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115 letters to W R Aitken and his family of Hugh MacDiarmid, and four from Valda Grieve.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10488
Scope and Contents
With manuscripts of a short story and essay of MacDiarmid, proof copy of "Sanschaw" and typescript copy of a thesis on MacDiarmid by Claude Henry.
Dates:
1934-1978.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of Alan Bold, David Morrison, and Tom Scott.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6329/1-9
Scope and Contents
Including corrected manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles and essays.
With letters of Alan Bold and Tom Scott to David Morrison, on literary matters.
Dates:
1972-1974 and undated.
Papers of James B Caird, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, essays, articles and talks; and letters to Caird on literary matters.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.262- is now part of Acc.10193.
Scope and Contents
Among the letters to Caird are two of Sorley Maclean, one of George Scott-Moncrieff, two of Edwin Morgan, three of Edwin Muir, three of Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of Douglas Young, and four, 1967-1978, of C M Grieve.
Dates:
1946-1975.