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Born in Inveraray, Neil Munro became a journalist in Glasgow, rising to the post of editor of the ‘Glasgow Evening News’. His papers consist largely of manuscripts of his novels and short stories, though some of his newspaper articles are represented by presscuttings.

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Born in Inveraray, Neil Munro became a journalist in Glasgow, rising to the post of editor of the ‘Glasgow Evening News’. His papers consist largely of manuscripts of his novels and short stories, though some of his newspaper articles are represented by presscuttings.

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Born in Inveraray, Neil Munro became a journalist in Glasgow, rising to the post of editor of the ‘Glasgow Evening News’. His papers consist largely of manuscripts of his novels and short stories, though some of his newspaper articles are represented by presscuttings.

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The notebook contains a continuation of "Boboon's children" (folio 1), and an early draft of 'The red hand' (folio l2). Also notes for and the beginning of an apparently unpublished story, "A man's clothes", 1895 (folio 18, 1 verso).

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The notebook contains a continuation of 'The lost pibroch' (folio 1), and drafts of 'The sea fairy of French foreland' (folio 22) and the beginning of 'Boboon's children' (folio 21 verso).

Scope and Contents The notebook contains early drafts, 1895, of 'War' (folio 1), lacking the beginning, 'Jus Primae Noctis' (folio 28), and the beginning of 'The lost pibroch' under the title 'The half town pipers' (folio 19 verso). 'Jus Primae Noctis' was first published in ‘New Review’, volume xvi (1897), pages 662-673, and is included in the Inveraray edition of ‘The lost pibroch’ (Edinburgh, 1935). This manuscript also contains the beginning of 'The half town bard' (folio 22 verso), an unpublished...

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The notebook also contains short stories (folios 8 and 16).

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The notebook includes (folio 30) a summary and the opening of the short story, 'Smeddum', first published in the ‘Scots Magazine’, January 1933, pages 248-256, which here has the titles 'The Old Woman' and 'Freedom'.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers consist mainly of letters written by authors to Blackwood as their publisher, and by others in search of publication, but they also include some manuscripts and proofs of works considered for publication, together with some papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun and John Wilson ('Christopher North'). Broadly, this is the incoming correspondence of the firm during the nineteenth century. The outgoing correspondence, so far as it is represented by copies in letter-books, etc.,...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in Inveraray, Neil Munro became a journalist in Glasgow, rising to the post of editor of the ‘Glasgow Evening News’. His papers consist largely of manuscripts of his novels and short stories, though some of his newspaper articles are represented by presscuttings.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Much of Ruthven Todd's prose writing, especially in his later life, was repetitious: he not only made numerous drafts and re-writings, but he used the same material in both books and articles. In particular, he made use of his own reminiscences in his work on Dylan Thomas and Fitzrovia as well as in the more autobiographical 'Dead and other friends and places'. MSS.26834-26856 contain material intended for full-length books; MSS.26857-26863 consist of shorter works and...

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Folios 52-113 were originally two notebooks with some loose pages inserted, and they also contain part of a short story, 'The Awakening' (folios 54-63), an essay on armed forces (versos of folios 112-102) and poems (versos of folios 99-53). There are some additional poems at the end (folio 120).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Possibly the beginnings of a short story, concerning a drunk Irishman named Cairney. It is rough and unfinished. (Folio 1.) (ii) A passage, headed 'Sept. 2nd. 1899', describing in what lay the secret of Brown's 'happy working'. (Folio 2.) (iii) Notes on Hamlet, intended for 'An Essay in Essential Criticism', but bearing no close resemblance to the article which was later submitted for publishing (see MS.8180, folio 62). This section also includes...

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The published article is an expanded form of folios 1-17.

The volume also contains miscellaneous unpublished notes, including a first and second draft of what was probably intended as a short story, beginning 'Tam the Miller'.