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Academic and literary correspondence of Professor Alastair Fowler, with some drafts of works and press cuttings.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12015/1-57
Scope and Contents

This accession is one of several in the National Library of Scotland covering mainly incoming correspondence, but also containing copies of some outgoing letters and other literary material.

Acc.12015/57 gives biographical details on individual correspondents.

Dates: [Circa 1971-2000], undated.

Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.

 File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates: 1696-1891, undated.

Collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.7
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) an engraved portrait of Boyd, 1596, by Thomas de Leu, or De Leeuw (folio 1), made probably when he was at Paris;(ii) an account of the family of Boyd (by Robert Boyd of Trochrig), undated, written to an unidentified correspondent (folio 1);(iii) heads of lectures on the Institutions of Justinian, entitled `In Instituta Imperatoris commenta, 1591` (folio 3), accompanied by marginalia, some lengthy, as far as folio 52 verso;...
Dates: 1590-1596, 1671, and undated.

Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Dates: 1548-1641.

Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.

 Item
Identifier: MS.963
Scope and Contents The comonplace book contains drafts of letters to the ‘Bee’, an inventory of the Earl of Buchan’s property, lists of Scottish portraits, an ode, ‘To the Shepherd of the Cot’, and notes and drafts of papers on the Scottish Peerage and other subjects. Included is a manuscript copy of ‘The New Order of Gooding and Manuring all sorts of Field Land with Common Salts’, by Archibald, afterwards 1st Lord Napier (said to have been printed by Robert Waldegrave), referring to the right to issue...
Dates: 1778-1791.

Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14842-14847
Scope and Contents

Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.

Dates: 1792-mid 20th century.

Draft letter (beginning missing), 1865, of David Livingstone.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9468
Scope and Contents

On possible misinterpretation of his remarks on America.

Includes:

letter, 1857, of Roualeyn Gordon Cumming to Livingstone, acknowledging a copy of his book

photocopy of a poem, 1874, on Livingstone.

Dates: 1857-1874.

Drafts and corrected typescript of Forbes Macgregor, "The Gowks of Mowdieknowes".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5761
Scope and Contents

With associated correspondence, and photocopies of a play and three poems.

Dates: 1963.

Further papers of and relating to Harvey Holton.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14023/1-4

Further papers of Gordon Jarvie.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13398
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise: (1) draft, 2013, of "Bessy Bell", a collection of poems by Gordon Jarvie, (2) drafts and correspondence relating to 1st and 2nd editions of "Climber`s Calendar" (2001, 2007), with correspondence, papers and ephemera relating to Jarvie`s Scottish mountain climbing and `Munro-bagging`, (3) finding list for Jarvie`s literary works.

Dates: circa 1999-2013.

Letters, chiefly of the first two Viscounts Melville and other Dundases.

 File
Identifier: MS.3834
Scope and Contents Many of the letters appear to have been addressed to John Wauchope, Writer to the Signet. Those of the 1st Viscount Melville are mainly drafts. The letters deal, among other matters, with family affairs, Scottish politics and appointments, the defence of Scotland, the affairs of the sons of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, and work done by Sir Francis Chantrey. Other papers include a draft petition in the name of the Scottish Representative Peers against the Bill for abolishing their election,...
Dates: 1719, 1771-1820, undated.

Letters of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26672-26674

Literary papers of Alison Fell.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12394/1-85
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry, short stories, novels, and works for radio, film and the theatre.This collection includes papers relating to the following published works:'The bad box' (London: Virago, 1987)'The crystal owl' (London: Methuen, 1988)'Dreams, like heretics' (London: Serpent’s Tail, 1997)'Every move you make' (London: Virago, 1984)'The grey dancer'...
Dates: 1971-2001.

Literary papers of Ruth Thomas.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13389
Scope and Contents

Literary papers, c.1990-2012, of Ruth Thomas comprising digital archive, print-outs, notebooks and business correspondence.

Dates: c. 1990-2012.

Literary papers of Stewart Conn.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12098/1-57
Scope and Contents Literary papers, 1961-1999, of Stewart Conn (b. 1936), a poet and playwright who was for many years a drama producer for BBC Radio Scotland. These papers includes correspondence, typescripts and a small number of manuscript drafts of poetry, and scripts of plays and adaptations for stage, radio and television.Many of the scripts in this collection have never been published, but it includes manuscripts and typescripts relating to the following published works: 'The Chinese tower'...
Dates: 1961-2005.

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.

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Drafts. Documents. 45
Letters. Correspondence. 25
Correspondence. 22
Manuscripts. 19
Typescripts. 17
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Copies. Derivative objects. 12
Notes. 11
Lists. 10
Diaries. 6
Notebooks. 5
Photocopies. 5
Articles. 4
Fragments. 4
Lectures. 4
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 4
Reports. 4
Short stories. 4
Speeches. Documents. 4
Accounts. 3
Declarations. 3
Documents. 3
Novels. 3
Photographs. 3
Scripts. Documents 3
Transcripts. 3
Translations. Documents. 3
Treatises. 3
Abstracts. Summaries. 2
Audiocassettes. 2
Catalogues. 2
Dispatches. 2
Drafts. Documents 2
Drawings. Visual works. 2
Epitaphs. 2
Excerpts. 2
Financial records. 2
Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 2
Genealogies. 2
Instructions. Document genre. 2
Legal documents. 2
Legislative acts. Legislative records. 2
Memorandums. 2
Minutes. Administrative records. 2
Orders. Records (documents). 2
Petitions. 2
Plays. 2
Portraits. 2
Printed materials. Object genre. 2
Publishers and publishing. 2
Receipts. Financial records. 2
Statements. 2
Warrants. Permissions. 2
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Agreements. Legal instruments. 1
Annual reports. 1
Appointment books. 1
Autobiographies. 1
Autographs (manuscripts). 1
Bibliographies. 1
Biographies. 1
Bonds. Legal instruments. 1
Caricatures. 1
Cashbooks. 1
Ciphers. Codes. 1
Commissions. Permissions. 1
Commonplace books. 1
Decrees. 1
Dedications. Documents. 1
Depositions. Testimonies. 1
Descriptions. Documents. 1
Dissertations. 1
Engravings. Prints. 1
Epigrams. 1
Epistles. 1
Extracts. 1
Facsimiles. Reproductions. 1
Family papers. 1
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Forgeries. Derivative objects. 1
Government records. 1
Illuminated manuscripts. 1
Indictments. Legal documents. 1
Inventories. 1
Journals. Accounts. 1
Licences. Permissions. 1
Literature (writings). 1
Loyalty oath. 1
Manifestoes. 1
Maps. Cartographic materials. 1
Memoirs. 1
Memorials. Legal documents. 1
Microfilms. 1
Missives. Legal documents. 1
Mountaineering. 1
Negatives. Photographs. 1
Notarial documents. 1
Novellas. 1
Obituaries. 1
Optical discs. 1
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Language
English 24
Undetermined 20
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 2
Scots 1
 
Names
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 3
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 2
Akros, literary magazine 1
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 1
Bold, Alan Norman, poet, writer, critic and artist, 1943-1998 1
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Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Gairm Publications 1
Gairm, Gaelic literary and topical magazine 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Harper, James Walker, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1859-1938 1
Holton, Harvey, poet, 1949-2010 1
Hutchison, Alexander, poet, 1943-2015 1
Hutchison, Alexander, poet, b 1943 1
Jarvie, Gordon, writer and editor, b.1941. 1
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 1
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 1
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873: recipient 1
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 1
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 1
Mariscat Press (poetry publishers, Edinburgh) 1
Robertson, James Logie, literary scholar and author, pseudonym Hugh Haliburton, 1846-1922 1
Scottish Episcopal Church 1
Scottish Episcopal Church, Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane 1
Shayer, Michael (psychologist) 1
St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth 1
Thomas, Ruth, writer, b. 1967 1
Turnbull, Gael Lundin, poet and physician, 1928-2004 1
Whyte, Christopher, poet and novelist, b 1952 1
Whyte, Hamish (poet and publisher) 1
Wilkinson, George Howard, Scottish Episcopal bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane, 1833-1907 1
Wordsworth, Charles, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1806-1892 1
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