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Proof copy of 'Poor things', by Alasdair Gray, with a related letter.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11160/1-2
Scope and Contents
A heavily annotated paperback proof of 'Poor things', donated by Alasdair Gray to Mark Fleming for auction at a Scotland in Europe fundraising event, with an accompanying letter explaining the donation.
Dates:
1992-1993.
Proof-sheets, in various stages, of ‘Count Robert of Paris’ and ‘Castle dangerous’ by Sir Walter Scott, with corrections by Scott, corrections and alterations, many of them extensive, by John Gibson Lockhart and Robert Cadell, and some caustic comments by Lockhart.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3776-3780
Scope and Contents
The chief alteration in ‘Count Robert’ is the omission of the duel between Anna Comnena and the gravid Brenhilda. ‘Castle dangerous’, which was to have formed two volumes, is very much reshaped and the final portion in particular is reduced.
Dates:
[1832, or before.]
Proofs of George MacDonald, "St George and St Michael" (1876), with corrections and revisions by the author.
File
Identifier: Acc.8692
Dates:
1876.
Proofs of the first edition of ‘Quentin Durward’ by Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.3405
Scope and Contents
The proofs correspond to volume iii, pages 1-360, of the work as published, with the corrections in MS.3404 incorporated, and some further manuscript corrections, of a minor kind, by James Ballantyne and others. There are no corrections in Sir Walter Scott's hand.
Dates:
[1823, or before.]
Typescript and proofs of two novels by Allan Campbell McLean (1922-1989).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26999-27000
Dates:
1962, 1967.
Typescript drafts, proofs and setting copy of the novel `The Gabriel Hounds` by Mary Stewart, with manuscript working notes concerning the novel.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.117- is now Acc.4666.
Dates:
1967.