Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer)
Dates
- Existence: 1921-1996. - 1996
Biography
George Mackay Brown (1921-96), was a novelist, poet and playwright, who was born in Orkney. He was educated at Newbattle Abbey College and the University of Edinburgh, and, apart from his time at these institutions, he rarely left the islands of his birth.
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
34 letters to David Morrison of correspondents including George Mackay Brown, Neil Gunn, and Fionn MacColla, all concerning the 'Scotia Review'; with associated typescripts and page proofs of poems and articles.
104 letters of George Mackay Brown to Patricia Crouden.
162 letters of George Mackay Brown to Jenny Robertson.
Includes two letters, 1981, to Robertson's daughter Aileen, three incomplete letters and a copy of a poem 'To George' by Jenny Robertson.
235 letters to Alan Bold.
Correspondents include: George Mackay Brown, Norman MacCaig, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean and Muriel Spark.
Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of 'Lifeboat and other poems', by George Mackay Brown.
Contains correspondence between George Mackay Brown, Richard Gilbertson and Norah Smallwood concerning Gilbertson's publishing of 'Lifeboat and other poems', with typescripts of several of the poems included in the collection.
Four letters and two postcards of George Mackay Brown and six letters of George Davie concerning his wife, the writer Elspeth Davie, to Valentina Poggi.
Includes a covering letter from the recipient of these letters and cards, Valentina Poggi.
Letter and postcard of George Mackay Brown to Bernard Bergonzi concerning the latter's visit to Orkney in 1995.
Inlcudes covering letter, 2007, of Bernard Bergonzi.
Letter of George Mackay Brown to a Mr Mitchell concerning a shipwreck on North Ronaldsay.
Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford.
Letters, 1986-1994, of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Grawford; with manuscript and typescript poems and acrostics, 1986-1995; uncorrected typescript, 1986, of "The Ballad of the Golden Bird"; sketchbook, 1985, of Kenna Crawford containing manuscript poem of George Mackay Brown.
Letters of George Mackay Brown to Peter and Betty Grant, with literary papers including manuscript of `Greenvoe` (1972) and typescript of `Hawkfall and other stories` (1974), with photographs of George Mackay Brown, his mother and friends.
Letters of Hamish Henderson, Ian Hamilton Finlay and George Mackay Brown to Maurice Fleming.
Comprising two letters (1957, 1958) of Hamish Henderson; two letters (1965, ?1966) of Ian Hamilton Finlay; one letter (1966) of George Mackay Brown.
Papers of George Mackay Brown, including letters, postcards, and Christmas cards.
Six letters and three cards of George Mackay Brown to Maurice Fleming.
Three letters of George Mackay Brown, likely to Patricia Crouden.
Twenty letters of Willa Muir to George Mackay Brown.
Two letters of George Mackay Brown, likely to Jim Muir.
Two letters of George Mackay Brown to John Wilson.
On life at Moray House, and on Brown's poetry.
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