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Papers of Paul Henderson Scott.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.
James Leslie Mitchell is best known for his Scottish novels, ‘Sunset song’ (London, 1932), ‘Cloud Howe’ (London, 1933) and ‘Grey granite’ (London, 1934), published under the pseudonym 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', but he also wrote essays, biographies, and a study of South American history, ‘The conquest of the Maya’ (London, 1934).
Papers of the Shortreed family of Jedburgh concerning the family's connection with Sir Walter Scott and business and family affairs of the Shortreeds themselves.
Poetical and editorial papers of Robin Fulton (1937- ).
Robin Fulton was born in Arran and became a schoolteacher. From 1967 to 1976 he edited the literary magazine 'Lines Review'. His work is mostly poetry, but also includes reviews, translations and literary studies. The papers consist of drafts and proofs of poems (MSS.27495-27497), and editorial papers for 'Lines Review' (MS.27498).
'Some terrible letters from Scotland communicated by The Ettrick Shepherd.’
Descriptions, in the hand of James Hogg, of real or imaginary incidents of the cholera plague of 1832 in Lothian, on the West Coast, and in Fisherrow, in letters purporting to have been written to him by Andrew Ker, alias Clapperton, Alexander McAlister, mate of the ‘Jane Hamilton’ of Port Glasgow, and James McL-- respectively.
Also printed proofs of an article by James Douglas, titled, 'The three plagues of Bombay' (folio 11).