Scope and Contents

Papers mostly concern MacDiarmid`s election campaign in Kinross and West Perthshire in 1964.

Scope and Contents

Including letters of J D Ferguson, C M Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid), Hamish Henderson, O H Mavor and Douglas Young

Scope and Contents

Concerning "Catalyst" and the 1320 Club.

Correspondents include Duncan Glen, Fionn MacColla, C M Grieve and Tom Scott.

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include George Mackay Brown, C M Grieve, Neil Gunn and Fionn MacColla.

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.

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.

Scope and Contents

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

Scope and Contents

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

Scope and Contents

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

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.

Scope and Contents

Concerns publication of "The White Rose of Scotland".

Scope and Contents

On the inclusion of a poem in an anthology to be edited by Dame Edith Sitwell.

Scope and Contents

Includes typescript of "Mature Art".

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Correspondents include George Mackay Brown, Christopher Murray Grieve, Alexander Scott, and Sydney Goodsir Smith, on literary and personal matters.

Scope and Contents Letters to Ian A Gordon, who was then working in the English Department of the University of Edinburgh. He was subsequently Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Wellington, New Zealand.The letters concern permission to use quotations from poems in a lecture on ‘Modern Scots Poetry’. This lecture was subsequently published in 'Edinburgh Essays on Scots Literature: being a course of lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh by members of the...

Scope and Contents 14 letters to Naomi Mitchison, 1931-1965, undated, with 2 copy letters of Naomi Mitchison, 1948-1949.The contents are as follows:Letter to Naomi Mitchison from Robert Graves, undated (1).Copy letters of Naomi Mitchison to Robert Graves, 1948-1949 (2). (16 November 1948; 15 February 1949).Letters to Naomi Mitchison from C M Grieve, 1931-1955 (8). (31 May 1931; 19 June 1931; 16 July 1931; 22 July 1931; 27 January 1932; 17 January 1934; 3 June...

Scope and Contents

Letters, 1901, 1958, 1966, 1977, to and relating to Francis George Scott; correspondents include Christopher Grieve and George Campbell Hay. With copy of photograph, 1936, of Grieve and Neil Gunn; press-cuttings, 1949, 1952; copy of a memoir of F. G. Scott, `Border Forays into Fife`, by his daughter Lillias Forbes; copy of list of unpublished songs by F. G. Scott compiled by Lillias Forbes.

Scope and Contents

9 letters.

Scope and Contents

Including letters of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Robert Graves, C M Grieve, O H Mavor, and Siegfried Sassoon.

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Christopher Grieve (`Hugh MacDiarmid`), Sydney Goodsir Smith, Alastair Mackie, Archie Lamont and David Craig.