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Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941).
Series
Identifier: MSS.27256-27285
Scope and Contents
Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.
Dates:
1866-1969, undated.
Papers of Wendy Wood.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9915
Scope and Contents
Includes diaries, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of novels, memoirs, short stories and articles.
Dates:
circa 1930-1980.
Short pieces of manuscript poetry, prose, notes and letters of George Mackay Brown.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13911/1-3
Scope and Contents
A collection of assorted manuscript writings of George Mackay Brown, including some early notebooks, 1946-1948, and manuscripts of various poems, short stories and plays.
Dates:
1946-1995, undated.
Typecripts, undated, of short stories, one with an African theme of Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10840
Scope and Contents
Includes:
"Housing Diary", Glasgow, 1934
letter, 1964, of Marion Campbell
verse, undated, including some of Stephen Spender.
Dates:
1934-1964 and undated.
Typescripts of works by Sydney Goodsir Smith, Crieff Williamson and John Guthrie.
File
Identifier: Acc.11806
Dates:
circa 1935-1988.