Typescripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Typewritten documents.
Found in 1009 Collections and/or Records:
Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22098-22117
Scope and Contents
Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....
Dates:
1892-1963, undated.
Ledgers of Alasdair Gray containing diary entries and drafts of works, with typescripts of 'Fleck' and a file of press cuttings.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13021/1-15
Scope and Contents
Eight ledgers or notebooks contain diary entries, draft letters and literary notes and drafts of stories, poems, plays and the novel 'Old men in love'; with six corrected and annotated typescripts of 'Fleck', a play; and a file of cuttings of reviews of the French edition of 'Lean tales'.
Dates:
1845-2008.
Letter, 1964, of Doris Lessing to Naomi Mitchison.
File
Identifier: Acc.10307
Scope and Contents
With typescripts of literary works of Mitchison.
Dates:
1964 and undated.
Letter and corrected carbon typescripts of six poems by Alastair Reid; with an inscribed copy of "Oddments, inklings, omens, moments: poems" (Boston, 1959).
File
Identifier: Acc.13015
Dates:
1956-1959.
Letter of Robert Louis Stevenson to Robert Allan Mowbray and Louisa Stevenson, from Hyères.
Item
Identifier: MS.3364
Scope and Contents
The letter is elaborately bound with a typescript copy, and boxed.
Dates:
1884.
Letter of Sir Walter Scott to George Canning, on placing Scott’s nephew in India, with copy reply, and typescript transcripts of the letters.
File
Identifier: MS.23129
Dates:
1822.
Letters and papers, chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2991-2992
Dates:
1548-1550, 1561, undated.
Letters and papers of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10250-10253
Dates:
1886-1912.
Letters and papers of John H Balfour-Browne, Kings Counsel (1885-1921).
File
Identifier: MS.19609
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, 1846-1919, undated, chiefly addressed to John H Balfour-Browne. They had been kept as a collection of autographs and include fragments of letters and signatures (which have not been indexed). The correspondence mostly concerns Balfour-Browne's literary work and legal matters. (Folio 1.)(ii) Typescript with manuscript corrections and newspaper cutting of 'A Criticism and a Reminiscence' by Balfour-Browne, published in the...
Dates:
1814-1919, undated.
Letters and papers of Sydney Durward Tremayne (1912-1986), the poet and journalist.
File
Identifier: MS.26704
Dates:
1961-1968, undated.
Letters and papers of Thomas Carlyle, with a few of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle and others.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1796-1800
Dates:
1823-1875, undated.
Letters, and related typescripts, to Charles King, mostly of contributors to 'Twelve Modern Scottish Poets' and 'Twelve More Modern Scottish Poets'.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11661
Scope and Contents
A collection of letters and typescripts of poems, mostly concerning Twelve Modern Scottish Poets (London: University of London Press, 1971) and Twelve More Modern Scottish Poets (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1986).Letters are to Charles King, unless otherwise stated.Typescript, 1984, of 'Accomplished Mission', a poem for Charles King by Jim Alison.Letter, 1972, written on behalf of Benjamin Britten.Letters, 1969-81, of George Mackay Brown....
Dates:
1965-1998, undated.
Letters and typescripts relating to the publication "Epoch"
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12152
Dates:
1988-2001.
Letters of Agnes Mure Mackenzie to Duncan M Morison, with manuscripts and typescripts of poems.
File
Identifier: Acc.12576
Dates:
1931-1952.
Letters of, and an article by, Robert D Macleod.
File
Identifier: MS.9997
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Letters,1930-1956, undated, to Robert Macleod, chiefly in his capacity of editor of ‘Library review’. The writers include J M Builoch, R B Cunninghame Graham, and Donald Carswell. Most of the correspondence concerns articles for ‘Library review’, but there is also material on a memorial to Cunninghame Graham, and a number of autobiographical notes requested by Macleod in 1932. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Typescript, 1957, of an unpublished article by Macleod entitled...
Dates:
1930-1957, undated.
Letters of and concerning C M Grieve to Ernest Brooks and Barbara Niven.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12074
Scope and Contents
Includes typescript of "Mature Art".
Dates:
1936-1983.
Letters of and to Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10909
Scope and Contents
With typescripts, undated, of prose pieces and verse including "Prisoners at War", photographs and press-cuttings.
Dates:
1943 and undated.
Letters of David Livingstone written to James MacLehose, Glasgow, and Mrs Sewell, shortly after he went out to Africa, describing his work and adventures in Bechuanaland.
File
Identifier: MS.656
Scope and Contents
The letters are preceded by a descriptive note, 1937, and typescripts of the letters.
Dates:
1841-1843, 1846.
Letters of Donald Mackenzie to Maurice Fleming.
File
Identifier: Acc.11809
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies of typescripts of two plays, "All Change" and "Simone".
Dates:
1993-1999.
Letters of John Manson concerning Victor Serge and letters of D W Dörrbecker, Duncan Glen, T S Law and William Neil.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12063
Scope and Contents
Includes typescripts of George Hardie and Neil Mathers.
Dates:
1981-2001.
Letters of members of the Walker family of Dundonald, Ayrshire.
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Identifier: Acc.12085
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from relations in America and one reporting on anti-Catholic riots in Edinburgh 1779, also includes a 19th century transcript (and 20th century typescript copy) of a journal of Josiah Walker, originally written in 1780.
Dates:
circa 1772-1783.
Letters of Thomas Hardy to Sir George B Douglas, 5th Baronet of Springwood Park, near Kelso, Roxburghshire.
File
Identifier: MS.8121
Scope and Contents
As well as giving his impressions of contemporary literary figures, Hardy discusses poetry and frequently mentions both his own and Douglas's work including the reception in 1895-1896 of 'Jude the Obscure'.
The letters are followed by a typescript of Sir George Douglas's article, 'Thomas Hardy: personal reminiscences’.
Dates:
1887-1924, undated.
Letters, papers and photographs of James Keir Hardie and Emrys Hughes.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.176
Dates:
1884-1969.