Fair copies.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: A neat, or at least legible, copy or transcript of any kind of text, the copy being made by the author of the original, or by a scribe, as an acceptable version of the text to be read by others. Source: Beal (Peter). 'Dictionary of English manuscript terminology 1450-2000.' (Oxford, 2008.)
Found in 108 Collections and/or Records:
Fair copy of 'Miscellaneous notices of various customs, manners and practices of India', volume 4, by Alexander Walker., [Circa 1824.]
Item
Identifier: MS.13884
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
[Circa 1824.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
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Fair copies of 'Miscellaneous notices of various customs, manners and practices of India' by Alexander Walker.
Fair copy of 'Miscellaneous notices of various customs, manners and practices of India', volume 5, by Alexander Walker., [Circa 1824.]
Item
Identifier: MS.13885
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
[Circa 1824.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
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Fair copies of 'Miscellaneous notices of various customs, manners and practices of India' by Alexander Walker.
Fair copy of 'Miscellaneous notices of various customs, manners and practices of India', volume 6, by Alexander Walker., [Circa 1824.]
Item
Identifier: MS.13886
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
[Circa 1824.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
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Fair copies of 'Miscellaneous notices of various customs, manners and practices of India' by Alexander Walker.
Fair copy of ‘Romance for full orchestra’ by Robert McLeod., 1936.
Item
Identifier: MS.21982
Fair copy of the full score of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21928
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
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Ballet and dance music for orchestra by G W Crawford.
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Full score of the ballet ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ by G W Crawford, with a fair copy of the same.
Fair copy of 'The Historie of the Lives and Raignes of five Kinges of Scotland' by William Drummond of Hawthornden., [1655, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2056-2057
Scope and Contents
Only the account of the reign of James IV is in William Drummond's own hand; but Drummond's hand appears elsewhere in corrections and additions.
Dates:
[1655, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Hawthornden Manuscripts: original papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
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Manuscripts of William Drummond of Hawthornden.
Fair copy of 'The Historie of the Lives and Raignes of five Kinges of Scotland' by William Drummond of Hawthornden, James I-III., [1655, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2056
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Only the account of the reign of James IV is in William Drummond's own hand; but Drummond's hand appears elsewhere in corrections and additions.
Dates:
[1655, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Hawthornden Manuscripts: original papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
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Manuscripts of William Drummond of Hawthornden.
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Fair copy of 'The Historie of the Lives and Raignes of five Kinges of Scotland' by William Drummond of Hawthornden.
Fair copy of 'The Historie of the Lives and Raignes of five Kinges of Scotland' by William Drummond of Hawthornden, James IV-V., [1655, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2057
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Only the account of the reign of James IV is in William Drummond's own hand; but Drummond's hand appears elsewhere in corrections and additions.
Dates:
[1655, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Hawthornden Manuscripts: original papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
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Manuscripts of William Drummond of Hawthornden.
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Fair copy of 'The Historie of the Lives and Raignes of five Kinges of Scotland' by William Drummond of Hawthornden.
Fair copy of the text printed as ‘Memoirs of the secret services of John Macky’, without the introduction.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.6
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Fair copy of 'Thomas the Rhymer' by William Bowie which was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Music at Durham University in 1961, and further sketches and fair copies of unpublished works arranged chronologically., ?1958-?1969.
File
Identifier: MS.21877
Final or fair copies of compositions, 1958-1964, by Martin Dalby., 1958-1969.
File
Identifier: MS.22142
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The compositions are preceded (MS.22142, folio ii) by a typescript list of Martin Dalby's compositions to 1968 with additions in ink to 1969.
Most of the compositions are vocal, being settings of poems or scriptural texts, with or without keyboard accompaniment.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1958-1969.
Final or fair copies of compositions by Martin Dalby., 1964-1967.
File
Identifier: MS.22143
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The compositions are preceded (MS.22142, folio ii) by a typescript list of Martin Dalby's compositions to 1968 with additions in ink to 1969.
Most of the compositions are vocal, being settings of poems or scriptural texts, with or without keyboard accompaniment.
Dates:
1964-1967.
Final, or fair copies of musical compositions, 1958-1967, by Martin Dalby, many in his autograph, arranged in chronological order.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22142-22143
Scope and Contents
The compositions are preceded (MS.22142, folio ii) by a typescript list of Martin Dalby's compositions to 1968 with additions in ink to 1969.
Most of the compositions are vocal, being settings of poems or scriptural texts, with or without keyboard accompaniment.
Dates:
1958-1969.
Full score of the ballet ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ by G W Crawford, with a fair copy of the same., [?1892-?1941.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21927-21928
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
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Ballet and dance music for orchestra by G W Crawford.
Heavily corrected setting for voices and piano, interleaved with a fair copy of the full score of a setting for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra, of the ballad 'Sir Patrick Spans' by David Stephen., 1920.
File
Identifier: MS.22154
Scope and Contents
Apparently composed, or completed, in 1920, according to a deleted note at folio 48. The orchestral accompaniment in short score was published the same year.
An anglicized printed copy of the ballad, with numerous amendments in ink restoring the original Scots words, is at folio 2.
Many substantial corrections to the keyboard version are written on fragments of paper pasted to the leaves, and folio 28 is an addition written on a scrap of paper tipped in.
Dates:
1920.
Journal and commonplace book of John Charles Brown, a private soldier in the 3rd European Bengal Regiment, during the Indian Mutiny.
File
Identifier: MS.15393
Scope and Contents
The narrative covers the period from 21 December 1855 to 3 July 1861, but with several gaps, and is followed (folio 131) by a miscellany of notes and memoranda on various topics including moral maxims, medical and household recipes, puzzles and mathematical formulae. From the formality of the layout and handwriting, the photographs and drawings pasted in at various places, and the poems and extracts interspersed in the narrative, it seems likely that this is a fair copy written up at leisure...
Dates:
1855-1861.
Journal of a visit to France by William Frederick Mackenzie, M.P., describing the country, Paris, and society during the Hundred Days; with a fair copy thereof., 1814.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.6398-6399
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
There is also some correspondence of the Seaforth family, Henry's son, Joshua Henry, having married Helen, daughter of Lord Seaforth.
Dates:
1814.
Journal of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of a tour to Italy, February-April 1882, and a possible intended fair copy of the journal., 1882.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20190-20191
Dates:
1882.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter.
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Diaries and notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson, sister of Mary E Haldane.
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Notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson consisting chiefly of journals of tours abroad.
Journal of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of a visit to Italy via France, begun in February 1882, but with only the first four days recorded, the text breaking off in mid-sentence; possibly an intended fair copy of MS.20191., 1882.
Item
Identifier: MS.20190
Dates:
1882.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter.
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Diaries and notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson, sister of Mary E Haldane.
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Notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson consisting chiefly of journals of tours abroad.
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Journal of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of a tour to Italy, February-April 1882, and a possible intended fair copy of the journal.
Journals of a voyage to Iceland in the ‘John’ of Leith, 23 May-3 November 1789, under the leadership of John Thomas Stanley, later 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6317-6318
Scope and Contents
Both journals include observations on weather, with land and sea temperatures during the voyage, and descriptions of the inhabitants, scenery, products, flora, minerals and volcanic phenomena of Iceland, and of such of the Orkney and Faroe islands as were visited.
Dates:
1789.
Manuscript containing Gaelic poetry of Iain MacDhùghaill (John MacDougall), Ardgour, headed 'Orain Gha'elach maille ri aireamh bheag do dhuain coluinn le Iain Mac Dhughaill ann an Ionarsannda Airdghobhar'.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14246
Content Description
A volume of poetry mostly of Iain Mac Dhùghaill (John MacDougall), 1821-1890, Ardgour. The poet, known as 'am bàrd ruadh', worked as a teacher but also spent time working as a policeman in Glasgow. Maclean's 'Typographia Scoto-Gadelica', pages 207-210, records several publications by Macdougall between 1857 and 1870 and mentions MacDougall's intention to publish further volumes of poetry. The songs contained in this manuscript appear to be unpublished. The volume was probably...
Dates:
between 1837 and ca. 1850.
Manuscript music book of G W Crawford entitled ‘Book no. 1 of songs’, containing autograph fair copies of songs on opus 2 and opus 5 with alterations in red ink and additional compositions in pencil., [?1892-?1941.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21972
Scope and Contents
The alterations in red ink are at folios 13-14 verso.
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
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Chamber music and songs of G W Crawford.
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Songs for voice and piano by G W Crawford.
Manuscript of John Galt's ‘The last of the lairds’, chapter XIX to the end, edited with additions by David Macbeth Moir, and related material., 1826, [1841, or before].
File
Identifier: MS.6522
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) The first part of David Macbeth Moir's ‘Biographical memoir of John Galt’, 1841, covering the published pages i-ix (folio 1), probably a fair copy for publication. Alterations found in it appear in the printed text.(ii) Manuscript of John Galt's novel, ‘The last of the lairds’, chapter XIX to the end (folio 10). Galt left this manuscript with Moir on his departure for Canada in 1826 with 'the Charge of editing it', according to Moir's...
Dates:
1826, [1841, or before].
Manuscripts and fair copies of poems featured in 'Hebrew Melodies' by Lord Byron., 1810-1845.
File
Identifier: MS.43345
Scope and Contents
For poetical works, first lines are given in brackets after the title of the poem. The manuscripts are in the hand of Byron unless otherwise stated.‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by Jermone McGann, has been used in some of the following descriptions – where his titles differ from those on the physical manuscripts these have been given in square brackets.List of manuscripts of poems included in 'Hebrew Melodies' and their locations, undated: folio 1;...
Dates:
1810-1845.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
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Manuscripts, fair copies, fragments and material relating to the non-narrative poems of Lord Byron.
Manuscripts of works and translations by Lord Byron; with some copy in the hands of Lady Byron, Charles Hanson, John Cam Hobhouse, Augusta Leigh, John Murray [II], and Mary Shelley., 1807-1823, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.43348
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts here have been broadly arranged in chronological order. First lines are given in brackets after the title of the poem. ‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by Jermone McGann, has been used in some of the following descriptions.Corrected manuscript draft of an untitled poem (“As relics left of saints above …”) in the hand of Byron, undated [?1806]: folio 1;Corrected manuscript of ‘Parody on Sir W. Jones’s Translation from Hafiz – “Sweet...
Dates:
1807-1823, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
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Manuscripts, fair copies, fragments and material relating to the non-narrative poems of Lord Byron.