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Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 1(1)-Box 46(2)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1962-1976, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including papers and printed material of the Scottish National Party, PEN International and other political and cultural bodies.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6419 Box 1(1)-Box 108(3)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles, reviews and lectures.

With letters of and to various correspondents, including James Bridie, C M Grieve, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Naomi Mitchison, and Edwin Muir.

And documents and correspondence concerning the SNP, PEN, the Saltire Society, and other organisations.

Dates: 1890-1973, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including printed material, mostly concerning Scottish politics.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7085 Box 1(1)-Box 32
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles, reviews, addresses, and broadcast talks, with letters on literary, academic and political matters.

Also printed items concerning the Scottish National Party, PEN, and other organisations.

Dates: 1938-1973, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Robert Duncan Macleod, editor of the ‘Library review’.

 File
Identifier: MS.10330
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Corrected typescripts and manuscripts of articles by Frederick Niven and others, published in the ‘Library review’, volumes iii-iv (1932-1934), and in ‘Modern Scottish literature’, edited by R D Macleod (Glasgow, 1933), pages 13-16. (Folio 1.)(ii) Correspondence between Macleod and L Stanley Jast, 1930-1944, concerning libraries and Jast's contributions to the ‘Library review’. It includes the manuscript of an article by Jast, 'The man...
Dates: 1930-1944.

Correspondence between Lewis Spence and R E Muirhead.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3565
Scope and Contents

With an offprint of article of Spence.

Dates: 1927-1930.

Correspondence between Steuart Campbell and the editor of "Free Inquiry", New York.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11890
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescript article entitled "On Morality".

Dates: 1984-1986.

Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.

Dates: Circa 1903-1982, undated.

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates: circa 1916-2006.

Correspondence, diaries, records of consultation, drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles and papers, and personal papers, of and relating to Dr William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13332- is now part of MSS.50100-50251.
Scope and Contents Ronald Fairbairn was born in Edinburgh in 1889 and educated at Merchiston Castle School and the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Kiel and Strasbourg. During the First World War he served as a Territorial in the Royal Garrison Artillery with postings in Egypt and Palestine. He was Assistant Physician at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental Diseases from 1923-1924 and subsequently forged a career in medical psychology. He produced numerous psychological publications. He married,...
Dates: 1896-2006.

Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9736/1-161
Scope and Contents Born in Dalavich, Argyll and resident for most of his life in Paisley and Elderslie where he was in business as a surveyor, MacFarlane was a notable Gaelic activist and writer from the late 1880s. He played a prominent part in the early years of An Comunn Gaidhealach (particularly in the production of its magazine, An Deò-Gréine, later An Gaidheal) while, as a radical in politics, taking issue with what he regarded as the An Comunn leadership's over-deference to aristocratic patronage and...
Dates: 1882-1930, undated.

Correspondence, typescripts, press cuttings and other papers of Wilfred Taylor.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9575/1-119
Scope and Contents

Includes articles, reviews, memoirs, plays, speeches notes and correspondence.

With volume containing press cuttings, photographs and programmes, 1886-1937, concerning the Ayr Burns Club and Burns Federation.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1846, 1938-1986.

Letters of, and an article by, Robert D Macleod.

 File
Identifier: MS.9997
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters,1930-1956, undated, to Robert Macleod, chiefly in his capacity of editor of ‘Library review’. The writers include J M Builoch, R B Cunninghame Graham, and Donald Carswell. Most of the correspondence concerns articles for ‘Library review’, but there is also material on a memorial to Cunninghame Graham, and a number of autobiographical notes requested by Macleod in 1932. (Folio 1.) (ii) Typescript, 1957, of an unpublished article by Macleod entitled...
Dates: 1930-1957, undated.

Letters of Thomas Hardy to Sir George B Douglas, 5th Baronet of Springwood Park, near Kelso, Roxburghshire.

 File
Identifier: MS.8121
Scope and Contents

As well as giving his impressions of contemporary literary figures, Hardy discusses poetry and frequently mentions both his own and Douglas's work including the reception in 1895-1896 of 'Jude the Obscure'.

The letters are followed by a typescript of Sir George Douglas's article, 'Thomas Hardy: personal reminiscences’.

Dates: 1887-1924, undated.

Literary papers and diaries of the author and poet, Violet Jacob (1863-1946).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27411-27416
Scope and Contents

Born Kennedy-Erskine, she was brought up in the House of Dun near Montrose, and married an army officer in 1894. She wrote in both Scots and English, and some of her prose works are set in Angus.

Dates: 1895-[circa 1945], undated.

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Correspondence. 61
Manuscripts. 39
Poetry. 35
Speeches. Documents. 20
Diaries. 18
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Reviews. Document genre 18
Letters. Correspondence. 17
Photographs. 16
Notes. 15
Short stories. 15
Drafts. Documents. 14
Notebooks. 14
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 14
Lectures. 9
Essays. 8
Copies. Derivative objects. 7
Proofs. printed matter 7
Reviews. Document genre. 7
Plays. 6
Proofs. Printed matter. 6
Accounts. 5
Novels. 5
Photocopies. 5
Publications. 5
Financial records. 4
Biographies. 3
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 3
Excerpts. 3
Minute books. 3
Obituaries. 3
Offprints. 3
Pamphlets. 3
Annotations. 2
Autobiographies. 2
Bibliographies. 2
Documents. 2
Fragments. 2
Histories. 2
Lithographs. Planographic prints. 2
Maps. Cartographic materials. 2
Memorandums. 2
Negatives. Photographs. 2
Newsletters. Serials. 2
Personal papers. 2
Prefaces. 2
Printed materials. Object genre. 2
Professional papers. 2
Reports. 2
Rules. Instructions. 2
Slides. Photographs. 2
Sound recordings. 2
Transcripts 2
Translations. Documents. 2
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Agendas. Administrative records. 1
Anecdotes. 1
Audiocassettes. 1
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 1
Books 1
Broadcasts. Events. 1
Calculations. 1
Calligraphy. Visual works. 1
Cashbooks. 1
Christmas cards. 1
Cookbooks. 1
Declarations. 1
Dedications. Documents. 1
Dictionaries. 1
Drawings. Visual works. 1
Engravings. Prints. 1
Ephemera. 1
Exercise books. 1
Extracts. 1
Fliers. Printed matter. 1
Genealogies. 1
Genealogy. 1
Handbooks. Document genres. 1
Leaflets. 1
Lecture notes. 1
Lists. 1
Magazines. periodicals. 1
Memoirs. 1
Memorials. Legal documents. 1
Mountaineering. 1
Nationalism. Scottish. 1
Novellas. 1
Optical discs. 1
Order forms. 1
Periodicals. 1
Photograph albums. 1
Politics. 1
Portraits. 1
Postcards. 1
Prints. Visual works 1
Prints. Visual works. 1
Programmes. 1
Questionnaires. 1
Receipts. Financial records. 1
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Language
English 59
Undetermined 18
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1
 
Names
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 4
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 3
Scottish National Party 3
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Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 3
Akros, literary magazine 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 2
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 2
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 2
Scotia Review, literary journal 2
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 2
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
Akros Publications 1
Ayr Burns Club 1
Black, David MacLeod, poet, b 1941 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Campbell, Steuart, science writer, b 1937 1
Cursiter, Stanley, Director, National Galleries of Scotland, 1887-1976 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Edinburgh Review (Scottish cultural magazine, 1969-) 1
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Fraser, Duncan, author and publisher, 1905-1977 1
Free Inquiry, New York, secular humanist journal 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008: recipient 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965: recipient 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Halliday, James, author, historian and politician, 1927-2013 1
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Law, Alexander, HM Inspector of Schools, 1903-1995 1
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 1
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 1
MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin, writer and photographer, 1899-1970 1
MacLean Sorley, Poet, 1911-1996. 1
MacNeacail, Aonghas, poet, b 1942 1
MacPhárlain, Calum, Gaelic activist and writer, 1853-1931 1
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 1
Martin, Burns, author of "Allan Ramsay: a Study of His Life and Works", fl 1900-1945 1
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 1
Moncrieff, George Scott-, writer, 1910-1974 1
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Muirhead, Roland Eugene, Chairman of the Scottish National Party, 1868-1964 1
Murray, Isobel Mary, Emeritus Professor, Modern Scottish Literature, University of Aberdeen, b 1939: collector 1
National Party of Scotland 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 1
Oliver, John Walter, Principal Lecturer in English, Moray House Training College, Edinburgh, 1893-1957 1
Orr, John Boyd, 1st Baron Boyd Orr, 1880-1971 1
Orr, John Boyd, 1st Baron Boyd Orr, 1880-1971. 1
Pirie-Gordon, Charles Harry Clinton, journalist, naval intelligence officer and genealogist, 1883-1969 1
Ramsay, Allan, poet, 1684-1758 1
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 1
Saltire Society 1
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 1
Spence, James Lewis Thomas Chalmers, poet and Scottish nationalist, 1874-1955 1
Spence, James Lewis Thomas Chalmers, poet and Scottish nationalist, 1874-1955: recipient 1
Standard Press Ltd, Montrose, publishers 1
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 1
Taylor, Wilfred (journalist and author) 1
The Robert Burns World Federation Limited 1
Weir, Thomas [Tom] (explorer, journalist and photographer) 1
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 1
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973. 1
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