Stevenson, D. E. (Dorothy Emily), 1892-1973

Maroon notebook containing rough notes for The House on the Cliff, a book by Stevenson published in 1966.

Notebook containing "The Perfect Murder" short story, in longhand. At the end there are notes for The Four Graces, published in 1946.

Notebook containing a manuscript of "The Two Miss Scotts" short story, in longhand.

Notebook containing manuscript notes entitled "Character Reading", which seems to be a kind of personality test questionnaire.

Red and blue notebook entitled "Notes for Kate Hurdy", containing manuscript notes in pencil. Kate Hardy was a book by Stevenson published in 1947

Notebook entitled "What Sort of People? Notes." with manuscript notes in pencil about the "sort of people who lived in Scotland twelve hundred years before Christ". Undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of novels by D. E. Stevenson.

This collection consists of the papers of Edinburgh-born writer D. E. (Dorothy Emily) Stevenson. It includes manuscripts of some of her published books; manuscripts of short stories, plays, and poetry; notebooks with rough notes; texts of lectures and talks she gave to various audiences; texts of articles; biographies; photographs (copies) of Stevenson and family throughout her life, and an album with US newspaper cuttings mentioning her books.

Photocopy of an article entitled "Six Weeks in Mauritius", by Stevenson. She spent a holiday Mauritius in the early 1950s, visiting her elder son who was stationed there in the army.

Photocopy of It's Nice to Be Me, a children's poetry book by Stevenson originally published under the title Alister & Co in 1940 by US publisher Ferrar and Rinehart; and then published in 1943 in London by Methuen with two additional poems under the title It's Nice to Be Me.