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Typescripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Typewritten documents.

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Annotated typescript of an article of Tom Weir on Evelyn Vida Baxter., 1956.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13059/221A
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Weir produced a high volume of written and spoken outputs during his career. The papers here relate to some of the results of that work, including his contributions to radio.

Dates: 1956.

Articles of Tom Weir relating to the Nature Conservancy Council., 1956-1971, or after.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13059/221B
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter and typescript lecture of Robert Aylmer Haldane and a script relating to an interview with John Morton Boyd, Director of the Nature Conservancy Council in Scotland.

Dates: 1956-1971, or after.

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates: circa 1916-2006.

Drafts and annotated typescripts of articles, lectures, and films scripts relating to a visit to Morocco with Douglas Scott in 1955., 1955, undated.

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Identifier: Acc.13059/220A
Scope and Contents

Includes articles entitled 'Berbers of the High Atlas', 'The Astonishing Atlas', 'The Peaceful side of Morocco', 'Birds of the Himalayas' with lists of birds seen, and 'Mountains of Morocco', with a related letter, press-cuttings and printed articles.

Dates: 1955, undated.

Literary and broadcasting papers of Tom Weir., 1948-2006.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13059/187-336
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts, typescripts, drafts, notes of and relating to Tom Weir and his varied and prolific output of books, magazine articles, short stories, radio and TV programmes.

Dates: 1948-2006.

Typescript and photocopies for the AA Guide to Scotland by Tom Weir. , circa 1980.

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Identifier: Acc.13059/193
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Weir published many works over the course of his career. The first, 'Highland Days', was published in 1948, with the last, 'Weir's World' coming out in 1994.

The records here relate to those and other various works within that time.

Dates: circa 1980.