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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, 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 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.

Literary papers of James B Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11108
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles and talks.

Dates: 1931-1989.

Literary papers of Janet Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11109
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, articles and talks.

Dates: 1928-1990.

Literary papers of the poet and author, Alastair Reid (born 1926).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27446-27464
Scope and Contents

Born in Whithorn and educated at St Andrews, Alastair Reid lived in Spain and Latin America for many years, translating from Spanish as well as writing his own poetry and prose. His papers reflect these different kinds of work.

Dates: 1953-1981, undated.

Manuscripts, typescripts, drafts and proofs of works of Kenneth White, including related correspondence and notes.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10613/1-48
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, short stories, autobiography and travel works.

Dates: 1963-1992, undated.

Papers of and concerning Lord Boyd Orr.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6545
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of speeches, lectures, articles, reviews, broadcast talks, and memorandums, with correspondence and associated printed items.

Dates: 1938-1971.

Papers of and concerning O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11309
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, articles, broadcast talks and biography.

Dates: 1904-1988.

Papers of David Cairns.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9326
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of articles, addresses, and poems, transcripts of diaries and correspondence.

Dates: 1926-1986.

Papers of Eric Linklater.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10155/1-98
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of addresses, articles, broadcast talks and poems, with correspondence.

Dates: 1902-1974 and undated.

Papers of G S Fraser.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11756
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of articles, essays, reviews and translations, many arranged in order by Fraser`s wife, Eileen, with a view to publication in collected form; also includes printed material by Fraser and correspondence concerning his work.

Dates: circa 1957-1980.

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Correspondence. 27
Manuscripts. 23
Speeches. Documents. 21
Poetry. 18
Drafts. Documents. 16
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Photographs. 10
Diaries. 9
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 9
Notebooks. 8
Reviews. Document genre 8
Notes. 7
Copies. Derivative objects. 6
Essays. 6
Lectures. 5
Letters. Correspondence. 5
Photocopies. 5
Plays. 5
Reviews. Document genre. 4
Translations. Documents. 4
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 3
Obituaries. 3
Offprints. 3
Proofs. Printed matter. 3
Short stories. 3
Accounts. 2
Biographies. 2
Documents. 2
Excerpts. 2
Maps. Cartographic materials. 2
Negatives. Photographs. 2
Prefaces. 2
Publications. 2
Reports. 2
Rules. Instructions. 2
Transcripts 2
Travel journals. 2
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Anecdotes. 1
Annotations. 1
Audiocassettes. 1
Bibliographies. 1
Calculations. 1
Calligraphy. Visual works. 1
Cashbooks. 1
Cookbooks. 1
Declarations. 1
Dedications. Documents. 1
Dictionaries. 1
Drawings. Visual works. 1
Engravings. Prints. 1
Ephemera. 1
Exercise books. 1
Extracts. 1
Financial records. 1
Fragments. 1
Genealogies. 1
Lecture notes. 1
Lists. 1
Magazines. periodicals. 1
Memorandums. 1
Memorials. Legal documents. 1
Minute books. 1
Newsletters. Serials. 1
Novellas. 1
Novels. 1
Optical discs. 1
Pamphlets. 1
Periodicals. 1
Personal papers. 1
Photograph albums. 1
Portraits. 1
Printed materials. Object genre. 1
Prints. Visual works 1
Prints. Visual works. 1
Professional papers. 1
Receipts. Financial records. 1
Reports 1
Research notes. 1
Sales records. Financial records. 1
Scripts. Documents 1
Scripts. Documents. 1
Sermons. 1
Sketches. 1
Slides. Photographs. 1
Snapshots. 1
Transcripts. 1
Travel journals 1
Travel sketches. 1
Treatises. 1
Videocassettes. 1
Warrants. Permissions. 1
Wrangel Island. Asia - Russia - Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Island. Longitude: -179.5000. Latitude: 71.0000. 1
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Language
English 29
Undetermined 7
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1
 
Names
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 3
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 3
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 2
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Ayr Burns Club 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965: recipient 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 1
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 1
MacLean Sorley, Poet, 1911-1996. 1
MacPhárlain, Calum, Gaelic activist and writer, 1853-1931 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 1
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 1
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 1
Moncrieff, George Scott-, writer, 1910-1974 1
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 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
Scottish National Party 1
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 1
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 1
Tannahill, Andrew, poet and translator, 1900-1986 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
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