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Typescripts.

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

Found in 1011 Collections and/or Records:

Typescript transcripts of correspondence of the descendants of James Lundie, Minister of North Leith, who died in 1696, principally that of his great-grandson, Robert, Minister of Kelso.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1675-1676
Scope and Contents

The letters fall into three divisions. The first (MS.1675, folio 1) contains letters to James Lundie at Leyden and Amsterdam, chiefly from his brother Archibald, Minister of Saltoun, 1708-1710; the second (MS.1675, folio 47), general family correspondence, 1745-1770; the third (MS.1675, folio 80, and MS. 1676), the correspondence of Robert Lundie, Minister of Kelso, and others. The writers include many eminent authors and theologians of the time.

Dates: 1708-1840, undated.

Typescript translation of questions on Buddhism submitted to the Dalai Lama by the Reverend Even Mackenzie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6187
Scope and Contents

With photograph, circa 1912, of the Dalai Lama.

Dates: 1912.

Typescript translation of Racine's ‘Phèdre’, with holograph corrections, by John Davidson, the poet.

 File
Identifier: MS.3357
Scope and Contents

There is (folio 84) another, closer, version, also in typescript (carbon copy), and with a few small manuscript corrections in a hand that may be John Davidson's. It is incomplete, wanting Acts I, III (ll. 964-1000), IV (ll. 1325-1328), and V (ll. 1531-1616, 1640-1654).

Dates: [Before 1910.]

Typescript travel journals by John Taylor.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.5899
Scope and Contents

Describing holidays in Scotland.

With photographs and postcards.

Dates: circa 1930-circa 1939.

Typescript, undated, of an autobiographical work of Margaret Mackenzie Scott, "Childhood of a Nobody", with other papers.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6620/1-6
Scope and Contents

Including typescripts of a short story, undated, and articles, 1923-1940.

Dates: 1923-1940 and undated.

Typescript, undated, of 'Tarravore', a play in three acts by James Shaw Grant (born 1910), director of Grampian Television and author of books on the Highlands.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26489
Scope and Contents

The typescript is annotated for a production by the Park Theatre, Glasgow.

Dates: Mid 20th century.

Typescript, undated, of ‘The finding of the sword’, a play by Sibell Lilian Blunt Mackenzie, Countess of Cromartie.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5069
Scope and Contents

The play does not seem to have been produced or published.

Dates: [1905, or after.]