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Typescript of Donald W Nichol, "Pope`s Literary Legacy: the Book-Trade Correspondence of William Warburton and John Knapton".

 File
Identifier: Acc.10837
Scope and Contents

Contains material not printed in the version published, 1992, by The Oxford Bibliographical Society. Includes photocopies of some of the original letters from various libraries.

Dates: 1990.

Typescripts, 1961, of three versions of Alastair Fowler, "The Confidence Man", including copies of three associated letters.

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Identifier: Acc.8703
Scope and Contents

With typescript, 1965, of Kitty W Scoular, "Natural Magic", and a photocopy of the Blage Manuscript, circa 1530-1550.

Dates: 1961-1965 and undated.

Typescripts of novellas, short stories and plays of Agnes Owens.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14086/1-61
Scope and Contents

This collection contains typescripts of the novellas and short stories of Agnes Owens, including many of the stories which formed part of 'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985) and 'People like that' (Bloomsbury, 1996). Several short stories present in this collection were only published for the first time in 'The complete short stories' (Polygon, 2008).

Many of the typescripts have annotations and corrections in the hands of Agnes Owens, Alasdair Gray and others.

Dates: 2007, undated.

Writings of Vero L Bosazza on nineteenth century explorers of African countries, chiefly David Livingstone.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20333-20340
Scope and Contents Vero L Bosazza, a South Africa geologist who worked in various African countries, became interested in the nineteenth century travellers there, especially David Livingstone. In retirement he wrote extensively on them, his personal knowledge of the localities giving his work a dimension frequently lacking in other scholarship. His writings are almost entirely unpublished, except in the sense that he distributed copies of them to various libraries with interests in African history....
Dates: 1861-1865, 1955-1979.

Xerox copies of letters to Jean, Lady Hunter, from members of the family of Sir James Hall of Dunglass.

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Identifier: MS.14196
Scope and Contents

The contents comprise a series of letters from Captain Basil Hall and his wife Margaret (folios 1-72) and another series chiefly from Helen, Lady Hall (folios 73-209).

Dates: 1807-1844.

Xeroxes of three manuscript music books containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane of Torloisk, Mull.

 Series
Identifier: MS.14949(a)-(c)
Scope and Contents

The airs in the music books are drawn from a broad range of cultures, including Gaelic.

Dates: 1808-1825.

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Letters. Correspondence. 255
Typescripts. 61
Correspondence. 52
Poetry. 48
Manuscripts. 36
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Photographs. 33
Notes. 31
Diaries. 26
Drafts. Documents. 25
Memoirs. 22
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 21
Transcripts 18
Travel journals 15
Lists. 14
Biographies. 13
Copies. Derivative objects. 13
Maps. Cartographic materials. 13
Histories. 12
Notebooks. 12
Articles. 11
Genealogies. 11
Microfilms. 10
Scores 10
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 10
Speeches. Documents. 10
Fragments. 9
Minutes. Administrative records. 9
Plays. 9
Songs. Musical compositions. 9
Translations. Documents. 9
Catalogues. 8
Research notes 8
Autobiographies. 7
Memorandums. 7
Novels. 7
Travel journals. 7
Annotations. 6
Indexes. Reference sources. 6
Theses. 6
Accounts. 5
Documents. 5
Essays. 5
Excerpts. 5
Extracts. 5
Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 5
Lectures. 5
Music books. 5
Scripts. Documents 5
Sketches 5
South Africa. Africa - South Africa. Nation. Longitude: 26.0000. Latitude: -30.0000. 5
Transcripts. 5
Account books. 4
Administrative records. 4
Canada. North and Central America. Nation. Longitude: -96.0000. Latitude: 60.0000. 4
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 4
Instructional materials. 4
Legal documents. 4
Programmes 4
Proofs. Printed matter. 4
Reports 4
Research notes. 4
Reviews. Document genre 4
Scores. 4
Scrapbooks 4
Short stories. 4
Argyll. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Argyll and Bute. County. 3
Calligraphy. Visual works. 3
Certificates 3
Commonplace books. 3
Contracts. Agreements. 3
Drawings. Visual works. 3
First World War (1914-1918). 3
Illustrations. Layout features. 3
Inventories. 3
Minute books. 3
Plans (orthographic projections). 3
Postcards. 3
Registers (lists) 3
Reports. 3
Second World War (1939-1945). 3
Signatures. Names 3
Travel literature 3
Videocassettes. 3
Argentina. South America. Nation. Longitude: -64.0000. Latitude: -34.0000. 2
Audiocassettes. 2
Autographs (manuscripts). 2
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 2
Census records. 2
Charters 2
Choral music. 2
Commentaries. 2
Commissions. Permissions. 2
Dances. Musical compositions. 2
Ephemera. 2
First Jacobite Rebellion (1715). 2
Graphs. 2
Great Highland Bagpipe music. Bagpipe music. 2
Greenock. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Inverclyde. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.7500. Latitude: 55.9500. 2
Greeting cards. Correspondence. 2
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Language
English 542
Undetermined 35
Multiple languages 5
French 3
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 3
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Names
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 31
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 14
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 12
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 9
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 7
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Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 7
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 7
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 6
James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1566-1625 6
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 5
Graham, Sir Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame, Knight, of Gartmore, Admiral, 1893-1981 4
Gray, Alasdair (author) 4
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 4
Boswell, James, of Auchinleck, author, 1740–1795 3
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 3
Cunningham, Allan, miscellaneous writer, 1784-1842 3
Gunn, Neil Miller, author, 1891-1973 3
Hornel, Edward Atkinson, artist, 1864-1933: recipient 3
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 3
Morrison, Trevor, poet, d 2013 3
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 3
National Library of Scotland 3
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 3
Soutar, William (poet) 3
Baxter, Charles, Writer to the Signet, 1848-1919 2
Beattie, William, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, 1903-1986 2
Blake, William, engraver, artist and poet, 1757-1827 2
Boswell, Sir Alexander, 1st Baronet, of Auchinleck, 1775-1822 2
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 2
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 2
Dalrymple, Sir David, 3rd Baronet, Senator of the College of Justice, 1726-1792 2
Edgeworth, Maria (novelist) 2
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 2
Faculty of Advocates, Library, Edinburgh 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Forward, Glasgow, newspaper 2
Fraser, Simon, piper, Warrnambool, Australia, d 1934 2
Galt, John (novelist) 2
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
Gordon, Edward Strathearn, Baron Gordon of Drumearn, 1814-1879 2
Heelis, Helen Beatrix, author, née Potter, 1866-1943 2
Henley, William Earnest, poet, 1849-1903 2
Henry, William Stuart, artist, pseudonym Henry Stuart, fl 1942-1973 2
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873: recipient 2
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 2
McGregor, family 2
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 2
Murray, John (publisher (III)) (1808-1892) 2
Neilson, George, historian and antiquary, 1858-1923 2
Ogilvy, John, Inshewan, fl 1966 2
Owens, Agnes (author) (1926-2014) 2
Pughe, William Owen, antiquary and lexicographer, pseudonym Idrison, 1759-1835: recipient 2
Scott, Walter, Writer to the Signet, 1729-1799 2
Sigismund, Archduke of Austria, 1427-1496: recipient 2
Smith, David Nichol, literary scholar, 1875-1962 2
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton, Knight, explorer, formerly Rowlands, 1841-1904 2
University of Glasgow 2
Aall, Jacob, Norway, politician and author, 1773-1844 1
Abbey of St James, Ratesbon: former owner 1
Aitken, James, correspondent of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, fl 1839: recipient 1
Aitken, Margaret Carlyle, niece of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, d 1932 1
Aitken, Mary Carlyle, niece of Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist, fl 1877-1932 1
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Field-Marshal, 1891-1969 1
Allan, Archibald, Minister of Channelkirk, d 1924 1
Allan, Thomas Ward-, Superintendent of the Chulsa and Bagracote Tea Company Ltd, Dooars, India, 1888-1950 1
Alston, Charles, scientific writer, 1685-1760 1
Alston, James Maxwell, pathologist, b 1900 1
Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett, politician and journalist, 1873-1955 1
Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett, politician and journalist, 1873-1955. 1
Amory, Hugh, author of "Bibliography and the Book Trades", 1930-2001 1
Anderson, David, International Brigader, Spanish Civil War, b 1912 1
Anderson, George, 1865-1925 (sheep farmer, Falkland Islands) 1
Anderson, George, East Kilbride, fl 1914-1984 1
Angus, William, prebendary and sacristan of the Chapel Royal, Stirling, fl 1590 1
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Anne, Queen Consort of James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1574-1619 1
Archer, William, critic and dramatist, 1856-1924 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Highland Light Infantry, 9th Battalion 1
Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, folklorist, 1812-1885: recipient 1
Atherstone, Edwin, author, 1788-1872 1
Bach, Albert Bernhard, Edinburgh, vocalist, 1844-1913 1
Bain, Harry, Pipe Major, fl 1980 1
Baird, John Logie, inventor of television, 1888-1964 1
Baird, Malcolm Henry Inglis, Professor Emeritus, Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada, son of John Logie, inventor of television , b 1935: collector 1
Baker, Sir Samuel White, Knight, traveller, 1821-1893: recipient 1
Balfour, Lewis, Minister of Colinton, 1777-1860: recipient 1
Balfour, Michael Leonard Graham, historian and public servant, 1908-1995 1
Balfour, Rhoda, wife of Sir Thomas Graham, author, née Brooke, fl 1896-1944 1
Balfour, Robert, 2nd Lord Balfour of Burleigh (succeeded 1619), d 1663: recipient 1
Balfour, Sir William, Knight, of Pitcullo, Lieutenant-General, d 1660 1
Ballantyne, Alexander Thomson, printer, 1776-1847 1
Balvaird, W, Paris, fl 1815 1
Bannerman, Sir Henry Campbell-, Prime Minister, 1836-1908 1
Barleus, Caspar, theologian, 1584-1648: recipient 1
Barnard, Henry, Secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Common Schools, 1811-1900: recipient 1
Barnard, Michael, visitor to Scotland, fl 1965-2003 1
Basden, Eric Bernard, local collector and bibliographer, 1913-1984 1
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