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Typescripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Typewritten documents.

Found in 3762 Collections and/or Records:

Work by others collected by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1936-1985, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27215-27220
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.

Dates: 1936-1985, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.

Working notes by Alexander Philip, the author of several books on the calendar.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.10307-10308
Dates: 1887-1929, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Works by other authors, containing scripts and typescripts., 1962-1968, 1986.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12098/55-57
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Literary papers, 1961-1999, of Stewart Conn (b. 1936), a poet and playwright who was for many years a drama producer for BBC Radio Scotland. These papers includes correspondence, typescripts and a small number of manuscript drafts of poetry, and scripts of plays and adaptations for stage, radio and television.Many of the scripts in this collection have never been published, but it includes manuscripts and typescripts relating to the following published works: 'The Chinese tower'...
Dates: 1962-1968, 1986.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Literary papers of Stewart Conn.

Works of Emile Joseph Dillon, containing articles, memoirs and various writings., 1892-1905, 1917, 1928, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12382/43-55
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

These papers were given to Father Ernest Eugene Laws by Dillon's widow, as research material for a proposed biography of Dillon. Laws transcribed and translated many of the letters and annotated some of the originals.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1892-1905, 1917, 1928, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Emile Joseph Dillon, containing correspondence, notebooks and literary papers.

Works of prose of Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1934-1936, 1955, 1963-1964, 1973, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10397/9-18
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes corrected typescripts of articles, reviews and broadcast talks, together with 55 letters from various correspondents.

Dates: 1934-1936, 1955, 1963-1964, 1973, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith. / Manuscripts and typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

Writings of Vero Bosazza on various African explorers., 1955-1978.

 File
Identifier: MS.20340
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) 'The end of the Lawhill', 1955 (with some later additions) (folio 1);(ii) “Dr Livingston's geological description omitted from I. Schapera (1953) ‘Livingstone's African journals 1853-1856'”, 1973 (folio 8);(iii) 'The pioneer surveys in the Zambesi and Shire Valleys and the mapping of Malawi', 1974 (folio 29);(iv) 'Transcription of a letter from Thomas Maclear to Dr Livingstone, Royal Observatory C. G. Hope July...
Dates: 1955-1978.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Writings of Vero L Bosazza on nineteenth century explorers of African countries, chiefly David Livingstone.

Writings of Vero L Bosazza on nineteenth century explorers of African countries, chiefly David Livingstone.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20333-20340
Scope and Contents Vero L Bosazza, a South Africa geologist who worked in various African countries, became interested in the nineteenth century travellers there, especially David Livingstone. In retirement he wrote extensively on them, his personal knowledge of the localities giving his work a dimension frequently lacking in other scholarship. His writings are almost entirely unpublished, except in the sense that he distributed copies of them to various libraries with interests in African history....
Dates: 1861-1865, 1955-1979.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Writings of William Winter Hamilton., 1971-1992, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10951/58-74
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Correspondence and papers, 1936-1992, of William Winter Hamilton (b.1917), writer politician, Labour MP for West Fife, 1950-1974 and for Central Fife, 1974-1987.

Dates: 1971-1992, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of William Winter Hamilton.

Written and printed papers removed from Black and White Photographs Series I during rehousing., circa 1960s-1970s, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13059/400-408
Scope and Contents

Includes notes, typescripts and press cuttings.

Dates: circa 1960s-1970s, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer. / Photographs, slides and negatives of Tom Weir. / Black and white photographs of Tom Weir. / Black and white photographs of Tom Weir, series I.

Xerox copy by Nigel Tranter of corrected typescript of 'Cache down'., 1987.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11170/41
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes corrected manuscripts and typescripts of 24 novels, with related proofs, research notes and art-work.

Dates: 1987.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Nigel Tranter. / Corrected manuscripts and typescripts of Nigel Tranter of his novels, containing proofs and research notes. / Manuscript and corrected typescript of Nigel Tranter of 'Cache down'.

Xeroxed typescript of Alasdair Gray`s `Lanark`, book 3, chapters 1-7.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13403
Scope and Contents

The typescript is slightly different from the chapters as published in `Lanark`. The manuscript dedication on the title page states that the copy was given by Alasdair Gray to his friends, ---- and Frances McIlhenny, in Glasgow, xxx.

Dates: 1969.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

'Young Auchinleck', a comedy in three acts about James Boswell by Robert McLellan, first produced in 1962 and televised in 1965., 1962, 1965.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26363-26364
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Robert McLellan's early plays were intended for the stage, but he later wrote for both radio and television. Not all were published, and many circulated in typescript copies.

Dates: 1962, 1965.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family. / Plays written by Robert McLellan.

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