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Manuscript drafts of "George Scott Moncrieff and a Few Friends; a Brief Memoir", by Morley Jamieson.
Manuscript drafts of Morley Jamieson, "Tam in a Dark Place: a Dramatic Monologue"
Manuscript drafts of part of an unpublished novel of A J Cronin.
Manuscript drafts of poems of W Price Turner, "Impasse" (1956), and "As Advertised" (1963).
With manuscript draft of novel, "Circle of Squares".
Manuscript of a commentary by Michael Miniclardi on 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
Manuscript revisions by Robert McLellan for "The Isle of Arran" (2nd edition, 1976).
Manuscripts and drafts of and concerning George Douglas Brown.
Many of the drafts are early compositions, but they include all that apparently now exists of 'The House with the Green Shutters', published in 1901 (MSS.8171-8172), and two items not by George Douglas Brown (MS.8178).
MSS.8171-8176 are written in school notebooks.
Manuscripts and typescripts of fifty poems of Robert Alan Jamieson, with a prose article on Hugh MacDiarmid.
Manuscripts and typescripts of poems by George MacBeth (1932-1992).
The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript and typescript drafts of 'The Silver Needle' (folio 1). The poem was published in ‘Ambit 30’ (1966/1967), pages 22-26, and ‘New Worlds SF’, 1, number 170 (1967), pages 77-83. (ii) Manuscripts, two typescript drafts with manuscript corrections, and a carbon typescript of the final version of ‘Lusus: a verse lecture’ (London, 1972) (folio 24).
Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Poor things', 'Ten tales tall and true' and 'Why Scots should rule Scotland', by Alasdair Gray, with some related correspondence and source materials.
Manuscripts and typescripts of 'The ends of our tethers', by Alasdair Gray, with some related cuttings and correspondence.
Manuscripts notes for and drafts of reviews and articles of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Mostly on artistic subjects.
Manuscripts of a French Officer named La Rochette, who appears to have been acting, at least in 1763, in the services of the Duc de Nivernais, then Ambassador at St James, in connection with Acadian and other French prisoners.
Manuscripts of English composers.
Manuscripts of the song, "An Immorality" and preliminary draft score of "Obliques", both of Thea Musgrave.
Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence and other papers of Gavin Ewart, poet.
Manuscripts, typescripts, drafts and proofs of works of Kenneth White, including related correspondence and notes.
Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, short stories, autobiography and travel works.
Microfilm of an early draft of chapter 2 of ‘The wealth of nations’ by Adam Smith, with a summary of chapters 3-5, undated.
Microfilm of chiefly letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.
Microfilm of collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Microfilm of correspondence, 1726-1800, lecture notes, 1787, and an early manuscript draft, [?1767], of ‘Case for the respondents', which concerns the Douglas Cause.
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1726-1800, of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee (MS.3431, folios 225-226);
Early manuscript draft, [?1767], of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail, written by Professor Hugh Blair (MS.5356, folios 59-122);
Notes, 1787, of a series of lectures on rhetoric (MS.9974).