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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notes added as comment or explanation, such as those accompanying an entry in a bibliography, reading list, or catalogue intended to describe, explain, or evaluate the publication referred to.

Found in 581 Collections and/or Records:

Typescript copy of "Country Magazine", nos 25-50, a series of BBC Home Service broadcasts, 1943-1944, annotated by Francis Collinson, and a typescript copy of a Scottish Home Service broadcast, 1955.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11745
Scope and Contents

The Scottish Home Service broadcast typescript is of "A Scottish Journey", in which Collinson makes a musical journey of Scotland.

Dates: 1943-1955 and undated.

Typescript, 'Daunder oan the Mune, poems in Scots and English by Janet Paisley'; with annotations by Janet Paisley., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 1(4)
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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: Undated.

Typescript of the play 'The 'Witching Women of St Andrews' by Alexander Brown Paterson., [1947, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26482
Scope and Contents

The play was first produced in 1947. The typescript is annotated for a later production by the Byre Theatre, ?1966.

Dates: [1947, or before.]

Typescript, undated, of 'Tarravore', a play in three acts by James Shaw Grant (born 1910), director of Grampian Television and author of books on the Highlands.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26489
Scope and Contents

The typescript is annotated for a production by the Park Theatre, Glasgow.

Dates: Mid 20th century.

Typescript, with annotations by Robert Graves, of Ruthven Todd's poem 'Meeting again', followed by signed offprints of some of Todd's poems and articles., [1968, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.26890, folios 2-33
Scope and Contents From the Series:

These papers are composite manuscripts formed from various accessions. The source of acquisition of each of the accessions is recorded under the relevant description

Dates: [1968, or before.]

Typescripts of ‘Jamie the saxt’ by Robert McLellan., [1937, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26335-26337
Scope and Contents

The play was first performed in 1937, and a revised version published in 1971. MSS.26335-26336 are annotated acting copies: MS.26335 appears to have been used in several productions (for another similar typescript, see MS.26465). MS.26336 includes the later revisions in manuscript, and MS.26337 is a carbon typescript of the revised version.

Dates: [1937, or before.]

Typescripts of one-act plays by Margaret Noël-Paton., ?1932-?1945, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27469
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) 'Ginevra: a legend of old Florence', ?1932 (folio 1). The play is followed by an 'Apologia', notes for the producer and a variant scene (folio 32). (ii) 'Fear no more: a play of the Italian Renaissance' (folio 46). It was published in ‘8 new one-act plavs of 1938’, edited by William Armstrong, (London, 1938). (iii) 'Whom Joy hath overtaken: a scene from the life of Paulinus', undated (folio 71). It is followed by the programme of a production in 1945 (folio...
Dates: ?1932-?1945, undated.

Typescripts of unpublished collections of poems of Sir Alexander Gray., [?1921]-[?1928.]

 File
Identifier: MS.26002
Scope and Contents

Includes 'The Book of Duds', ?1921-?1925 (folio l) and 'Later Numbers', ?1922-?1928 (folio 57). There are some critical annotations.

Dates: [?1921]-[?1928.]

Typescripts relating to 'The moth trap' by Tom Pow., Undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12233/62-63
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates: Undated.

Typescripts, with a few manuscript annotations, of satirical verses about events in Milngavie by Robert Mclellan., 1915-1921.

 File
Identifier: MS.26459
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.

Dates: 1915-1921.

Unpublished typescript, heavily corrected and with numerous manuscript additions, on ‘The growth of English literature' which John Dover Wilson used as a basis for his First Ordinary English Literature lectures at Edinburgh University., 1909-1910, [1935-1937].

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.14368 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents

The original typescript dates from 1909-1910 when Dover Wilson was lecturer in English at Goldsmith's College and was drafted for a proposed publication by Cambridge University Press on the history of English literature, The corrections and additions to the typescript were made in the course of his first two or three years at Edinburgh University.

Dates: 1909-1910, [1935-1937].

Various political papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto, [1783-1784]-1791.

 File
Identifier: MS.11203
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Notes and drafts of speeches and motions on Indian affairs, [1783-1784] (folio 1); (ii) Printed copy of the exchange of letters, December 1788-January 1789, between William Pitt and the Prince of Wales, with drafts of letters, memorials and addresses on the Regency bill, 1788-1789, and drafts for the memorial of the Prince of Wales to the King, February 1789 (folio 17); (iii) Letters and memorial, 1791, chiefly concerning the memorial of the General Assembly...
Dates: [1783-1784]-1791.

"Virgil's Æneis", translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh, 1710); the glossary is heavily annotated by John Jamieson.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14240
Scope and Contents

There are some notes by O K Schram inside the front cover concerning this edition of Gavin Douglas's text.

Dates: 1710, [1808, or before.]

Volume entitled 'Copies and extracts of family papers at Burnfoot' compiled by George John Malcolm in 1880. With some 20th century annotations., 1880.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12150/58
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Diaries, letter books and commonplace book, 1835-1884, of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm (1782-1851) his sons, Rear Admiral George John Malcolm (1830-1884), and Pulteney Malcolm (1831-1852) of the Bengal Civil Service, and of George John Malcolm's wives, Ottonie von Dungern (1841-1866) and Sophie von Brockdorff (1846-1927).

Dates: 1880.