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Drafts. Documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Preliminary or tentative versions of documents.

Found in 431 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript draft of George Douglas Brown, "How Janet Goudie Came Home", a short story.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13486
Scope and Contents

This much-revised draft of the story appears to be an earlier version than NLS MS.8179. "How Janet Goudie Came Home" was published in "The Speaker" in 1899.

Dates: ?1899.

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescript of novel of Nigel Tranter, "Past Master".

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6303/1-5
Dates: Majority of material found within [Before 1965.], 1973

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of Naomi Mitchison, "You May Well Ask".

 File
Identifier: Acc.7219
Scope and Contents

Being a volume of autobiography covering the years 1918-1940.

Dates: 1978.

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of poems of Alan Jackson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6053/1-33
Scope and Contents

Poems and notebooks of Alan Jackson, Edinburgh poet, some of them used in his book 'Underwater wedding' and 'Salutations'.

Dates: 1955-1968, undated.

Manuscript drafts, corrected typescripts and proofs of 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11203/1-12
Scope and Contents

Drafts, proofs and some source materials and correspondence for 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.

Alasdair Gray's own manuscript drafts are accompanied by typescript transcriptions produced by his typist Scott Pearson, which are then in turn heavily annotated and corrected by Gray. These annotations then inform the next set of manuscript drafts, giving a unique insight into how the book developed and grew.

Dates: 1967, 1985, 1993-1994.

Manuscript drafts of 37 poems of Christopher Murray Grieve, alias Hugh MacDiarmid, and of parts of a larger work probably related to 'Impavidi Progrediamur'.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11451
Scope and Contents Some of the poems are apparently unpublished, but, where possible, references have been given to page numbers of the Complete Poems edited by Michael Grieve and W R Aitken, (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1994). [CP].Manuscripts of individual poems:‘Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone’, undated [CP 874, 1069](A Point in Time; Wedding of the Winds; Composition (1934); Knight; of William Johnstone’s Art; Ode to the North Wind).‘To my friend the...
Dates: Circa 1920-1970.

Manuscript drafts of poems of W Price Turner, "Impasse" (1956), and "As Advertised" (1963).

 File
Identifier: Acc.4789
Scope and Contents

With manuscript draft of novel, "Circle of Squares".

Dates: 1956-1969.