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Letters of William Auld to Steuart Campbell, with poems and enclosures; also some Esperanto books, pamphlets and ephemera.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14012
Dates:
Circa 1978-1989.
Letters of William Paton Ker to his sister, Penelope, with poems on her birthdays.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8281
Dates:
1893-1921.
Letters of William Sharp ('Fiona Macleod') to the publisher Frank Murray concerning two of Sharp’s works: ‘Vistas’ (Derby, 1894) and ‘Pharais’ (Derby, 1894); with related material.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9985-9986
Dates:
1893, 1894, 1899, undated.
Letters of W.S. Graham to Ruth Hilton; with poetry manuscripts and typescripts, artwork, related correspondence and published items.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13838
Dates:
circa 1956-1985.
Letters, poems, notebook and drawings of W.S. Graham.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13727
Dates:
1956-1978.
Letters relating to the captivity of Queen Mary, addressed to Richard Bagot of Blithfield as a Justice of the Peace for Staffordshire.
File
Identifier: MS.3647
Scope and Contents
Most of the letters are written by Sir Amias Poulet; other writers are Sir Ralph Sadler, the Earl of Essex, and Mar Darell (perhaps Sir Marmaduke, afterwards Cofferer of the Household). They treat of the housing and guarding of the Queen at Tutbury, Chartley, Tixall, and Fotheringay and her removal from one to the other, of her trial and execution, of the doings of the Curles and others of her suite after her death, and of arrangements for her burial. On folio 20 verso are four lines of...
Dates:
1585-1587.
Letters to and miscellaneous papers of Donald Alexander Mackenzie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19309-19310
Scope and Contents
An accomplished journalist, author, and poet, Donald Alexander Mackenzie is best known for a notable series of books on mythology, archaeology, and anthropology. His papers reflect his wide range of ability and interest.
Dates:
1909-1937.
Letters to Forbes Macgregor, mostly concerning literary matters.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7533/1-37
Dates:
1925-1982, undated.
Literary and personal papers, 1909-1953, of Joyce Anstruther Placzek, known as 'Jan Struther', with related papers, 1954-2010, including printed material and press cuttings.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13220/1-49
Scope and Contents
Articles and poems published in newspapers and magazines are all faithfully preserved in 16 large albums of press cuttings.She was a keen supporter of the Democratic Party and the correspondence files contain some letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. The papers include several travel journals, and manuscripts and typescripts of many articles, verses, songs and hymns - which she had a gift for writing, despite her own agnosticism. Also significant are the manuscripts...
Dates:
1909-2010.
Literary and personal papers of Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, including notebooks, photographs, typescripts of published and unpublished books, articles, stories and poems, with associated correspondence and some genealogical material.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6215 Box 1(a)-Box 9(d)
Dates:
circa 1931-1970, undated.
Literary and personal papers of Alastair Mackie, comprising poetry notebooks and manuscripts, translations and journals.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13233
Scope and Contents
Alastair Mackie left his literary remains to his friend, and former pupil, the writer Christopher Rush. The collection was very disordered when Rush received it, and he has carried out extensive work in sorting and listing it, alongside his preparation an edition of Alastair Mackie`s collected poems for publication by Two Ravens Press. The collection primarily consists of draft manuscripts of Mackie`s Scots and English poems, and of his translations of ancient and modern European and Russian...
Dates:
1937-1995.
Literary and personal papers of Christopher Rush, comprising manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, novels and other writings; journals; commonplace books; correspondence and other papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13217
Scope and Contents
The archive contains the complete literary papers of Christopher Rush to date (2010), relating to all his creative writing, published and unpublished. This includes manuscript notebooks and drafts, typescripts, and literary correspondence relating to `Peace Comes Dropping Slow` (1983), `A Resurrection of a Kind` (1984), `A Twelvemonth and a Day` (1985), `Into the Ebb` (1989), `Last Lesson of the Afternoon: a satire` (1994), `To Travel Hopefully: journal of a death not foretold` (2005),...
Dates:
1962-2010.
Literary and personal papers of Christopher Whyte, including diaries and journals, correspondence, notes for lectures on Scottish literature, and manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry, fiction and critical works.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12673
Dates:
circa 1972-2004.
Literary and personal papers of Ruthven Todd.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14015
Dates:
Circa 1926-1972.
Literary correspondence of Raymond Vettese.
File
Identifier: Acc.12500
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of J K Annand, H B Cruickshank, C M Grieve, Malcolm 'Callum' Macdonald and Trevor Royle, and manuscripts and typescripts of poems.
Dates:
1968-2000.
Literary manuscripts and personal papers of the poet and art critic, Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26116-26162
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1922-1980, undated.
Literary manuscripts, correspondence and related papers of Jessie Kesson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13722
Dates:
Circa 1946-1994.
Literary papers and correspondence of Alexander Hutchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13737
Dates:
Circa 1965-2015.
Literary papers and correspondence of Aonghas MacNeacail.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12072
Dates:
circa 1990-2000.
Literary papers and correspondence of John Herdman.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14016
Dates:
Circa 1990-2017.
Literary papers and diaries of the author and poet, Violet Jacob (1863-1946).
Series
Identifier: MSS.27411-27416
Scope and Contents
Born Kennedy-Erskine, she was brought up in the House of Dun near Montrose, and married an army officer in 1894. She wrote in both Scots and English, and some of her prose works are set in Angus.
Dates:
1895-[circa 1945], undated.
Literary papers, including manuscripts and typescripts, of Dionysia Press.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13010/1-82
Dates:
1988-2008.
Literary papers of Alastair Reid.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12450
Scope and Contents
Includes notebooks, poetry worksheets, correspondence with poets, translators and editors, manuscripts and typescripts of prose works, including a book written with Robert Graves, photographs and audio and video tapes.
Dates:
1951-2003.