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Correspondence and papers of the artist William Skeoch Cumming (1864-1929) and of his wife Isabella ('Belle') Sutton.
Correspondence, diaries, manuscript and typescript drafts and proofs and other literary and personal papers of George Mackay Brown.
Correspondence, teaching materials and papers of Tom Gourdie, mostly concerning the teaching and promotion of handwriting.
Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, with some related literary papers and photographs.
Correspondence of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, including enclosures of poems, cuttings and other notes. Many of the poems and acrostics were written by Brown as gifts for special occasions, including one for Crawford's wedding in 1991 to Graham McGirk.
The collection also includes the uncorrected typescript of 'The ballad of the golden bird', published as 'The golden bird' (John Murray, 1987), which Brown dedicated to Kenna Crawford.
Literary manuscripts and personal papers of the poet and art critic, Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975).
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.
Manuscript poem, eight postcards and a photograph of George Ramage, Lance Corporal, Gordon Highlanders.
Manuscript poems and sketches of Sir William Quiller Orchardson.
With associated photographs.
Manuscripts, typescripts and research papers of Tom Leonard.
Manuscripts, typescripts, research notes and personal papers of Jean Mary Allan, librarian and novelist.
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, essays, talks and some personal papers.
Microfilm chiefly of photographs and prints of works of Phoebe Anna Traquair.
The contents are as follows:
Photographs of and printed articles concerning murals of Phoebe Anna Traquair, [1890-1948] (MS.8123);
Illuminated manuscript, 1895-1897, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (MS.8127);
Collotype prints of an illuminated manuscript, 1890-1892, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘In Memoriam’ by Alfred Tennyson (MS.8128).
Papers of and concerning the poet George Campbell Hay (1915-1984).
Papers of Callum Macdonald.
Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts and proofs of publications, together with associated correspondence and printed items.
Papers of the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Personal and literary papers of Naomi Mitchison
Photographs of five pages of MS. Lat. Q.v.1, 112 in the M E Saltuikov-Shchedrin Library in Saint Petersburg: Hours of Mary, Queen of Scots.
The manuscript, written and illuminated circa 1430, contains verses in French in Mary`s hand, most of which are reproduced here.
Placed with the photographs is a letter concerning them from Ronald Munro Ferguson to Lord Rosebery, 1903.