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Corrected typescript drafts and page proofs of a novel of Robert Nye, "Falstaff" (1976), with associated manuscript notes.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7076
Scope and Contents

With corrected typescript versions of the play of Robert Nye and John Abulafia, "Falstaff" (1977).

Dates: circa 1976-circa 1977.

Correspondence and papers, 1996-1999, of Ronald Black concerning the publication of his work 'An tuil: anthology of 20th century Scottish Gaelic verse' (Polygon: Edinburgh, 1999); with papers, 1937-1999, relating to other work on 20th century Gaelic literature.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12035/1-38
Scope and Contents

Includes scripts of two unpublished Gaelic novels of the Rev Ewen MacLean, Edinburgh, and photocopies of 'Leabhar nam Prannag', manuscript poems of Ian Paterson.

Dates: 1937-1999, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Derek Stanford.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11050
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of critical works on Muriel Spark, research notes and proofs of works of Muriel Spark.

Dates: circa 1955-1976.

Literary correspondence and papers of Mollie Hunter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11993
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts of novels, short stories and non-fiction, research notes, lectures and reviews.

Dates: 1958-2000.

Literary papers and correspondence of Nigel Tranter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10967
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, scripts of and notes for addresses and talks, and circa 440 letters and copies of letters.

Dates: 1948-1991 and undated.

Manuscript and typescript drafts of 'Something leather', by Alasdair Gray, with proofs, illustrations and related correspondence.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10371/1-32
Scope and Contents Includes nine manuscript and typescript drafts of the novel, drafts of individual chapters, and related notes, correspondence and illustrations. Post-publication material includes copies of the US hardback edition, revised paperback edition, and cuttings of UK press coverage of the book.Alasdair Gray's descriptions have been retained in the scope and contents notes for each file, and include insights into his working process, comments on how the novel progressed, and how...
Dates: 1968-1991.

Manuscript of ‘The people of the palace’, a satirical novel by Marryat Ross Dobie, former Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6304
Scope and Contents The novel is greatly influenced, and its subject was probably suggested, by the discoveries in Crete of Sir Arthur Evans and others, 1899-1911; authentic characteristics of the Cretan civilisation of the period appear in drawings and are described in the text. The volume is illustrated and bound by the author himself. A note, dated 1955 (folio i verso), by Sir John Spencer Muirhead explains that 'The people of the palace' was ‘one of a series of stories written on holiday on the island of...
Dates: 1912.

Papers of Archibald J Cronin.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10106
Scope and Contents

Includes school and university notes and essays, and corrected manuscripts of novels, short stories and autobiography.

Dates: 1911-1978.

Papers of Muriel Spark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12082
Scope and Contents

Includes research material, manuscript and typescript of the novel, "Aiding and Abetting", manuscripts of short stories, and correspondence files, 1997-2000.

Dates: 1932-2001.

Papers of Nigel Tranter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10360
Scope and Contents

Indcludes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of novels, short stories, and plays, architectural notes and drawings and correspondence.

Dates: 1933-1990.

Papers of Nigel Tranter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11170/1-81
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1957-1993 and undated.

Papers of Robert Alan Jamieson concerning his novel "A Day at the Office" (1991).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10558
Scope and Contents

Includes five successive manuscript and typescript drafts of the novel and notes by the author on its compilation.

Dates: circa 1991.

Two notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5831
Scope and Contents

Containing manuscript corrected drafts, 1970, of an unpublished novel, "The Clone Mums", and notes on travels in India.

Dates: 1970.

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