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Literary papers of R B Cunninghame Graham.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9237
Dates: circa 1915-circa 1936.

Literary papers of Regi Claire.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13397
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, research and correspondence relating to the following books: Inside-Outside (1998); The Beauty Room (2002); Fighting It (2009); The Waiting (2012).

Dates: c. 1999-2012.

Literary papers of Ruth Thomas.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13389
Scope and Contents

Literary papers, c.1990-2012, of Ruth Thomas comprising digital archive, print-outs, notebooks and business correspondence.

Dates: c. 1990-2012.

Literary papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12937
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, articles and plays, and radio scripts, with some related correspondence.

Dates: 1938-1964.

Manuscript and typescript drafts of 'Something leather', by Alasdair Gray, with proofs, illustrations and related correspondence.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10371/1-32
Scope and Contents Includes nine manuscript and typescript drafts of the novel, drafts of individual chapters, and related notes, correspondence and illustrations. Post-publication material includes copies of the US hardback edition, revised paperback edition, and cuttings of UK press coverage of the book.Alasdair Gray's descriptions have been retained in the scope and contents notes for each file, and include insights into his working process, comments on how the novel progressed, and how...
Dates: 1968-1991.

Manuscript drafts, corrected typescripts and proofs of 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11203/1-12
Scope and Contents

Drafts, proofs and some source materials and correspondence for 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.

Alasdair Gray's own manuscript drafts are accompanied by typescript transcriptions produced by his typist Scott Pearson, which are then in turn heavily annotated and corrected by Gray. These annotations then inform the next set of manuscript drafts, giving a unique insight into how the book developed and grew.

Dates: 1967, 1985, 1993-1994.

Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Poor things', 'Ten tales tall and true' and 'Why Scots should rule Scotland', by Alasdair Gray, with some related correspondence and source materials.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10749/1-89
Scope and Contents Includes corrected manuscript and typescript drafts and revised versions of 'Poor things', 'Ten tales tall and true', and 'Why Scots should rule Scotland', along with finished copies of all three books. There are some files of correspondence concerning the publication of 'Poor things' and 'Ten tales tall and true', as well as some material concerning 'Something leather'.Most files have an A4 sheet inserted at the beginning by Alasdair Gray with a brief summary of the file's...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1896, 1972-1993.

Manuscripts, typescripts, drafts and proofs of works of Kenneth White, including related correspondence and notes.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10613/1-48
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, short stories, autobiography and travel works.

Dates: 1963-1992, undated.

Microfilm of proof-sheets, [1827, or before], of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott; and, letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.54
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Proof-sheets of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott, volume v, pages 225-240, with autograph corrections by Scott, [1827, or before] (MS.496);

Letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland (MS.2991).

Dates: [1548-1550, 1827, or before].

Music by Hungarian composers gathered, circa 1902-1921, by Emma Gruber, first wife of Zoltán Kodály.

 File
Identifier: MS.21579
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Music by Emma Gruber herself, including 'Albumblatt', for piano, 1902; 'Märchen' for voice and piano, 1908, sketch only; the song 'Kicsi Viragom', undated, for voice and piano; drafts of several movements for string quartet, chiefly in score, though including a version of one movement for piano duet; and other unidentified scraps (folio 1);(ii) Pieces by Zoltán Kodály: Valsette for piano Op. 3, 1910; and a short piece for the collection...
Dates: 1902-1921.

Papers and correspondence of Ronald W Clark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9589
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, notes, manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, drafts, photographs, pamphlets and press cuttings.

Dates: 1948-1987.

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 Trevor Royle, "James and Jim: a Biography of James Kennaway" (1983).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8551
Scope and Contents

Includes drafts, proofs, notes and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1980-1983.

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 Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4690
Scope and Contents

Comprising manuscript drafts and typescripts of five poems, with galley proofs, typescripts and correspondence concerning "Akros".

Dates: 1967-1968.

Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.17929-17948

Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21669-21713
Scope and Contents The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates: 17th century-1972.

Papers of Kathleen Jamie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12107

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Drafts. Documents. 38
Correspondence. 29
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Photographs. 7
Short stories. 7
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Biographies. 3
Documents. 3
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Memorandums. 3
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Language
English 40
Undetermined 16
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 3
Multiple languages 1
 
Names
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 6
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 2
Johnstone, Doug, author, b 1970 2
Abulafia, John, writer and director, b 1947 1
Akros, literary magazine 1
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Bellany, John (artist) 1
Butlin, Ronald Y, writer, b 1949 1
Calder, Angus Lindsay Ritchie (historian, writer, and poet) 1
Carter, John Waynflete, bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller, 1905-1975 1
Claire, Regi, author, b. 1962 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1
Cunningham, Ian Campbell, Keeper of Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland, b 1938 1
Dowden, John, Bishop of Edinburgh, 1840-1910 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 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
Hess, Rudolf Walter Richard, deputy of Adolf Hitler, 1894-1987 1
Hughes, Emrys, politician, 1894-1969 1
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Kennaway, James Peebles Ewing, novelist and scriptwriter, 1928-1968 1
Masefield, John Edward, Poet Laureate, 1878-1967 1
Maxwell , Gavin, Naturalist and author, 1914-1969: recipient 1
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, 7th Baronet of Monreith, politician and author, 1845-1937 1
McGregor, Sheila, author of "The Complete Book of Traditional Fair Isle knitting", fl 1973-2003 1
Morison, Stanley, typographer, 1889-1967 1
Morrison, Ewan, author, b 1968. 1
Muir, Percival Horace, antiquarian bookseller, 1894-1979 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 1
Pont, Timothy, topographer, fl 1574–1611 1
Royle, Trevor Bridge (broadcaster and author, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh) (b 1945) 1
Saltire Society 1
Scott, Paul Henderson, author, b 1920 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 1
Stewart, Mary Florence Elinor, novelist, wife of Sir Frederick Henry, geologist, née Rainbow, b 1916 1
Thomas, Ruth, writer, b. 1967 1
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 1
Wolfe, William Cuthbertson, Leader of the Scottish National Party, 1924-2010 1
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