and concerning Sir Patrick Geddes and Dr Arthur Geddes, 1913-1977.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.21205
List of contestants on Mastermind., 1988.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/417
Scope and Contents
File includes script for final.
Dates:
1988.
Literary papers of Muriel Spark, containing works of prose, poetry and drama., Circa 1950-1986, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10989/3-104
Literary papers of Robert James Batchen Sellar, containing plays, scripts and short stories., 1933-1961, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8802/10-109
Manuscript and typescript drafts, 1970, by Bill Craig of the script of the BBC television production of 'Sunset song', by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', transmitted in 1971., 1970.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26110-26112
Manuscript and typescript of 'A Cure for the Colonel', written by Robert McLellan for the television series 'Dr Finlay's Casebook', but never broadcast., 1964.
File
Identifier: MS.26410
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Apart from the plays written specially for radio, such as ‘The Carlin Moth’ and 'As ithers see us', Robert McLellan also wrote a number of short pieces, often as part of a larger series. Many of these were broadcasts for schools. He also contributed to programmes such as 'Scottish Life and Letters', and wrote for television.
Dates:
1964.
Manuscripts and broadcast scripts of radio plays of Ian Sherwood Munro., 1962-1969, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.4883/3-12
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Comprising:
original manuscript and corrected typescript of "Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (Edinburgh, 1966); manuscript and broadcast scripts of eight radio plays and dramatisations, 1962-1968; 16 letters, 1959-1968, to Ian S Munro, correspondents including C M Grieve and Willa Muir.
Dates:
1962-1969, undated.
Manuscripts and duplicated typescript of the comedy 'Right Royal' by Alexander Scott., [1954, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26475-26476
Scope and Contents
The comedy was first produced by the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, in 1954, and later broadcast and televised.
Dates:
[1954, or before.]
Manuscripts and papers of William Sharp (‘Fiona Macleod’)., 1893-1937, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.15941, folios 153-199
Scope and Contents
The papers include the dedication to Walter Pater of a work on Rossetti, 1893, parts of which were published by Elizabeth Sharp in ‘William Sharp’, pages 70-72; part of the prologue to ‘The laughter of Peterkin’; 'The immortal hour' from ‘The fortnightly review, volume lxviii (New Series), 1900, pages 867-896, with later corrections; and poems, some of which were published in ‘Poems and dramas’ by ‘Fiona Macleod’.
Dates:
1893-1937, undated.
Manuscripts and proofs probably at one time in the possession of Andrew Shortrede, printer., 1819-1842, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8997
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Manuscript, 1824-1825, entitled 'Notes and anecdotes, Border worthies' (folio 1);
(ii) Manuscript, circa 1827, of a poem by James Hogg, 'The wyffe of Ezdelmore' (folio 11);
(iii) Manuscript, circa 1829, by John Wilson ('Christopher North'), of a part of ‘Noctes ambrosianae’ (folio 23);
(iv) Manuscript, undated of a poem by Sir William Hamilton, 'La vase antique' (folio 28);
(v) Manuscript, 1829, of a poem 'Oh maid unloving but beloved' (folio 29);
(vi)...
Dates:
1819-1842, undated.
Manuscripts and typescripts of works of James Kennaway., 1945-1980, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12760/1-43
Dates:
1945-1980, undated.
Manuscripts of plays and other works., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12765/22-26
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists of correspondence, publications and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie (1913–1998) and his family. Robert Blair Wilkie was the curator of the Old Glasgow Museum 1965-1998 (formerly known as the People’s Palace Museum). Active member of the Scottish Nationalist movement (joined Scottish Nationalist Association under John MacCormick in 1937), in 1945 he was the SNP candidate in West Renfrewshire, and in the following year he was appointed editor of the Scots Independent...
Dates:
Undated.
Manuscripts, typescripts and other material concerning the play 'Young Auchinleck' by Robert McLellan., 1960-1965, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26467-26472
Dates:
1960-1965, undated.
Manuscripts, typescripts, and scripts of Tom Weir for articles and radio programmes relating to the 1950 Scottish Himalayan Expedition., 1945-1951.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13059/211-214
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Weir produced a high volume of written and spoken outputs during his career. The papers here relate to some of the results of that work, including his contributions to radio.
Dates:
1945-1951.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
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Literary and broadcasting papers of Tom Weir.
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Papers relating to short stories, articles, press, radio and TV scripts of Tom Weir
Manuscripts, undated, of the comedy 'Right Royal' by Alexander Scott., [1954, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.26475
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript of 'Uneasy Lies', undated, an early version of the play, written for radio (folio 1); (ii) Manuscript of the stage version of 'Right Royal' (folio 28). The text differs considerably from that of MS.26476.
Dates:
[1954, or before.]
Mastermind and Quizzes., 1972-2005.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/401-513
Scope and Contents
Magnusson hosted the BBC TV quiz show Mastermind from 1972 until 1997. This section contains press cuttings on Mastermind for each year of the show, photographs, mainly of contestants who appeared on the show and a few loose scripts for special editions of the show that were aired. Research notes and correspondence on Magnusson's publication 'I've Started So I'll Finish: The Story of Mastermind' (1997) are also included.A selection of papers from the Mastermind club were also...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1972-2005.
Mastermind newspaper cuttings with some scripts., 1972-1997.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/401-426
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Magnusson hosted the BBC TV quiz show Mastermind from 1972 until 1997. This section contains press cuttings on Mastermind for each year of the show, photographs, mainly of contestants who appeared on the show and a few loose scripts for special editions of the show that were aired. Research notes and correspondence on Magnusson's publication 'I've Started So I'll Finish: The Story of Mastermind' (1997) are also included.A selection of papers from the Mastermind club were also...
Dates:
1972-1997.
Mastermind quiz questions and loose scripts., 1987-2003.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/454-459
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Magnusson hosted the BBC TV quiz show Mastermind from 1972 until 1997. This section contains press cuttings on Mastermind for each year of the show, photographs, mainly of contestants who appeared on the show and a few loose scripts for special editions of the show that were aired. Research notes and correspondence on Magnusson's publication 'I've Started So I'll Finish: The Story of Mastermind' (1997) are also included.A selection of papers from the Mastermind club were also...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1987-2003.
Mastermind television programme., 1972-2004.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/401-496
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Magnusson hosted the BBC TV quiz show Mastermind from 1972 until 1997. This section contains press cuttings on Mastermind for each year of the show, photographs, mainly of contestants who appeared on the show and a few loose scripts for special editions of the show that were aired. Research notes and correspondence on Magnusson's publication 'I've Started So I'll Finish: The Story of Mastermind' (1997) are also included.A selection of papers from the Mastermind club were also...
Dates:
1972-2004.
Miscellaneous articles and lecture notes of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., [Circa 1895]-1947, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9321
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript lecture notes, undated, on the subject of 'Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists, Beaumont and Fletcher' (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript notes for a lecture entitled 'Pope and Tennyson', delivered to the Aberdeen Clerical Society, circa 1895; dated by Sir Herbert Grierson in 1944 (folio 13);(iii) Manuscript notes, undated, on Charles Dickens; possibly material gathered for a lecture or article (folio 76);(iv)...
Dates:
[Circa 1895]-1947, undated.
Miscellaneous items including off-prints of articles, souvenir programmes of annual gatherings of Eilean a' Cheò and notes and scripts by Macintosh concerning Highland economy, 1949-1969 and undated
File
Identifier: Acc.14003/17
Scope and Contents
Contains offprints of two articles by Prof. Angus Matheson published in 'Éigse' VI and VII, and of an article by Myles Dillon published in 'Language' 29 (1953); notes by Macintosh for a eulogy on Angus Matheson; two souvenir programmes of annaual gatherings, 1964 (with Macintosh as chairman) and 1969, of Eilean a' Cheò Glasgow Skye Association; notes and drafts of papers on Highland economy, including scripts headed "Lord leverhulme: his attempt to industrialise Lewis and Harris" and "The...
Dates:
1949-1969 and undated
Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, notes and scripts on Archaeology., 1967-1973.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/288
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This section contains scripts and research undertaken by Magnusson for a variety of television and radio programmes running from 1961 until 2006. There are a significant number of scripts for the BBC archaeology programme 'Chronicle' which Magnusson presented from 1966. There are individual scripts and research materials on various programmes that Magnusson presented throughout his televsion career. There are a number of scripts and interviews for Magnusson's radio series "Tales...
Dates:
1967-1973.
Miscellaneous notes, articles, financial records and other papers., 1801-1986, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9533/306-337
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, 1927-8, East Africa, 1934-5, and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries.Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean Kingdon Ward, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a...
Dates:
1801-1986, undated.
Miscellaneous papers, containing part of copy of script, photocopies of reviews, props and costume list, tour schedule and a photocopy of a publicity document produced by ITT Corporation., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/39
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Papers and productions of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of 'Honour your partners' [by David MacLennan].
Miscellaneous papers of Hector MacIver., 1925-1934, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26300 (part 2)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.
Dates:
1925-1934, undated.