Typescripts.
Found in 1002 Collections and/or Records:
11 letters of George Mackay Brown.
With typescripts of his "Lifeboat and Other Poems".
16 typescript descriptions of "Motoring by-ways round Edinburgh", illustrated with photographs.
20 notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.
Literary and personal notes and the typescript of "Yet it shall be Tempest Tost", an account of an experiment with mescalin during the 1960s.
21 letters of Sir Henry Holland to his father, Peter Holland.
On personal, social and academic matters.
With typescripts of the letters.
23 letters to Hamish Henderson from correspondents including Ewan MacColl and Douglas Young.
With corrected typescript of Henderson`s translation of Antonio Gramsci`s "Lettere dal Carcere".
25 letters of Roderick Watson Kerr to George M Thomson.
Concerning the Porpoise Press.
With typescript copies annotated by Thomson.
34 letters to David Morrison of correspondents including George Mackay Brown, Neil Gunn, and Fionn MacColla, all concerning the 'Scotia Review'; with associated typescripts and page proofs of poems and articles.
43 letters of William Soutar to the Reverend David Stevens.
On personal and literary matters.
With associated photographs, typescripts, and printed items.
"A Skylight on the Past", copy of a typescript of letters and memoranda of the families of Pemberton in County Durham and Wallace in Nairn, compiled by Nisa Laing.
Contains material concerning India and the First World War.
Abstracts and facsimiles of Scottish armorials by William Rae Macdonald, Albany Herald (1843-1923).
Adam Drinan, "The Process of Writing Verse" (being a typescript of poem, "The Trossachs"), with typescript notes and comments.
Adaptation of ‘Philotus’, by the playwright Jack Ronder (born 1924), an anonymous play in Scots verse originally published in 1603.
The adaptation is a typescript of the 17th century text, with manuscript alterations and stage directions by Jack Ronder.
"An Aon Dleasnas"/"The One Duty", typescripts of poem of James S Adam for Alastair and Dorothy Dunnett.
English and Gaelic texts.
Annotated and corrected typescript of "Scotland, an Anthology" compiled by George Campbell Hay.
Includes translations of Gaelic poetry.
Annotated printed works, typescripts, and manuscripts connected with piobaireachd, in particular with the exact musical interpretation of canntaireachd, compiled by Alexander K Cameron, Montana, USA.
Annotated typescript of the short story "The Search for the Perfect Hamburger" by Alexander McCall Smith.
Annotated typescript translation of the diary of Alexander Amman, Polish Army. Translated by Michael Allan.
Annotated typescripts of eight poems of W S Graham.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Archives of the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers, Edinburgh Branch.
Articles, manuscripts and typescripts of papers on scientific subjects by Lord Kames, Prof John McLean Thompson, William Walker and others.
Author’s own copy of ‘The Gareloch as military port no. 1’ by Arnold Fleming (Helensburgh, [1949]); with corrections and additions throughout in manuscript, and numerous inserts.
Pasted in at beginning and end are newspaper cuttings, typescripts, and manuscripts, consisting of reviews of the book and of articles and notes on its subject, on Clyde steamers, and on Madeleine Smith.