Theses.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Discourses advancing an original point of view as a result of research, especially as a requirement for an academic degree.
Found in 99 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.
"A Petrological and Geochemical Study of the Dalbeattie "Granite"", a PhD thesis of Dr Malcolm MacGregor.
File
Identifier: Acc.10744
Scope and Contents
Includes abbreviated version of the thesis.
Dates:
1933.
Antonella Bendo, "L`Ammirabile Critonio", Univeristy of Verona thesis.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9107- is now Mf.MSS.438
Dates:
1982-1983.
Bradley J Beckman`s University of Texas thesis, "Ronald Stevenson`s Passacalia on DSCH: Understanding the Composer`s Unique Approach to Large-scaled Structure."
Item
Identifier: Acc.11286
Dates:
1994.
Carbon copy of typescript of thesis "The Education and Training of the Adolescent in Scotland" by William S Cormack.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10392
Dates:
1945.
Chapters 1-9 of 'David Livingstone, a reassessment with particular reference to his psyche' by Oliver Ransford., 1977.
Item
Identifier: MS.20341
Chapters 10-18 of 'David Livingstone, a reassessment with particular reference to his psyche' by Oliver Ransford., 1977.
Item
Identifier: MS.20342
Chapters 19-27, preliminary material, bibliography of 'David Livingstone, a reassessment with particular reference to his psyche' by Oliver Ransford., 1977.
Item
Identifier: MS.20343
Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3591
Scope and Contents
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Dates:
14th century-19th century.
Copy of Anna Laura Simoni`s thesis, "Uno Scozzese Impopolare: Fionn MacColla", University of Bologna.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11301
Dates:
1995.
Copy of Bruce Charlton, "The Literature of Alasdair Gray", a Durham University thesis.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9824
Dates:
1988.
Copy of Cambridge PhD thesis of Iain G Brown, "Sir John Clerk of Penicuik 1676-1755: Aspects of a Virtuoso Life".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7944
Dates:
1980.
Copy of Michèle Duclos "Kenneth White: Les Chemins de la Pensée Poétique", a Grenoble University thesis.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11052
Dates:
1993.
Copy of PhD Thesis of Margaret M McArthur, "The Sutherland Clearance".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9240
Dates:
1940.
Copy of PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, by David Mackie on "Raeburn: Life and Art".
Item
Identifier: Acc.11587
Scope and Contents
In four volumes, the first being the text and second to fourth a catalogue of works, annotated by the author.
Dates:
1993.
Copy of Sylvie Peyrot, "Travel sketches in "The Wild Swans": a Reading of Kenneth White`s "The Wild Swans"", thesis, University of Bordeaux.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11269
Dates:
1995.
Copy of thesis entitled "Sir James Hall, un Homme de Science dans la Revolution", by Elizabeth Denton, presented to l`Ecole Nationale des Chartes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12214
Dates:
2003.
Copy of thesis of James MacGlone, "An Investigation of the Publishing and Textual Transmission of John Buchan`s Three First World War Novels: "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1915), "Greenmantle" (1916), and "Mr Standfast" (1919)".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8571
Dates:
1981.
Copy of thesis of R M M Campbell, "An Account of Patronage Provided by the 11th Earl of Buchan, and His Relationships with the Artists of Britain 1750-1820".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9068
Dates:
1984.
Correspondence, notes, photographs and audiotapes of Dr Alice G. Vines relating to her book `The MacDonald Women: Margaret and Ishbel`.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13629/1-21
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, research papers, photographs and audio tapes, 1904-1994, of Dr. Alice Gilmore Vines (1923-2009) relating to her PhD thesis on Margaret Ethel Gladstone MacDonald (1870-1911) and Ishbel MacDonald (1903-1982), James Ramsay MacDonald’s wife and daughter.Dr. Vines collected this material in the course of her research for an intended biography of the two women. Over a number of summers she visited Ishbel in Lossiemouth and corresponded with her. Unfortunately, she had...
Dates:
1904-1994
Correspondence of Thomas Ian Rae concerning theses., 1969-1974.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10876/5-6
'David Livingstone, a reassessment with particular reference to his psyche' by Oliver Ransford, a University of Rhodesia thesis.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20341-20343
Scope and Contents
The thesis is the basis of the biography, ‘David Livingstone, the dark interior’ by Oliver Ransford and gives fuller particulars of his theory that Livingstone was cyclothymic.
Dates:
1977.
Dissertations and Theses held by the SLA., 1968-1998.
File
Identifier: Acc.13656/110-112
Doctoral thesis ‘A Textual and Biographical Study of the Poems of Edwin Muir’ by Robert B Hollander of the University of Columbia., 1962.
File
Identifier: Acc.13634/55
Dates:
1962.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Research papers and literary correspondence between Peter Butter and various correspondents relating to his work on Edwin and Willa Muir, William Blake, Francis Thompson and other writers.
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Research papers and literary correspondence between Peter Butter and various correspondents relating to his work on Edwin and Willa Muir.
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Research papers of Peter Butter relating to his work on Edwin Muir and Willa Muir.
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Miscellaneous material collected by Peter Butter relating to his work on Edwin Muir and Willa Muir.
Draft manuscripts and typescript of the university thesis of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: `The Relationship of Dissociation and Repression, considered from the point of view of Medical Psychology`., 30 March 1929.
Item
Identifier: MS.50175
Scope and Contents
The thesis was submitted for the Degree of MD, University of Edinburgh.Manuscript notes, 1929, for `The Relationship of Dissociation and Repression, considered from the point of view of Medical Psychology`by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. Folios 1-14.Manuscript drafts, 1927, of `Object of Thesis` and `Medicine and Psychology` from`The Relationship of Dissociation and Repression, considered from the point of view of Medical Psychology` by Fairbairn. Folios 15-20....
Dates:
30 March 1929.