Drafts. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Preliminary or tentative versions of documents.
Found in 432 Collections and/or Records:
Ten literary notebooks of Morley Jamieson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7547
Scope and Contents
Including drafts of poems and short stories.
Dates:
circa 1948-1976.
Transcripts, chiefly, of letters and papers of Sir Hew Campbell of Cessnock and his descendants, and of a few other letters, all of which seem to be connected with the Hamiltons of Silvertonhill.
File
Identifier: MS.1671
Scope and Contents
All are transcripts except drafts of a clause to be added to the Act of Security, circa 1711, and a letter of John Hamilton, 1775, which are originals.
Dates:
1666-1775, undated.
Transcripts, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of four mediaeval manuscripts relating to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, the originals of which were in the Advocates’ Library.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.2.1-22.2.4
Dates:
?12th century-1st half of 16th century.
Transcripts of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Gaelic-English-Latin Dictionary.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.72.3.13-14, 72.3.16-72.3.17
Scope and Contents
These thick manuscript volumes were written by three clerks (James Connell, Evander McLeod and another) under the supervision of the Reverend Dr John MacLeod of Dundonald. They were part of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary, and were transcribed between June 1822 and June 1823 from materials prepared by MacLeod and Ewen MacLachlan (see below). Corrections appear in MacLeod’s hand; he complained that it took him two days to correct what his clerks wrote in four...
Dates:
19th century.
Two collections of writings of Allan Ramsay, in his hand.
File
Identifier: MS.2233
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Drafts of poems, of a prose treatise in defence of the theatre (fragmentary, but not ‘Some Few Hints in Defence of Dramatic Entertainments’), and of a letter to a lady, containing a poem. Some of the poems appear to be unpublished; others differ greatly from the printed version. On folio 10 there are marginal references, apparently contemporary, to the pages of ‘Poems by Allan Ramsay’ (Edinburgh, 1728), volume ii. Some of the leaves are paginated,...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Two essays (one in draft) on the relationship between the family and the school, written in Tournai.
File
Identifier: Acc.8761
Dates:
circa 1913.
Two manuscript drafts and typescript of the play of Stanley Eveling, "The Lunatic, the Secret Sportsman and the Women next door".
File
Identifier: Acc.4778
Dates:
1968.
Two notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.
File
Identifier: Acc.9831
Scope and Contents
With corrected typescript drafts of part of "The Oath Takers".
Dates:
circa 1987.
Two notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5831
Scope and Contents
Containing manuscript corrected drafts, 1970, of an unpublished novel, "The Clone Mums", and notes on travels in India.
Dates:
1970.
Typescript and revised typescript of, and readers` reports on, "The Kingship of the Scots: 842-1292" (2002), by A A M Duncan.
File
Identifier: Acc.12179
Dates:
2002.
Typescript draft of "Ibsen's ghost" by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with corrections and revisions in the hand of the author.
Item
Identifier: MS.6645
Scope and Contents
"Ibsen's ghost" was the first play written entirely by Sir James Matthew Barrie to be publicly performed; it was staged in 1891 at "Toole's Theatre", hence the alternative title given in the typescript, and cancelled, 'or Toole-up-to-date'. It has not been published. Many of the alterations in this draft are in the nature of cuts; in particular the rhyming finale has been cut.
Dates:
[1891, or before.]
Typescript draft of ‘The will’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with some revisions in Barrie's hand, and with others (in blue pencil, mostly cuts) that may be in another hand.
Item
Identifier: MS.6644
Scope and Contents
This version is very close to that printed in ‘The definitive edition of the plays of J M Barrie’, page 809, but with fewer details of setting and stage direction. Corrections made in the draft have been incorporated into the printed text.
Dates:
[Circa 1913.]
Typescript drafts and final version of Alan Bold, "Scottish National Anthem".
File
Identifier: Acc.8526
Dates:
1983.
Typescript drafts, both much corrected and added to, with parts of a third, of a history of the lower Niger in the nineteenth century; a brief account of the administrations is followed by a detailed postal history.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20327-20332
Scope and Contents
The authors appear from internal evidence to be William W Forsyth and H G Porter, the date of composition the late 1930s.
Dates:
[?1935-?1939.]
Typescript drafts of act 1 of ‘Shall we join the ladies?’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with corrections and revisions in the hand of the author.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6625-6635
Scope and Contents
The drafts represent six, rather late, stages of composition. They are not entirely consecutive and would seem to be the remains of a total of nine immediately preceding the published text. MSS.6625 and 6626 represent the first of these stages; MSS.6627 and 6628 the second; MSS.6629 and 6630 the fourth; MSS.6631, 6632, and 6633 the fifth; MS.6634 the sixth; and MS.6635 the eighth. A stemma, with explanatory notes, has been inserted in MS.6625. The drafts are of interest as showing Sir James...
Dates:
[Circa 1921.]
Typescript drafts of eight plays, produced by Winged Horse Touring Productions Ltd.
File
Identifier: Acc.9440
Dates:
1979-1987.
Typescript drafts of novel of Jessie Kesson, "Where the Apple Ripens" (1978).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7845
Scope and Contents
With manuscript and typescript of associated short story and radio play, undated.
Dates:
1978 and undated.
Typescript drafts of ‘The twelve-pound look’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with corrections and revisions in the hand of the author.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6642-6643
Scope and Contents
Neither typescript draft is a carbon, and there is no direct relationship between them. MS.6642 appears to be the earlier: the names of the characters differ from those given in MS.6643 and in the printed version as found in ‘The definitive edition of the plays of J M Barrie', page 761, so that 'Sir James Ings' is equivalent to 'Sir Harry Sims', 'Lady Ings' to 'Lady Sims', 'Marion' to 'Kate', and 'Findlater' to 'Tombes'. There must have been at least one corrected version beween MS.6642 and...
Dates:
[Circa 1910.]
Typescript drafts of three plays and 24 poems of Donald Campbell.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7650
Dates:
circa 1971-circa 1979.
Typescript drafts of twenty-eight plays by Cecil P Taylor.
...
Identifier: Dep.182
Dates:
1956-1971.
Typescript drafts, proofs and setting copy of the novel `The Gabriel Hounds` by Mary Stewart, with manuscript working notes concerning the novel.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.117- is now Acc.4666.
Dates:
1967.
Typescript drafts, undated, of ‘Old friends’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with revisions in the hand of the author.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6636-6641
Scope and Contents
Notes discussing the relationship of the drafts in greater detail, and a provisional stemma, will be found inside the front cover of MS.6636.
Dates:
[1910, or before.]
Typescript of J K Annand "Two Voices, a Poem Sequence", manuscript journal, 1990, of visit to Norway and first draft typescript, 1969, "Hugh Macdiarmid, Some Notes on the Chronology of the Poet`s Early Career"
File
Identifier: Acc.11064
Dates:
circa 1969-1990.
Typescript of the poem "Oedipus" and corrected typescript drafts of the poem "Orestes" of William Montgomerie.
File
Identifier: Acc.4807
Dates:
1969.