Short stories.
Found in 365 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook of Neil Munro containing early drafts of various stories., 1895.
Notebook of Willa Muir containing a short story titled, 'Folk are queer'., Mid 20th century.
Notebook one of Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1943-1955.
The notebook also contains short stories (folios 8 and 16).
Notebook, undated, containing summaries and notes for ‘Cloud Howe’ and ‘Grey granite’ by James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’., [Before 1935.]
The notebook includes (folio 30) a summary and the opening of the short story, 'Smeddum', first published in the ‘Scots Magazine’, January 1933, pages 248-256, which here has the titles 'The Old Woman' and 'Freedom'.
Notebook, undated, of James Hyman Singer, ‘Burns Singer’, containing drafts of poems, fragments of essays, a scene from a play, and part of a story set in a Dutch prison., 3rd quarter of 20th century.
Notebook, undated, of William Edmondstoune Aytoun containing part of an untitled ghost story., Mid 19th century.
Notebooks of Muriel Spark, containing research notes and drafts for poems and prose., 1951-[1958].
Notebooks of Neil Munro containing drafts of short stories., 1892-1896, undated.
Born in Inveraray, Neil Munro became a journalist in Glasgow, rising to the post of editor of the ‘Glasgow Evening News’. His papers consist largely of manuscripts of his novels and short stories, though some of his newspaper articles are represented by presscuttings.
Notebooks one and two of Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1943-1955.
Notes and drafts of articles and other material of Ruthven Todd., 1965-1978, undated.
Notes and early drafts of 'George Scott Moncrieff and a few friends: a brief memoir' by Morley Jamieson., [1987.]
Folios 52-113 were originally two notebooks with some loose pages inserted, and they also contain part of a short story, 'The Awakening' (folios 54-63), an essay on armed forces (versos of folios 112-102) and poems (versos of folios 99-53). There are some additional poems at the end (folio 120).
Notes and memoranda of John Hill Burton., 1827-1863.
Notes on ‘Hamlet’ by George Douglas Brown intended for 'An essay in essential criticism’, with some other material., [1899.]
Notes on Robert Burns written by George Douglas Brown, later adapted for an article which was published anonymously in "Blackwood's Magazine", August 1896., [1896, or before.]
The published article is an expanded form of folios 1-17.
The volume also contains miscellaneous unpublished notes, including a first and second draft of what was probably intended as a short story, beginning 'Tam the Miller'.
Organisational correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of short stories of Alasdair Gray.
Two files of correspondence of Alasdair Gray with the National Library of Scotland and the University of St Andrews, and some typescripts and manuscripts including short stories from 'Mavis Belfrage' and 'Unlikely stories, mostly'.
Original manuscript of the story 'Digging for gold' by Robert Michael Ballantyne., [1869, or before.]
Original manuscript of the story 'Hunting the lions' by Robert Michael Ballantyne., [1869, or before.]
Original manuscript of 'The Story of the Rock' by Richard Michael Ballantyne., [Circa 1870.]
Original manuscript of the story 'Saved by the lifeboat' by Robert Michael Ballantyne., [1869, or before.]
Original manuscript of the story 'The battle and the breeze' by Robert Michael Ballantyne., [1869, or before.]
Original manuscript of the story 'The Cannibal Islands' by Robert Michael Ballantyne., [1869, or before.]
Original manuscript of the story 'Up in the Clouds' by Richard Michael Ballantyne., [1869, or before.]
Original manuscripts of five stories of Robert Michael Ballantyne.
Original manuscripts of two stories of Robert Michael Ballantyne.
Pages 11-22 of the unauthorised American edition of ‘Two of them’ (New York, 1893), a short story by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with revisions in the author's hand.
In addition to the many revisions in the author's hand, there is an entirely new opening (folio 1) in manuscript, taking the place of the first ten pages of the original printed text. Otherwise the most important alteration is the change from the first to the third person throughout the narration.