Typescripts.
Found in 1009 Collections and/or Records:
Carbon copy of typescript of a filmscript, "The Prince in Skye", by Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Carbon copy of typescript of a novel, "Fanny Campbell", by J M Gordon.
Carbon copy of typescript of "Poor Angus", a novel by Robin Jenkins.
Carbon copy of typescript of "Selected Poems 1920-1970" by Albert D Mackie.
Carbon copy of typescript of thesis "The Education and Training of the Adolescent in Scotland" by William S Cormack.
Carbon typescript account of "The Central African Mission in 1902" by Harold E Wareham.
Carbon typescript of 'The Mystery of Gorbals Terrace', a four act play by Alexander McArthur (1901-1947).
The play was originally written in 1944-1945. This typescript contains manuscript corrections by the author, Alexander McArthur and a number of notes stating that a copy sent to Unity Theatre, Glasgow, was not returned, and implying that it was used by Robert McLeish as a source for his 'Gorbals Story'.
Christmas cards and papers of William Wolfe.
The collection consists of fourteen Christmas cards, 1989-2009, of William Wolfe (1924-2010), leader (1969 to 1979) and president (1980-1982) of the SNP. All the cards include a poem and all, but one of them, are illustrated with a photograph.
It also includes three letters, 1992-1994, and a typescript, 6 February 1992, concerning Wolfe`s account of his reaction to the Pope`s visit to Scotland in 1982.
Christmas cards of Naomi Mitchison, with woodcuts of Gertrude Hermes and others.
With typescript and copy of memorandums on National Parks, Highland education and museums of Mitchison.
Collection of papers, chiefly seventeenth century, which appear to have belonged to Richard Almack, Suffolk.
Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.
Indluding:
1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland
3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated
4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated
5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.
Copies, chiefly typewritten, of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson when he was preparing the centenary edition of Scott’s letters but rejected from printing.
The copies of those letters in the National Library which are to be found in MS.863 have not been preserved. A list of the numbers of the letters in MS.863 is bound in at the beginning of MS.1750.
Copies of 14 photographs of a Kirkcaldy linoleum workers` strike.
With a typescript account, circa 1980, of the incident by James Bogie.
Copies of ten unpublished poems by Agnes Owens.
Includes poems titled; 'Wallace', 'The barley brew', 'My father', 'Where poppies bloom', 'Satans caves', 'Have we met before', 'The hunter', 'The writer', "Don't give me the Booker", and 'War time'. Most are signed by Agnes Owens, and some have manuscript corrections or revisions.
Copy in typescript carbon of Alexander Burgess, "Blood the Fuel of History", with author`s corrections.
Copy of typescript MA dissertation, by Frances Sterling Ellis, entitled "Unity in "The Heart of Midlothian"".
Copy of typescript of "G S Fraser: A Memoir" by Paddy Fraser.
Copy of typescript of "With the Jocks" by Peter White, circa 1945-1960.
Typescript includes text of unpublished opening to the work. Contained in a box displaying author`s own artwork. A brief memoir of Peter White by Frank Coutts accompanies the typescript.