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Manuscripts of Shorter Works by Marion Lochhead

This page lists manuscripts and other working materials for shorter writings in Edinburgh University Library's Marion Lochhead Papers. These include journal articles, radio scripts, folk tales, and miscellaneous essays.

1. Articles

  • ‘The Episcopal Church in Scotland’, corrected proof (Gen 2156/2, Folder 2)

Published in Quarterly Review, 292 (1954), 227-40.

  • ‘The Christian Sacrifice: The Eucharistic Tradition of the Scottish Episcopal Church’, TS with MS corrections (Gen 2156/3)

Published in Theology, 67 (1964), 388-94.

  • ‘Episcopal Quartet: Four Nineteenth-Century Bishops in Scotland’, TS with MS corrections (Gen 2156/3)

Published in Quarterly Review, 302 (1964), 162-73.

  • ‘Margaret Oliphant’, TS (Gen 2156/1, Folder 1)

Published in Blackwood's Magazine, 302 (1967), 106-118.

  • ‘James Hogg’, TS with MS annotations (Gen 2156/1, Folder 5)

Published in Blackwood’s Magazine, 303 (1968), 38-47.

  • ‘Thomas de Quincey’, TS drafts and notes (Gen 2156/1, Folder 2)

Published in Blackwood’s Magazine, 303 (1968), 492-502.

  • ‘The World of Dorothy Sayers: The Return of Dorothy Sayers’, TS (Gen 2156/3)

Published in Blackwood's Magazine, 315 (1974), 364-71.

  • ‘Il faut profiter’, TS (Gen 2156/3)

Published in Blackwood's Magazine, 317 (1975), 241-48.

2. Radio Scripts

  • ‘War and Peace’, broadcast script (Gen 2156/3)

Talk for BBC Radio 4 Scotland, recorded 27 April 1972.

  • ‘Victorians in Italy’, broadcast script, with MS corrections (Gen 2156/1, Folder 5)

Talk for BBC Radio 4 Scotland, recorded 12 March 1973.

  • ‘A Word for Living’, TS (Gen 2156/3)

Talk for BBC Radio Scotland, broadcast 8 May 1977.

  • ‘John Gibson Lockhart: A Self-Portrait’, TS, with MS corrections (Gen 2156/1, Folder 5)

Radio play; broadcast details unknown.

3. Folk Tales

There are TSS of three folk tales which do not appear in either The Other Country: Legends and Fairy Tales of Scotland (1978) or Magic and Witchcraft of the Borders.

  • 'Rose Red and Lily White', TS, 3 p. (Gen 2156/2, Folder 6)
  • ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, TS, 20 pp. (Gen 2156/2, Folder 5)
  • ‘Sir Gawain’s Bride’, TS, 6 p. (Gen 2156/2, Folder 5)

4. Other Short Writings

The following TSS are either articles or radio talks for which no publication or broadcast details have been traced:

  • ‘Discovery of America’, TS, 5 pp. (Gen 2156/3)
  • ‘Neil Munro’, TS, 16 pp. (Gen 2156/1, Folder 2)
  • ‘Mrs. Calderwood in the Low Countries’, TS, 24 pp. (Gen 2156/1, Folder 5)
  • ‘The Mures of Caldwell and their Friends’, TS, with MS annotations, 18 pp. (Gen 2156/1, Folder 5)
  • This Russian Magic’, TS, with MS annotations, 9 pp. (Gen 2156/1, Folder 5) (incomplete)
  • ‘Towards Unity’, TS, 4 pp. (Gen 2156/3)
  • ‘William Maginn’, TS, 19 pp. (Gen 2156/1, Folder 2)

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