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Correspondence, proofs and other papers mainly relating to the preparation and publication of Hamish Henderson`s "Collected Poems and Songs" (Edinburgh, 2000).
Correspondence, typescripts and papers of Galliard Publishing.
Drafts and proofs of film scripts, short stories, articles and illustrations of Alasdair Gray, with some related correspondence.
Drafts of Alan Bold, "A Celtic Quintet".
With proofs and litho plates.
Drafts, proofs and plates of lithographs of William Johnstone for "Twenty Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid".
Editorial correspondence and papers concerning the Scottish literary and cultural magazine "Cencrastus".
Editorial correspondence and papers of Derick S Thomson.
Papers concern Thomson`s "Companion to Gaelic Scotland" and "Gairm" magazine
Editorial correspondence and papers of Ian Cunningham concerning "The Nation Survey`d: the Maps of Timothy Pont" (East Linton, 2001).
'Four dissertations' (London, 1757) by David Hume, with proofs of the two suppressed dissertations, 'Of suicide' and 'Of the immortality of the soul', with Hume's autograph corrections.
The proofs of the suppressed dissertations (pages 201 bis-240 bis) are included in addition to the four on 'The Natural History of Religion', 'Of the Passions', 'Of Tragedy', and 'Of the Standard of Taste'.
A slip affixed to the fly-leaf has the following in David Hume’s handwriting: 'This Book is to be considered a Manuscript and to deliverd [sic] to Mr. Strahan according to my Will'.
Further literary papers of Ron Butlin.
Literary papers of Ron Butlin, including various drafts of an unpublished novel titled `The Invisible Woman`, and papers relating to `No More Angels`(2007).
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton concerning his book "The Truth about Rudolf Hess" (1993).
Includes scripts.
‘Gaelic Proverbs, Adages, Maxims & Common Sayings, with an English translation & explanatory notes. To which is added, A Specimen of a Gaelic Calendar', by James McIntyre, schoolmaster in Glasgow.
The author died in January 1835, when the work was about to be published. At the end are printed proofs of part of the preface and selections in manuscript from the proverbs given before. At the beginning is a note on McIntyre's life and work.
Galley proof sheet of Sir Walter Scott`s "History of Scotland".
Sheet has been revised heavily.
Galley proofs, circa 1958, of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "The Sea-Bed and Other Stories", with corrections by Finlay.
With printed copies of two short stories, undated, of Finlay with his annotations and corrections.
Galley proofs for 'A braid o thistles', by Douglas Young, with a copy the published work.
Galley proofs of "A Symposium on the After War Religion", unpublished work edited by Denis Saurat, and including an essay of Hugh MacDiarmid.
With five letters to Robert S Silver, three from Saurat and one each from MacDiarmid and Robert McLellan.
Galley proofs of A W Kinglake, "Battle of Inkerman", with author`s amendments.
Corresponding to volume 5, pp 31 et seq of "The Invasion of the Crimea".
Genealogical papers concerning the Stewarts of Monteith, compiled by Margaret B Monteith.
With two sets of proofs, circa 1930, of Monteith`s book on the lineage of the Earls of Menteith, and the manuscript of "Les Gardes Ecossais".
Grangerized copy of ‘Scottish men of letters of the eighteenth century’ (London, 1901) by Henry Grey Graham, bound in the first volume of which are proofs of David Hume’s ‘History of England’, volume ii, pages 49-64, with autograph corrections by Hume.
Letters, manuscripts and proofs of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
Letters of R L Stevenson to W E Henley with a poem by Stevenson (first line: 'The Gods are dead. Perhaps they are. God knows') and the proof of a woodcut made by Stevenson at Davos in 1882.
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.
There are no letters of Thomas Carlyle to his father. Several letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle (sometimes added to Carlyle’s letters as postscripts) and of various members of Carlyle’s family are included. Other writers are Daniel Corrie, Bishop of Madras, 1836; W H Wills, ‘Editor and factotum‘ of Charles Dickens, 1855; and Rudolf Sonnenburg, who brought out a German edition of ‘Frederick’, 1867. There are also letters of Carlyle to Whewell, 1861, Emerson, 1869, and others.
Letters, papers and photographs of James Keir Hardie and Emrys Hughes.
Letters to and papers collected by James Greig (1861-1941), art critic of the ‘Morning Post’.
Lexicographical fragments found loose in MS.14957, written by Edward Dwelly and various of his informants.
Includes some cuttings and proofs.