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Autographs (manuscripts).

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents written in, and usually signed with, the writer's own hand; in certain legal instances, prefer "holographs."

Found in 216 Collections and/or Records:

Choral music of David Stephen., [?1899], 1920.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22153-22154
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.

Dates: [?1899], 1920.

Collection of autographs formed by William Finlay Watson (died 1881), bookseller, Edinburgh.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.577-600
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of letters and documents in the autograph of literary, political, social, artistic, naval, military, and legal celebrities, chiefly covering the period from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth.

The first 2,300 items bear numbers given in the National Galleries. Certain letters, etc., have been retained for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery; the series is therefore not continuous (see MS.595).

Dates: 16th century-19th century.

Collection of autographs, made circa 1840, consisting chiefly of franked envelopes and signatures., [Before 1840.]

 File
Identifier: MS.15975
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).

Dates: [Before 1840.]

Collection of music by Hector Berlioz., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.3428 [HB.MS.1-9]
Scope and Contents The following is based on the fuller description in Cecil Hopkinson, ‘A bibliography of the musical and literary works of Hector Berlioz’.HB.MS.1. 'Romance de Nina, ou la folle par amour.' Full score of the song from Dalayrac's opera 'Nina', copied by Hector Berlioz. (Folio 1.)HB.MS.2. "Air de Cellini, transposé pour voix de Basse par l'auteur." Full score of No. 15 from the opera 'Benvenuto Cellini'. This transposition is unpublished. (Folio 2.)HB.MS.3....
Dates: Early 19th century-mid 19th century.

Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Dates: 1548-1641.

Copies of a letter of Sir Walter Scott to the Viscountess Melville, and of two poems, one in the autograph of James Hogg., 1821, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3581, folios 85-87
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

Copy of a letter, 1821, of Sir Walter Scott to the Viscountess Melville (folio 85);

Copy of two poems, both undated, one in the autograph of James Hogg, 'This world is a delightful place to dwell in', and the other not in Hogg's hand but found with it, 'Sing on, sing on, my boney bird' (folio 86).

Dates: 1821, undated.

Copies of manuscript music of Georges Bizet and Percy Grainger., 1943-1954.

 File
Identifier: MS.21560
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Negative photostats of the manuscript full score of Bizet's 'Valse avec Choeur' in G major; with other fragments (Paris Conservatoire MSS 428 and 431) (folio 1); (ii) Photocopies of the autograph manuscripts of pieces, 1943-1954, by Percy Grainger: Two Faroese dances, and 'Walking tune' for piano duet, 'Bristol town' for piano 6 hands, and "The widow's party" for piano solo prepared for the projected "Music lover's Grainger" (folio 79).

Dates: 1943-1954.

Correspondence, 1800-1840, of the Russells of Ashiesteel and their relatives, the Halls of Dunglass; with other papers., 1788-1840, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3220
Scope and Contents The Ashiesteel correspondence begins on folio 61. It is preceded by:(i) Miscellaneous papers: 'Flowers of the Forrest', in the autograph of Mrs Cockburn (folio 1); letter of Robert Burns to Patrick Miller of Dalswinton on the lease of Ellisland, 1788, printed in the ‘Kilmarnock Standard’, 14 August 1943 (folio 3); 'The Hag in the Red Cloak', verses ridiculing Matthew Gregory Lewis, in the hand of John Leyden (folio 5); letters of Humboldt, undated (folio 6), and Disraeli, 1865...
Dates: 1788-1840, undated.

Correspondence, press cuttings and other papers concerning (and including some letters and papers of) James Scott Skinner, with some autograph music by him.

 File
Identifier: MS.22021
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Correspondence and papers, 1883, [?1914-?1921], undated, of W Hean Findlay and George Short concerning (and including some letters and papers of) J Scott Skinner (folio 1);

(ii) Autograph music, 1914, undated, by Skinner (folio 154);

(iii) Press cuttings, 1917, 1923-1926, concerning Skinner, most of which are from the People's Friend, February-May 1923, containing an autobiographical account of Skinner (folio 168).

Dates: 1883-1926, undated.

Essay on female conduct, detailing the way in which a girl should conduct her life, composed by and apparently in the autograph of Alexander Monro, primus, probably in 1738 or 1739, in the form of letters to his daughter Margaret.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6658
Scope and Contents

The sheets on which the 'letters' were written were inserted in a blank notebook as interleaves. Additional paragraphs, sentences, etc., were written in the margins of the interleaves, as well as on some of the original pages, on which is also written by the same hand an essay entitled, 'Of the Origine of Government and of the Right to the Supream Power applyed to the disputed Succession of the Crown of Britain' (folio 193).

Dates: 1738-1739.

'Festival Mass for full orchestra & chorus; a study in instrumentation, composed by William Wallace' (born 1860), in his autograph.

 File
Identifier: MS.3089
Scope and Contents

The composer gives a history (folio xiii) of the work, which was composed in 1886-1887 and, in part, scored in 1888 (see dates on various folios). Some parts are incomplete.

Interspersed with the music are unruled leaves, bearing illuminations, manuscript notes of the composer, etc., on folios i-ii, viii, x-xiii, xxv, xxvii verso, xxviii verso, xxxix, xliii, xlvii, li.

Dates: 1886-1888.

'Four preludes in odd rhythms', for piano, undated, by Maude Beswick., Mid 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.21640
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates: Mid 20th century.

Full score of a work for wind band entitled 'Commemoration march "C.D.T. 1903"' by David Stephen., 1913.

 Item
Identifier: MS.22156
Scope and Contents

Composed or completed in 1913 'to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the foundation of the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust', according to a note tipped in inside the front cover (folio i), and dedicated to its members.

Dates: 1913.

Full score of ‘Missa Solemnis’, Opus 4, by David Stephen, for solo voices, chorus and orchestra., [?1899.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.22153
Scope and Contents

A proof copy of the title page is pasted inside the front cover (the work was published in 1899).

The text of the Mass is written in an imitation Gothic hand on the flyleaves.

In addition to the conductor’s markings in blue pencil, numerous brief corrections and additions have been written or pasted in throughout. Folio 11 is a half-sheet tipped in, and folios 38 and 85 each consist of two leaves stuck together.

Dates: [?1899.]