Robert Burns unpubl. ‘magnum opus’ Scottish author
Unpublished ‘magnum opus’ from a successful Scottish author + his Press Cuttings book
Robert WATSON ((b. Glasgow 1882 – d. California 1948).
Original unpublished typescript screenplay/novel, titled ‘The Beloved Philanderer. (A romance of the Four Great Loves of Robert Burns.) California: [c. 1940]. Quarto (11 x 8 ½ inches; 280 x 215mm). Pp. [i, 1-]2-216, 216a-216d, 217-359, [a half-sheet insert ‘402’], 360-428. Copy typescript printed recto only, with numerous deletions and autograph manuscript additions. With two related typescript leaves loosely inserted (the author’s CV and an option agreement dated 1950). Original wrappers (extremities slightly tattered).
With: A rebacked and cornered cuttings-book “Property of Robert Watson” charting his career c. 1918-1932. Quarto, approx.. 142 pages, including reviews, interviews and articles. Contemporary black textured cloth, neatly rebacked and re-cornered in black leather.
And: 18 related loose leaves, mostly cuttings concerning Watson’s later career in Hollywood.
Although the typescript has the ‘Received’ ink stamp of the ‘Screenwriter’s Guild of the Author’s League of America, it reads more like an historical novel than a script”: ‘a romance’ interspersed with liberal helpings of Burns’s poetry (Watson translates some of Burns’ harder words to ensure that his American employers can understand what Burns was writing about.). It appears to be unpublished, and remained an un-realized project at the time of Watson’s death in 1948. Loosely inserted is a signed ‘Option Agreement’ between Watson’s widow and Richard Walton, dated 1950: this does not seem to have come to anything either?
The author’s own CV notes that Watson was ‘born and educated in Glasgow, Scotland; and is the author of three published Scottish novels which have had a wide circulation in Great Britain, America, Canada and Australia; He was for several years correspondent for "The Glasgow Bulletin", (500,000 daily circulation,) the Thomson Publications, (3 millions circulation per week,) and columnist for both publications. His journalistic work is known throughout the British Empire and in the United States; He lectured over Canada for the Canadian Pacific Steam Ship Co, on the subject, "Scotland, in Song and Story,"; He lectured in Canada and the United States on "Robert Burns," "Robert Louis Stevenson," and "Mary, Queen of Scots,"
He was a well known athlete in Scotland in his youth and a prize winner at Scotland's greatest track meets. He is intimately acquainted with all phases of Highland Games, Highland Dancing, Curling, Hockey, Association Football, et cetera; He judged the famous Banff Highland Games in the Canadian Rockies, in 1931; he judged the Canadian Olympic Trials and the Canadian Track and Field Championships, in 1932; He is Ex Vice-president and Ex-National Treasurer of the Canadian Authors Association; also Ex-president of the United Scottish Association of the Province of Manitoba, (27 Scottish organiza tions, with 7,000 affiliations); He served on the Advisory Board of the Scottish-Canadian Reunion from Canada to Scotland in 1932, addressing 25,000 native Scots at one gathering, in Glagow, Scotland, responding in behalf of Canada;
He has filled important assignments on the following Scottish pictures and individual characterizations in Hollywood: "The Little Minister," "The Young in Heart, .... "Allegheny Uprising," ...."The Underpup, ".... "Three Cheers for the Irish, ".... "Rivers End, ".... and “Bob, Son of Battle," a technicolor Scottish film, aka “Thunder in the Valley”, released in 1947 .
He is the author of 16 published books - novels, travel, history, poetry, nature history, et cetera. See British, Canad ian and United States "Who's Whos." His books are used in Canadian schools; His short stories have been 'starred' in O'Brien's Annual of America's Best Short Stories," His humor has appeared in " Punch", London, England; His feature material has been reproduced in "The Readers Digest". He was editor of “The Beaver" for 15 years, an internationally known magazine of the Hudson’s Bay Company” (adapted from the author’s own CV).
Watson “came to Canada in 1908. He married Anna McNaught Johnstone in 1911. He was employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company from 1917 to 1932, serving as Editor of The Beaver, among other duties. He wrote several books, including My Brave and Gallant Gentleman (1918), The Girl of O.K. Valley (1919), Stronger Than His Sea (1920), The Spoilers of the Valley (1921), The Mad Minstrel (1923), Gordon of the Lost Lagoon (1924), and A Boy of the Great North West (1930). He then moved to British Columbia before going on to Hollywood, California where he worked in the motion picture industry. He died at Laguna Beach, California on 13 January 1948 as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident on New Year’s Eve.
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Unpublished ‘magnum opus’ from a successful Scottish author + his Press Cuttings book
Robert WATSON ((b. Glasgow 1882 – d. California 1948).
Original unpublished typescript screenplay/novel, titled ‘The Beloved Philanderer. (A romance of the Four Great Loves of Robert Burns.) California: [c. 1940]. Quarto (11 x 8 ½ inches; 280 x 215mm). Pp. [i, 1-]2-216, 216a-216d, 217-359, [a half-sheet insert ‘402’], 360-428. Copy typescript printed recto only, with numerous deletions and autograph manuscript additions. With two related typescript leaves loosely inserted (the author’s CV and an option agreement dated 1950). Original wrappers (extremities slightly tattered).
With: A rebacked and cornered cuttings-book “Property of Robert Watson” charting his career c. 1918-1932. Quarto, approx.. 142 pages, including reviews, interviews and articles. Contemporary black textured cloth, neatly rebacked and re-cornered in black leather.
And: 18 related loose leaves, mostly cuttings concerning Watson’s later career in Hollywood.
Although the typescript has the ‘Received’ ink stamp of the ‘Screenwriter’s Guild of the Author’s League of America, it reads more like an historical novel than a script”: ‘a romance’ interspersed with liberal helpings of Burns’s poetry (Watson translates some of Burns’ harder words to ensure that his American employers can understand what Burns was writing about.). It appears to be unpublished, and remained an un-realized project at the time of Watson’s death in 1948. Loosely inserted is a signed ‘Option Agreement’ between Watson’s widow and Richard Walton, dated 1950: this does not seem to have come to anything either?
The author’s own CV notes that Watson was ‘born and educated in Glasgow, Scotland; and is the author of three published Scottish novels which have had a wide circulation in Great Britain, America, Canada and Australia; He was for several years correspondent for "The Glasgow Bulletin", (500,000 daily circulation,) the Thomson Publications, (3 millions circulation per week,) and columnist for both publications. His journalistic work is known throughout the British Empire and in the United States; He lectured over Canada for the Canadian Pacific Steam Ship Co, on the subject, "Scotland, in Song and Story,"; He lectured in Canada and the United States on "Robert Burns," "Robert Louis Stevenson," and "Mary, Queen of Scots,"
He was a well known athlete in Scotland in his youth and a prize winner at Scotland's greatest track meets. He is intimately acquainted with all phases of Highland Games, Highland Dancing, Curling, Hockey, Association Football, et cetera; He judged the famous Banff Highland Games in the Canadian Rockies, in 1931; he judged the Canadian Olympic Trials and the Canadian Track and Field Championships, in 1932; He is Ex Vice-president and Ex-National Treasurer of the Canadian Authors Association; also Ex-president of the United Scottish Association of the Province of Manitoba, (27 Scottish organiza tions, with 7,000 affiliations); He served on the Advisory Board of the Scottish-Canadian Reunion from Canada to Scotland in 1932, addressing 25,000 native Scots at one gathering, in Glagow, Scotland, responding in behalf of Canada;
He has filled important assignments on the following Scottish pictures and individual characterizations in Hollywood: "The Little Minister," "The Young in Heart, .... "Allegheny Uprising," ...."The Underpup, ".... "Three Cheers for the Irish, ".... "Rivers End, ".... and “Bob, Son of Battle," a technicolor Scottish film, aka “Thunder in the Valley”, released in 1947 .
He is the author of 16 published books - novels, travel, history, poetry, nature history, et cetera. See British, Canad ian and United States "Who's Whos." His books are used in Canadian schools; His short stories have been 'starred' in O'Brien's Annual of America's Best Short Stories," His humor has appeared in " Punch", London, England; His feature material has been reproduced in "The Readers Digest". He was editor of “The Beaver" for 15 years, an internationally known magazine of the Hudson’s Bay Company” (adapted from the author’s own CV).
Watson “came to Canada in 1908. He married Anna McNaught Johnstone in 1911. He was employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company from 1917 to 1932, serving as Editor of The Beaver, among other duties. He wrote several books, including My Brave and Gallant Gentleman (1918), The Girl of O.K. Valley (1919), Stronger Than His Sea (1920), The Spoilers of the Valley (1921), The Mad Minstrel (1923), Gordon of the Lost Lagoon (1924), and A Boy of the Great North West (1930). He then moved to British Columbia before going on to Hollywood, California where he worked in the motion picture industry. He died at Laguna Beach, California on 13 January 1948 as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident on New Year’s Eve.
See images, and https://abcbookworld.com/writer/watson-robert/#:~:text=Robert%20Watson%20was%20born%20in%20Glasgow%2C%20Scotland%20in,became%20editor%20of%20The%20Bay%27s%20magazine%2C%20The%20Beaver. (2)
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