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Manuscripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.

Found in 6597 Collections and/or Records:

Typescripts of the short novel 'Doors Open' by Ian Rankin; with related working papers., 2006-2007.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.50425-50427
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This series contains manuscripts and typescripts of, and associated working papers for, novels, novellas and graphic novels by Ian Rankin. The working papers include, variously, synopses, research material, development notes, and evidence of editorial interventions. With these also are papers relating to the process of publication: some administrative, particularly contracts, and promotional materials; others, including advertisements and cover proofs, concerning actual publication....
Dates: 2006-2007.

Typescripts of two papers, ‘The Ultimate Basis of Aesthetic Experience’ and ‘The Nature of Aesthetic Experience’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn; with press cuttings of reviews of each of the meetings at which the papers were read., 1938.

 File
Identifier: MS.50183
Scope and Contents The paper ‘The ultimate basis of aesthetic experience’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, was read by Fairbairn at a meeting of the Scottish Branch of the British Psychological Society, 29 January 1938. Fairbairn read a slightly revised version of the paper, under the title ‘The nature of aesthetic experience’, to a meeting of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, 2 March 1938. The papers formed the basis of Fairbairn’s subsequent article, published in the ‘British Journal of...
Dates: 1938.

Typescripts, with a few manuscripts of poems in English, by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1930-1939, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26121
Scope and Contents

There are several copies of some of the poems, and a number of title-pages, which suggest that Sydney Goodsir Smith was arranging the poems for publication.

Dates: 1930-1939, undated.

Typescripts, with a few manuscripts, of radio programmes written by Hector MacIver., 1937-1961, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26289-26290
Scope and Contents

Many of these radio programmes were for the BBC's schools broadcasts and Scottish Children's Hour, but Hector MacIver also contributed to 'Arts Review' and more general programmes. Some correspondence and other material is included, notably in connection with his programme 'Leith ships at war' in 1947 (MS.26289, folio 57).

Dates: 1937-1961, undated.

Typescripts, with a few manuscripts, of radio programmes written by Hector MacIver., 1937-1948.

 File
Identifier: MS.26289
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Many of these radio programmes were for the BBC's schools broadcasts and Scottish Children's Hour, but Hector MacIver also contributed to 'Arts Review' and more general programmes. Some correspondence and other material is included, notably in connection with his programme 'Leith ships at war' in 1947 (MS.26289, folio 57).

Dates: 1937-1948.

Typescripts, with a few manuscripts, of radio programmes written by Hector MacIver., 1949-1961, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26290
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Many of these radio programmes were for the BBC's schools broadcasts and Scottish Children's Hour, but Hector MacIver also contributed to 'Arts Review' and more general programmes. Some correspondence and other material is included, notably in connection with his programme 'Leith ships at war' in 1947 (MS.26289, folio 57).

Dates: 1949-1961, undated.

Ultra-violet photographs of leaves removed from, and of a defaced page of the 'Auchinleck Manuscript' (Adv.MS.19.2.1).

 File
Identifier: MS.8894
Scope and Contents With the exception of folio 5, the photographs are of leaves which were originally part of the 'Auckinleck Manuscript' but were removed at an early date and have remained seperate. They were discovered in use as the covers of notebooks and in bindings.The contents are as follows.Two leaves containing part of ‘The Life of Adam and Eve’; originally gathering 3, folios 4-5, item 3(viii). (Folio 1.)Part of ‘Þe Wenche þat loved a king’; gathering 36, folio 256...
Dates: [Circa 1335.]

`Um arfatokur` by Magnús Jónsson.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.4.5

"Unbound Notebook" of George Crabbe., 1822-1827.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42077
Scope and Contents

Title taken from the "Index of English Literary Manuscripts", volume 3, part 1, page 297 (London : Mansell, 1986), which has a full description of the contents of the notebook.

Dates: 1822-1827.

Uncompleted account of living Scottish gentry, in alphabetical order, with names from A to D, by John Philp Wood., [1795, or after.]

 File
Identifier: MS.1876
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Leaves found loose in the volumes have been placed in MS.1878, with some other loose papers, and references have been made to and from the volumes in which they were found.

Dates: [1795, or after.]

Unfinished and unpublished book, entitled 'Cactus and Columbine', relating to the United States, containing manuscript and typescript notes and drafts., Undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13220/33-35
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Articles and poems published in newspapers and magazines are all faithfully preserved in 16 large albums of press cuttings.She was a keen supporter of the Democratic Party and the correspondence files contain some letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. The papers include several travel journals, and manuscripts and typescripts of many articles, verses, songs and hymns - which she had a gift for writing, despite her own agnosticism. Also significant are the manuscripts...
Dates: Undated.

Unfinished and untitled novel, undated, by George Combe, dealing with the childhood and early manhood of a boy who was anxious to go to sea., [1805-1858.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.7438
Scope and Contents From the Series:

MSS.7443-7445 are written in German, having been delivered on George Combe's tour in Germany in 1842.

The phrenological reports (MSS.7452-7455) comprise the phrenological measurements of many persons, both well-known and obscure, with reports and descriptions of their mental capabilities and weaknesses.

The papers of Cecilia Combe contain a selection of literary efforts, diaries of tours, and the usual memoranda and inventories kept by nineteenth-century housewives.

Dates: [1805-1858.]

Unfinished untitled romance, in the hand of Henrietta, Marchioness of Lothian, set in the time of the Crusades., 18th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5760
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: 18th century.

Unpublished novella of R A Stirling entitled "The Green Purse".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12174
Scope and Contents

The work is set in Portugal.

Dates: circa 1890.