Typescripts.
Found in 1011 Collections and/or Records:
Typescript of 'The dust of defeat' by Lloyd Osbourne, an apparently unpublished play in four acts.
Typescript of "The family of Sir Walter Scott's brother Tom" by William Moncreiffe, apparently unpublished.
Two unpublished letters, one of Sir Walter Scott to John Wilson Crocker and the other of Ann Scott to her granddaughter Jessie, are reproduced in the text. The volume also includes a pedigree, from which one leaf is missing, showing the descendants of Sir Walter and Thomas Scott, and portraits of Thomas Scott, his wife and his mother, as well as other family photographs.
Typescript of "The Lass wi the Muckle Mou", a play by Alexander Reid.
Typescript of "The Legend and Genealogical Chart of St Margaret" by Imre Kish.
Typescript of the play, "The Fairly Mak ye Work", by Billy Kay.
Typescript of the poem "Oedipus" and corrected typescript drafts of the poem "Orestes" of William Montgomerie.
Typescript of "The Ragged Lion" (1994), by Allan Massie.
Typescript of the translation by C K Scott Moncrieff of ‘Albertine disparue’, the seventh part of ‘À la recherche du temps perdu’ by Marcel Proust.
The typescript contains numerous typescript and manuscript corrections by the translator and instructions to the printer. There are a few variations from the published version. Additional folios have been inserted after folios 40, 80, 120, 162, 200, 239, and 272.
Typescript of 'The Winding Journey', a play in three acts, by Phillip [i.e. Philip] Leaver, first performed in 1934.
The stage directions have been underlined in red, and there are several manuscript amendments and deletions, some apparently in the hand of the author, who has inscribed this copy to 'Carol'. The volume bears the stamps and labels of two American agencies.
Typescript of thesis of John Cairney, "A History of Solo Theatre", for the degree of Master of Letters at the University of Glasgow.
Typescript of thesis of Philippe Plantade, "Histoire des Institutions Judiciaires Éccosaises".
Typescript of "Time Bombs. A Short History of the Clocktower Press", by Duncan McLean.
Typescript of "Toast to the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns" by Ronald Selby Wright
Typescript of two lectures on the history of Airdrie, by James Thomson Rankin.
Typescript of two novels by the poet Iain Crichton Smith (1928-1998).
Educated in Stornoway and Aberdeen, Iain Crichton Smith was a teacher until 1977 when he became a full-time writer in English and Gaelic.
Typescript of unpublished novel of Marshall Jackson, "Edinburgh".
Typescript of unpublished work of Alexander Law, "Schoolbooks and Textbooks in Scotland in the 18th Century: a Handlist with Introduction and Notes".
Typescript of William G Boag, "Percussion in Military Service".
With diagrams of different types of drum.
Typescript of William Montgomerie, "Prince Hamlet`s Play-Within-The-Play; a New Interpretation from the Second Quarto (1604)".
Typescript of Yvonne Devereux`s "A Family Revealed: the Search for Horace Hayman Wilson".
Typescript Peeblesshire church histories, by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn, intended to form part of the author's series of 'Books of the Church'.
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.