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Letters and papers of Robin Spark to his mother, Muriel Spark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11620
Scope and Contents

Includes cards and juvenile drawings, copies of Muriel Spark`s replies and letters of her mother to her.

Dates: 1943-1996.

Letters and postcards, 1970-1980 and undated, of W.S. Graham to William Featherston, with a few letters of Nessie Graham and others; typescript, carbon typescript and photocopied typescript of draft sections of long poems, 1958 and undated, including `The Dark Dialogues` and `With the Dulle Griet in Canada`; silk screen print portrait of W.S. Graham by William Featherston; and CD and audio-cassette of BBC radio broadcast by W.S. Graham.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13163
Scope and Contents William Featherston, a Canadian artist, lived and worked in Cornwall during the 1960s. During this period he became a friend of Sydney and Nessie Graham. Featherston returned to Canada in 1971, and the friends corresponded over the next decade. The letters and cards are wide-ranging, intensely personal, and often enriched with Graham`s drawings and doodles. The sections of typescript poetry (some of it carbon typescript and photocopies) include draft passages from `The Dark Dialogues` and...
Dates: 1958, 1970-1980, and undated.

Letters, cards and drawings of W. S. Graham to Margaret "Biddy" Crozier and her daughters; with related printed material.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13531
Scope and Contents Letters, cards and drawings, 1950-1984 and undated, of William Sydney Graham (1918-1986) to Margaret ‘Biddy’ Crozier and her daughters, Blake and Johanna (`Jo`); with accompanying printed matter.Biddy Crozier occasionally wrote to poets whose work she admired, and this sometimes led to close and supportive friendships. In the words of her daughter Jo, often the poets ‘were delighted to know an intelligent woman with a spare bed in London’. A long-lasting friendship developed...
Dates: 1950-1984 and undated.

Letters of W S Graham and his wife Nessie to Sylvia Thompson; with photographs and artwork.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13264
Scope and Contents

Sylvia Thompson became friendly with the Grahams in the 1980s. From a nursing background, she became a great source of practical help to the couple during W S Graham`s last years, which were dogged by ill-health. The great affection in which she was held by the Grahams is evident in the letters, and in the various gifts of photographs and drawings.

Dates: 1982-1987.

Letters of William Lockhart with a pen and ink drawing relating to the San Jacinto sugar plantation in Peru.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13560
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of fifteen letters mostly from William Lockhart, administrator of San Jacinto sugar plantation in Peru from 1876 to 1882, with some from other correspondents and a pen and ink drawing showing the plantation works.

Most of the letters are addressed to his Robert Lockhart in Dunoon. The correspondence deals with the daily affairs of the plantation, Peruvian politics and general family matters.

Dates: c. 1880s-1904

Literary papers, correspondence and artwork of Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13289/1-109
Scope and Contents This collection includes personal and working papers of Alasdair Gray, with the great majority of the papers concerning 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009) and 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).The 'play book' papers include typescripts from throughout Gray's life of many of the plays which made up the book, as well as annotated proofs, and correspondence concerning the book's production.There are extensive visual materials collated by Gray for the production of 'A...
Dates: 1951-2011.

Manuscripts, correspondence, and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12765/1-42
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, publications and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie (1913–1998) and his family. Robert Blair Wilkie was the curator of the Old Glasgow Museum 1965-1998 (formerly known as the People’s Palace Museum). Active member of the Scottish Nationalist movement (joined Scottish Nationalist Association under John MacCormick in 1937), in 1945 he was the SNP candidate in West Renfrewshire, and in the following year he was appointed editor of the Scots Independent...
Dates: 1870-2001.

Material relating to Learmont Drysdale, the composer.

 File
Identifier: MS.6297
Scope and Contents

Included are Learmont Drysdale's certificates for drawing and musical composition, reports on his progress at the Royal Academy of Music, 1889-1890, some drawings (folios 6-7), and a photograph of Ladislao Zavertal with the Pollokshields Musical Society, 1875 (folio 10). There are two letters, 1927, 1949, concerning the material (folio 1); and the Lucas Memorial and Bronze medals of the Royal Academy (awarded 1890) are boxed with the collection.

Dates: 1875-1949.

`Melange Ridicule`, commonplace book compiled by Rachel Duff

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13543
Scope and Contents

Commonplace Book containing miscellaneous verse, riddles, letters and numerous pasted in cartoons, drawings and press cuttings. Printed items include prints from John Kay`s `Original Portraits`, 1839, a printed programme for the New Concert Hall, Canongate, 1754 and a copy of the `Edinburgh Evening Courant` for 24 September 1745 with an account of the Battle of Prestonpans.

Dates: Undated, 19th century

Microfilm of drawings of Sir Robert Sibbald, correspondence of Robert Adam, architect, and designs of interior decoration and furniture.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.543
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Collection of original drawings, 2nd half of 17th century, by Sir Robert Sibbald, of fish, birds, plants, etc. (Adv.MS.6.1.14);

Correspondence, 1789-1791, of Robert Adam the architect and his Edinburgh clerk of works, John Paterson (MS.19992);

Book, late 18th century, of designs of interior decoration and furniture, in the classical style. (MS.2876).

Dates: 2nd half of 17th century-late 18th century.

Miscellaneous charters.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.A.1-46

Nine letters of George Manson to John Blair.

 ...
Identifier: Acc.9388
Scope and Contents

With pend drawings.

Dates: 1873-1875.

Nine letters of John Brown.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6882
Scope and Contents

With two drawings by Brown, four letters from his sister, and associated photographs.

Dates: 1875 and undated.

Nine letters (two incomplete) of James W Herald to J D Mackay.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9542
Scope and Contents

Mostly concerning Herald`s paintings, with associated drawings.

Dates: 1893-1897 and undated.

Notebook of William Wallace.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8250
Scope and Contents

Containing verses and drawings.

With some unconnected letters.

Dates: 1900-1901.

Papers of Alexander Huchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10158
Scope and Contents

Manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and translations, correspondence and artwork.

Dates: 1972-1990.

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Language
English 48
Undetermined 15
 
Names
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 5
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 2
McLaren, William Norman, film director, 1914-1987 2
Russell, Florence M, correspondent of W Norman McLaren, film director, fl 1936-1992 2
Walton, Cecile, painter, 1891-1956 2
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Abbot, Ian, poet, 1947-1989 1
Armstrong, John , Artist and Author, d. 2003 1
Blair, John, painter, 1850-1934: recipient 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Bowman, Walter, tutor and antiquary, 1699-1782 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician, 1810-1882 1
Bruce, James, of Kinnaird, traveller in Africa, 1730–1794 1
Camberg, Sarah Elizabeth Maud, teacher of pianoforte, mother of Muriel Spark, author, née Uezzell, 1888-1974 1
Carnegie, Andrew (philanthropist) 1
Chantrey, Sir Francis Leggatt, Knight, sculptor, 1781-1841 1
Crozier, Margaret "Biddy", friend of W. S. Graham, 1915-2004: recipient 1
Custer, Elizabeth Bacon (author and public speaker, wife of George Armstrong Custer, née Bacon) 1
Davenport, John, writer, fl 1954-1957 1
Douglas, George Norman, travel writer, 1868-1952 1
Ellice, Edward (landowner and politician) 1
Ellice, Edward (statesman) 1
Ellice, James, descendant of Edward Ellice, Statesman, 1901-1983: author 1
Ellice, Katherine Jane, of Invergarry, née Balfour, 1813-1864 1
Featherston, William, artist, 1927-2009: former owner 1
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Gordon, family, of Ellon 1
Graham, Agnes, wife of William Sydney, née Kilpatrick, 1909-1999 1
Hall, James, painter, 1800-1854 1
Harvey, Michael, letter cutter and typographer, b 1931 1
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, painter, 1786-1846 1
Henderson, Ebenezer, the elder, missionary, 1784-1858 1
Henderson, Ebenezer, the younger, author and historian, 1809-1879 1
Herald, James Watterson, painter, 1859-1914 1
Hutchison, Alexander, poet, b 1943 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Jackson, Charles d'Orville Pilkington, sculptor, 1887-1973 1
Laudy, Jacques, comic book artist, 1907-1993 1
Lear, Edward, poet, 1812-1888 1
Lockhart, William, administrator of San Jacinto sugar plantation, fl. 1876-1895 1
Lowndes, Alan Bailey, landscape painter, 1921-1978: recipient 1
Lushington, Sir Franklin, Knight, Chief Police Magistrate, London, 1823-1901 1
Mackay, J D, correspondent of James Watterson Herald, painter, fl 1893-1897: recipient 1
Mackay, Lucinda Louise, Lady, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Inchcape (artist) (b 1941) 1
Maclean, Neil, Factor to Edward Ellice, Statesman at Glenquoich, f.1841 1
Manson, George, painter, 1850-1876 1
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 1
Maxwell, Gavin, author, 1914-1969 1
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 1
Murray, Katherine Marjory Stewart-, wife of John, 8th Duke of Atholl, née Ramsay, 1874-1960 1
Paolozzi, Sir Eduardo Luigi, Knight, sculptor and printmaker, 1924-2005 1
Pettiward, Cynthia, correspondent of Ruari McLean, typographer and author, fl 1981-1984 1
Pettiward, Daniel, correspondent of Ruari McLean, typographer and author, fl 1981-1984 1
Pettiward, Roger Gamelyn, artist, pseudonym Paul Crum, 1906-1942 1
Reid, Mary, correspondent of Edward Lear, poet, fl 1857-1886 1
Sanderson, John, collector, d 1986: collector 1
Scott, Thomas, artist, 1854-1927 1
Scott, Thomas, artist, 1854-1927: artist 1
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 1
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 1
Spark, Samuel Robin, artist, son of Dame Muriel, author, b 1938 1
Sturgis, Tim, descendant of Edward Ellice, Statesman, fl.2014-2015: author 1
Taylor, Harold John, Vice-Chancellor of Gauhati University, India, d 1996 1
Taylor, Jessie Marion, illustrator and designer, née King, 1875-1949 1
Taylor, Jessie Marion, illustrator and designer, née King, 1875-1949. 1
Thompson, Sylvia, friend of W S Graham, b 1934: recipient 1
Wallace, William Francis Stuart, composer, 1860-1940 1
Walton, Brenda, cousin of Cecile, painter, fl 1905-1910. 1
Wemyss, Earl of (succ.1883), 1818-1914 1
Westmacott, Richard, Sir, Knight (sculptor) 1
Wilkie, Robert Blair, Editor of the "Scots Independent", 1913-1998 1
Williams, Hugh William, painter, 1773-1829 1
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