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Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935

 Person

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Broadcast script of a radio programme on Lewis Grassic Gibbon, written by William Montgomerie.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6861
Scope and Contents

With associated letter of Robert Kemp.

Dates: 1946.

Broadcast scripts of dramatisations by Ian Sherwood Munro of works by James Leslie Mitchell [Lewis Grassic Gibbon]., 1966.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.4883/13-15
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Comprising:

original manuscript and corrected typescript of "Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (Edinburgh, 1966); manuscript and broadcast scripts of eight radio plays and dramatisations, 1962-1968; 16 letters, 1959-1968, to Ian S Munro, correspondents including C M Grieve and Willa Muir.

Dates: 1966.

Correspondence, 1977-1982, mostly to Dr Michael J. McGrath, gathered as research for his thesis, 'James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon): A Study in Politics and Ideas in Relation to his Life and Work' (University of Edinburgh, 1983); with photocopies of letters, 1928-1932, of Gibbon to H G Wells.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10540
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:Ken Alexander (1), undated.John Campbell Arbuthnott (2), 18 July 1978, 26 October 1982.Gerald Austin (1), 12 January 1979.Peter Ritchie Calder (1), 11 June 1979.Ian Carter (1), 30 March 1979.Brenda R. Cluer (1), 28 June 1978.Robert Duncan (1), undated.Jon Evans (1), 8 March 1979.John Fraser (1), 1 August 1978.Margaret H. Fraser (1), 20 December...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1926, 1928-1932, 1977-1982, undated.

Financial and legal papers and correspondence relating to the works and literary estate of James Leslie Mitchell, sometimes writing as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, including some personal papers.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10966/1-47
Scope and Contents

Includes personal documents, publishing agreements, royalty statements and related correspondence. These papers are mostly concerned with the administration of James Leslie Mitchell's (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) literary estate following his death in 1935, firstly by his wife, Ray Mitchell, and subsequently by his daughter, Rhea Martin.

Dates: 1901-1986.

Letters to John Macnair Reid.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5651
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1928-1935.

Manuscript and corrected typescript of 'Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon' (Edinburgh, 1966), by Ian Sherwood Munro., 1960-1964, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.4883/1-2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Comprising:

original manuscript and corrected typescript of "Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (Edinburgh, 1966); manuscript and broadcast scripts of eight radio plays and dramatisations, 1962-1968; 16 letters, 1959-1968, to Ian S Munro, correspondents including C M Grieve and Willa Muir.

Dates: 1960-1964, undated.

Papers of Naomi Mitchison and her family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5885
Scope and Contents

Including:

1. letter, undated, of Naomi Mitchison and three letters, undated, of J B S Haldane to Elizabeth S Haldane

2. letter, 1914, of an Oxford suffragette to Lord Haldane

3. letters, 1939-1957 and undated, of Gordon Bottomley, Neil Gunn, and J Leslie Mitchell to Naomi Mitchison

4. typescripts of short story, undated, of Naomi Mitchison, "Other Laws for the People", and paper, undated, on civilisation in Scotland, also by Mitchison.

Dates: 1914-1957 and undated.

Papers of TAG Theatre Company, concerning a production of Lewis Grassic Gibbon`s trilogy, "A Scots Quair".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10939
Scope and Contents

Includes programmes, photographs and typescript and printed copies of an adaptation by Alastair Cording of "Sunset Song"

Dates: 1993.

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Subject
Letters. Correspondence. 4
Drafts. Documents. 3
Photocopies. 3
Typescripts. 3
Photographs. 2