Thomas Sturdy Law, though one of the lesser-known 20th century Scottish poets, is an interesting figure. From a mining background and largely self-educated, he worked almost exclusively in Scots throughout his long and prolific writing life, which co-existed with his career as a technical writer. His poems were published in many periodicals and latterly under his own imprint, Fingerpost Publicatiouns. Law was championed at various times by Christopher Grieve, Douglas Young, Hamish Henderson, Edwin Morgan and others - these, and many more of his contemporaries, feature in the correspondence files. The archive is imbued with Law’s passionate and life-long commitment to communism, republicanism, atheism, and a fierce Scottish nationalism. Tom Hubbard writes in his essay introducing Law`s `At the Pynt o the Pick and other poems` (Blackford: Fingerpost, 2008) that `T S Law ... is the bard of the democratic intellect. Here is working-class temperament, working-class sensibility, variously difficult and straightforward.` The archival evidence is there in the poetry and correspondence, and in the papers relating to his active involvement with the John MacLean Society, the National Assembly for Scotland campaign, and the Scots Language Society.