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Typescript copy, circa 1969, of 'The watcher', a play of George Mackay Brown; with a film treatment, 1964, of 'Culloden', by John Prebble and Austin Campbell.
Typescript copy of "Country Magazine", nos 25-50, a series of BBC Home Service broadcasts, 1943-1944, annotated by Francis Collinson, and a typescript copy of a Scottish Home Service broadcast, 1955.
The Scottish Home Service broadcast typescript is of "A Scottish Journey", in which Collinson makes a musical journey of Scotland.
Typescript copy of the Inventory of Writs and Title-Deeds relating to the lands of Mount, Cupar, Fife, with genealogical and other notes and four pedigrees by Douglas Hamer, University of Sheffield, based on the original documents.
Typescript copy of the libretto for the musical comedy, "Happy End", lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, music by Kurt Weill, as performed by the Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival.
Typescript copy of translation into Scots, by David Purves, of William Shakespeare, "Macbeth".
Typescript draft of "Ibsen's ghost" by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with corrections and revisions in the hand of the author.
"Ibsen's ghost" was the first play written entirely by Sir James Matthew Barrie to be publicly performed; it was staged in 1891 at "Toole's Theatre", hence the alternative title given in the typescript, and cancelled, 'or Toole-up-to-date'. It has not been published. Many of the alterations in this draft are in the nature of cuts; in particular the rhyming finale has been cut.
Typescript draft of ‘The will’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with some revisions in Barrie's hand, and with others (in blue pencil, mostly cuts) that may be in another hand.
This version is very close to that printed in ‘The definitive edition of the plays of J M Barrie’, page 809, but with fewer details of setting and stage direction. Corrections made in the draft have been incorporated into the printed text.
Typescript drafts and final version of Alan Bold, "Scottish National Anthem".
Typescript drafts, both much corrected and added to, with parts of a third, of a history of the lower Niger in the nineteenth century; a brief account of the administrations is followed by a detailed postal history.
The authors appear from internal evidence to be William W Forsyth and H G Porter, the date of composition the late 1930s.
Typescript drafts of act 1 of ‘Shall we join the ladies?’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with corrections and revisions in the hand of the author.
Typescript drafts of eight plays, produced by Winged Horse Touring Productions Ltd.
Typescript drafts of novel of Jessie Kesson, "Where the Apple Ripens" (1978).
With manuscript and typescript of associated short story and radio play, undated.
Typescript drafts of ‘The twelve-pound look’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with corrections and revisions in the hand of the author.
Typescript drafts of three plays and 24 poems of Donald Campbell.
Typescript drafts of twenty-eight plays by Cecil P Taylor.
Typescript drafts, proofs and setting copy of the novel `The Gabriel Hounds` by Mary Stewart, with manuscript working notes concerning the novel.
Typescript drafts, undated, of ‘Old friends’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with revisions in the hand of the author.
Notes discussing the relationship of the drafts in greater detail, and a provisional stemma, will be found inside the front cover of MS.6636.
Typescript libretto and manuscript musical sketches for opera of Learmont Drysdale, "Flora Macdonald".
With manuscript arrangements of eight Scots songs.
Typescript (mostly carbon) of sections of 'The Witch', an unfinished novel by David Lindsay.
Typescript of a BBC broadcast talk of Ian McIntyre, "Speaking for Myself".
Typescript of an address on Robert Louis Stevenson delivered by R A Knox to the Stevenson Club in 1949.
The typescript was marked by R A Knox to indicate pauses and points of emphasis.
A letter of Knox to Sir Randall Philip, Sheriff of Ayr and Renfrew, concerning the deposit of the address in the National Library of Scotland, is also included.