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Papers and correspondence of literary figures.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8693
Scope and Contents

Includes:

inaugural lecture, 1913, of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch as Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University

"El Tango Argentino", 1913, of R B Cunninghame Graham

"The Satire of Rage", 1913, of H W Nevinson

With 24 letters, 1890-1942, to Sir Sydney Cockerell from Quiller-Couch (16), Cunninghame Graham (3) and Nevinson (5).

Dates: 1890-1942.

Papers concerning Denys Hay`s introductory essay, "Fiat Lux" to "Printing and the Mind of Man" (1967).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7684
Scope and Contents

Including correspondence, typescript drafts and proofs.

Correspondents include John Carter, Percy Muir and Stanley Morison.

Dates: 1964-1967.

Papers concerning, "The Age of MacDiarmid. Essays on Hugh MacDiarmid and His Influence on Contemporary Scotland. Edited by P H Scott and A C Davis".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7941
Scope and Contents

Comprising proofs, manuscripts and typescripts of essays, and correspondence.

Dates: 1980.

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 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 Arthur Woodburn.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6276
Scope and Contents

Concerning his Parliamentary Bill to facilitate the formation of a common European language.

Dates: 1962-1963.

Papers of Francis George Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9014
Scope and Contents

Includes notes, essays, poems and correspondence.

With 13 letters of George Campbell Hay.

Dates: 1925-1957 and undated.

Papers of G S Fraser.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11756
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of articles, essays, reviews and translations, many arranged in order by Fraser`s wife, Eileen, with a view to publication in collected form; also includes printed material by Fraser and correspondence concerning his work.

Dates: circa 1957-1980.

Papers of George Douglas Brown.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6804
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

school essay, "Science and Intellectual Philosophy; their Aims and Relations"

letter of Brown, on the death of his mother

notes and transcriptions, undated, of Brown.

Dates: circa 1890-circa 1902.

Papers of James B Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10193
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems, essays, articles, reviews and talks, and letters.

With photocopies of three letters to Janet H Caird of Sorley MacLean and Robert Garioch.

Dates: 1935-1987 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.

Papers of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6975
Scope and Contents

Including literary notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of literary work, and family and personal correspondence.

With papers of Susan, Baroness Tweedsmuir, including typescripts of essays and addresses, and correspondence.

Dates: 1894-1940.

Papers of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6120
Scope and Contents

Including:

1. typescript of note, undated, of Elizabeth S Haldane, on lady doctors

2. typescripts, 20th century, of works of fiction and essays on feminisim of Naomi Mitchison, with books

3. 2 letters, 1915, of Mary E Haldane to Naomi Mitchison.

Dates: circa 1880 to 20th century.

Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10281
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, plays, novels and essays, with correspondence.

Dates: 1923-1974.

Papers of the Reverend William Wilson, minister of St Paul’s Free Church, Dundee.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14220-14226
Scope and Contents

William Wilson, who was dispossessed at the Disruption in 1843, became Moderator of the Free Church in 1866, and moved to Edinburgh in 1877.

Dates: 1833-1939, undated.

Papers of W Oliver Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9178
Scope and Contents

Mostly concerning the Scottish Nationalist movement.

Includes an essay, press cuttings, and correspondence from amongst others, C M Grieve and Sir Compton Mackenzie.

Dates: 1930-1976.

Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008

'Recollections of my boyhood, with open-air-lessons of later years, by Thomas Edward (of Banff, shoemaker)’.

 File
Identifier: MS.2227
Scope and Contents

Four letters, 1883-1884, of Thomas Edward to David Douglas, bookseller, Edinburgh; proofs of Edward's apparently unpublished 'Recollections', as in MS.1662, with some manuscript corrections; proofs of other essays, also apparently unpublished, with corrections.

The title is in the hand of David Douglas.

Dates: 1883-1884.

Representation, 1682, of John Riddell of Haining, concerning the breeding of horses for the king, with four unassociated documents.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7583
Scope and Contents

Other papers:

letter, 1727, of Ludovick Brodie of Whytfield, to Alexander Brodie of Lethen, on business matters

letter, 1797, of Sir George Colebrooke, on the political situation in France

essay, 1835, of David Smith, "An Essay on Sympathy"

essay, 1850, of John MacKinnon, "An Essay on Patriotism".

Dates: 1682, 1727, 1797, 1835, 1850.

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Essays. 53
Correspondence. 27
Letters. Correspondence. 27
Manuscripts. 22
Typescripts. 21
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Notes. 12
Poetry. 12
Photographs. 10
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 9
Articles. 8
Drafts. Documents. 7
Notebooks. 7
Copies. Derivative objects. 6
Speeches. Documents. 6
Diaries. 4
Lectures. 4
Novels. 4
Plays. 4
Proofs. printed matter 4
Reviews. Document genre 4
Short stories. 4
Albums. 3
Pamphlets. 3
Proofs. Printed matter. 3
Reports 3
Transcripts 3
Account books. 2
Ephemera. 2
Histories. 2
Inscriptions. 2
Legal documents. 2
Memoirs. 2
Photocopies. 2
Prayers. 2
Reviews. Document genre. 2
Sermons. 2
Translations. Documents. 2
Agendas. Administrative records. 1
Anecdotes. 1
Audiocassettes. 1
Autobiographies. 1
Autographs (manuscripts). 1
Born digital. 1
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Calculations. 1
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Cashbooks. 1
Certificates 1
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Covers (gathered matter components). 1
DVDs. 1
Dictionaries. 1
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Drawings. Visual works. 1
Elegies. 1
Essays 1
Excerpts. 1
Excise tickets. 1
Exercise books. 1
Exhibition catalogues. 1
Facsimiles. Reproductions. 1
Fiction. 1
Fliers. Printed matter. 1
Fragments. 1
France. Europe. Nation. Longitude: 2.0000. Latitude: 46.0000. 1
Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 1
Genealogies. 1
Inventories. 1
Lecture notes. 1
Lists. 1
Literature (writings). 1
Microfilms. 1
Offprints. 1
Orders. Military records. 1
Periodicals. 1
Personal papers. 1
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Political posters. 1
Prefaces. 1
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Prints. Visual works. 1
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Reports. 1
Research notes 1
Research notes. 1
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Snapshots. 1
Songs. Musical compositions. 1
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Testimonies. 1
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Travel journals 1
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Language
English 40
Undetermined 12
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 2
 
Names
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 7
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 3
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 2
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 2
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
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Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Anderson, Arthur, founder of P and O Steam Navigation Co, 1792-1868: recipient 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: recipient 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: transcriber 1
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, art collector, 1818-1880 1
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 1
Brodie, Alexander, of Lethen, d 1770: recipient 1
Brodie, Ludovick, of Whytfield, Writer to the Signet, c 1681-1758 1
Brown, George Douglas, author, 1869-1902 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976: recipient 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 1
Carter, John Waynflete, bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller, 1905-1975 1
Chadwick, Owen, 1916-2015 1
Clyde Workers' Committee 1
Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, Knight, bibliographer, 1867-1962: recipient 1
Colebrooke, Sir George, 2nd Baronet, of Gatton, 1729-1809 1
Cooper, Thomas Mackay, Baron Cooper of Culross, judge, 1892-1955 1
Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-, Knight, novelist and literary scholar, 1863-1944 1
Davis, Albert C, British Council Representative in Scotland, 1910-1992 1
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 1
Elliot, Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, née Tennant, 1903-1994 1
Elliot, Walter Elliot, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1888-1958 1
Erskine, James, Lord Grange, Lord Justice Clerk, d 1754 1
Everson, James, Beverley, Yorkshire, fl 1825-1853 1
Faculty of Advocates, Library, Edinburgh 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Grieve, Valda, 2nd Wife of Christopher M, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, née Trevlyn, 1906-1989 1
Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson, philanthropist and author, 1862-1937 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994: recipient 1
Hay, George Campbell, poet, 1915-1984 1
Jenkin, Anne (née Austin, wife of Henry C. Fleeming Jenkin, engineer) 1
Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming (engineer) 1
Jones, James Idwal, headteacher and politician, 1900-1982: transcriber 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Lang, Andrew, historian, 1844-1912 1
Leonard, Tom (poet) (1944-2018) 1
Lochhead, Marion Cleland, journalist, editor and author, 1902-1985 1
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 1
MacKay, Aeneas Thomas, publisher, Stirling, fl 1905-1933 1
MacKinnon, John, University of Edinburgh, fl 1850 1
MacLean Sorley, Poet, 1911-1996. 1
MacPhárlain, Calum, Gaelic activist and writer, 1853-1931 1
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 1
Mirror, Edinburgh, newspaper 1
Moncrieff, George Scott-, writer, 1910-1974 1
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 1
Morison, Stanley, typographer, 1889-1967 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Muir, John William, trade unionist and Labour MP for Glasgow Maryhill, 1879-1931 1
Muir, Percival Horace, antiquarian bookseller, 1894-1979 1
National Library of Scotland 1
Nevinson, Henry Woodd, journalist and author, 1856-1941 1
Osbourne, Samuel Lloyd, 1868-1947 (author, stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist) 1
Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery (statesman) 1
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 1
Riddell, John, of Haining, fl 1682 1
Roberts, David, painter, 1796-1864 1
Royal Academy of Arts 1
Royal Scottish Society of Arts 1
Ruddiman, Thomas, Librarian of the Advocates' Library, 1674-1757 1
Saurat, Denis, writer, 1890-1958 1
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 1
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958: recipient 1
Scott, Paul Henderson, author, b 1920 1
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 1
Sellar, Robert James Batchen, playwright and author, b 1893 1
Silver, Robert Simpson (James Watt Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Glasgow) 1
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 1
Smith, David, Writer to the Signet, 1803-1880 1
Stevenson, Frances Matilda Van de Grift (née Van de Grift, then Osbourne, wife of Robert Louis Stevenson) 1
Strong, Austin (playwright) (1881-1952) 1
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 1
Wallace, Sir William, Knight, guardian of Scotland, d 1305 1
Woodburn, Arthur (politician) 1
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 1
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