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Carbon typescript of 'The Mystery of Gorbals Terrace', a four act play by Alexander McArthur (1901-1947).

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Identifier: MS.26487
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The play was originally written in 1944-1945. This typescript contains manuscript corrections by the author, Alexander McArthur and a number of notes stating that a copy sent to Unity Theatre, Glasgow, was not returned, and implying that it was used by Robert McLeish as a source for his 'Gorbals Story'.

Dates: 1946.

Christmas cards and papers of William Wolfe.

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Identifier: Acc.13602
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of fourteen Christmas cards, 1989-2009, of William Wolfe (1924-2010), leader (1969 to 1979) and president (1980-1982) of the SNP. All the cards include a poem and all, but one of them, are illustrated with a photograph.

It also includes three letters, 1992-1994, and a typescript, 6 February 1992, concerning Wolfe`s account of his reaction to the Pope`s visit to Scotland in 1982.

Dates: 1989-2009

Christmas cards of Naomi Mitchison, with woodcuts of Gertrude Hermes and others.

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Identifier: Acc.4845
Scope and Contents

With typescript and copy of memorandums on National Parks, Highland education and museums of Mitchison.

Dates: circa 1940-circa 1969.

Collection of papers, chiefly seventeenth century, which appear to have belonged to Richard Almack, Suffolk.

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Identifier: MS.3922
Scope and Contents The papers fall into two main categories: papers relating to John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, including an account of fees paid by him on his installation as a Knight of the Garter, 1672, printed in ‘The Herald and Genealogist’, volume iii (1866), pages 222-224; and papers relating to Catherine Murray, Countess of Dysart, including a number of passes signed by prominent parliamentarians, such as Warwick and Essex. There are also typescript copies of correspondence between Richard Almack...
Dates: 1567-1873, undated.

Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11085
Scope and Contents

Indluding:

1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland

3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated

4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated

5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.

Dates: 16th century to 17th century.

Copies, chiefly typewritten, of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson when he was preparing the centenary edition of Scott’s letters but rejected from printing.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1750-1753
Scope and Contents

The copies of those letters in the National Library which are to be found in MS.863 have not been preserved. A list of the numbers of the letters in MS.863 is bound in at the beginning of MS.1750.

Dates: 1800-1832, undated.

Copies of 14 photographs of a Kirkcaldy linoleum workers` strike.

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Identifier: Acc.7621
Scope and Contents

With a typescript account, circa 1980, of the incident by James Bogie.

Dates: 1939-circa 1980.

Copies of ten unpublished poems by Agnes Owens.

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Identifier: Acc.12938
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Includes poems titled; 'Wallace', 'The barley brew', 'My father', 'Where poppies bloom', 'Satans caves', 'Have we met before', 'The hunter', 'The writer', "Don't give me the Booker", and 'War time'. Most are signed by Agnes Owens, and some have manuscript corrections or revisions.

Dates: Undated.

Copy of typescript of "With the Jocks" by Peter White, circa 1945-1960.

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Identifier: Acc.12887
Scope and Contents

Typescript includes text of unpublished opening to the work. Contained in a box displaying author`s own artwork. A brief memoir of Peter White by Frank Coutts accompanies the typescript.

Dates: circa 2007.

Corrected full score of 'Thomas the Rhymer', an opera in four acts by David Johnson.

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Identifier: MS.22152
Scope and Contents The opera is based on the Border ballad collected by Sir Walter Scott (folio 1).Of the many corrections the most substantial are the additional leaves at folios 11, 21, 35, 38 (formerly stapled to folio 39), 45 (formerly stapled to folio 44) 46, 53-54, 57 and 100 (formerly stapled to folio 101). Leaves are cut out after folio 80 and 108.The score is preceded by a typed press release (folio i) and a printed programme (folio iii) of the premiere, which was performed in...
Dates: 1974-1976.

Corrected manuscript of poem of Iain Crichton Smith, "Returning Exile".

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Identifier: Acc.4460
Scope and Contents

With typescript of the poem.

Dates: circa 1968.

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Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 33
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 18
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 15
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 13
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Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 9
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 8
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 8
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 7
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 7
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 7
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 7
Soutar, William (poet) 7
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 6
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 6
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 6
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 5
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 5
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 5
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 5
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 5
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 5
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 5
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 5
Scott, Margaret Mackenzie, writer and journalist, pseudonym Beatrice Nairn, b 1888 5
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 5
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 5
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 4
Brown, Ian, Professor of Drama, Kingston University, London, b 1945 4
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 4
National Library of Scotland 4
Purves, David, poet and playwright, b 1924 4
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 4
Akros, literary magazine 3
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 3
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 3
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 3
Fulton, Robin, poet, b 1937 3
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 3
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 3
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 3
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 3
Lingard, Joan, author, b 1932 3
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 3
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 3
McIlwraith, Maureen (novelist, pseudonym Mollie Hunter) 3
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 3
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 3
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 3
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 3
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 3
Owens, Agnes (author) (1926-2014) 3
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 3
Robert I, King of Scots, 1274-1329 3
Roy, James Alexander, Professor of English, Queen's University, Kingston, 1884-1973 3
Scotia Review, literary journal 3
Scottish National Party 3
Spender, Stephen Harold, Sir, Knight (poet and critic) (1909-1995) 3
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 3
Stewart, Mary Florence Elinor, novelist, wife of Sir Frederick Henry, geologist, née Rainbow, b 1916 3
Allan, Michael, Stirling, fl 1975-1990 2
Begg, James, fl. 1890-1944 (timber merchant of Glasgow) 2
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 2
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 2
British Broadcasting Corporation 2
British Broadcasting Corporation, Scottish Home Service, 1939-1967, public service broadcaster 2
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 2
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 2
Campbell, Donald, poet and dramatist, b 1940 2
Canongate Books (publishers, Edinburgh) 2
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984 2
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 2
Craigen, James Mark, politician and author, b 1938 2
Cruickshank, Helen Burness, poet, 1886-1975 2
Cursiter, Stanley, Director, National Galleries of Scotland, 1887-1976 2
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Downie, Anne, playwright, b 1939 2
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 2
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 2
Edinburgh International Festival 2
Ellis, Frances Sterling, Walter Scott scholar, fl 1968-1998 2
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 2
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 2
Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson, philanthropist and author, 1862-1937 2
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Hildebrandt, Franz, Minister of Slateford-Longstone Church, 1909-1985 2
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 2
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 2
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 2
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 2
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 2
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
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