Drafts. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Preliminary or tentative versions of documents.
Found in 432 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Thomas Aitken.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8839
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript drafts of antiquarian, scientific and medical discourses, many of which were read at meetings of Inverness Scientific and Field Club.
Dates:
circa 1867-1880.
Papers of Thomas H Collinson, organist of St Mary's (Episcopal) Cathedral and conductor of the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union.
File
Identifier: MS.21880
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Unfinished copy of 'Thou O God art praised in Sion' (Psalm 65) by Thomas H Collinson, an exercise for the degree of Bachelor of Music, Oxford, 1877 (folio 1), followed by drafts of several of the sections (folio 68). The unfinished parts of the scoring have been supplied in pencil, apparently by the composer's son Francis M Collinson. Folios 21-24 appear to be from an earlier copy in the composer's autograph.(ii) Setting for choir and...
Dates:
1877-1928, undated.
Papers of William Archer, the critic and dramatist, and of D S MacColl, the painter and art critic.
File
Identifier: MS.9995
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Letters, 1878-1924, of William Archer, the critic and dramatist. Many of the letters reflect his interest in the theatre, and concern his reviews and his translations of Ibsen's plays. He criticises various plays and suggests (folio 53) a dramatization of ‘Little Dorrit’ for Sir John Martin-Harvey. There is also (folio 50) the outline of an article, 1919, in reply to Walther Rathenau. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Letters, 1906-1944, of D S MacColl, the painter and art...
Dates:
1878-1944.
Papers on Scottish Devolution collected by Neal Ascherson and sent to the Institute of Governance, University of Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14136/1-4
Dates:
1950-2006.
Papers pasted into Robert Freebairn's printed ‘Proposals for printing by subscription Johannis Majoris Historia Scotiae, &c.’ ([Edinburgh, 1739]).
File
Identifier: MS.1888
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: a letter, or draft letter, undated, of Robert Freebairn to a peer, asking him to patronize the work; printed undertakings to subscribe, two signed, 1739; and a receipt, 1745, for a subscription, signed by Freebairn.
Dates:
1739, 1745, undated.
Papers relating to the early history of the Cameronian (Lord Angus’) Regiment.
File
Identifier: MS.542
Scope and Contents
According to a letter, 1896, of Charles Dalton, editor of ‘English Army lists’ (folio i), the papers throw additional light on the history of the regiment. Included are:(i) Assignation by Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, of the arrears due to him as Colonel of the Scots Regiment in France, 1653 (folio i);(ii) The complaints of some officers and soldiers in the Regiment against the Lieutenant-Colonel William Cleland (draft and copy), 1689 (folios 8-12);...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1653, 1689-1696, 1896.
Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11154/1-47
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).
Dates:
1959-1990.
Peninsular War papers of General Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9716
Scope and Contents
Includes letters Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, dispatches, letter books and drafts of his writings.
Dates:
1807-1809.
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13338/1-687
Scope and Contents
The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates:
1818-2011, undated.
Petition, resolution and other papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/18
Dates:
1827-1829.
Photocopies of draft pages of Doris Anne Goodchild, "East Lothian" (1980) and "Pen Portraits of Edinburgh" (1981).
File
Identifier: Acc.10052
Dates:
circa 1980-1981.
Photocopies of preliminaries and introduction by Sidney Roscoe to his and R A Brimmell`s bibliography of James Lumsden and Son, corrected by the author.
File
Identifier: Acc.9239
Scope and Contents
With photocopies of Lumsden title pages mounted in a loose leaf binder.
Dates:
circa 1980.
Photocopies of rejected drafts of articles intended for or submitted to "The Mirror".
File
Identifier: Acc.4361
Dates:
circa 1779.
Photocopy of a draft address given by Les Murray at Stirling University.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10559
Dates:
1992.
Photocopy of draft letter of David Morrison to Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10887
Dates:
1992.
Photocopy of draft of the Copyright Act, prepared for its second reading.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9745
Dates:
1710.
Photocopy of manuscript draft of song of Robert Burns, "She says She Lo`es Me Best of a`".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8079
Scope and Contents
24 lines in two stanzas, written in pencil.
Dates:
circa 1780-circa 1796.
Photocopy of typescript of "The Stick-Up", a play by Sydney Goodsir Smith, with autograph emendations and additions by Robin Orr, being a draft of the libretto of his opera "Full Circle".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10670
Dates:
1961.
Poem of Robert Burns, "It was the Charming Month of May", in pencil inked over (possibly by another hand), with variants from published text.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9649
Dates:
1794.
Poems and correspondence of Robert Crombie Saunders (born 1914).
File
Identifier: MS.26799
Scope and Contents
Robert Crombie Saunders, was the editor of ‘Scottish Arts and Letters' and the 'Scots Independent’. Many of his poems appeared in literary magazines.The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscripts and typescript drafts of poems, (circa 1940-1969, undated (folio 1). There are several versions of each poem.
(ii) Letters to Saunders from Christopher Murray Grieve, Sydney Goodsir Smith, and others, 1943-1961, undated (folio 70);
(iii) Fair copies of poems, 1969, undated...
Dates:
[Circa1940]-1970, undated.
Poems and letters of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3788-3794
Scope and Contents
All, except the poems in MS.3791, are accompanied by transcripts.
Dates:
1881-1887, undated.
Poems, letters and other papers of the poet William Julius Mickle (1734 or 1735-1788).
Series
Identifier: MSS.15934-15936
Dates:
1722-1788, undated.
Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.
File
Identifier: MS.569
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) ‘On the laying the Foundation of the High School of Edinburgh, 24th June, 1777’ (folio i);(ii) ‘Winter Hymn’ with a note, 26 January 1829 (folio 2);(iii) ‘Morning Hymn’, endorsed, ‘Written out 1825, composed chiefly in a dream at Canaan Lodge [Edinburgh] one beautiful morning in August, 1825’; two copies (folio 4);(iv) ‘Ink loquitur’, endorsed, ‘(Impromptu) to Steuart of Allantoun, the translator of Sallust, who...
Dates:
1777-1829, undated.
Poetical and editorial papers of Robin Fulton (1937- ).
Series
Identifier: MSS.27495-27498
Scope and Contents
Robin Fulton was born in Arran and became a schoolteacher. From 1967 to 1976 he edited the literary magazine 'Lines Review'. His work is mostly poetry, but also includes reviews, translations and literary studies. The papers consist of drafts and proofs of poems (MSS.27495-27497), and editorial papers for 'Lines Review' (MS.27498).
Dates:
1963-1972.
Poetry notebook of James K Annand.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9668
Scope and Contents
Contains drafts of Annand`s, "Songs from Carmina Burana. Translated into Scots Verse" (1978).
Dates:
circa 1978.