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Typescripts and manuscript of plays by Margaret Clarke ('Lesley Storm'), and other papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6711
Scope and Contents

Including typescripts of four other plays, with three letters, 1957 and undated, two of Laurence Olivier and one of Vivien Leith to Storm, concerning her plays.

Dates: 1950-1957 and undated.

Typescripts, manuscripts, proofs, research notes and correspondence of David Thomson, author and radio producer.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10129/1-179
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the papers of David Thomson, author, researcher and BBC radio producer. It includes the scripts and correspondence of many BBC radio programmes from the 1950s and 60s, original scripts and correspondence regarding his published and unpublished books, and additional correspondence spanning forty five years working for UNESCO, the BBC, and as a full time writer.

Dates: [1923]-1988.

Typescripts of literary works by David Lindsay (1878-1945).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27247-27252
Dates: [Circa 1920]-1942, undated.

Typescripts of literary works by Tom Hanlin (1907-1953).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27417-27425
Scope and Contents

Tom Hanlin worked as a coalminer at Armadale, West Lothian, until 1946 and much of his fiction is set in Scottish mining communities.

Dates: 1942-1949, undated.

Typescripts of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10489
Scope and Contents

Includes "At the Turn of the Century", "The Little Pet", "The Independence Sports" and the plays "The Scarlet Woman" and "A Matter Between Macdonalds".

Dates: mid 20th century.

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.

Typescripts of plays of Alexander Brown Paterson (born 1907).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26482-26486
Scope and Contents

A journalist by training, Alexander Brown Paterson was a founder and chairman of the Byre Theatre, St Andrews, where many of his plays, including these, were first produced.

Dates: 1947-1963.

Typescripts of six plays and a collection of poetry by Ian Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12081/1-49
Scope and Contents

A collection of typescript drafts, circa 1983-2002, of a number of plays and a collection of poems by Ian Brown.

Dates: circa 1983-2002.

Typescripts of works by Norman MacDonald, Lewis.

 File
Identifier: MS.14972
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Gaelic play for stage, titled ‘Shonnie’ (folio 1);(ii) Gaelic play for radio, titled ‘Buisneachd’ (folio 19);(iii) Gaelic play for stage, titled “An Ceistear ‘s am Bard ‘s na Boirionnaich” (Published under that title) (folio 64);(iv) English radio feature, titled ‘Iolaire’ (folio 91);(v) English short story, titled ‘Potatoes and Herring’ (folio 125);(vi) ‘The first Day of the Season’. Do...
Dates: [1971, or before]-[1975, or before.]

Videocassette recordings, made by Freeway Films, chiefly of television versions of plays by John McGrath.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12562/1-7
Scope and Contents

Freeway Films was John McGrath's own production company.

Dates: Circa 1984-1991.

Works of John H Balfour Browne.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4223
Scope and Contents

With manuscript and printed material of Balfour Browne and others, including poetry, essays, plays and novels.

Dates: circa 1880-circa 1920.

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Plays. 220
Typescripts. 114
Manuscripts. 53
Poetry. 48
Correspondence. 46
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Novels. 34
Drafts. Documents. 32
Scripts. Documents 30
Short stories. 27
Letters. Correspondence. 21
Articles. 20
Notebooks. 18
Photographs. 16
Diaries. 14
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 14
Notes. 11
Annotations. 10
Photocopies. 9
Scripts. Documents. 9
Essays. 7
Microfilms. 7
Speeches. Documents. 7
Translations. Documents. 7
Biographies. 6
Proofs. Printed matter. 6
Copies. Derivative objects. 5
Publications. 5
Sketches 5
Accounts. 4
Drawings. Visual works. 4
Fiction. 4
Proofs. printed matter 4
Radio scripts. 4
Audiocassettes. 3
Autobiographies. 3
Broadcasts. Events. 3
Memoirs. 3
Personal papers. 3
Professional papers. 3
Programmes 3
Reviews. Document genre 3
Reviews. Document genre. 3
Administrative records. 2
Books 2
Commonplace books. 2
Criticism. 2
DVDs. 2
Documentaries. 2
Family papers. 2
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Histories. 2
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Interleaves. 2
Lists. 2
Literature (writings). 2
Printed materials. Object genre. 2
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Reports 2
Scores. 2
Sketches. 2
Slides. Photographs. 2
Songs. Musical compositions. 2
Travel journals. 2
Treatises. 2
Africa. Continent. 1
Albums. 1
Architectural drawings. 1
Authors 1
Autographs (manuscripts). 1
Ballads. 1
Bindings. Binding components. 1
Botswana. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 24.0000. Latitude: -22.0000. 1
Business letters. 1
Business records. 1
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 1
Children's literature. Literature (writings). 1
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Compact discs. 1
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Drafts. Documents 1
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Exhibition catalogues. 1
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Floppy disks. Magnetic disks. 1
Illuminated manuscripts. 1
Inscriptions. 1
Journals. Accounts. 1
Lectures. 1
Memorabilia. 1
Memorandums. 1
Mexico. North and Central America. Nation. Longitude: -102.0000. Latitude: 23.0000. 1
Minutes. Administrative records. 1
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Names
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 11
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 6
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 6
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 5
Gray, Alasdair (author) 4
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Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 4
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 4
Brown, Ian, Professor of Drama, Kingston University, London, b 1945 3
Campbell, Donald, poet and dramatist, b 1940 3
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 3
Dunlop, William, playwright, b 1951 3
Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh 3
McGrath, John Peter, playwright, director, 1935-2002 3
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 3
British Broadcasting Corporation 2
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 2
Citizen's Theatre, TAG, Glasgow, theatre company 2
Cording, Alastair, actor and playwright, fl 1971-2008 2
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Downie, Anne, playwright, b 1939 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 2
Macdonald, Norman Malcolm, writer and dramatist, 1927-2000 2
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 2
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 2
Purves, David, poet and playwright, b 1924 2
Robert I, King of Scots, 1274-1329 2
Shakespeare, William, playwright, 1564-1616 2
Soutar, William (poet) 2
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 2
Abulafia, John, writer and director, b 1947 1
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Bain, Robert, dramatist and poet, 1865-1955 1
Barry, Michael, writer and producer, b 1942 1
Barry, Michael, writer and producer, b 1942: former owner 1
Bassin, Ethel Rose, collector of Scottish songs and music teacher, 1889-1974 1
Black, R MacKelvie, playwright, fl 1930 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Browne, John Hutton Balfour-, barrister, 1845-1921 1
Campbell, Austin, film director, fl 1960-1971 1
Campbell, Thomas (poet) 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Chiari, Joseph, author and critic, 1911-1989 1
Clark, Margaret, playwright, pseudonym Lesley Storm, née Cowie, 1898-1975 1
Clark, Margaret, playwright, pseudonym Lesley Storm, née Cowie, 1898-1975. 1
Clifford, Bertram, electrical engineer, 1877-1954 1
Clifford, Jo, playwright, b 1950 1
Close, Ajay, writer, b 1959 1
Cooper, June, Pittenweem, fl 1994 1
Dallmeyer, Andrew (playwright, theatre director and actor) 1
Dionysia Press, Edinburgh, publishers 1
Donald, Henry, playwright, fl 1974-1986 1
Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association 1
Dundee Repertory Theatre 1
Dunlop, Agnes Mary Robertson, author, pseudonyms Elisabeth Kyle and Jan Ralston, b 1901 1
Dunnett, Sir Alastair MacTavish (Journalist and newspaper editor) 1
Edinburgh International Festival 1
Eveling, Harry Stanley, playwright, 1925-2008 1
Fifth Estate Theatre Company 1
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 1
Fraser, Olive, poet, 1909-1977 1
Freeway Films, film company 1
Friel, George, George (novelist) 1
Gerson, Jack, author and scriptwriter, 1928-2012 1
Gielgud, Lewis, Lieutenant-Colonel, Head of Bureau of Personnel and Management, UNESCO, 1894-1953 1
Gilchrist, Dugald, correspondent of Jane B Welsh Carlyle, poet and writer, fl 1824-1825: recipient 1
Gordon, Patrick, General, 1635-1699 1
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Hamilton, James Hay, playwright, fl 1975-1977 1
Hendry, Joy Mclaggan, Editor of 'Chapman', b 1953 1
Hignett, Sean, playwright and novelist, fl 1971-1987 1
Home, John (minister, soldier and author) 1
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 1
Kay, William, writer and broadcaster, b 1951 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Kelsall, Moultrie Rowe, actor and producer, 1904-1980 1
Kemp, Arnold, editor, 'The Glasgow Herald', 1939-2002. 1
Kemp, family 1
Kennaway, James Peebles Ewing, novelist and scriptwriter, 1928-1968 1
Kennedy, A L, writer, b 1965 1
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 1
Leigh, Vivien, actress, 1913-1967 1
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 1
MacDonald, George, poet and novelist, 1824-1905 1
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 1
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 1
Macintosh, Denis, playwright, fl 1960-1990 1
Mackenzie, Donald, playwright, 1913-1999 1
Mackenzie, Henry, author of "The Man of Feeling", 1745-1831 1
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 1
Martin, Theodore, Sir, Knight (author) (1816-1909) 1
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
McKail, David, actor and writer, pseudonym Frederic Mohr, fl 1951-2003 1
McLaren, Moray David Shaw, author, 1901-1971 1
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