Scripts. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written texts of stage plays, screenplays, and radio or television broadcasts.
Found in 555 Collections and/or Records:
First draft of script, 'The Albannach', by John McGrath., January 1985.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/168
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.
Dates:
January 1985.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Papers and productions of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of 'The Albannach' by John McGrath, from the novel by Fionn MacColla.
Four scripts for BBC television series ‘Myth and Truth’., 1971.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/306
Scope and Contents
A debate programme charied by Magnusson which discusses religion.
Dates:
1971.
Further copies of possible final version of script, itineraries, cast-list, correspondence, 1976-1977, 'Scottish drinking habits: a survey ...' (1976), music, programme, flyer, reviews and other related material. , 1976-1977.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/45
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.
Dates:
1976-1977.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Papers and productions of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of 'Out of our heads' by John McGrath.
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Scripts of 'Out of our heads', also containing other related material.
Gaelic material, chiefly plays and broadcasts, of Hector MacIver., 1934-1962, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14973
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.Autograph verse by Sorley MacLean (folios 1-2):(i) “Bho mhullaichean a’ chuilthinn chràcaich”, 29 lines. From part III of ‘An Cuilthionn’ (folio 1 recto);(ii) ‘Aigich Sgitheanaich’, 8 stanzas. From the ‘Aigeach’ lyrics in part V of ‘An Cuilthionn’ (folio 2 recto);(iii) ‘Mo lamhan air lapadh’, 10 stanzas. ‘Crath dhiot an cadal’. With lines addressed to Hector MacIver beginning ‘Eachainn dhuinn an leadain dualaich’, 4...
Dates:
1934-1962, undated.
Jackanory scripts for Icelandic stories., 1968.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/290
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This section contains scripts and research undertaken by Magnusson for a variety of television and radio programmes running from 1961 until 2006. There are a significant number of scripts for the BBC archaeology programme 'Chronicle' which Magnusson presented from 1966. There are individual scripts and research materials on various programmes that Magnusson presented throughout his televsion career. There are a number of scripts and interviews for Magnusson's radio series "Tales...
Dates:
1968.
Letter, 1960, to Don Whyte, returning him a script, 1949, of a broadcast; and music, undated, of pieces composed or arranged by Whyte used in Children's Hour broadcasts., 1949, 1960, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22094
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Apart from the film music, which is datable to 1947-1948 from the accompanying correspondence and papers (MSS.22085-22086), almost all the music is undated; but from the ink used, some of it may be dated to about the same period.
Except where otherwise stated the music is written as for keyboard.
Dates:
1949, 1960, undated.
Letters of and to and papers of and concerning Sir Patrick Geddes and Dr Arthur Geddes, 1913-1977.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.21205
List of contestants on Mastermind., 1988.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/417
Scope and Contents
File includes script for final.
Dates:
1988.
Literary and photographic archive of W. Gordon Smith, comprising play scripts, other writings, photographic prints and negatives.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13872
Dates:
1960-1996.
Literary papers and correspondence of John Herdman.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14016
Dates:
Circa 1990-2017.
Literary papers, including manuscripts, typescripts, radio scripts and correspondence of Kathleen Annie Fidler.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8078/1-880
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, lectures and articles, with scripts of radio broadcasts, notebooks and correspondence.
Dates:
1878-1980.
Literary papers of Muriel Spark, containing manuscripts, research material for critical works, and papers concerning her autobiography, 'Curriculum vitae'.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10989/1-280
Dates:
1943-1993.
Literary papers of Muriel Spark, containing works of prose, poetry and drama., Circa 1950-1986, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10989/3-104
Literary papers of Robert James Batchen Sellar, containing plays, scripts and short stories., 1933-1961, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8802/10-109
Manuscript and typescript drafts, 1970, by Bill Craig of the script of the BBC television production of 'Sunset song', by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', transmitted in 1971., 1970.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26110-26112
Manuscript and typescript of 'A Cure for the Colonel', written by Robert McLellan for the television series 'Dr Finlay's Casebook', but never broadcast., 1964.
File
Identifier: MS.26410
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Apart from the plays written specially for radio, such as ‘The Carlin Moth’ and 'As ithers see us', Robert McLellan also wrote a number of short pieces, often as part of a larger series. Many of these were broadcasts for schools. He also contributed to programmes such as 'Scottish Life and Letters', and wrote for television.
Dates:
1964.
Manuscript and typescripts of novels and short stories by Eona Macnicol.
File
Identifier: MS.19706
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Typescript with manuscript corrections of the novel ‘Colum of Derry’, 1954, dated 1946 by the author, Eona Mcnicol (Folio 1.)
(ii) Three pages of corrected typescript of ‘Lamp in the night wind’, 1957. (Folio 128.)
(iii) Corrected typescript, being the second draft of 'Grey boy', published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, volume 301 (1967), pages 537-547. The last page is missing. (Folio 132.)
(iv) Final typescript and broadcast script of 'A night of rain, 1968....
Dates:
1946-[1969, or before.]
Manuscripts and broadcast scripts of radio plays of Ian Sherwood Munro., 1962-1969, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.4883/3-12
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Comprising:
original manuscript and corrected typescript of "Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (Edinburgh, 1966); manuscript and broadcast scripts of eight radio plays and dramatisations, 1962-1968; 16 letters, 1959-1968, to Ian S Munro, correspondents including C M Grieve and Willa Muir.
Dates:
1962-1969, undated.
Manuscripts and duplicated typescript of the comedy 'Right Royal' by Alexander Scott., [1954, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26475-26476
Scope and Contents
The comedy was first produced by the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, in 1954, and later broadcast and televised.
Dates:
[1954, or before.]
Manuscripts and papers of William Sharp (‘Fiona Macleod’)., 1893-1937, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.15941, folios 153-199
Scope and Contents
The papers include the dedication to Walter Pater of a work on Rossetti, 1893, parts of which were published by Elizabeth Sharp in ‘William Sharp’, pages 70-72; part of the prologue to ‘The laughter of Peterkin’; 'The immortal hour' from ‘The fortnightly review, volume lxviii (New Series), 1900, pages 867-896, with later corrections; and poems, some of which were published in ‘Poems and dramas’ by ‘Fiona Macleod’.
Dates:
1893-1937, undated.
Manuscripts and proofs probably at one time in the possession of Andrew Shortrede, printer., 1819-1842, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8997
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Manuscript, 1824-1825, entitled 'Notes and anecdotes, Border worthies' (folio 1);
(ii) Manuscript, circa 1827, of a poem by James Hogg, 'The wyffe of Ezdelmore' (folio 11);
(iii) Manuscript, circa 1829, by John Wilson ('Christopher North'), of a part of ‘Noctes ambrosianae’ (folio 23);
(iv) Manuscript, undated of a poem by Sir William Hamilton, 'La vase antique' (folio 28);
(v) Manuscript, 1829, of a poem 'Oh maid unloving but beloved' (folio 29);
(vi)...
Dates:
1819-1842, undated.
Manuscripts and typescripts of works of James Kennaway., 1945-1980, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12760/1-43
Dates:
1945-1980, undated.
Manuscripts of plays and other works., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12765/22-26
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists of correspondence, publications and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie (1913–1998) and his family. Robert Blair Wilkie was the curator of the Old Glasgow Museum 1965-1998 (formerly known as the People’s Palace Museum). Active member of the Scottish Nationalist movement (joined Scottish Nationalist Association under John MacCormick in 1937), in 1945 he was the SNP candidate in West Renfrewshire, and in the following year he was appointed editor of the Scots Independent...
Dates:
Undated.
Manuscripts, typescripts and other material concerning the play 'Young Auchinleck' by Robert McLellan., 1960-1965, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26467-26472
Dates:
1960-1965, undated.