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Plays.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Dramatic compositions, arranged for enactment, as by actors on a stage.

Found in 688 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of Annie S Swan.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6003
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts of novels and plays, correspondence, and photographs.

Dates: circa 1881-1943.

Papers of Arnold Kemp, Robert Kemp, and relating to the Kemp family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13323
Scope and Contents

Papers, circa 1960-2002, of Arnold Kemp, with papers and correspondence, circa 1851-1995, relating to Robert Kemp and the Kemp family.

Dates: circa 1851-2002.

Papers of David Morrison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9803
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of three plays and a short story.

Dates: 1988.

Papers of George Friel.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8797
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts of novels, short stories, and plays, together with associated correspondence.

Dates: 1932-1974.

Papers of George Scott-Moncrieff (1910-1974).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26941-26972
Scope and Contents

George Scott-Moncrieff spent much of his childhood in England, but returned to Scotland in the 1930s. His writing covered a wide range of subjects, including architecture, Scottish topography, fiction, drama and religious works, and the last two of these are well represented in his papers.

Dates: 1951-1970, undated.

Papers of James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9887
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, theatre programmes and manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, films and short stories.

Dates: 1928-1951.

Papers of Janet Paisley.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 1(1)-Box 6(46)-was TD.3720
Scope and Contents

This is a box list of the papers of Janet Paisley, as received by the Library. No attempt has been made currently to review the order of the papers, to date them or to otherwise interpret them. The aim of the box list is to facilitate access in advance of any fuller arrangement and description.

Dates: 1981-2017.

Papers of Katherine Cecil Thurston.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11378
Scope and Contents

Includes literary and personal correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories and plays, and photographs.

Dates: 1903-1911.

Papers of Morley Jamieson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9825
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of a novel and two plays.

Dates: circa 1950-1988.

Papers of Moultrie R Kelsall.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7716/1-328
Scope and Contents

Including scripts of plays, short stories, articles, talks, broadcast scripts of radio and television documentaries, and associated correspondence.

Dates: 1931-1977.

Papers of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9201
Scope and Contents

Includes poems, beginning of a novel, two plays, sketches of books, two diaries and paper, "The African Solution".

Dates: circa 1916-circa 1986.

Papers of Naomi Mitchison.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6537/1-5
Scope and Contents

Including:

1. corrected typescripts of "Prisoners of War", 1914, and "Barley, Honey and Wine", circa 1923

2. plays

3. letter, undated, of George Bernard Shaw to Mitchison, commenting on "Barley, Honey and Wine".

Dates: 1914-circa 1923 and undated.

Papers of Nigel Tranter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10360
Scope and Contents

Indcludes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of novels, short stories, and plays, architectural notes and drawings and correspondence.

Dates: 1933-1990.

Papers of O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11310
Scope and Contents

Includes family correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, sketches, drawings, photographs and personal memorabilia.

Dates: 1899-1953 and undated.

Papers of Robert Kemp.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7622
Scope and Contents

Including diaires, accounts, photographs and typesripts of plays, novels, short stories, addresses, broadcast talks and documentaries.

With letters of, among others, James Bridie and Cedric Thorpe Davie.

Dates: circa 1920-1967.

Papers of Samuel Pollock.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10236
Scope and Contents

Includes three plays and "Cain: a Poetic Biography".

Dates: 1981-1984.

Papers of Sir Herbert Grierson, Sydney Goodsir Smith, and others, collected by Hector MacIver., 1921-1952, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26291
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters to Herbert Grierson and articles by him, 1921-1952, undated (folio l). Most of the letters are from T S Eliot, writing as editor of the ‘Criterion’. (ii) Manuscripts and typescripts of poems of Sydney Goodsir Smith, 1939-1952, undated (folio 42). Some of these were published in Goodsir Smith's ‘Collected poems’ (London, 1975); (iii) Typescript of ‘Count Albany’, a play by Donald Carswell, annotated by Hector MacIver for his production, undated (folio...
Dates: 1921-1952, undated.

Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10426
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of poems, plays and articles.

Dates: 1939-1961 and undated.

Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10281
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, plays, novels and essays, with correspondence.

Dates: 1923-1974.

Papers of TAG Theatre Company, concerning a production of Lewis Grassic Gibbon`s trilogy, "A Scots Quair".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10939
Scope and Contents

Includes programmes, photographs and typescript and printed copies of an adaptation by Alastair Cording of "Sunset Song"

Dates: 1993.

Papers of the Earls of Minto and other members of the family., 1791-1888, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12823-12843
Scope and Contents From the Series:

As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Dates: 1791-1888, undated.

Papers of the Fifth Estate Theatre Company.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11443/1-131
Scope and Contents

Includes prompt scripts, scripts of unperformed plays, production photography and press cuttings.

Dates: 1965, 1981-1997 and undated.

Papers of the Hon William Douglas Home.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11222
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of a play, memoirs and reviews, together with correspondence on theatrical matters.

Dates: 1946-1991.