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The galley proofs are numbered 37-62.

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Galleys 1-49, corresponding to pages 1-122 of the published text, are missing.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...

Scope and Contents Corrected galley proofs of three poems featured in ‘Poems’ by Lord Byron published by John Murray in 1816.The poems here begin ‘When we two parted’, ‘Bright be the place of thy soul’, and ‘Must thou go, my glorious chief’.‘When we two parted’ was first published as a song sheet with music by Isaac Nthan in 1815.‘Bright be the place of thy soul’ first appeared in ‘The Examiner’, 11th June 1815.‘Must thou go, my glorious chief’ is also known as...

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With five letters to Robert S Silver, three from Saurat and one each from MacDiarmid and Robert McLellan.

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Corresponding to volume 5, pp 31 et seq of "The Invasion of the Crimea".

Scope and Contents From the Series: As well as writing books, Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ was a prolific author of essays and articles and was frequently asked to speak on literary or other topics. He was in the habit of re-using parts of his writings on different occasions, so it is not unusual to find substantial identical passages occurring in different works. Due to the fragmentary nature of some of the material, it is not always evident whether a manuscript was intended for publication or for a talk;...

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Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

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Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

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William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

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Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

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A typescript list of cuts made in the first production is included (folio 47).

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Hugh MacDiarmid originally submitted the text to a publisher in 1939 but was obliged to reduce its length very considerably. For his accounts of this, see his manuscript introduction (MS.27036, folio l, and what follows) and his prefaces to the editions of 1943 and 1972.

Scope and Contents Also included are typescripts of memoranda by Paul Otlet on the Palais Mondial (folio 99), a lecture, undated, by Marcel Hardy on botanical geography (folio 148), a typescript of a paper, ?1920, by H W Lyons, Professor of Economics at Indore Christian College (folio 164), and a typescript and revised galley-proof of 'A museum of human geography at Domme, Dordogne', by Arthur Geddes, published in ‘Geography’, volume xxi (1936), pages 226-227 (the typescript is falsely dated 1946) (folio...

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The papers consist chiefly of manuscripts and typescripts of Edward Albert's educational works, manuscripts and typescripts of his works of fiction, and his correspondence.

Scope and Contents From the Series: As well as writing books, Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ was a prolific author of essays and articles and was frequently asked to speak on literary or other topics. He was in the habit of re-using parts of his writings on different occasions, so it is not unusual to find substantial identical passages occurring in different works. Due to the fragmentary nature of some of the material, it is not always evident whether a manuscript was intended for publication or for a talk;...

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Also included are notes by the donor, Marjorie Moore, and galley proofs from her biography of Admiral Sir Arthur Moore, ‘Adventure in the Royal Navy’. Three of Lady John Scott's letters are printed in this work (page 106).

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There are no letters of Thomas Carlyle to his father. Several letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle (sometimes added to Carlyle’s letters as postscripts) and of various members of Carlyle’s family are included. Other writers are Daniel Corrie, Bishop of Madras, 1836; W H Wills, ‘Editor and factotum‘ of Charles Dickens, 1855; and Rudolf Sonnenburg, who brought out a German edition of ‘Frederick’, 1867. There are also letters of Carlyle to Whewell, 1861, Emerson, 1869, and others.

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Includes 22 draft letters, ?1867-?1870, an "Author’s note of 1868" to 'Sartor Resartus', a page of manuscript of 'Past and present', a note for 'Cromwell', a galley-proof of 'Frederick', other fragments, a book-plate, and a stencil for a silhouette.

Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Elsey, Elizabeth Theresa.Letter, 1898, of Elizabeth Theresa Elsey to John Murray IV. Folios 1-2.Elsmie, George Robert.Letters, 1898-1904 and 1907, of George Robert Elsmie to John Murray IV and Alexander Henry Hallam Murray. Folios 3-131.Folio 51. Galley proofs, 1899, of ‘Lumsden of the Guides’, published by John Murray in 1899. Sent as an...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Includes research notes, typescripts and proofs of novels, correspondence, and papers concerning her involvement in cultural and business organisations.This archive includes papers relating to the following published works:'Games of kings' (1961)"Queens' play" (1964)'The disorderly knights' (1966)'Dolly and the singing bird' (1968)'Pawn in frankincense' (1969)'Dolly and the cookie bird' (1970)'The...

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The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript of section 1 and corrected galley-proof of Hugh MacDiarmid's contribution to ‘Celtic nationalism’ (London, 1968) (folio 1); (ii) Manuscript of 'Four Scottish Poets', an unpublished work on Gavin Douglas, Byron, Robert Burns and James Macpherson, 1971 (folio 42). The section on Burns is missing, and there are two manuscripts of the section on Byron (folios 67, 105).