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Typescript, undated, of 'Tarravore', a play in three acts by James Shaw Grant (born 1910), director of Grampian Television and author of books on the Highlands.
The typescript is annotated for a production by the Park Theatre, Glasgow.
Typescript, undated, of ‘The finding of the sword’, a play by Sibell Lilian Blunt Mackenzie, Countess of Cromartie.
The play does not seem to have been produced or published.
Typescript with manuscript corrections of 'John Buchan: a perspective' by Catherine Carswell.
Typescript with manuscript corrections of the novel ‘The lilac sunbonnet’ by S R Crockett.
Typescripts of an apparently unpublished dramatised version in four acts by Durward Lely of ‘Beside the bonnie brier bush’ by 'Ian Maclaren' (i.e. John Watson) and Lely's reminiscences in seven chapters (of which the fifth is not present), also apparently unpublished.
Typescripts of literary works by David Lindsay (1878-1945).
Typescripts of literary works by Tom Hanlin (1907-1953).
Tom Hanlin worked as a coalminer at Armadale, West Lothian, until 1946 and much of his fiction is set in Scottish mining communities.
Typescripts of novels by Agnes M R Dunlop (circa 1910-1982), an Ayrshire novelist and writer of children's books, who wrote under the pseudonym 'Elisabeth Kyle'.
Typescripts of plays of Alexander Brown Paterson (born 1907).
A journalist by training, Alexander Brown Paterson was a founder and chairman of the Byre Theatre, St Andrews, where many of his plays, including these, were first produced.
Typescripts, photographs and other material concerning Chapel House in Potterow, Edinburgh.
Typescripts, with manuscript corrections, of two historical plays in Scots, 'Greenside' and ‘The Winnock’ by Margaret T Monro.
Ultra-violet photographs of leaves removed from, and of a defaced page of the 'Auchinleck Manuscript' (Adv.MS.19.2.1).
Unidentified text, apparently 18th century, written in cipher.
The cipher alphabet included Roman and Greek letters, astrological symbols, and other apparently invented symbols. The text appears to be divided into sections by horizontal lines. The name Baptiste Romin or Romain is added in pencil on folios 27 and 28 (inverted). Loosely enclosed is a fragment of a copy by Robert Mylne of Sir Thomas Urquhart's ‘Παντοχεονοχανον’ (London, 1652). This bifolium, paginated 33-36, contains numbers 98-113 of the 'genealogy' of the Urquharts.
University of Aberdeen PhD thesis, ‘The Waverley Novels: a critical revaluation’ by James A Michie.
Valuation of Perthshire.
‘The valued Rent of the Shyre of Perth Rectified conforme to an order from Gen. Monck, dated April 6th, 1665, with the assessment payable by each Heritor in the Respective Paroches since the total of the Shyre Valued Rent Was estab[d] at 350,000 lib. Scotts.’
Valuations of Orkney, Kirkcudbright and Aberdeenshire.
Valuations of parishes in Perthshire.
The parishes are listed under presbyteries. On folio 25 is a list of 'weeklie stent of excise on ilk paroch in perthshyre', followed by a summary of the valuations. The first page is missing. A later note in shorthand on the inside of the front cover is dated 7 April 1696.
Various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Various single and small quantities of musical compositions and letters of James Scott Skinner.
Various small collections of letters and papers, and some single items, of and concerning men who had served in the army in the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars.
'Verge of the Scottish Highlands’ by William Palmer (London, 1947), containing corrections and other revisions in the author's hand; with the original book jacket and various letters and notes discussing the corrections.
'Views in Scotland, from sketches by Thomas Oliphant . . . 1852.'
A volume of pencil sketches of landscapes and buildings in Orkney, Shetland, Caithness, Sutherland, Rossshire, Inverness-shire and Perthshire. The title is on a label pasted on the front cover. The first sketch is missing.
‘Vinum aqua macerandum - poema heroicum' by Marcus Antonius Valentinus de Chantrayne.
At the end ‘Cecinit Marcus Antonius Valentinus de Chantrayne’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.190) includes the reference: (Ao.5.1).
"Virgil's Æneis", translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh, 1710); the glossary is heavily annotated by John Jamieson.
There are some notes by O K Schram inside the front cover concerning this edition of Gavin Douglas's text.