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Short stories.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Relatively brief invented prose narratives.

Found in 362 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of John Buchan.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6482
Scope and Contents

Comprising photocopies of corrected typescripts of an essay, 1893, "Angling in Still Waters", and two short stories, undated, "Coriolanus" and "Other Gods".

Dates: 1893 and undated.

Papers of John Herdman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9243
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, autobiography articles, essays and reviews.

Dates: 1965-1985.

Papers of Katherine Cecil Thurston.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11378
Scope and Contents

Includes literary and personal correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories and plays, and photographs.

Dates: 1903-1911.

Papers of Moultrie R Kelsall.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7716/1-328
Scope and Contents

Including scripts of plays, short stories, articles, talks, broadcast scripts of radio and television documentaries, and associated correspondence.

Dates: 1931-1977.

Papers of Muriel Spark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12082
Scope and Contents

Includes research material, manuscript and typescript of the novel, "Aiding and Abetting", manuscripts of short stories, and correspondence files, 1997-2000.

Dates: 1932-2001.

Papers of Naomi Mitchison and her family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5885
Scope and Contents

Including:

1. letter, undated, of Naomi Mitchison and three letters, undated, of J B S Haldane to Elizabeth S Haldane

2. letter, 1914, of an Oxford suffragette to Lord Haldane

3. letters, 1939-1957 and undated, of Gordon Bottomley, Neil Gunn, and J Leslie Mitchell to Naomi Mitchison

4. typescripts of short story, undated, of Naomi Mitchison, "Other Laws for the People", and paper, undated, on civilisation in Scotland, also by Mitchison.

Dates: 1914-1957 and undated.

Papers of Nigel Tranter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10360
Scope and Contents

Indcludes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of novels, short stories, and plays, architectural notes and drawings and correspondence.

Dates: 1933-1990.

Papers of Richard J McLeish.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9576
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems and short stories, and also two letters of Neil Gunn, on literary matters.

Dates: 1913-1962.

Papers of Robert Kemp.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7622
Scope and Contents

Including diaires, accounts, photographs and typesripts of plays, novels, short stories, addresses, broadcast talks and documentaries.

With letters of, among others, James Bridie and Cedric Thorpe Davie.

Dates: circa 1920-1967.

Papers of Sir Herbert Grierson, Sydney Goodsir Smith, and others, collected by Hector MacIver., 1921-1952, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26291
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters to Herbert Grierson and articles by him, 1921-1952, undated (folio l). Most of the letters are from T S Eliot, writing as editor of the ‘Criterion’. (ii) Manuscripts and typescripts of poems of Sydney Goodsir Smith, 1939-1952, undated (folio 42). Some of these were published in Goodsir Smith's ‘Collected poems’ (London, 1975); (iii) Typescript of ‘Count Albany’, a play by Donald Carswell, annotated by Hector MacIver for his production, undated (folio...
Dates: 1921-1952, undated.

Papers of Stanley Cursiter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5451
Scope and Contents

Including sketch books, typescripts of short stories, typescript and printed articles, and correspondence.

Dates: 1906-1967.

Papers of the "Edinburgh Review".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9635
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts and proofs of articles, short stories, poems and reviews, with associated correspondence.

Dates: 1980-1987.

Papers of the playwright and author, Joe Corrie (1894-1968).

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26490-26560
Scope and Contents

Joe Corrie worked as a miner in Fife and Ayrshire, and many of his plays and stories are set in mining communities. He was a prolific writer who published a number of plays, several collections of poetry, and two novels, as well as numerous stories and articles in newspapers. Many of his plays were popular with amateur dramatic groups.

Dates: 1923-1968, undated.

Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27256-27285
Scope and Contents

Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.

Dates: 1866-1969, undated.

Papers of Wendy Wood.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9915
Scope and Contents

Includes diaries, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of novels, memoirs, short stories and articles.

Dates: circa 1930-1980.

Papers relating to fictional works of Jean Mary Allan., c1946, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.884/1-38
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, essays, talks and some personal papers.

Dates: c1946, undated.

Papers relating to publication of short story collections by Alasdair Gray., 1955, [1985]-1987.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9247/33-36
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

This collection consists of manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and illustrative material relating to a wide range of Alasdair Gray’s work, including twenty-nine stage, radio and television plays, and the following published works:

'Lanark' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1981). 'Lean tales' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1985). 'Lean tales' (London: Abacus, 1987). 'Old negatives' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1989).

Dates: 1955, [1985]-1987.

Poems and short stories., 1973-[?1974.]

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6329/2-7
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Including corrected manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles and essays.

With letters of Alan Bold and Tom Scott to David Morrison, on literary matters.



Dates: 1973-[?1974.]

Poems and short stories which have appeared in the 'Scotia Review'., [?1973-?1974]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.6329/6-7
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Including corrected manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles and essays.

With letters of Alan Bold and Tom Scott to David Morrison, on literary matters.



Dates: [?1973-?1974]