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Typescripts.

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

Found in 1011 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript and typescripts of novels and short stories by Eona Macnicol.

 File
Identifier: MS.19706
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Typescript with manuscript corrections of the novel ‘Colum of Derry’, 1954, dated 1946 by the author, Eona Mcnicol (Folio 1.) (ii) Three pages of corrected typescript of ‘Lamp in the night wind’, 1957. (Folio 128.) (iii) Corrected typescript, being the second draft of 'Grey boy', published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, volume 301 (1967), pages 537-547. The last page is missing. (Folio 132.) (iv) Final typescript and broadcast script of 'A night of rain, 1968....
Dates: 1946-[1969, or before.]

Manuscript and typescripts of short stories and novels by Fred Urquhart (1912-1995).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26992-26997
Scope and Contents

Fred Urquhart was educated in Stranraer and Edinburgh and worked as a reader and editor for Cassell and other publishers. Much of his own literary work was in the form of short stories.

Dates: 1929-1968.

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescript of novel of Nigel Tranter, "Past Master".

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6303/1-5
Dates: Majority of material found within [Before 1965.], 1973

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of autobiographical work of Naomi Mitchison, "Small Talk" (1973).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5942
Scope and Contents

With corrected typescripts of three autobiographical articles.

Dates: 1973.

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of Naomi Mitchison, "You May Well Ask".

 File
Identifier: Acc.7219
Scope and Contents

Being a volume of autobiography covering the years 1918-1940.

Dates: 1978.

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of poems of Alan Jackson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6053/1-33
Scope and Contents

Poems and notebooks of Alan Jackson, Edinburgh poet, some of them used in his book 'Underwater wedding' and 'Salutations'.

Dates: 1955-1968, undated.

Manuscript drafts, corrected typescripts and proofs of 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11203/1-12
Scope and Contents

Drafts, proofs and some source materials and correspondence for 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.

Alasdair Gray's own manuscript drafts are accompanied by typescript transcriptions produced by his typist Scott Pearson, which are then in turn heavily annotated and corrected by Gray. These annotations then inform the next set of manuscript drafts, giving a unique insight into how the book developed and grew.

Dates: 1967, 1985, 1993-1994.

Manuscript of the first part of 'The howdie', an unfinished story by John Galt.

 File
Identifier: MS.5207
Scope and Contents

With the manuscript are the pages of "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine" containing the first part of the story, a typescript of the second part, and a memorandum on the history of the manuscript by Sir Robert Simpson, the latter reprinted and supplemented by William Roughead in his edition.

Dates: [Circa 1831.]

Manuscript poems of Forbes Macgregor.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10549
Scope and Contents

With manuscripts and typescripts of three articles, 1932 and undated, of Macgregor.

Dates: 1921-1990 and undated.