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Journals, letters, manuscripts, notes, verse and other papers of and relating to Alastair Cram.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13170
Scope and Contents
Alastair Cram was educated at Perth Academy and Edinburgh University and started his working life as a solicitor in private practice at the Scottish Bar. In the Second World War he saw service with the Royal Regiment of Artillery and SAS during which time he was taken prisoner and was involved in several successful escapes. Alastair Cram was awarded the Military Cross in 1945. In peacetime, he served as a Judge in Kenya and, in 1965, was Governor-General of Malawi. Alastair Cram was also a...
Dates:
1928-1967, and undated.
Leaf of a letter of James Elroy Flecker to Trelawney Dayrell Reed.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8264
Scope and Contents
Containing manuscripts of two Bathrolaire sonnets.
With a copy of "Bridge of Fire" (1907), in which the above sonnets were published.
Dates:
circa 1908.
Ledgers of Alasdair Gray containing diary entries and drafts of works, with typescripts of 'Fleck' and a file of press cuttings.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13021/1-15
Scope and Contents
Eight ledgers or notebooks contain diary entries, draft letters and literary notes and drafts of stories, poems, plays and the novel 'Old men in love'; with six corrected and annotated typescripts of 'Fleck', a play; and a file of cuttings of reviews of the French edition of 'Lean tales'.
Dates:
1845-2008.
Letter, 1795, of Robert Burns to Maria Riddell, tipped into an edition of "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" (1787).
Item
Identifier: Acc.14467
Dates:
1787, 1795.
Letter, 1824, of James Hogg to a Mrs Laing, including the texts of two poems, `Reflections on the Nature of Woman` and `A Metaphor`; together with two undated poems of Robert Hogg, his nephew, `Linlithgow Palace` and `I think of thee`.
File
Identifier: Dep.380
Dates:
1824, and undated.
Letter, 1824, of Lord Byron to Sir John Bowring.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8766
Scope and Contents
With four letters, 1824 and 1828, concerning Byron, and a manuscript of his last poem, undated.
Dates:
1824-1828 and undated.
Letter, 1832, of Thomas Campbell to D H Williams (possibly David Hiram).
File
Identifier: Acc.8593
Scope and Contents
With poem, undated, "Lines Suggested by a Picture of the Statue of Arnold von Winkelried".
Dates:
1832 and undated.
Letter and corrected carbon typescripts of six poems by Alastair Reid; with an inscribed copy of "Oddments, inklings, omens, moments: poems" (Boston, 1959).
File
Identifier: Acc.13015
Dates:
1956-1959.
Letter and five postcards, 1904-1905, of William Sharp.
File
Identifier: Acc.8319
Scope and Contents
With a manuscript poem, undated, "The Dirge of Clan Siubhail", and a letter, 1906, of Mrs Sharp.
Dates:
1904-1906 and undated.
Letter of Hamish Henderson to W G McCullough.
File
Identifier: Acc.10871
Scope and Contents
Concerns Henderson`s work on a translation of Antonio Gramsci, "Lettere dal Carcere".
With inscribed copy of Henderson`s "Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica".
Dates:
1949.
Letter of Pittendrigh Macgillivray.
File
Identifier: Acc.3328
Scope and Contents
Includes typed copies of seven of his poems.
Dates:
1934.
Letter of Robert Burns to Captain John Gillespie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7973
Scope and Contents
Incorporating an early version of "Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet of Monboddo".
Dates:
circa 1790.
Letter of Thomas Campbell to Richard Sharpe with revised manuscript of `Lord Ullin`s Daughter`
Item
Identifier: Acc.13423
Dates:
1805.
Letter of William Sydney Graham to Nessie Dunsmuir, written on fly-leaf of first issue of `Poetry Scotland`, discussing current Scottish poetry and poets.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13679
Dates:
1944.
Letters, 1812-1852, to William Menzies, his wife Elizabeth and their son James.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11488
Scope and Contents
Includes letters and papers, 1679-1834 and undated, concerning the Robertsons of Struan, and poetry in English and Gaelic, undated.
Dates:
1679-1852 and undated.
Letters, 1878-1888, of William Maccall, apparently to E J Collings, with two poems of Maccall (entitled 'The Hidden Manna' and "Brahma's Cradle"), correspondence, 1890, 1893, of Collings regarding the letters, and a number of press cuttings concerning Maccall and his acquaintance with the Carlyles.
File
Identifier: MS.1805
Dates:
1878-1893.
Letters, 1975-2012, of David Craig to John Manson, with some typescript poems and prose; letters, 2004-2012, of various correspondents mainly relating to Hugh MacDiarmid and Scottish literature.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13857
Dates:
1975-2012.
Letters and other documents, and a photograph and autograph album, formerly preserved at Yester House.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14829-14830
Dates:
1572-1964, undated.
Letters and papers of and concerning John Leyden.
File
Identifier: MS.971
Scope and Contents
The contents include: letters of John Leyden chiefly to William Erskine, 1797—1811, undated (folio 1); poems of Leyden, some apparently unpublished (folio 95); letters to Erskine and others regarding Leyden, written after his death, 1811-1826 (folio 120); and cuttings from Indian newspapers, 1811-1812 (folio 179). Also included are an account in Leyden's hand of the story of Duke Richard Sans Peur and the Company of Hellequin, apparently used by Scott in the essay ‘On the Fairies...
Dates:
1797-1826, undated.
Letters and papers of Sydney Durward Tremayne (1912-1986), the poet and journalist.
File
Identifier: MS.26704
Dates:
1961-1968, undated.
Letters and papers of the geologist, Leonard Horner, and of his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2213-2222
Dates:
1782-1880.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
File
Identifier: MS.3115
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, poems, etc., of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet, to Peter Buchan, collector of Scottish ballads, Peterhead, 1828-1850, undated. The letters, which are in Laing's autograph, deal chiefly with literary matters of the day. Most of the poems (folios 4, 6, 10, 19, 23) appear later in published form.(ii) Poems and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell, in his autograph, with one letter to him, 1815-1865, undated. Several of...
Dates:
1815-1865, undated.
Letters and poems of George Bruce.
File
Identifier: Acc.12186
Scope and Contents
Includes papers of Ian McNab concerning George Bruce and Fraserburgh.
Dates:
1993-2000.