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22 notebooks, 1942, containing the corrected manuscript of A J Cronin, "The Keys of the Kingdom".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9873
Scope and Contents

With a copy of the novel inscribed by Cronin and a letter, 1950, of Cronin.

Dates: 1942-1950.

Autograph manuscript of the novel ‘Deep down: a tale of the Cornish mines’ by R M Ballantyne.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20443
Scope and Contents

The preface is signed and dated at Edinburgh in 1868. The manuscript is heavily corrected and includes a page-proof of the preface.

Dates: 1868.

Corrected typescript drafts and page proofs of a novel of Robert Nye, "Falstaff" (1976), with associated manuscript notes.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7076
Scope and Contents

With corrected typescript versions of the play of Robert Nye and John Abulafia, "Falstaff" (1977).

Dates: circa 1976-circa 1977.

Correspondence and papers, 1996-1999, of Ronald Black concerning the publication of his work 'An tuil: anthology of 20th century Scottish Gaelic verse' (Polygon: Edinburgh, 1999); with papers, 1937-1999, relating to other work on 20th century Gaelic literature.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12035/1-38
Scope and Contents

Includes scripts of two unpublished Gaelic novels of the Rev Ewen MacLean, Edinburgh, and photocopies of 'Leabhar nam Prannag', manuscript poems of Ian Paterson.

Dates: 1937-1999, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Derek Stanford.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11050
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of critical works on Muriel Spark, research notes and proofs of works of Muriel Spark.

Dates: circa 1955-1976.

Incomplete manuscript of 'Waverley'.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.0
Scope and Contents

The manuscript comprises the greater part of `Waverley`. Of the parts not included in the manuscript some exist as fragments in the Library`s manuscript collection, fifteen folios are in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, and others are missing.

The first fifty folios of the manuscript are on quarto paper, watermarked 1805, the rest on folio paper, watermarked 1813.

Dates: ?1805-1814.

Literary correspondence and papers of Mollie Hunter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11993
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts of novels, short stories and non-fiction, research notes, lectures and reviews.

Dates: 1958-2000.

Literary papers, 1970-1994, of Hamish Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11134
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts of a novel and works on mountaineering and travel.

Also included are the papers of James H B Bell, comprising photographs, 1926-1953 and undated, mostly concerning Alpine mountaineering.

Dates: 1926-1994 and undated.

Literary papers and correspondence of Nigel Tranter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10967
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, scripts of and notes for addresses and talks, and circa 440 letters and copies of letters.

Dates: 1948-1991 and undated.

Literary papers and correspondence of the novelist and biographer, Nancy Brysson Morrison (1903-1986).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27287-27373
Scope and Contents

Nancy Brysson Morrison was the sister of Margaret M Morrison, who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost', and T J Morrison, the novelist and script-writer. As well as publishing under her own name, she wrote numerous romances under the pseudonym 'Christine Strathern' between 1942 and 1959, but they are not represented among these papers.

Dates: 1918-1986, undated.

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.

Literary papers of Alison Fell.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12394/1-85
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry, short stories, novels, and works for radio, film and the theatre.This collection includes papers relating to the following published works:'The bad box' (London: Virago, 1987)'The crystal owl' (London: Methuen, 1988)'Dreams, like heretics' (London: Serpent’s Tail, 1997)'Every move you make' (London: Virago, 1984)'The grey dancer'...
Dates: 1971-2001.

Literary papers of Janet Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11109
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, articles and talks.

Dates: 1928-1990.

Literary papers of John Herdman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11089
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of a novel, a play, short stories, poems, articles and an autobiography.

Dates: 1950-1994.

Literary papers of Ronald Frame.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12045
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of short stories, novels, plays, and works for radio.

Dates: circa 1980-2000.

Manuscript and typescript drafts of novels and other works of Mary Stewart, with related papers and digital resources.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13680/1-29
Scope and Contents

The papers relate mainly to the following books by Mary Stewart:

‘Madam, Will You Talk?’ (London, 1954)

‘The Crystal Cave’ (London, 1970)

‘A Walk in Wolf Wood’ (London, 1980)

‘The Wicked Day’ (London, 1983)

‘Thornyhold’ (London, 1988)

‘Frost on the window, and other poems’ (London, 1990)

‘Stormy Petrel’ (London, 1991)

‘Rose Cottage’ (London,1997).

Dates: Circa 1954-1997.

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.

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Names
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 7
Gray, Alasdair (author) 6
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 5
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 3
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 3
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Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 3
Smith, Annie Shepherd Burnett, novelist, pseudonym "David Lyall", née Swan, 1859-1943 3
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, novelist, 1825-1894 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 2
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 2
Stewart, Mary Florence Elinor, novelist, wife of Sir Frederick Henry, geologist, née Rainbow, b 1916 2
Abulafia, John, writer and director, b 1947 1
Andrews, Cicily Isabel, Dame, author, née Fairfield, pseudonym 'Rebecca West', 1892-1983 1
Bell, James Horst Brunnerman (mountaineer) (1896-1975) 1
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
Black, William, novelist, 1841-1898 1
Bochanan, Dùghall, poet, 1716-1768 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Browne, John Hutton Balfour-, barrister, 1845-1921 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) 1
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 1
Davison, Meredith Henry Armstrong, anaesthetist and Lecturer on the History of Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1911-1970 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 1
Galsworthy, John, author, 1867-1933 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Graham, Maggie, author, fl 2000 1
Greig, Andrew, poet, b 1951 1
Hepburn, Thomas Nicoll, author, pseudonym Gabriel Setoun, 1861-1930 1
Horne, John, writer, 1861-1934 1
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 1
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 1
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, intelligence officer and author, called Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935 1
Lingard, Joan, author, b 1932 1
MacilleDhuibh, Raghnall, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Celtic Department, University of Edinburgh, b 1946 1
Mackay, Charles, journalist and songwriter, 1812-1889 1
Mair, Henry, Founder of the Scottish Open Poetry Cup Competition, b 1945 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
McIlwraith, Maureen (novelist, pseudonym Mollie Hunter) 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Nisbet, Hume, author and artist, b 1849 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 1
Pound, Ezra Loomis, poet, 1885-1972 1
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 1
Robertson, James Francis, poet and novelist, b 1958 1
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Stanford, Derek, poet and critic, 1918-2008 1
Strachan, Tony, novelist and editor, correspondent of Muriel Spark, fl 1947-2010 1
Thurston, Katherine Cecil, novelist, née Madden, 1875-1911 1
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