Autographs (manuscripts).
Found in 216 Collections and/or Records:
Full score, undated, of a work in three movements for piano quartet entitled 'Fantasy Quintet' by David Stephen., Early 20th century.
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Full score, undated, of ‘Sonata in F major for piano and violin', Opus 12, a work in three movements by David Stephen., Early 20th century.
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Full scores of two works of chamber music by David Stephen., 1899, 1920.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Full score of a work in one movement for string quartet entitled 'Epithalamium', 1920 (folio 1);
(ii) Full score of ‘Trio in B flat major for piano, oboe & horn’, a work in three movements, or sections, composed apparently in 1899, which won the Leslie Alexander Prize and was first performed in 1900 (folio 3).
Heavily corrected setting for voices and piano, interleaved with a fair copy of the full score of a setting for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra, of the ballad 'Sir Patrick Spans' by David Stephen., 1920.
Apparently composed, or completed, in 1920, according to a deleted note at folio 48. The orchestral accompaniment in short score was published the same year.
An anglicized printed copy of the ballad, with numerous amendments in ink restoring the original Scots words, is at folio 2.
Many substantial corrections to the keyboard version are written on fragments of paper pasted to the leaves, and folio 28 is an addition written on a scrap of paper tipped in.
Inaugural addresses delivered by the Very Reverend John Lee to the students of Edinburgh University, in Lee's hand and in printed newspaper reports., 1840-1858, undated.
Incomplete vocal score 'Fionn and Tera, a Grand Opera in two acts', the words written by the Duke of Argyll, with musical additions and alterations and stage directions., [1908-1909.]
The words differ slightly from the printed libretto.
Incomplete vocal score 'Fionn and Tera, a Grand Opera in two acts', the words written by the Duke of Argyll, with musical additions and alterations and stage directions., [1908-1909.]
The words differ slightly from the printed libretto.
Incomplete vocal score of 'Fionn and Tera, a Grand Opera in two acts', the words written by the Duke of Argyll, with musical additions and alterations and stage directions., [1908-1909.]
The words differ slightly from the printed libretto.
Journal, day-books and an autograph book of William Scott of Raeburn (1773-1855).
Letter-book containing copy of the correspondence of Archibald Constable and Company with Longman and Company, publishers., 1802-1805.
With a note by Archibald Constable on the correspondence and on the firm of Longman (folio 1 verso), and observations throughout in the handwriting of his partner, A G Hunter.
Includes two autograph letters of George Chalmers, one criticizing this volume of correspondence, which had been sent to him by Constable and Company, 1806.
Letters and papers of John H Balfour-Browne, Kings Counsel (1885-1921).
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
Letters chiefly of, to, and about James Grahame, the author of ‘The Sabbath’.
Among the correspondents are Joanna Baillie, Thomas Campbell, Cockburn, Jeffrey, Dugald Stewart, and William Wilberforce. An autograph manuscript of 'The Siege of Copenhagen' (folio 75) differs in several places from the printed text; there is also an autograph manuscript of Thomas Campbell's "The Soldier's Dream" (folio 10), and a copy of Charles Wolfe's 'The Burial of Sir John Moore' (folio 82).
Letters collected by Allan Paton Park., 1799-1903, undated.
Letters, etc., associated with Robert Burns and of or relating to Sir Walter Scott, collected by William Finlay Watson and titled 'Burns and Scott'., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
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).
Libretto and related material of James McLaurin for ‘George and the dragon’ by G W Crawford., [?1905.]
The first version of the libretto of Act I, written apparently in the hand of James McLaurin, with alterations in the same hand, mostly in red ink (folio 1), and a typed copy of the dramatis personae, synopsis of the work and the libretto (as revised) of the entire work, with amendments (mostly brief) and a few additions (some quite large).
'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volume i, by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand., 1827.
The corrections, which are numerous in volumes i and ii, less numerous in volumes iii, and few in volumes v and ix, are apparently different from those in the interleaved volumes that were used for the preparation of the Miscellaneous Prose Works edition of the ‘Life’ (see prefatory Advertisement thereto).
'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volume ii, second edition, by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand., 1827.
Inserted at page 353 is an anecdote of Talma, in the hand of C M Young.
'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volume iii, by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand., 1827.
The corrections, which are numerous in volumes i and ii, less numerous in volumes iii, and few in volumes v and ix, are apparently different from those in the interleaved volumes that were used for the preparation of the Miscellaneous Prose Works edition of the ‘Life’ (see prefatory Advertisement thereto).
'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volume ix, second edition, by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand., 1827.
The corrections, which are numerous in volumes i and ii, less numerous in volumes iii, and few in volumes v and ix, are apparently different from those in the interleaved volumes that were used for the preparation of the Miscellaneous Prose Works edition of the ‘Life’ (see prefatory Advertisement thereto).
'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volume v, by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand., 1827.
Inserted at page 400 is an extract from a letter of Luise, Frederick William III of Prussia's Queen, in an unidentified hand.
'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volumes i-iii, v, and ix (ii and ix being of the second edition), by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand.
The corrections, which are numerous in volumes i and ii, less numerous in volumes iii, and few in volumes v and ix, are apparently different from those in the interleaved volumes that were used for the preparation of the Miscellaneous Prose Works edition of the ‘Life’ (see prefatory Advertisement thereto).
List of thirty-one Scots songs, both traditional ballads and poems by Burns and other authors, followed by arrangements of twenty-nine of them by David Stephen., Early 20th century.
The arrangements are marked ‘second copies’ and have tonic sol-fa notation added in red.
The compilation was made for a tenor album, which does not appear to have been published, of ‘Folk songs of Scotland’ edited by David Stephen and Robert Burnett.
Lists of the peers of Scotland and notes on 'Peers that may be Revived', 'Territorial Dignities', 'Creations of Lords of Parliament', and 'Charters of Erection', in George Crawfurd's autograph, possibly intended to supplement his 'Peerage of Scotland'., [1716, or after.]
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.