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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:

Manuscript of miscellaneous poems of George Donnan, in his own hand.

 File
Identifier: MS.9377
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of eighteen poems all in the classical style, and including pastoral verses, odes and epitaphs, and imitations of Horace.

Dates: 1786.

Manuscript of part of the ‘Autobiography’ of Mrs Eliza Fletcher (1770-1858), chiefly in the hand of the author.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3758
Scope and Contents Folios 30 verso-36 recto are not in the hand of the author.The period covered is from 1770 to 1817.In this manuscript are to be found many passages, most of them short and of little significance, which do not appear in the 1875 edition of the ‘Autobiography’. Some of these passages, however, are longer and of more substance, namely those occurring at folio 31 verso, folio 53 verso, folio 56 verso, folio 62 recto, folio 63 recto, folio 68 recto, folio 69 verso, folio...
Dates: [1817, or after.]

Manuscripts, chiefly autograph, and typescripts of the novel 'Kingisbyres or The end of an old song' by John Dick Scott, which was published as ‘The end of an old song’.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.9913-9915
Scope and Contents

According to a note on MS.9913, folio i verso, part II was written in 1931, part IV in 1943, and parts I, III and V in 1947. The manuscript (MS.9913) is incomplete and does not entirely correlate with the typescript (MS.9914). For example part V, chapter 1 of the typescript is different from the manuscript version, and the latter half of part III, chapter 6 is missing from the manuscript version and is included in the typescript version as part II, chapter 6.

Dates: 1931-[1954, or before].