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Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter).

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: First proofs printed from type, usually meaning those printed before it is made up into pages.

Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:

Typescripts and galley proofs of articles and papers by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: ‘Communism as an Anthropological Phenomenon’; and, ‘The Elimination of the Potential Neurasthenic during Training’., 1936-1937.

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Identifier: MS.50181
Scope and Contents The papers are arranged chronologically. Where material concerning a particular work spans two or more years the papers are placed by the earliest date.1936-1937. ‘Communism as an Anthropological Phenomenon’.Printed notice, 1936, advertising a paper, ‘Communism as an Anthropological Phenomenon’, to be read by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn at a meeting of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society, December 1936. Folios 1-2.Superseded...
Dates: 1936-1937.

Typescripts and galley proofs of 'Jephthah and the Baptist' translated in to Scots by Robert Garioch Sutherland., [1959, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26600-26601
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: [1959, or before.]

Typescripts and galley proofs, with manuscript corrections, of articles written by Alastair Reid for the ‘New Yorker’., 1974-1976.

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Identifier: MS.27458
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in Whithorn and educated at St Andrews, Alastair Reid lived in Spain and Latin America for many years, translating from Spanish as well as writing his own poetry and prose. His papers reflect these different kinds of work.

Dates: 1974-1976.

Typescripts and proofs of ‘Nine against the unknown’, under its original title, 'Earth-conquerors; or the quest of the Fortunate Isles'., [1934, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26052-26054
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

James Leslie Mitchell usually wrote at a typewriter, and few manuscripts survive. For the sake of economy, he frequently used the blank versos of his typescripts for another work at a later date.

Dates: [1934, or before.]

Various compositions of Sir Walter Scott., [?1799]-1831, undated.

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Identifier: MS.876
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:“The Shepherd’s Tale”, [?1799], in Sir Walter Scott’s hand, containing slight variations throughout from the version given by John Gibson Lockhart in ‘Life of Sir Walter Scott’, chapter ix (folio 1);'The Maid of Neidpath', with the preface as published, 1806 (folio 13);'Wandering Willie', 1806 (folio 14B);'Lines on Mr. Macdonald of Staaffa ... left in the Book at the Inn there where the Travellers put their names...
Dates: [?1799]-1831, undated.