Description
1) Autograph "Coal", 7pp. story of coal and Brother Julius at Newbattle Abbey, revised in pencil, with autograph note at top "shortened version instead of this"
2) Autograph Addendum to STV script by Ian Grimble "The Holy Stones", 3pp., 4to, numerous corrections, additions and deletions, initialled and dated "GMB 18/19 May 1976"
3) Autograph Under Brinkies Brae, dated 29-5-80, 2pp., 8vo, black biro, corrections in pencil, also marked "not published GMB" in pencil at head of page 1 [Draft, apparently not published, of one of his weekly contributions to The Orcadian
4) Typescript. Christmas Visitors, a Story, dated 18 Nov. 1982 (struck through), 8pp. including title, 4to, numerous pencil additions and corrections [First published in Christmas Stories, Perpetua Press, 1985];
5) Typescript. "Dialogue", dated Stromness, 1975. Folio, 12pp., numerous corrections and additions in pencil, annotated "Corrected script" on title leaf;
6) Skatehorn the Tramp, 2pp., large 8vo, 35 lines of poetry, half scored through or deleted, initialled, undated [Possibly an ear early draft of part of The Horse Fair from The Wreck of the Archangel (1989);
7) Typescript. The Living Poet, 5 leaves 4to, partly scared through and with pencil notes [possibly script for broadcast, 1979], with note "In Voyages, 1983";
8) Autograph Ballad of the Golden Bird. 12 leaves, large 8vo, black biro, undated, each leaf lightly scored through [Published as The Golden Bird: Two Golden Stories, John Murray, 1987;
9) Autograph A Spell for Green Corn - 1 [1961-62] The Maskers (a play), 21 leaves, 8vo, red, blue and black biro, corrected in pencil, note on verso of last leaf "Written 1965 ? 1966 ?", Cancelled (scored through), revised 17 - Dec. 1974" [First published Hogarth Press, 1970];
10) Autograph Song for the Spring of Equinox. 12pp on 12mo notepaper, autograph manuscript, pencil and biro, signed 1/3/1996;
11) Typescript Keepers of the House, December 1976, 14 leaves, 4to, autograph corrections, note on title page "The Old Stile Press (1986), limited edition, working copy";
12) Autograph Foreword: The Lordly Ones (Anthology of Stones, ed John Matthews) 1994, 2pp., 8vo, black ink, signed George Mackay Brown;
13) Typescript. The Third Magus. 9pp., 4to, dated October 1978, annotated in pencil including note "Not to be used" and "Working copy", [1st published in Andrina & other Stories, 1982);
14) Autograph Kirkwall: Conservation Area (Foreword), 4pp. 4to, initialled GMB March 1985, some pencil annotations;
15) Autograph Perilous Seas. A Dramatic Biography of John Gow the Pirate (1798-1725) in six parts. Signed and dated October 1954, parts 1 and 4-6 only, 113 pages, 8vo, pencil, red underlining of stage directions; 16) Autograph. 2 pp., 8vo, uncaptioned "Light and sea-noise and soil of Birsay", ink, corrections and additions in pencil;
17) Typescript. Magi I, 3pp., folio, torn in 4 and stapled back together, lacking 1 corner (with text), with photocopy of the poem written out in another hand;
18) Typescript The Third Magus, 9 pp., 4to, dated October 1978 at end, 1st page lightly scored through with pencilled note "Not to be published GMB";
19) Autograph 2 manuscript leaves, one with notes of The Scotsman review of best books 1994, the 2nd a note on envelope verso: Maeshowe: Poster Poem for National Museum of Scotland, initialled "GMB 5-iii-96";
20) Typescript "A Christmas Story", pp. 2-7, lacking page 1, pencil revision to last page.