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Literary manuscripts and personal papers of the poet and art critic, Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26116-26162
Scope and Contents

Born in New Zealand and educated in England, Sydney Goodsir Smith's first poems were in English, but he began writing in Scots in about 1940 and published several volumes of poetry. He also wrote for the stage, radio and television, as well as editing works of Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson. All these interests are reflected in his papers, but his work as an art critic survives in only a few fragmentary items.

Dates: 1922-1980, undated.

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 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 John Herdman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11089
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of a novel, a play, short stories, poems, articles and an autobiography.

Dates: 1950-1994.

Literary papers of Séan Rafferty.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12351
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of poems, short stories, sketches and ???, typescripts of poems by Ted Hughes, and correspondence with Nicholas Johnson and Kevin Perryman.

Dates: circa 1945-2003.

Literary papers of Tom Pow.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12233/1-87
Scope and Contents Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates: 1969-2003.

Manuscript essays of George Mackay Brown concerning Gerard Manley Hopkins, with related notebooks and notes.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13909
Scope and Contents

Includes several manuscript essays concerning various aspects of Hopkins' work, as well as three notebooks and some loose pages of notes, all concerning Hopkins.

Dates: Circa 1962-1964.

Manuscripts of Donald MacPherson.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14890-14895
Scope and Contents Donald MacPherson is described in ‘Cairm’, volume 25, page 207. He was born in Laggan, Badenoch, about 1788 (MS.14891, page 124). He served in the 75th Regiment for fourteen years, and reached the rank of sergeant. On leaving the army he married Mary Stacey, a native of Richmond-on-Thames, and entered business as a bookseller at 54 Upper Ebury Street, Pimlico. In 1824 he published some of his English poems as ‘Melodies from the Gaelic’. This achieving some success, he proposed another work,...
Dates: 1st half of 19th century.

Manuscripts, typescripts, notes and drafts of Kathleen Jamie, with related papers.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11599/1-54
Scope and Contents Kathleen Jamie was born in Johnstone in 1962, and studied at the University of Edinburgh. These papers date from the period 1988 to 1997. During this time, Kathleen Jamie was writer in residence to various organisations, including the Workington Docks Project and the University of Dundee, and was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Scottish-Canadian Fellowship in 1994. The collection includes papers relating to the following published or broadcast works:The Golden Peak (London:...
Dates: 1980-1997.

Manuscripts, typescripts, research notes and personal papers of Jean Mary Allan, librarian and novelist.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8844/1-65
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, essays, talks and some personal papers.

Dates: 1896-circa 1976.

Microfilm of papers of Edwin Muir.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.464
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Copy of ‘First poems’ (London, 1925) by Edwin Muir, with numerous manuscript corrections and notes, [1925, or after], by the poet (MS.19651);

Copy of ‘Chorus of the newly dead’ (London, 1926) by Edwin Muir, with Muir's corrections, [1926, or after] (MS.19652);

Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems, [?1942-?1959], by Edwin Muir (MS.19653);

Notebook, 1947-1948, of Edwin Muir (MS.19663).

Dates: [1925, or after-?1959.]

Notebook of David Morrison containing drafts of poems and notes.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12226
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poems for "Caithness Coronach" (2003).

Dates: circa 1988-2002.

Papers of Alexander Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12236
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, noteboooks, and manuscripts and typescripts of poetry, fiction, plays, autiobiographical and critical works.

Dates: 1931-1981.

Papers of and concerning Hugh MacDiarmid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10173- is now MSS.27001-27246
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, articles, reviews and autobiography, literary notebooks and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1927-1978.

Papers of and concerning the poet and author, Ruthven Todd (1914-1978).

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26801-26888
Scope and Contents Ruthven Todd was born and educated in Edinburgh, and from 1932 to 1934 worked as a farm labourer in Mull before moving to London where he joined the Bohemian world of writers and artists in Fitzrovia. In 1947, he left for the United States where he eventually settled in Martha's Vineyard and became an American citizen. From 1960 until his death, he lived in the Balearic island of Majorca.Most of the papers date from Todd's Majorcan period, but because he based much of his work on...
Dates: 1925-1981, undated.

Papers of and concerning the poet George Campbell Hay (1915-1984).

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26721-26792
Scope and Contents Born in Elderslie and educated in Tarbert Loch Fyne, Edinburgh and Oxford, George Campbell Hay spent most of his life in Edinburgh, but preserved a lifelong attachment to Kintyre, and in particular to Tarbert. Much of his poetry is a celebration of Kintyre, the land and its people, particularly the fishermen. Most of these poems had been written between 1938 and 1945 and already published in periodicals; they include translations from eleven languages. Hay's most important work,...
Dates: [Circa 1925]-1987, undated.

Papers of, and relating to, Iain Crichton Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12600/1-65
Dates: Majority of material found within 1946, 1962-2000.

Papers of Andrew Greig.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11859
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts and correspondence concerning his poetry, short stories, novels and mountaineering expedition books.

Dates: 1968-1997.

Papers of Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd (1893-1981).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27438-27445
Scope and Contents

Born in Cults, Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd was educated in Aberdeen and became a lecturer in English at Aberdeen College of Education. She wrote poems in Scots and English and three novels as well as articles for magazines and journals.

Dates: 1896-1980, undated.

Papers of George Bruce.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6154
Scope and Contents

Including literary notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poems, and 27 letters to Bruce from correspondents including Ivor Brown, Neil Gunn and Joseph Macleod.

Dates: circa 1937-1974.

Papers of George Bruce.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12195
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and correspondence.

Dates: 1928-2002.

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