Proofs. Printed matter.
Found in 353 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence with Mainstream Publishing on 'Fakers, forgers & phoneys'. , 2003-2006.
Files contains some proofs and a draft index.
Correspondence with various correspondents related to Omnibus editions of Spark's fiction., 1993-1997.
During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.
Designs for dust-jackets, photographs, and drawings for various publications of James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'., 1930-1934.
The contents include the following: (i) Designs for the dust-jackets of ‘Stained radiance’ and ‘The thirteenth disciple’, 1930-1931 (number l); (ii) Photographs and proofs for ‘The conquest of the Maya’, 1933 (number 4); (iii) Drawings by Charles Bannerman to illustrate the serialisation of ‘Cloud Howe’ in the ‘Mearns Leader’ and other newspapers, 1934 (number 9).
Diary containing a record, 7 December 1829-23 September 1831, kept by Robert Cadell of his conversations with Sir Walter Scott., 1829-1831.
The principal subject is Walter Scott's works and financial affairs, but conversations with members of Scott's family and others are also noted.
The manuscript and proof of a verse written by Scott for ‘Count Robert of Paris’ have been inserted (folios 88a-88b).
The conversations are followed (folio 124) by a 'Memorandum as to what passed at Abbotsford on the day of the funeral', 1832.
Drafts and corrected proofs of ‘Letters to the Right Honorable Lord Mansfield’ by Andrew Stuart, in which he justified his actions in the Douglas Cause., [1773, or before.]
A note at the beginning of MS.5365 gives details of the drafts, and a statement of the probable relationships between them and the final printed version.
Drafts and corrected proofs of ‘Letters to the Right Honorable Lord Mansfield’ by Andrew Stuart, in which he justified his actions in the Douglas Cause., [1773, or before.]
A note at the beginning of MS.5365 gives details of the drafts, and a statement of the probable relationships between them and the final printed version.
Drafts and corrected proofs of ‘Letters to the Right Honorable Lord Mansfield’ by Andrew Stuart, in which he justified his actions in the Douglas Cause., [1773, or before.]
The volume contains (folio 111) a list in Andrew Stuart's hand of persons to whom copies of the printed work were sent.
Drafts and proofs of sermons, articles and other works of Salis Daiches., 1904-1945, undated.
Drafts, notes, and corrected proof sheets of various historical works by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., Late 18th century.
Editorial papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ for ‘Voice of Scotland’., 1938-1959, undated.
The magazine was published in 1938-1939 and again from 1945 to 1958, under Hugh MacDiarmid's editorship. The papers, which consist chiefly of MacDiarmid's own contributions, contain manuscripts typescripts, and a few proofs.
Editorial work of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1938-[circa 1975], undated.
Extensively amended first proof of an article by Sir James Wordie entitled 'The Cambridge expedition to East Greenland in 1926'., 18 March 1927.
Most, but not all, of the amendments are in the hand of Sir James Wordie.
Files of photographs relating to 'Raven seek thy brother', by Gavin Maxwell, containing proofs and a letter., Undated.
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.
With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.
First corrected proofs of ‘Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile’ by John Hanning Speke, with many stylistic changes by the author and by John Hill Burton, the editor of the work., [1863, or before.]
Manuscript pages in John Hanning Speke's hand and a letter of James A Grant have been inserted (folios 102, 184-186, 278-279).
Leaves corresponding to pages 7-17 of the published work are lacking.
First proofs of parts of ‘Count Robert of Paris’ and ’Castle dangerous’ by Sir Walter Scott, with a very few minor corrections., [1832, or before.]
Preceded by a guide to the order of the proofs in MSS.3776-3780.
Fragmentary manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of ‘The company I've kept’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., [1966, or before.]
The papers include draft lists of contents (folio 1), an unpublished introduction (folio 5), the text of most of chapter 7, apparently intended as an article entitled 'Ezra Pound and the Curse of Usury' (folio 13), pages of a notebook on 'A.E.', the author George William Russell (folio 25), a corrected typescript of chapters 1-4 (folio 41), and proofs of the preliminary pages (folio 205).
Galley and page proofs of bibliography of Giuseppe Verde, by Cecil Hopkinson., Undated.
Concerning Hopkinson`s bibliographies of Berlioz and Verdi.
Galley proof of 'The Vision of Judgment', by Lord Byron under the pseudonym 'Quevedo Redivivus'., ? 1822.
‘Vision of Judgment’ by Byron was published by John Hunt in 1822. Byron had written the poem in 1821 and previously offered the poem to John Murray [II], who refused to publish it.
There are here two folios of galley proofs of 'Vision of Judgment' and give the author as the pseudonym 'Quevedo Redivivus'.
Stanzas 1-44: folio 1;
Stanzas 45-92: folio 2.
Galley proofs of 'Don Juan: Canto III' and 'Don Juan: Canto IV' (to stanza 105), by Lord Byron., 1820.
Galley proofs of translations from Latin of the diary of John Cam Hobhouse during his travels with Byron in Portugal, Spain and Italy., 1815.
There are some minor annotations on folios 1, 7 and 9.
Genealogical papers of Andrew Stuart., 1767-1804, undated.
Correspondence, notes, drafts and memoranda concerning the genealogical researches of Andrew Stuart for his ‘Genealogical history of the Stewarts’, and other works.
Grangerized copy of ‘Scottish men of letters of the eighteenth century’ (London, 1901) by Henry Grey Graham, volume I, bound in with which are proofs of David Hume’s ‘History of England’, volume ii, pages 49-64, with autograph corrections by Hume. , [1759, circa 1770], 1901.
‘Heredity and politics’ by J B S Haldane, consisting partly of manuscript, and partly of typescript, both extensively amended, together with proofs of some of the tables and other illustrative items., [1937-1938].
The book, which was published in 1938, is an expanded version of a series of lectures given at Birmingham in 1937 under the title 'Human biology and politics'. In view of the numerous additional paragraphs written on separate sheets the text is stamped with a series of consecutive numbers (7 to 230) to indicate the correct sequence to the printer.