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Drafts and corrected typescript of Forbes Macgregor, "The Gowks of Mowdieknowes".
With associated correspondence, and photocopies of a play and three poems.
DVD of a BBC `Play for Today` production of `The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil` by John McGrath.
John McGrath`s play, `The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil`, was toured round the Highlands of Scotland by 7:84 (Scotland) Theatre Company in 1973. The following year, a television version of the play was broadcast as part of the BBC`s `Play for Today` season. Adapted by John McGrath, this showed excerpts from the play as performed by the Company at Dornie village hall, intercut with dramatised scenes from Highland history and interviews with Scots of the time.
Early version of ‘What every woman knows’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, consisting of Act II, stage directions for Act III, and Act IV.
The final version of the play produced in 1908 is almost entirely rewritten, but the main characters and situations are recognizable in this early version: John and Maggie Shand correspond to John and Anna Wetheral here, Lady Sybil Lazenby to Lady Sybil Tenterden, and the Comtesse de la Brière to the Duchess of Uplands.
Eleven playscripts; with three television scripts and parts of scripts mainly relating to Scottish Television productions.
A small collection of theatre and television scripts, 1967-1975 and undated, gathered by Michael Barry, writer and producer, when he was working in Scottish television and theatre during that period. With a copy of Barry’s play, ‘The Tay Bridge Disaster’.
Gaelic material extracted from the papers of the author, broadcaster and schoolmaster, Hector MacIver (1910-1966).
The material extracted from MSS.26276-26300 consists chiefly of typescripts of Hector MacIver’s plays and broadcasts.
Interleaved copy of William Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens" (1851), with annotations by George MacDonald.
Late 15th-century manuscript of an incomplete copy of the verse drama 'Istoire de la destruction de Troye la grant' by Jacques Milet, composed between 1450 and 1452.
Ledgers of Alasdair Gray containing diary entries and drafts of works, with typescripts of 'Fleck' and a file of press cuttings.
Eight ledgers or notebooks contain diary entries, draft letters and literary notes and drafts of stories, poems, plays and the novel 'Old men in love'; with six corrected and annotated typescripts of 'Fleck', a play; and a file of cuttings of reviews of the French edition of 'Lean tales'.
Letter of Sir Theodore Martin to James Maidment.
Concerning his own "Madonna Pia: a Tragedy", bound into a copy of the work.
Literary and personal papers of Jo Clifford.
Literary and personal papers, c. 1966-2013, of Jo Clifford, comprising mainly playscripts, notebooks and journals. With some earlier family papers including: two travel journals by an unidentified family member, to North Carolina in 1828 and a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1829; First World War letters of Bertram Clifford, grandfather of Jo Clifford.
Literary and photographic archive of W. Gordon Smith, comprising play scripts, other writings, photographic prints and negatives.
Literary manuscripts and personal papers of the poet and art critic, Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975).
Born in New Zealand and educated in England, Sydney Goodsir Smith's first poems were in English, but he began writing in Scots in about 1940 and published several volumes of poetry. He also wrote for the stage, radio and television, as well as editing works of Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson. All these interests are reflected in his papers, but his work as an art critic survives in only a few fragmentary items.
Literary papers and correspondence of Henry Mackenzie.
Includes manuscript of, notes for and letters, circa 1810, 1812-1821, concerning Mackenzie`s "Life of Home". With manuscript page, undated, of "Douglas" by John Home and a diary, circa 1803, of Home`s journey to Bath with David Hume in 1776.
Literary papers and correspondence of John Herdman.
Literary papers and correspondence of the novelist and biographer, Nancy Brysson Morrison (1903-1986).
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.
Literary papers, correspondence and artwork of Alasdair Gray.
Literary papers, including manuscripts and typescripts, of Dionysia Press.
Literary papers of A L Kennedy, mainly relating to `What Becomes` and `The Blue Book`.
Literary papers, c.2009-2011, of A L Kennedy, mainly relating to `What Becomes` (London: Jonathan Cape, 2009) and `The Blue Book` (London: Jonathan Cape, 2011).
Literary papers of Andrew Tannahill, including typescripts of plays, poems, articles and translations of French poetry into Scots.
Literary papers of George Blake.
Includes correspondence, typescripts of novels published and unpublished, play-scripts, a diary of a visit to the United States, first copies of published works of fiction and non-fiction. Also includes notes on Blake, copies of articles by him and correspondence and papers of Christopher Dalgleish accumulated in the course of an uncompleted dissertation.
Literary papers of John Herdman.
Includes literary notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of a novel, a play, short stories, poems, articles and an autobiography.
Literary papers of Joseph Chiari.
Literary papers, circa 1937-1989, of Joseph Chiari; includes manuscripts of poetry, prose, plays and non-fiction work, with some correspondence.
Literary papers of Naomi Mitchison.
Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, stories, and essays.
Literary papers of Norman Malcolm Macdonald.
Includes playscripts, a heavily corrected typescript of an historical novel "The Eternal Surge", correspondence and reviews.