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 English Department and others' (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1933), pages 125-148.

Contains letters from the following:

Alexander Gray, 9 June 1933

W S Cocker, 10 June 1933

Andrew Young, 10 June 1933

Christoper Murray Grieve, 12 June 1933

Violet Jacob, 12 June 1933

Marion Angus, 13 June 1933

James Macnair Reid, 15 June 1933

Muriel Stuart, 17 June 1933