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Children's literature

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Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Typescript of scenario adapted from the story entitled "Beyond the White Forest" by Richard Tod, early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-2029/1/6
Scope and Contents

This file contains a typewritten script version of "Beyond the White Forest" written by Richard Tod.

Dates: early 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Archive of illustrators Alison Douglas Tod and Richard Tod / Archive of Richard Tod

Typescripts, early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-2029/1/8
Scope and Contents

This file contains a couple of typewritten book drafts entitled "Billywinks: The Fairy Boy". One is more complete than the other and includes ink illustrations and illuminated letters. There are also handwritten drafts of songs and sketches of the illuminated letters. The drawings include what was known as a "golliwog", a character created in 1895 by Florence Kate Upton that was popular until the 1960s-70s but was later perceived as a racist caricature.

Dates: early 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Archive of illustrators Alison Douglas Tod and Richard Tod / Archive of Richard Tod

Typescripts and Sketches of Richard Tod, early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-2029/1/9
Scope and Contents

This file contains both hand and typewritten drafts of stories with edits. There are also printed stories, on which Richard Tod has marked the illustrations that he did not draw. In these printed stories, Tod uses a Scottish folkloric creature, the brownie. Also noted on the back of a draft is the name Edna McDougall.

Dates: early 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Archive of illustrators Alison Douglas Tod and Richard Tod / Archive of Richard Tod