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:
Sketches for String Quartet No. 2 and for a suite for strings by Ian Whyte, Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.22091
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Sketches for ‘String quartet no. 2’ including for the first movement, with a fair copy in full score of the opening (folio 1);
(ii) Sketches for a suite for strings (folio 37).
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Songs for voice and piano by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21972-21974
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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Chamber music and songs of G W Crawford.
Verses, songs and hymns of Jan Struther, arranged in alphabetical order by title, many unpublished, containing fair copies, drafts, notes and some music., Circa 1920-1951.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13220/20-22
Scope and Contents
Containing about 350 items.
Dates:
Circa 1920-1951.
Volume containing a wide range of important and revealing memoranda of Alexander Walker, chiefly concerned with Ceylon and with the East India Company's role in India., ?4th quarter of 18th century-?1st quarter of 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.13796
Scope and Contents
The volume seems to have been gathered together by Alexander Walker from his earlier writings and bound together circa 1826. If any single volume reflects Walker's eclectic mind it is this.It includes a fair copy of an account, written by Lieutenant Tomkins Knox of the Bombay Army, of his visit to Kandy with the mission of Robert Andrews, a Madras civil servant, in 1796 (page 9).There is also a memoir on the administration of Ceylon written by Hugh Cleghorn, circa...
Dates:
?4th quarter of 18th century-?1st quarter of 19th century.
Volume entitled 'Come Lasses and Lads', containing fair copies of poems by William H Hamilton, apparently compiled with a view to publication, probably after 1921., [?1902-?1919.]
File
Identifier: MS.19620
Dates:
[?1902-?1919.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Poems and lecture notes of the Reverend William H Hamilton, minister of Leslie and Waulkmill.
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Fair copies by William H Hamilton of his own poems, several of which appear in his published collections, ‘Gauldry and other verses’ and ‘The desire of the moth’.
Volume entitled 'Farrago Libelli' by Alexander Walker, consisting of three chapters based on Walker's first-hand experience of India., 1781-1784.
File
Identifier: MS.13775
Scope and Contents
The chapters are formed by a journal of Alexander Walker's voyage from Europe to India as a young officer in 1781, a journal of the Malabar expedition under Brigadier-General Mathews against Hyder Ali in 1782-1783, and a journal of the siege of Mangalore in 1783-1784. This fair copy seems to have been made circa 1821.
Dates:
1781-1784.
Volume entitled 'La Messe des Morts and other poems', containing fair copies of poems by William H Hamilton., 1902-1919.
File
Identifier: MS.19619
Dates:
1902-1919.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Poems and lecture notes of the Reverend William H Hamilton, minister of Leslie and Waulkmill.
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Fair copies by William H Hamilton of his own poems, several of which appear in his published collections, ‘Gauldry and other verses’ and ‘The desire of the moth’.
Volume entitled 'Scottish folk songs', containing a fair copy of arrangements for soprano and pianoforte., 1st quarter of 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.22162
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.