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Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid)

 Person

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

19 letters of Robert Garioch and five letters of Hugh MacDiarmid to Gael Turnbull.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9957
Scope and Contents

Mostly concerning Turnbull`s poems.

Dates: 1955-1981.

29 letters of C M Grieve to Mr and Mrs James Dunlop.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9022
Scope and Contents

With letter, 1950, of Edwin Muir to Andrew Letters.

Dates: 1948-1978.

35 letters, 1971-1978, of Hugh MacDiarmid to Morven Cameron.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9004
Scope and Contents

Mostly on personal matters.

With letter, 1969, of Benjamin Britten to Cameron, concerning his settings of poems by William Soutar.

Dates: 1969-1978.

43 letters to William McCance.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9891
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Neil Gunn, Hugh MacDiarmid and Francis George Scott.

With two letters, 1937-1940, of Peggy Grieve to Agnes Miller Parker.

Dates: 1926-1937.

44 letters of C M Grieve to Ian F G Milner.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8376
Scope and Contents

Concerning literary and personal matters.

Dates: 1955-1978.

56 letters of Christopher M Grieve to Ronald Stevenson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10567
Scope and Contents

Concern both men`s work.

Dates: 1957-1978.

115 letters to W R Aitken and his family of Hugh MacDiarmid, and four from Valda Grieve.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10488
Scope and Contents

With manuscripts of a short story and essay of MacDiarmid, proof copy of "Sanschaw" and typescript copy of a thesis on MacDiarmid by Claude Henry.

Dates: 1934-1978.

118 letters to James K Annand.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9624
Scope and Contents

Concerning literary and personal matters, with associated manuscripts of poems.

Correspondents include: Robert Garioch, Hugh MacDiarmid and Albert D Mackie.

Dates: 1926-1985.

235 letters to Alan Bold.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10374
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: George Mackay Brown, Norman MacCaig, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean and Muriel Spark.

Dates: 1964-1990.

Autograph transcripts of 15 of Hugh MacDiarmid`s poems.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10095
Scope and Contents

Includes letter of MacDiarmid to W Gordon Smith concerning a recording of the poems.

Dates: 1962.

Circa 1300 letters to William Johnstone.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8183
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include C M Grieve and Francis George Scott, mostly on artistic and literary matters.

Dates: 1926-1981.

Correspondence and other papers of Morris Blythman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9939
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of Hugh MacDiarmid and Sean O`Casey.

Dates: 1953-1981.

Eight letters of Christopher Grieve to Hans Petersen.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13452
Scope and Contents

Eight letters, 1961-1969, of Christopher Grieve to Hans Petersen, with photocopy of revision copy, 1966, of Grieve`s entry in "Contemporary Authors" with his manuscript amendments.

Dates: 1961-1969.

Four letters, 1935-1936, of or concerning C M Grieve to R D McIntyre, with other papers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9902
Scope and Contents

Includes:

Edinburgh University student rectorial broadsheet "Students` Front" (1936)

14 letters and other papers, 1942-1945, of or concerning Douglas Young

copy, undated, of "A Ballad for Douglas Young", attributed to Sydney Goodsir Smith.

Dates: 1935-1945.

Galley proofs of "A Symposium on the After War Religion", unpublished work edited by Denis Saurat, and including an essay of Hugh MacDiarmid.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9410
Scope and Contents

With five letters to Robert S Silver, three from Saurat and one each from MacDiarmid and Robert McLellan.

Dates: 1946-1952.

Letter, 1971, of Hugh MacDiarmid to Colin Forrester.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9992
Scope and Contents

With notes, 1989, of Forrester concerning the MacDiarmid`s letter.

Dates: 1971-1989.

Letter of Christoper Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) to Dr John Thomas Low concerning Low`s edition of Stevenson`s "Weir of Hermiston" (1973).

 File
Identifier: Acc.12881
Scope and Contents

With a postcard of Ronald Mavor concerning Low`s edition of Bridie`s "Mr Bolfry".

Dates: circa 1973-1978.

Letter of Christopher Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13299
Scope and Contents

Letter, 1967, of Christopher Grieve to the donor, Dennis McWilliams, in response to questions sent by McWilliams while preparing his article on Hugh MacDiarmid, `A hero of our time`, published in `Unjustified, the University of Kent magazine`, May 1967. The accession includes a copy of the magazine, and copies of `English`, Autumn 1967, and `The Week-end Scotsman`, 12 August 1967; all carry articles on MacDiarmid.

Dates: 1966

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Subject
Poetry. 8
Photocopies. 7
Typescripts. 5
Copies. Derivative objects. 4
Essays. 4