Lot 191

Mackenzie, Sir Compton





Auction: 8 September 2010 at 12:00 BST
Description
An archive of manuscript and typescript material relating to the work of Sir Compton Mackenzie, including various typescript drafts of the author's works and articles; personal letters to Mackenzie from a wide range of people from Edward Heath to Sir Fitzroy Maclean; typescript articles for news columns; a range of BBC scripts for radio; unpublished manuscript for Gestetner's; four volumes of corrected typescript for Octave 7 [autobiography]; original manuscript for Paper lives 1966; original manuscript for a film version of Monarch of the glen; BBC script and adaptation notes for a radio version of Whisky galore 1957; and a quantity of other material
Footnote
Provenance: From the estate of the late Sir Compton Mackenzie, by family descent.




