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Synopses.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements or outlines of a subject.

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Literary papers of William McIlvanney.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14097 Box 1(1)-Box 5(40)

Microfilm of typescripts of poems, [1922-1929],; and, synopses, [1932-1934], of intended publications of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1121
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Typescripts of poems, [1922-1929], of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’ (MS.26058); Synopses, [1932-1934], of intended publications of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’ (MS.26060).

Dates: [1922-1934.]

Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26463-26473

Synopses of screenplays by Roger MacDougall, including some written with Allan MacKinnon.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13347
Scope and Contents A small collection of synopses, libretti and scripts of stage and screen plays by Roger MacDougall (1910-1993), including some written with Allan MacKinnon (1912-1955), and one with Alexander MacKendrick (1912-1993). All but one are undated and the estimated date range is circa 1935-1945. They were found among the papers of Edward Owen Marsh, translator and adapter (information from vendor). The synopses were presumably written for submission to theatres and film studios in the hope that a...
Dates: circa 1935-1945.

Synopsis by Sir Robert Ker Porter of part of a dramatised version of ‘Marmion’, from Act 4, scene 3 to the end (Act 5, scene 4).

 File
Identifier: MS.15938
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is undated, and the paper watermarked 1806.

The synopsis is followed (folio 10 verso) by a list of manuscripts compiled by Sir Thomas Phillipps, of Sir Robert Ker Porter, his sister Jane, and other members of his family.

Dates: [1806, or after.]