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Typescripts.

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

Found in 3769 Collections and/or Records:

Typescripts, with manuscript corrections, of 'Winter artillery in Hyde Park' by James Findlay Hendry., 1969.

 File
Identifier: MS.26717, folios 36-44
Scope and Contents

This is a revision of some of the verses in James Findlay Hendry's ‘The orchestral mountain’ (London, 1943), page 26.

Dates: 1969.

Typescripts, with manuscript corrections, undated, of 'The unquiet king', a novel about James V by Edith Anne Robertson., Early 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26982-26983
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Educated in Glasgow and Germany, in 1919 Edith Anne married James A Robertson who became Professor of Biblical Criticism at Aberdeen University. Her publications included a life of St Francis Xavier as well as poems in English and Scots.

Dates: Early 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.

Typescripts, with pencil and watercolour illustrations and photographs inserted, of diaries of Violet Jacobs kept while in India, 1895-1923., 1932, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27414-27415
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born Kennedy-Erskine, she was brought up in the House of Dun near Montrose, and married an army officer in 1894. She wrote in both Scots and English, and some of her prose works are set in Angus.

Dates: 1932, undated.

Typescripts with revisions and corrected proofs for short story 'The Pearly Shadow'., Circa 1955, 1995.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11621/120
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.

Dates: Majority of material found in Circa 1955, 1995.

Typescripts with revisions for short story 'Harper and Wilton'., Circa 1952.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11621/98
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.

Dates: Circa 1952.

Typescripts with revisions for short story 'Ladies and Gentlemen'., 1953, 1994.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11621/102
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.

Dates: 1953, 1994.

Typescripts with revisions for short story 'Open to the Public'., 1989.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11621/117
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.

Dates: 1989.

Typescripts with revisions for short story 'The Thing About Police Stations'., Circa 1955, 1994

 File
Identifier: Acc.11621/124
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.

Dates: Circa 1955, 1994

Typescripts with revisions for short story 'The Thing About Police Stations'., Circa 1955, 1992.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11621/125
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.

Dates: Circa 1955, 1992.

Unfinished and unpublished book, entitled 'Cactus and Columbine', relating to the United States, containing manuscript and typescript notes and drafts., Undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13220/33-35
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Articles and poems published in newspapers and magazines are all faithfully preserved in 16 large albums of press cuttings.She was a keen supporter of the Democratic Party and the correspondence files contain some letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. The papers include several travel journals, and manuscripts and typescripts of many articles, verses, songs and hymns - which she had a gift for writing, despite her own agnosticism. Also significant are the manuscripts...
Dates: Undated.

Unpublished and unfinished work and other writings of David Thomson., 1953-1965, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13259/32-39
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

As well as correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of published works, the collection includes a huge number of David Thomson’s notebooks and diaries.

Dates: 1953-1965, undated.

Unpublished typescript, heavily corrected and with numerous manuscript additions, on ‘The growth of English literature' which John Dover Wilson used as a basis for his First Ordinary English Literature lectures at Edinburgh University., 1909-1910, [1935-1937].

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.14368 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents

The original typescript dates from 1909-1910 when Dover Wilson was lecturer in English at Goldsmith's College and was drafted for a proposed publication by Cambridge University Press on the history of English literature, The corrections and additions to the typescript were made in the course of his first two or three years at Edinburgh University.

Dates: 1909-1910, [1935-1937].

Various compositions of George Douglas Brown., 1897-1898, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.8180
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript, in the author's hand, of 'Honest Jack' by George Douglas Brown, a one-act farce. Brown's only experiment in play-writing was never published. (Folio 1.)(ii) Typescript, with a few corrections in Brown's hand, of two chapters of "The doctor's stories". Intended as an autobiography of a doctor, the work remained unpublished. The date of composition is probably 1898. See James Veitch, 'George Douglas Brown', page 110. (Folio...
Dates: 1897-1898, undated.

Various manuscripts of George Douglas Brown bound together., 1897-[1901, or after], ?1923.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8177-8180
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Many of the drafts are early compositions, but they include all that apparently now exists of 'The House with the Green Shutters', published in 1901 (MSS.8171-8172), and two items not by George Douglas Brown (MS.8178).

MSS.8171-8176 are written in school notebooks.

Dates: 1897-[1901, or after], ?1923.

Various miscellaneous papers of Ruthven Todd., 1944-1977, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26886
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Autobiographical notes and papers, circa 1955-1975 (folio 1); (ii) Typescript of a radio interview given by Ruthven Todd, 1974 (folio 8); (iii) Miscellaneous notes and papers, 1944-1977, undated (folio 36).

Dates: 1944-1977, undated.