Prefaces.
Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:
‘1467 MS’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín.
Autograph manuscript of the novel ‘Deep down: a tale of the Cornish mines’ by R M Ballantyne.
The preface is signed and dated at Edinburgh in 1868. The manuscript is heavily corrected and includes a page-proof of the preface.
Collection of tales and verse compiled for Ronald MacDonald of Staffa, Advocate, by Iain MacMhuirich (John MacPherson), schoolmaster in Mull.
Corrected typescript of the Earl of Rosebery's preface to the proposed English edition of "L'Avènement de Bonaparte" by Albert Vandal., [1912, or before.]
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Doggerel verses concerning Patrick Adamson and George Gladstanes, Archbishops of St Andrews, 1575-1592 and 1604-1615 respectively., 1622, undated.
The work is introduced by 'The preface of the lyf of the pretendit Bishope of Sct. Androis, 1622’ (folio 2), and is followed by 'The legend or discourse of ye lyffe, conversa[ti]ane and qualities of the Tulchan Bishop of St. Androis sett furth be R.S.' (folio 4); 'The legend of umqll. Mr. George Gledstanes, Archbishope of St. Androis' was added later in the same hand (folio 18).
Drafts, fragments, typescript, reviews, prefaces and short pieces of Ruthven Todd., 1958-1977, undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Drafts and fragments of short stories, 1958-1973, undated (folio 1). They include 'The Garden of Forking Paths' (folio 1), a translation of a story by Jorge Luis Borges, published in ‘Ficciones’, edited by A Kerrigan (London, 1962), pages 89-101. (ii) Typescript of 'The Freedom Riders', a play, undated (folio 83); (iii) Reviews, prefaces, short pieces and fragments, 1966-1977, undated (folio 90).
Drafts, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, of volume iv of ‘Antient metaphysics’., [1795, or before.]
Fragmentary manuscripts and typescripts, undated, of ‘In memoriam James Joyce’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., [?1937-?1938.]
The papers include two versions of the author's preface (folios 8-25) and several longer sections of the poem (folios 94-187).
‘Gaelic Proverbs, Adages, Maxims & Common Sayings, with an English translation & explanatory notes. To which is added, A Specimen of a Gaelic Calendar', by James McIntyre, schoolmaster in Glasgow.
The author died in January 1835, when the work was about to be published. At the end are printed proofs of part of the preface and selections in manuscript from the proverbs given before. At the beginning is a note on McIntyre's life and work.
'History of the sufferings and misfortunes of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa' by Patrick Maxwell, being a translation of 'La Chaumière africaine' of Mademoiselle C A Dard., [1827, or before.]
Included is the translator's preface, appendix and notes, all as published in 'Perils and captivity' "Constable's miscellany" volume xi, (Edinburgh, 1827), with the preface to that volume written by H(?ugh) Murray.
Letter, 1813, of George Farquhar Graham to George Hogarth, together with a printed preface, related to the preface of G F Graham, ‘The songs of Scotland’, and a sheet of notes, 1852., 1813-1852.
Letters and notes concerning the publication by John Murray of 'Works of Lord Byron'., 1896-1915.
Letters of and concerning Hugh Miller and his relatives.
Letters of Sir Walter Scott to George Huntly Gordon, with manuscripts, proofs, and other papers., 1817-1831, undated.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Haass to Hadow, and company names beginning with initial H., 1820-1909.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Gamber to Gardiner, M., 1817-1938.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Lockwood to Loftus., 1824-1926.
Letters to Rachel Annand Taylor.
Manuscript and corrected proofs of Sir James Barrie's preface to ‘The coral island’ by R M Ballantyne., [1913, or before.]
Manuscript of the preface to ‘Lord of the Isles’ by Sir Walter Scott., April 1830.
This preface was printed in the edition of 1833. The poem itself appeared in 1815.
Manuscript of the preface to ‘Marmion’ by Sir Walter Scott., April 1830.
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).