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Includes incoming correspondence and manuscript, typescript and research papers for "The Finishing School".

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During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.

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Correspondents include James K Annand, Norman MacCaig and Muriel Spark.

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Principally comprising correspondence arising from the writing of Spark`s autobiography "Curriculum Vitae", and also general business correspondence, together with a small number of working notes and manuscripts.

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Includes research material, manuscript and typescript of the novel, "Aiding and Abetting", manuscripts of short stories, and correspondence files, 1997-2000.

Scope and Contents Family and personal papers, circa 1900-2007, of Samuel Robin Spark. Comprising mainly letters of his mother, Muriel Spark, to her son and to her mother, Sarah Camberg. The correspondence includes some letters of Penelope Jardine; also letters of Martin Stannard, Muriel Spark`s biographer. In 1981, Robin Spark began keeping copies of his outgoing letters to his mother; these are filed into the chronological sequence. With family papers, correspondence and documents gathered by Robin Spark in...

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Letter and photograph relating to presentation of Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh.

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Most of the letters allude to Stanford`s book on Muriel Spark (published by Centaur) and to Miss Spark in unflattering terms.

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letter, 1948, to Clive Sansom, concerning the Poetry Society

letter, 1966, to John Smith, commenting on the first stage production of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"