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Drafts and proofs of film scripts, short stories, articles and illustrations of Alasdair Gray, with some related correspondence.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12557/1-21
Scope and Contents
The largest portion of this collection is taken up by drafts of film scripts for 'Poor things', co-written by Alasdair Gray and Sandy Johnson, director, with comments and changes of both, as well as comments and changes of Iain Brown, producer, and Brian Gibson, another director who was later attached to the project.There are also some files of correspondence and drafts of articles and illustrations for other projects, as well as typescripts and proofs of the short story...
Dates:
1988-2003.
Heavily corrected manuscript of chapters I-XVII of Thomas Reid, "Treatise on Clock and Watchmaking" (1826).
File
Identifier: Acc.8787
Scope and Contents
With printed text and plates (with corrections) for Reid`s entry on horology in the "Edinburgh Encyclopedia".
Dates:
circa 1826.
Illustrations of heraldic terms.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.20
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes the ordinaries and sub-ordinaries with some of their variations, and a few other charges. The beginning is missing. A later hand has added examples of the colours and metals in trick (folio 46).
Dates:
17th century.
Literary papers, correspondence and artwork of Alasdair Gray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13289/1-109
Scope and Contents
This collection includes personal and working papers of Alasdair Gray, with the great majority of the papers concerning 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009) and 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).The 'play book' papers include typescripts from throughout Gray's life of many of the plays which made up the book, as well as annotated proofs, and correspondence concerning the book's production.There are extensive visual materials collated by Gray for the production of 'A...
Dates:
1951-2011.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of a poem sequence of Duncan Glen "Out to the Calf of Man".
File
Identifier: Acc.10156
Scope and Contents
Includes associated artwork.
Dates:
1990.
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, research materials, proofs and correspondence concerning 'The book of prefaces', by Alasdair Gray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11769/1-70
Dates:
1985-2000.
Manuscript copy, with art-work, of Andrew Winton`s "Twenty most Favourite Songs of Burns: with Music, Words and Notes on the Lasses to whom they were Written" (London, 1998).
Item
Identifier: Acc.12138
Dates:
1998.
Manuscript drafts and printed copy of "Robin`s Christmas Song", original lyrics attributed to Robert Burns.
File
Identifier: Acc.10680
Dates:
circa 1850-1900.
Manuscript entitled ‘Traite du Blazon’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.19
Scope and Contents
The treatise is in thirty-five chapters and is followed (folio 105) by explanatory notes to the illustrations, and (folio 127) by the illustrations themselves, which are in trick. It is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a diagram of the divisions of a field.Three folios which probably contained the title page and dedication have been removed from between folios 2 and 3. Offsets of the dedication survive, from which it appears that the author`s name was Bonin, and that he presented his...
Dates:
1678.
Manuscript narrative poem, "Days of Chivalry, or Adelaide and Ethelbert" by John Clark.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11766
Scope and Contents
Illustrated with watercolours.
Dates:
circa 1830-1840.
Manuscript of “Gaël Albanich” by William Forbes Skene (1809-1892), containing a history of the Highland clans.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14896-14897
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, dated 1st March 1834, was the winning entry in a competition of the Highland Society of London for the best essay on the history of the Highland Clans. It is illustrated in pen and ink and in watercolours.
Dates:
1834.
Manuscript of ‘The people of the palace’, a satirical novel by Marryat Ross Dobie, former Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.6304
Scope and Contents
The novel is greatly influenced, and its subject was probably suggested, by the discoveries in Crete of Sir Arthur Evans and others, 1899-1911; authentic characteristics of the Cretan civilisation of the period appear in drawings and are described in the text. The volume is illustrated and bound by the author himself. A note, dated 1955 (folio i verso), by Sir John Spencer Muirhead explains that 'The people of the palace' was ‘one of a series of stories written on holiday on the island of...
Dates:
1912.
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.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10749/1-89
Scope and Contents
Includes corrected manuscript and typescript drafts and revised versions of 'Poor things', 'Ten tales tall and true', and 'Why Scots should rule Scotland', along with finished copies of all three books. There are some files of correspondence concerning the publication of 'Poor things' and 'Ten tales tall and true', as well as some material concerning 'Something leather'.Most files have an A4 sheet inserted at the beginning by Alasdair Gray with a brief summary of the file's...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1896, 1972-1993.
Manuscripts of illustrated books and travel journals of Doris Ann Goodchild.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11801
Dates:
1955-1996.
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly of the seventeenth century, relating to private, domestic, and public matters.
File
Identifier: MS.3830
Scope and Contents
Included are letters to John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, various members of the Townshend family, George Livingston, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow, and Sir Michael Stanhope, son of Sir Michael Stanhope (died 1552).
Dates:
17th century.
Papers of Nigel Tranter.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11170/1-81
Scope and Contents
Includes corrected manuscripts and typescripts of 24 novels, with related proofs, research notes and art-work.
Dates:
1957-1993 and undated.
Photostat of a contemporary copy of 'Ung livret et traicte pour entendre quel ordre et train ung prince ou chef de guerre doibt tenir pour conquester ung pays ou passer on traverser le pays des ennemys. Compose par Messire Berault Stuart', i.e., Bernard Stuart, 3rd Seigneur d'Aubigny.
Item
Identifier: MS.1802
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is illustrated with seven miniatures.
Dates:
Late 15th century-early 16th century.
"The Warriston Monthly".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9241
Scope and Contents
Illustrated magazine circulating in manuscript amonst the employees of McLagan and Cumming.
Dates:
1897.