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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.

Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10281
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, plays, novels and essays, with correspondence.

Dates: 1923-1974.

Papers of Wendy Wood.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9915
Scope and Contents

Includes diaries, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of novels, memoirs, short stories and articles.

Dates: circa 1930-1980.

Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008

Photocopies of papers of John Buchan.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6542
Scope and Contents

Including:

1. corrected manuscripts of "Green Mantle" (1916), "The Three Hostages" (1924), "Montrose" (1928), "Memory-Hold-the-Door" (1940)

2. manuscript and typescript of "The Mountain", an unfinished novel

3. manuscripts and typescripts of addresses, 1904-1937

4. commonplace book, circa 1896

5. 30 letters, 1893-1940, of and to various correspondents, including Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, T E Lawrence, and Ezra Pound.

Dates: 1893-1940.

‘Scottish Crusoe’, the first volume of an unpublished novel.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20445
Scope and Contents

Set in Scotland, the novel describes the attempts of the boy hero, Toby Touchwood, to imitate Robinson Crusoe.

Dates: Mid 19th century.

Two notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9831
Scope and Contents

With corrected typescript drafts of part of "The Oath Takers".

Dates: circa 1987.

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.

Typescript and pasted-up magazine cuttings of parts of ‘Cleg Kelly' by Samuel Rutherford Crockett, with extensive manuscript corrections by the author.

 File
Identifier: MS.6517
Scope and Contents The typescript covers chapters I-II (folios 1-7), X-XV (folios 23-45) and part of chapter XLVI to the end of the book (folios 55-119). The two former sections were mounted on large sheets of paper, and the last section has now been similarly treated to facilitate binding. The printed cuttings cover chapters III-IX (folios 7-22) and chapters XVI-XIX (folios 46-54). The printed text is taken from an earlier appearance of parts of the novel in the 'Sunday School' during 1894. The typescript...
Dates: [1896, or before.]

Typescript drafts of novel of Jessie Kesson, "Where the Apple Ripens" (1978).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7845
Scope and Contents

With manuscript and typescript of associated short story and radio play, undated.

Dates: 1978 and undated.

Works of John H Balfour Browne.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4223
Scope and Contents

With manuscript and printed material of Balfour Browne and others, including poetry, essays, plays and novels.

Dates: circa 1880-circa 1920.

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Manuscripts. 90
Typescripts. 49
Correspondence. 24
Short stories. 19
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English 70
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Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1
 
Names
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 7
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 6
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 5
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 3
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 3
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Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 3
Smith, Annie Shepherd Burnett, novelist, pseudonym "David Lyall", née Swan, 1859-1943 3
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, novelist, 1825-1894 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 2
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 2
Stewart, Mary Florence Elinor, novelist, wife of Sir Frederick Henry, geologist, née Rainbow, b 1916 2
Abulafia, John, writer and director, b 1947 1
Andrews, Cicily Isabel, Dame, author, née Fairfield, pseudonym 'Rebecca West', 1892-1983 1
Bell, James Horst Brunnerman (mountaineer) (1896-1975) 1
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
Black, William, novelist, 1841-1898 1
Bochanan, Dùghall, poet, 1716-1768 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Browne, John Hutton Balfour-, barrister, 1845-1921 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet, known as 'Lord Byron') (1788-1824) 1
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 1
Davison, Meredith Henry Armstrong, anaesthetist and Lecturer on the History of Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1911-1970 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 1
Galsworthy, John, author, 1867-1933 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Graham, Maggie, author, fl 2000 1
Greig, Andrew, poet, b 1951 1
Hepburn, Thomas Nicoll, author, pseudonym Gabriel Setoun, 1861-1930 1
Horne, John, writer, 1861-1934 1
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 1
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 1
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, intelligence officer and author, called Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935 1
Lingard, Joan, author, b 1932 1
MacilleDhuibh, Raghnall, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Celtic Department, University of Edinburgh, b 1946 1
Mackay, Charles, journalist and songwriter, 1812-1889 1
Mair, Henry, Founder of the Scottish Open Poetry Cup Competition, b 1945 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
McIlwraith, Maureen (novelist, pseudonym Mollie Hunter) 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Nisbet, Hume, author and artist, b 1849 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 1
Pound, Ezra Loomis, poet, 1885-1972 1
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 1
Robertson, James Francis, poet and novelist, b 1958 1
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Stanford, Derek, poet and critic, 1918-2008 1
Strachan, Tony, novelist and editor, correspondent of Muriel Spark, fl 1947-2010 1
Thurston, Katherine Cecil, novelist, née Madden, 1875-1911 1
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