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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:

Personal papers and correspondence of Esther Barbara Chalmers, including some of her sisters and friends., Circa 1900-1982.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.8695/1-117
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...
Dates: Circa 1900-1982.

Photocopied essays, notes, brochures, and scripts on Thracian art at the British Museum., 1974-1976.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/321
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: 1974-1976.

Photocopied essays, notes, newspaper cuttings and script for a programme on the Fishbourne Roman Palace., 1966-1969.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/280
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: 1966-1969.

Photocopy of published script of ‘A scourge of hyacinths’ by Wole Soyinka, with label, ‘7:84 rehearsed reading 1997’, and Traverse Theatre publicity leaflet., 1997.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12911/199
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.

Dates: 1997.

Plays and adaptations of Stewart Conn, for stage, radio and television., 1960-1998.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12098/1-35
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Literary papers, 1961-1999, of Stewart Conn (b. 1936), a poet and playwright who was for many years a drama producer for BBC Radio Scotland. These papers includes correspondence, typescripts and a small number of manuscript drafts of poetry, and scripts of plays and adaptations for stage, radio and television.Many of the scripts in this collection have never been published, but it includes manuscripts and typescripts relating to the following published works: 'The Chinese tower'...
Dates: 1960-1998.

Plays of Moultrie R Kelsall., 1946-1953, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.7716/7-35
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1946-1953, undated.

Playscripts of the Traverse Theatre., 1951-1985.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9830/1-54
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Papers from the archives of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1965-1985 (with one item from 1951). Includes playscripts, photographs, programmes, posters and promotional artwork.

Dates: 1951-1985.

Poetry readings and lectures of Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1949-1981, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26615-26619
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

Dates: 1949-1981, undated.

Portfolio, containing chiefly extracts and notes taken from the letters of John Leyden, collected by the Reverend James Morton., 1797-1811, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3384
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

Extracts and notes taken from letters of John Leyden, all in MS.971 (folio 1);

Specimens of scripts, in an envelope inscribed 'Birman & Siamese Writings' (folio 29);

Notes on poems of Leyden, made with a view to their publication (folio 33).

Dates: 1797-1811, undated.

Printed ephemera, including a 1937 French film script on the life of Lord Byron., 20th century.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10615/123
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers, mostly late 19th to 20th centuries, of the Highland Society of London, covering the interests of the society; cultural, military, charitable, social and historical.

Dates: 20th century.

Production file, labelled 'Outreach projects', containing budgets, schedules, analysis, with a first draft script of; ‘It is done’ by Christopher Deans; working title possibly ‘Land reform’., Circa 2002-2004.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12911/232
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.

Dates: Circa 2002-2004.

Production file of 'Men should weep' by Ena Lamont Stewart., 1982-1983, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10893/106-116
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Containing papers on the following Scottish plays: 'Gold in his boots' by George Munro; 'U.A.B. - Scotland' by Harry Trott; 'Johnny Noble' by Ewan MacColl; "In time o' strife" by Joe Corrie; and 'Men should weep' by Ena Lamont Stewart.

Dates: 1982-1983, undated.

Production files of 'Boom' by John McGrath., 1974-1975, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10893/15-25
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.

Dates: 1974-1975, undated.

Production files of 'Gold in his boots' by George Munro., Undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10893/94-95
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Containing papers on the following Scottish plays: 'Gold in his boots' by George Munro; 'U.A.B. - Scotland' by Harry Trott; 'Johnny Noble' by Ewan MacColl; "In time o' strife" by Joe Corrie; and 'Men should weep' by Ena Lamont Stewart.

Dates: Undated.