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Short stories.

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

Found in 358 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence, papers, bromides and negatives of 'Chapman' literary magazine.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10684/1-46
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems, short stories, articles and reviews, together with editorial correspondence.

Dates: 1981-1988, undated.

Correspondence, proofs, artwork and paste-ups of the literary magazine 'Chapman'.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11319/1-51
Scope and Contents

The magazine was founded in 1970 and includes poetry and articles on all aspects of Scottish culture, including theatre, politics, language and arts.

Dates: 1984-1988.

Developmental materials of Ian Rankin for various creative works, including contact details and working notes., Circa 1985-2012.

 File
Identifier: MS.50527
Scope and Contents Contact details, circa 2004-2012, of people to be used as characters in Rankin’s novels, collected by or sent to Ian Rankin. Folios 1-3.Arnold, Gavin Glass, Katie Martin, John Mellon, Jim Robison, Elaine Data Protection: names, phone numbers, email addresses Notes, 1985-Circa 2000, by Ian Rankin on his creative writing, including story ideas and personal notes. Folios 4-Notes are manuscript and typescript. The series contains notes on ideas...
Dates: Circa 1985-2012.

Drafts, fragments, typescript, reviews, prefaces and short pieces of Ruthven Todd., 1958-1977, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26862
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Drafts and fragments of short stories, 1958-1973, undated (folio 1). They include 'The Garden of Forking Paths' (folio 1), a translation of a story by Jorge Luis Borges, published in ‘Ficciones’, edited by A Kerrigan (London, 1962), pages 89-101. (ii) Typescript of 'The Freedom Riders', a play, undated (folio 83); (iii) Reviews, prefaces, short pieces and fragments, 1966-1977, undated (folio 90).

Dates: 1958-1977, undated.

Drafts, manuscripts and typescripts of talks, stories, reviews and plays of Hector MacIver., 1936-1966, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26286-26287
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: 1936-1966, undated.

Drafts, manuscripts and typescripts of talks, stories, reviews and plays of Hector MacIver., 1936-1966.

 File
Identifier: MS.26286
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: 1936-1966.

Drafts, manuscripts and typescripts of talks, stories, reviews and plays, undated, of Hector MacIver., [1928-1966.]

 File
Identifier: MS.26287
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: [1928-1966.]

Editorial correspondence and submissions for 'Shouting it out' by Tom Pow, a collection of short stories for children., 1979, 1993-1995.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12233/68
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: 1979, 1993-1995.

Eleven monthly parts of the family magazine, 'The Star', written by the Bigg family of Carnwath.

 File
Identifier: MS.9171
Scope and Contents

The issues contain stories, verse, news of family affairs, and a few drawings, in the handwriting of the various contributors. The May issue is missing.

Dates: 1866.

Fair copy of a short story, 'John Vincent', written under the pseudonym 'William Douglas' by George Douglas Brown, but never offered for publication., 1897.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8177
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Many of the drafts are early compositions, but they include all that apparently now exists of 'The House with the Green Shutters', published in 1901 (MSS.8171-8172), and two items not by George Douglas Brown (MS.8178).

MSS.8171-8176 are written in school notebooks.

Dates: 1897.

File, 'Writings' of Marshall Anderson. Containing typescript short stories and scripts by Marshall Anderson., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 41(1)
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The Attic Archive evolved organically from the activities of Pete Horobin, beginning in 1978. When Horobin's association ended, the archive was continued in turn by Marshall Anderson, Peter Haining and, lastly, aitch. Each change of custody coincided with the start of a new phase of activity, each phase undertaken, usually, over ten years.The papers of the Attic Archive are now dispersed through various cultural institutions, each having a particular association with the archive,...
Dates: Undated.

Final manuscript of the short story 'The veiled portrait' by James Grant., [1874, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.8878
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Besides being a most prolific writer of fiction (he produced some fifty-six novels), James Grant wrote on the history, particularly military history, of Scotland. He was a keen supporter of the Volunteer Movement in Edinburgh, and founded, in 1852, the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights.

Dates: [1874, or before.]

Four series, each containing six Linmill stories by Robert McLellan, broadcast on BBC radio., 1960-1965.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26412-26415
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Robert McLellan wrote a number of short stories, chiefly based on his own childhood at Linmill fruit farm in Lanarkshire, many of which were both broadcast and published.

Dates: 1960-1965.

Further literary papers of Ron Butlin.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13400
Scope and Contents

Literary papers of Ron Butlin, including various drafts of an unpublished novel titled `The Invisible Woman`, and papers relating to `No More Angels`(2007).

Dates: 2001-2012.

Galley proofs, circa 1958, of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "The Sea-Bed and Other Stories", with corrections by Finlay.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10351
Scope and Contents

With printed copies of two short stories, undated, of Finlay with his annotations and corrections.

Dates: circa 1958 and undated.

Humorous stories and anecdotes, largely Scottish, with occasional extracts from contemporary books, reviews, and newspapers, all 18th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.9317
Scope and Contents

Internal dates in the manuscript are from 1740-1762. Newspaper-cuttings, pasted on the boards and binding pages, are dated 1779-1780.

Dates: 1740-1780.