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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 and typescript drafts of the stage production and published version of "Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off", by Liz Lochhead.
File
Identifier: Acc.10176
Dates:
1989.
Manuscript and typescript drafts, research materials, proofs and correspondence concerning 'The book of prefaces', by Alasdair Gray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11769/1-70
Dates:
1985-2000.
Manuscript and typescript of an autobiography, "The Buzzing Fly" by Fanny Susan Copeland.
File
Identifier: Acc.11904
Scope and Contents
Concerns Copeland`s life in Slovenia and wartime internment in Italy. Includes poems and biographical notes.
Dates:
circa 1960-1975.
Manuscript and typescript of ‘Borrobil’ by William Croft Dickinson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9866-9867
Dates:
[1944, or before.]
Manuscript and typescript of Forbes Macgregor, "Robert Louis Stevenson. The Unique Author".
File
Identifier: Acc.10246
Dates:
circa 1989.
Manuscript and typescript of notes of Jean Baxter, concerning on James Leslie Mitchell.
File
Identifier: Acc.4760
Dates:
Undated
Manuscript and typescript revisions for the third edition of Robert McLellan, "The Isle of Arran" (1985).
File
Identifier: Acc.9013
Dates:
circa 1985.
Manuscript and typescript working papers of Prof Archibald A M Duncan for his books: "Scotland: the Making of the Kingdom" (1975), the third edition of W C Dickinson, "Scotland from the Earliest Times to 1603" (1977) and "The Acts of Robert I, King of Scots, 1306-1329" (1986).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10576
Dates:
circa 1970-1986.
Manuscript and typescripts of Michael L Ryder, "Hair" (London, 1973).
File
Identifier: Acc.5948
Dates:
1973.
Manuscript and typescripts of novels and short stories by Eona Macnicol.
File
Identifier: MS.19706
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Typescript with manuscript corrections of the novel ‘Colum of Derry’, 1954, dated 1946 by the author, Eona Mcnicol (Folio 1.)
(ii) Three pages of corrected typescript of ‘Lamp in the night wind’, 1957. (Folio 128.)
(iii) Corrected typescript, being the second draft of 'Grey boy', published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, volume 301 (1967), pages 537-547. The last page is missing. (Folio 132.)
(iv) Final typescript and broadcast script of 'A night of rain, 1968....
Dates:
1946-[1969, or before.]
Manuscript and typescripts of short stories and novels by Fred Urquhart (1912-1995).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26992-26997
Scope and Contents
Fred Urquhart was educated in Stranraer and Edinburgh and worked as a reader and editor for Cassell and other publishers. Much of his own literary work was in the form of short stories.
Dates:
1929-1968.
Manuscript draft and corrected typescript of the novel 'A sort of freedom' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1969) by Joan Lingard.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.5627/1-2
Dates:
Undated, 1969.
Manuscript draft and typescript of poem of Alan Bold, "June 1967 at Buckenwald".
File
Identifier: Acc.4477
Dates:
circa 1967.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescript of autobiography of Naomi Mitchison, "All Change Here", covering the years 1910-1918.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6388
Dates:
1975.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescript of Morley Jamieson, "The Creative Need: Notes on the Short Story".
File
Identifier: Acc.7541
Dates:
1979.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescript of novel of Nigel Tranter, "Past Master".
Series
Identifier: Acc.6303/1-5
Dates:
Majority of material found within [Before 1965.], 1973
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of autobiographical work of Naomi Mitchison, "Small Talk" (1973).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5942
Scope and Contents
With corrected typescripts of three autobiographical articles.
Dates:
1973.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of collection of poems of Joseph MacLeod, "An Old Olive Tree" (1971).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5622
Dates:
1971.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of four poems of Alan Riddell.
File
Identifier: Acc.4711
Dates:
circa 1969.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of Naomi Mitchison, "You May Well Ask".
File
Identifier: Acc.7219
Scope and Contents
Being a volume of autobiography covering the years 1918-1940.
Dates:
1978.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of poems of Alan Jackson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6053/1-33
Scope and Contents
Poems and notebooks of Alan Jackson, Edinburgh poet, some of them used in his book 'Underwater wedding' and 'Salutations'.
Dates:
1955-1968, undated.
Manuscript drafts and typescript copies of 50 poems of Gavin Ewart, most being included in his collection, "85 Poems" (1993).
File
Identifier: Acc.10819
Dates:
1988-1992.
Manuscript drafts and typescript of Tom Scott, "The Harp", a poem.
File
Identifier: Acc.9904
Dates:
mid to late 20th century.