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Notebook of David Morrison containing drafts of poems and notes.

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Identifier: Acc.12226
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poems for "Caithness Coronach" (2003).

Dates: circa 1988-2002.

Notebooks and literary papers of Harvey Holton.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13584
Scope and Contents Literary papers, circa 1967-2009, of Harvey Holton (1949-2010).Harvey Holton was born in Galashiels, to where the family returned in 1963 after spells in Nigeria, Edinburgh and Falkirk. Holton began writing poetry while still at school, and by the early 1970s his fascination with language and poetry as a means of expression convinced him that he had found his vocation. After moving to Fife he studied English literature at the University of Dundee, and in the mid-1970s started...
Dates: circa 1967-2009.

Notes, mainly on geometry, by James Moor, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.1
Scope and Contents Moor`s interest in mathematics predated his classical studies and lasted throughout his life. The present volume contains geometrical theorems and calculations, some avowedly copied from elsewhere, many apparently original.The non-mathematical contents (apart from several invitations to funerals, written over by Moor) are: notes on manuscripts of the Greek mathematical writers (excerpted from ‘Bibliotheca bibliothecarum manuscriptorum nova’ by B de Montfaucon) (folios 1-6); a...
Dates: Mid 18th century.

Papers of Alan Bold.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10529
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and short stories, undated, and 180 letters, 1979-1990, to Bold on literary matters, including his "MacDiamrid; a Critical Biography".

Dates: 1979-1990 and undated.

Papers of Alexander Huchison.

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Identifier: Acc.10158
Scope and Contents

Manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and translations, correspondence and artwork.

Dates: 1972-1990.

Papers of Duncan Glen.

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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 Gael Turnbull.

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Identifier: Acc.10256
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry and prose, together with scripts of dramatizations for radio.

Dates: 1953-1990.

Papers of George Bruce.

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Identifier: Acc.6154
Scope and Contents

Including literary notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poems, and 27 letters to Bruce from correspondents including Ivor Brown, Neil Gunn and Joseph Macleod.

Dates: circa 1937-1974.

Papers of George Bruce.

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Identifier: Acc.11260
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and 89 letters and copies of letters.

Dates: 1944-1995 and undated.

Papers of George Bruce.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12195
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and correspondence.

Dates: 1928-2002.

Papers of George S Fraser.

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Identifier: Acc.8198
Scope and Contents

Including typescript drafts of poems, lectures, articles and reviews.

Dates: circa 1949-1979.

Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

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Identifier: Acc.10426
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of poems, plays and articles.

Dates: 1939-1961 and undated.

Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13338/1-687
Scope and Contents The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates: 1818-2011, undated.

Poems and correspondence of Robert Crombie Saunders (born 1914).

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Identifier: MS.26799
Scope and Contents Robert Crombie Saunders, was the editor of ‘Scottish Arts and Letters' and the 'Scots Independent’. Many of his poems appeared in literary magazines.The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscripts and typescript drafts of poems, (circa 1940-1969, undated (folio 1). There are several versions of each poem. (ii) Letters to Saunders from Christopher Murray Grieve, Sydney Goodsir Smith, and others, 1943-1961, undated (folio 70); (iii) Fair copies of poems, 1969, undated...
Dates: [Circa1940]-1970, undated.

Poems and letters of Robert Louis Stevenson.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3788-3794
Scope and Contents

All, except the poems in MS.3791, are accompanied by transcripts.

Dates: 1881-1887, undated.

Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.

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Identifier: MS.569
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) ‘On the laying the Foundation of the High School of Edinburgh, 24th June, 1777’ (folio i);(ii) ‘Winter Hymn’ with a note, 26 January 1829 (folio 2);(iii) ‘Morning Hymn’, endorsed, ‘Written out 1825, composed chiefly in a dream at Canaan Lodge [Edinburgh] one beautiful morning in August, 1825’; two copies (folio 4);(iv) ‘Ink loquitur’, endorsed, ‘(Impromptu) to Steuart of Allantoun, the translator of Sallust, who...
Dates: 1777-1829, undated.

Poetical and editorial papers of Robin Fulton (1937- ).

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Identifier: MSS.27495-27498
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1963-1972.

Poetry notebook of James K Annand.

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Identifier: Acc.9668
Scope and Contents

Contains drafts of Annand`s, "Songs from Carmina Burana. Translated into Scots Verse" (1978).

Dates: circa 1978.

Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.

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Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents

Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.

Dates: 1648-20th century.

Single items and small collections of letters and verses of Edwin and Willa Muir.

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Identifier: MS.19703
Scope and Contents

The papers include letters of Edwin Muir to Janet Adam Smith about poetry and reviewing, with drafts of "Orpheus' Dream", first published as 'Eurydice' in ‘The Listener’, xiv (1951) Page 863; letters of Willa Muir to Tom Scott on literary and personal matters; and a series of letters from both Edwin and Willa Muir to Kathleen Raine.

Dates: 1932-1970.

Small collections of literary material.

 Series
Identifier: MS.15941

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Drafts. Documents. 105
Manuscripts. 51
Typescripts. 46
Letters. Correspondence. 25
Correspondence. 22
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Notebooks. 17
Copies. Derivative objects. 16
Notes. 15
Lists. 12
Short stories. 10
Novels. 8
Diaries. 7
Articles. 6
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 6
Fragments. 5
Lectures. 5
Photocopies. 5
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Speeches. Documents. 5
Proofs. printed matter 4
Reports. 4
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Accounts. 3
Audiocassettes. 3
Declarations. 3
Documents. 3
Microfilms. 3
Photographs. 3
Transcripts. 3
Translations. Documents. 3
Treatises. 3
Abstracts. Summaries. 2
Biographies. 2
Catalogues. 2
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Dispatches. 2
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Drawings. Visual works. 2
Epitaphs. 2
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Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 2
Genealogies. 2
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Memoirs. 2
Memorandums. 2
Minutes. Administrative records. 2
Orders. Records (documents). 2
Petitions. 2
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Receipts. Financial records. 2
Sketches. 2
Sonnets. 2
Statements. 2
Warrants. Permissions. 2
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Agreements. Legal instruments. 1
Annual reports. 1
Appointment books. 1
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Autographs (manuscripts). 1
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Language
English 78
Undetermined 25
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 2
Latin 1
Scots 1
 
Names
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 6
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 4
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 4
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 4
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 3
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Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 2
Butlin, Ronald Y, writer, b 1949 2
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 2
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 2
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
Holton, Harvey, poet, 1949-2010 2
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 2
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 2
Turnbull, Gael Lundin, poet and physician, 1928-2004 2
Turner, William Price, author, 1927-1988 2
Watson, Roderick, poet, b 1943 2
Akros, literary magazine 1
Bellany, John (artist) 1
Blaikie, Walter Biggar, historian, civil engineer and publisher, 1847-1928: collector 1
Blair, Robert, Minister of Athelstaneford, 1699-1746 1
Bold, Alan Norman, poet, writer, critic and artist, 1943-1998 1
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Campbell, Donald, poet and dramatist, b 1940 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Cope, Sir John, Knight, Lieutenant-General, 1690-1760 1
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 1
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 1
Gairm Publications 1
Gairm, Gaelic literary and topical magazine 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Hadfield, Jen (poet and artist) 1
Harper, James Walker, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1859-1938 1
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 1
Hendry, Diana Lois, poet and children's writer, b 1941 1
Hutchison, Alexander, poet, 1943-2015 1
Hutchison, Alexander, poet, b 1943 1
Jackson, Alan, poet, b 1938 1
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 1
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 1
Jarvie, Gordon, writer and editor, b.1941. 1
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 1
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 1
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 1
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873: recipient 1
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 1
Mariscat Press (poetry publishers, Edinburgh) 1
Montgomerie, William, poet and editor, 1904-1994 1
Paton, Sir Joseph Nöel, Knight, painter, 1821-1901 1
Riddell, Alan, poet and editor, b 1927 1
Robertson, James Logie, literary scholar and author, pseudonym Hugh Haliburton, 1846-1922 1
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 1
Scottish Episcopal Church 1
Scottish Episcopal Church, Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane 1
Shayer, Michael (psychologist) 1
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Soutar, William (poet) 1
St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth 1
Sutherland, Bill (author of 'A Clydeside Lad') 1
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 1
Thomas, Ruth, writer, b. 1967 1
Urquhart, Frederick Burrows, writer, 1912-1995 1
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 1
Whyte, Christopher, poet and novelist, b 1952 1
Whyte, Hamish (poet and publisher) 1
Wilkinson, George Howard, Scottish Episcopal bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane, 1833-1907 1
Wordsworth, Charles, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1806-1892 1
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