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Short stories.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Relatively brief invented prose narratives.

Found in 364 Collections and/or Records:

115 letters to W R Aitken and his family of Hugh MacDiarmid, and four from Valda Grieve.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10488
Scope and Contents

With manuscripts of a short story and essay of MacDiarmid, proof copy of "Sanschaw" and typescript copy of a thesis on MacDiarmid by Claude Henry.

Dates: 1934-1978.

Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1789-1821.

 File
Identifier: MS.4889
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of a pamphlet entitled ‘Ten minutes of reflection on the late events in France. Recommended by a plain man to his fellow citizens’ (Woodbridge, 1793). (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript, 1803, of two apparently unpublished poetical letters, 'The new Oxford guide', which follow very closely the form and style of Christopher Anstey's ‘The new Bath guide’ (London, 1766), and therefore may possibly be by Christopher Anstey himself. (Folio...
Dates: 1789-1821.

Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1823-1840.

 File
Identifier: MS.4890
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of two poems by Robert Brown Cunnynghame entitled “Tales o' the daft days. The mistress's tale or The hunt the gowk” and “Tale third. The boarding school Miss's tale or Bailie Blair's courtship”. These are apparently unpublished continuations of the three parts of “Tales o' the daft days” published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, November and December 1822, and March 1823. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript, 1823, of an apparently...
Dates: 1823-1840.

Carmichael and Gordon papers.

 File
Identifier: MS.109
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) 'The nativite of bairnis' of William, 7th Lord Forbes, and his wife Elizabeth Keith, being the names and dates of birth of their sixteen children (folio 1);(ii) Orders issued by Colonel Robert Montgomerie protecting Robert Gordon of Straloch and exempting him from any 'monthly maintenance' in accordance with the decision of the Estates of Parliament, 1649 (folio 2);(iii) Letter of Robert Gordon of Straloch to the Marquess of...
Dates: 1649-1779, undated.

Commonplace book of Nina, Countess of Minto, consisting of literary works and notes on contemporary politics., 1861-1872.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19460
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) The Moon's Story - A Dream of 1849 (folio 1); (ii) Recollections of a conversation with Lord John Russell at Pembroke Lodge, 1848 (folio 8); (iii) Recollections of Woburn, 1856, being notes from a conversation with Francis, Duke of Bedford (succeeded 1872) (folio 13); (iv) Notes of conversations with Lord John Russell from the journal of Nina, Countess of Minto, 1863-1872 (folio 35); (v) Epigram on Sir Sidney Smith by John, 4th Marquess Townshend, undated.

Dates: 1861-1872.

Corrected typescript, undated, of "Was It So?", a short story by Naomi Mitchison.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10917
Scope and Contents

Includes related letter of Mitchison.

Dates: 1988 and undated.

Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of works of George Mackay Brown, with some personal correspondence and audiovisual material.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13134/1-17
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of 'Greenvoe' and 'Hawkfall and other stories', with assorted personal correspondence and photographs of or relating to George Mackay Brown and his works.

Dates: 1969-1996.

Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of works of Mollie Hunter.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11073/1-122
Scope and Contents

Includes editorial correspondence, typescripts and proofs of novels, and some book jackets and illustrations.

Dates: 1960-1993, undated.