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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 145 Collections and/or Records:

Score or parts for three sonatas by Maude Beswick., [1941], 1943, 1946.

 File
Identifier: MS.21634
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Violin and cello parts, including final rondo, for the trio sonata in MS.21633 (in D, for violin, cello and piano, 1941), by Maude Beswick (folio 1);

(ii) Score for sonata in A minor for violin and piano, 1943, (folio 13);

(iii) Viola part for sonata in G for viola and piano, dedicated to Sybil Hedderwick, 1946 (folio 27).

Dates: [1941], 1943, 1946.

Scores and parts for two pieces of music by Maude Beswick., Mid 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.21636
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'Three Impressions' for cello and piano, undated, score and separate cello part (folio 1);

(ii) 'Midsummer Eve', suite for flute and piano, undated, score, separate flute part, and piano 1 of an arrangement for two pianos (folios 5).

Dates: Mid 20th century.

Scrapbooks of Margaret Anna Dalrymple, Lady Newhailes, wife of Sir David Charles Herbert Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Newhailes., 1898-1911.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25673-25677
Scope and Contents Covering over ten years, the scrapbooks provide an insight into the social and domestic life of a wealthy young woman of the time. The volumes consist largely of photographs many probably taken by Lady Newhailes, and autographs of family and friends, photographs and water-colour drawings of Lady Newhailes's homes at Ardwell and Newhailes, and country houses visited in Scotland and England. With programmes and tickets for various sporting and social occasions pasted in. MS.25677 relates...
Dates: 1898-1911.

Settings, chiefly undated, by David Stephen of scriptural texts and of poems by various Scottish authors., 1934, 1943, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.22160
Scope and Contents

Except for folio 10 the settings are for voice and piano.

The songs are undated except for folio 1, 1934, and folio 34, 1943.

Dates: 1934, 1943, undated.

Small collections of letters and papers., 1647-1862, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.2207
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous papers, 1647-1781, consisting chiefly of letters and orders addressed to William Farquharson of Inverey by Middleton and others, in connection with the Royalist campaign in Scotland, 1647-1656. 'Archaeologia Scotia', volume v, appendix, page 57. (Folio 1.)(ii) Orders of General Monck relating to Sir Robert Campbell of Glenorchy and the McNabs, 1654-1655, with modern transcripts, and a chaplain's commission given to...
Dates: 1647-1862, undated.

Songs for voice and piano, 1905 and earlier, by Sir John B McEwen (autograph)., 1905, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.6298, folios 15-31
Scope and Contents

The contents include: three settings of Verlaine (translated by Ashmore Wingate), published as ‘Three songs’ (1906); "Love's but a dance" (1906) to words by Austin Dobson; and unpublished settings of poems by Justin McCarthy and Arthur Symons.

Dates: 1905, undated.

Songs of David Stephen., Early 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22160-22162
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.

Dates: Early 20th century.

State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics., 1560-1641, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 (i)-(xiii)
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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: 1560-1641, undated.

'Tour in the Hebrides', in the autograph of George Lewis Augustus Douglas, Advocate., 1800.

 Item
Identifier: MS.213
Scope and Contents

George Lewis Augustus Douglas’s companions were Mr Senhouse of Nether Hall and Mr Norris of Hawley 'who distinguished themselves considerably at Magdalene College, Oxford' (folio 2).

Dates: 1800.

Various versions of the ‘Autobiography’ of Richard Haldane., [?1927-1928, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20061-20066
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Small quantities of letters and papers of other members of Mary E Haldane's family are contained in different parts of the collection. Also contained is a small quantity of letters and papers to Anne, wife of General Sir David Baird, and her sister Catherine Campbell Preston.

Dates: [?1927-1928, or before.]

'Violin solos', undated, by Maude Beswick., Mid 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.21635
Scope and Contents

The manuscript consists chiefly of pieces for violin and piano in score, but includes a version for two violins and piano of the first movement of the trio sonata in D at MS.21633.

Dates: Mid 20th century.

Vocal score of settings by Hamish MacCunn of one hundred Scottish songs., [Before 1891.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.21980
Scope and Contents

Many of the songs are traditional airs and of the rest, many are by Robert Burns. There are small numbers of songs or poems by Allan Ramsay, Scott, Tannahill, Hogg, Lady Nairne and others.

Dates: [Before 1891.]

Vocal score of the setting by Hamish MacCunn of “The Cameronian's dream”, opus 10, a ballad for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra, by James Hyslop., [?1890.]

 File
Identifier: MS.21979
Scope and Contents

Tipped in at the front (folios i-ii) are press cuttings from the 'Scotsman' and the 'Edinburgh Evening News' of 28 January 1890 describing the work and reporting the concert in which it received its premiere.

Dates: [?1890.]