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Typescripts.

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

Found in 1011 Collections and/or Records:

Typescripts of literary works by David Lindsay (1878-1945).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27247-27252
Dates: [Circa 1920]-1942, undated.

Typescripts of literary works by Tom Hanlin (1907-1953).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27417-27425
Scope and Contents

Tom Hanlin worked as a coalminer at Armadale, West Lothian, until 1946 and much of his fiction is set in Scottish mining communities.

Dates: 1942-1949, undated.

Typescripts of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10489
Scope and Contents

Includes "At the Turn of the Century", "The Little Pet", "The Independence Sports" and the plays "The Scarlet Woman" and "A Matter Between Macdonalds".

Dates: mid 20th century.

Typescripts of "Not the Staff Bulletin", an unofficial NLS periodical.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11658
Scope and Contents

Includes original drafts and notes from Issue ten onwards, and "Dr Jekyll`s" presentation copy.

Dates: circa 1980-1990.

Typescripts of novellas, short stories and plays of Agnes Owens.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14086/1-61
Scope and Contents

This collection contains typescripts of the novellas and short stories of Agnes Owens, including many of the stories which formed part of 'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985) and 'People like that' (Bloomsbury, 1996). Several short stories present in this collection were only published for the first time in 'The complete short stories' (Polygon, 2008).

Many of the typescripts have annotations and corrections in the hands of Agnes Owens, Alasdair Gray and others.

Dates: 2007, undated.

Typescripts of plays of Alexander Brown Paterson (born 1907).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26482-26486
Scope and Contents

A journalist by training, Alexander Brown Paterson was a founder and chairman of the Byre Theatre, St Andrews, where many of his plays, including these, were first produced.

Dates: 1947-1963.

Typescripts of poems submitted to 'Lines Review'.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11895
Scope and Contents

A small collection of typescripts of poems submitted to 'Lines Review'. These include typescripts, and some related letters, of Tom Buchan, Fred Cogswell, Rayne MacKinnon, Hermann Pálsson, John Taylor, Stephen Watts, Eric Wishart, and William Wolfe.

Dates: 1982-1994, undated.

Typescripts of prose pieces by Naomi Mitchison.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10866
Scope and Contents

Includes "A Plan for the Mound" and "Social Readjustment", together with five short stories on African themes.

Dates: circa 1960-1990.

Typescripts of seven short stories by Mollie Hunter, with original cover artwork for "The Third Eye" (Glasgow, 1988).

 File
Identifier: Acc.12981
Scope and Contents

Typescripts, with some manuscript corrections, of the following stories, all undated:

The Last Pict

Saint Columba and the Loch Ness Monster

How Loch Ness Got Its Name

The Very Weird Tale of Moon Eye

Tales from the Glen

The Tall Tale of Ten Frogs

The Story of Deirdre

Including original artwork by William Grandison for the cover of The Third Eye (Glasgow: Drew, 1988).

Dates: Circa 1988, undated.

Typescripts of six plays and a collection of poetry by Ian Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12081/1-49
Scope and Contents

A collection of typescript drafts, circa 1983-2002, of a number of plays and a collection of poems by Ian Brown.

Dates: circa 1983-2002.

Typescripts of stories, ? 1933, of Margaret Mackenzie Scott.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6060
Scope and Contents

With letters to Mackenzie Scott, including one, 1921, of Walter de la Mare and one, 1947, of Era Zistel.

Dates: 1921-1947.

Typescripts of talks of Sir James B Thomson on Tonga and Malaysia.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9426
Scope and Contents

With two letters of the Reverend Thomas M Donn to Thomson, and cuttings.

Dates: 1965-1969 and undated.

Typescripts of two memoirs by Helen Thom entitled "Towards Independence, 1963-1967" and "Return to the People`s Republic of Southern Yemen, 1968-1972".

 File
Identifier: Acc.11705
Scope and Contents

Memoirs concern Christian Mission service in Aden and South Yemen.

Dates: circa 1970-1979.