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Typescript of the translation by C K Scott Moncrieff of ‘Albertine disparue’, the seventh part of ‘À la recherche du temps perdu’ by Marcel Proust.

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Identifier: MS.9633
Scope and Contents

The typescript contains numerous typescript and manuscript corrections by the translator and instructions to the printer. There are a few variations from the published version. Additional folios have been inserted after folios 40, 80, 120, 162, 200, 239, and 272.

Dates: [1930, or before.]

Typescript of 'The Winding Journey', a play in three acts, by Phillip [i.e. Philip] Leaver, first performed in 1934.

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Identifier: MS.8825
Scope and Contents

The stage directions have been underlined in red, and there are several manuscript amendments and deletions, some apparently in the hand of the author, who has inscribed this copy to 'Carol'. The volume bears the stamps and labels of two American agencies.

Dates: [1934, or before.]

Typescript translation of questions on Buddhism submitted to the Dalai Lama by the Reverend Even Mackenzie.

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Identifier: Acc.6187
Scope and Contents

With photograph, circa 1912, of the Dalai Lama.

Dates: 1912.

Typescript translation of Racine's ‘Phèdre’, with holograph corrections, by John Davidson, the poet.

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Identifier: MS.3357
Scope and Contents

There is (folio 84) another, closer, version, also in typescript (carbon copy), and with a few small manuscript corrections in a hand that may be John Davidson's. It is incomplete, wanting Acts I, III (ll. 964-1000), IV (ll. 1325-1328), and V (ll. 1531-1616, 1640-1654).

Dates: [Before 1910.]

Typescripts of "Not the Staff Bulletin", an unofficial NLS periodical.

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Identifier: Acc.11658
Scope and Contents

Includes original drafts and notes from Issue ten onwards, and "Dr Jekyll`s" presentation copy.

Dates: circa 1980-1990.

Typescripts of talks of Sir James B Thomson on Tonga and Malaysia.

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Identifier: Acc.9426
Scope and Contents

With two letters of the Reverend Thomas M Donn to Thomson, and cuttings.

Dates: 1965-1969 and undated.

Writings of Vero L Bosazza on nineteenth century explorers of African countries, chiefly David Livingstone.

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Identifier: MSS.20333-20340
Scope and Contents Vero L Bosazza, a South Africa geologist who worked in various African countries, became interested in the nineteenth century travellers there, especially David Livingstone. In retirement he wrote extensively on them, his personal knowledge of the localities giving his work a dimension frequently lacking in other scholarship. His writings are almost entirely unpublished, except in the sense that he distributed copies of them to various libraries with interests in African history....
Dates: 1861-1865, 1955-1979.

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Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 5
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 5
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Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 2
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Akros, literary magazine 1
Allan, Michael, Stirling, fl 1975-1990 1
Amman, Alexander, Polish Army, fl 1939-1942 1
Anderson, William James, Senior Curate, St Mary's, Chelsea, 1894-1972 1
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Arbuckle, Sir William Forbes, Knight, Secretary, Scottish Education Department, 1902-1966 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1
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Brecht, Eugen Berthold Friedrich, playwright, 1898-1956 1
British Broadcasting Corporation 1
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Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
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Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 1
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948 1
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Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 1
Church of Scotland, Itu Leper Colony, Nigeria 1
Claire, Regi, author, b. 1962 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Craig, Robert, Principal of University of Rhodesia, 1917-1995 1
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Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
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Eveling, Harry Stanley, playwright, 1925-2008 1
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Fleming, Lindsay, author of "Life of James Dennistoun", fl 1951-1954 1
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 1
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Galsworthy, John, author, 1867-1933 1
Geddes, John Maxwell, composer, 1941-2017 1
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 1
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