Fragments.
Found in 259 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscripts and typescripts of the story 'The lum hat' by Violet Jacobs., [Circa 1945.]
The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript notes and fragments of the text (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous pages of a typescript version (folio 16). They include (folio 25) a fragment of the section missing from the beginning of chapter IV in the published text. (iii) Typescript with manuscript corrections (folio 42). Two leaves are missing between folios 49 and 50 and three between folios 64 and 65.
Manuscripts and typescripts of various literary works by Sydney Goodsir Smith., [Circa 1938.]
The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript and typescripts of the introduction and opening chapter of 'Aubrey Beardsley: a study in the grotesque', 1937 (folio l); (ii) Manuscript of part of an autobiographical novel, 1938 (folio 22). It includes a title-page for 'The wilderness' (folio 25), but the text is not related to MS.26144. (iii) Manuscript fragment of a fictional description of a visit to Venice, circa l938 (folio 61).
Manuscripts of the lectures on Civil Law delivered by John Wilde; the introductory lecture, in three versions (as delivered in 1792, 1793, and 1794), with fragments of other versions., 1792-?1799.
So much has been lost that an accurate arrangement of the fragments is impossible.
The folder also contains isolated folios whose proper position could not be found, together with some which, although in Wilde`s hand, do not seem to belong to these lectures (folio 116).
Manuscripts, typescripts and photocopies of poems of James Hyman Singer, ‘Burns Singer’., 1956-1964, undated.
Some of the poems are written on scrap paper and the backs of envelopes. There are a few typed transcripts and notes by Marie Singer, who has also dated some of the poems. (i) Poems published in 'The collected poems of Burns Singer' edited by W A S Keir (London, 1970), and 'Five centuries of Polish poetry', an anthology by J Peterkiewicz and Burns Singer (London, 1960) (folio 1); (ii) Poems and fragments apparently unpublished (folio 72).
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of introductions and prefaces by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid' to some of his own works, as well as to works by other writers., 1936-1978, undated.
The papers include fragments of the introduction to Hugh MacDiarmid's proposed biography of John Maclean, 1936 (folio 1), the introduction to his unpublished long poem 'Impavidi Progrediamur', 1956 (folio 58), and a partial typescript of the introductory essay to an anthology of work by contemporary Scottish poets, undated (folio 212).
Manuscripts written by Sir Walter Scott. , [1813, or after]-1844.
Material concerning ‘Bothwell’ by William Edmondstoune Aytoun., [1856, or before.]
Microfilm of a fragment of a protocol-book of James Young, notary public in the Canongate, Edinburgh., 1519-1520.
Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.
Microfilm of fragments of manuscripts of, and letters of, to, or concerning, Sir Walter Scott., [?1807]-1832.
Minute and account book of the Perth Incorporation of Hammermen., 1518-1744.
This volume was started in 1584 and all entries of earlier date are noted to have been copied out of an "auld buik".
The contents are as follows.
(i) Admission of William Lander, book binder and parchment-maker, Perth, 1584 (folio 1);
(ii) Pious verses addressed to the Incorporation, 1584 (folio 1 verso);
(iii) Minutes and accounts, 1518-1744 (folio 2);
(iv) Fragment of early music (folio 268).
Miscellaneous correspondence and other papers of Richard Burdon Haldane., 1894-1916, undated.
The papers include correspondence of other members of the family of Haldane of Cloan covering a period of almost a century and a half from the beginning of the 19th century, especially rich for the period 1875-1937.
Miscellaneous documents apparently from the library of the Reverend A J Macdonald, Minister of Killearnan., 17th century-early 20th century.
Miscellaneous drafts and fragments of dramatic pieces by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1939-1961, undated.
Included are notes and verse for 'Protest: an oratorio', 1939 (folio l), an early version of the beginning of ‘The Stick-up’, broadcast in 1961 and published in ‘Fifteen poems and a play’ (Edinburgh, 1969), pages 1-33 (folio 59), and notes for and the typescript of a film script, 'The Shepherd of Ettrick', undated (folio 74).
Miscellaneous fragments from the Lesmahagow missal., 13th century, 14th century, 1719, 1725.
Miscellaneous fragments in the autograph of Lady Nairne and others., 1769-1873, 1927, 1934.
Includes ‘Thoughts’, 1821, of Lady Nairne, and 'Recollections of Clevedon, etc., 1847', by Margaret Harriet Steuart; correspondence, 1927, 1934, regarding the collection and inventories.
Miscellaneous items., 1933-1950.
Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.
Miscellaneous items relating to Jessy Harden and her family., 1801-1811, [?1945.]
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Miscellaneous letters and documents collected by William Finlay Watson, many of which have not been identified., 1691-early 20th century.
Miscellaneous letters and other papers of the Hays of Yester., 17th century-mid 20th century.
Miscellaneous manuscript and typescript notes of William McArthur., Undated.
Miscellaneous notes and articles of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., Early 20th century.
Miscellaneous notes and photographs concerning the Mayas, probably made when James Leslie Mitchell was preparing to write 'The conquest of the Maya'., 1930, 1933, undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Part of a manuscript, not in James Leslie Mitchell's hand, of a work on the language, history and customs of the Mayas, undated (folio l); (ii) Miscellaneous notes and photographs concerning the Mayas, 1930, 1933, undated (folio 30). The versos of folios 33-42 contain manuscript fragments of a story on the theme of 'The Lovers' in 'Persian dawns, Egyptian nights'.
Miscellaneous papers chiefly of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, with two of an earlier date., 14th century-19th century.
The papers include fourteenth-century fragments of St Thomas Aquinas's ‘Summa Theologica’ (folio 1), a fragment of a roll of a [? manor] court held at Heydon, 1515 (folio 6), a letter, 1677, of Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby (folio 9), a plan, 1810, for alterations to the Cathcart road, near Glasgow (folio 34), and some political verses (folios 11, 85). Some of the papers appear to be connected with the Maxwells of Pollok.
Miscellaneous papers of and concerning members of the Keith family., 1506-1906, undated.
The papers include fragments of a Deer Abbey cartulary of 1542-1549 and rental of 1579, an account of the coronation of Charles I at Holyroodhouse in 1633, a roll of the Baron Court of Fetteresso and Dunnottar of July 1680, and papers concerning the Covenanting wars, the raising of Covenanting armies, the Revolution of 1688-1689, the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745, the attainder of the Earl Marischal in 1715 and the sale of his estates in 1720.