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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, sketches, notebooks and other papers of and concerning Sir David Young Cameron, Katharine Cameron Kay, and her husband Arthur Kay.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8950/1-41
Scope and Contents

Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.

Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.

Dates: 1895-1965, undated.

Literary, artistic and personal correspondence and papers of Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14602/1-431
Scope and Contents At the heart of this archive are the contents of the two filing cabinets which sat in Alasdair Gray’s study, and which have been catalogued here in their original filing order. These contain correspondence and papers relating to Alasdair Gray’s literary and artistic endeavours, as well as extensive personal correspondence and research materials.The most recent sections of the archive mainly relate to his last great work, his ‘paraphrasing’ of Dante’s ‘Divine comedy’, published by...
Dates: 1885-2019, undated.