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Small collections and single letters presented by various donors.
Small collections of letters and papers, and some transcripts from manuscripts made with the permission of the owners of the originals.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Ten poems of Ronald Campbell Macfie.
With two letters, 1918 and undated, of Macfie to Mary Veronica Morgan.
The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
Thirty-six letters of Sir Alexander Boswell, 1st Baronet of Auchinleck, to James Skene, of Rubislaw, referring largely to personal and family matters.
Three of the letters include poems, none of which appears to have been printed; see the collection of printed items in the Rosebery Collection (Ry.IV.c.8) in this Library.
Thomas Lyle, "Scottish Mosses".
Presented to Robert Ker, with a letter and poem of Lyle.
Translation into English by Thomas Ross (later the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of Lochbroom) of parts of James Macpherson’s concocted originals as published in Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’.
Twenty-five letters, 1926-1977, of C M Grieve to James K Annand, mostly on literary matters; manuscripts of seven poems, undated, of C M Grieve; and a manuscript of an appreciation, 1967, by C M Grieve of George Ogilvie.
Two collections of writings of Allan Ramsay, in his hand.
Two letters, 1817-1824, to John Aitken.
With a poem, 1832, of James Hogg, "The Sky Lark".
Two letters and four poems of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Heather Scott, with various publications given by Finlay to Scott.
A small collection of papers, publications and artefacts of and relating to Ian Hamilton Finlay. The donor of the collection, Heather Scott (née Fretwell), was a friend of Finlay’s in the 1960s, and much of the material dates from this period.
Two letters and typescripts of four poems of George Bruce.
Includes typescript recollection of George Bruce by the Rev Alasdair W Macdonell.
Two letters of Hugh MacDiarmid to T J Williams and Joyce Williams.
On the Breton nationalist Andre Geffroy and MacDiarmid's efforts to establish a Scottish Committee.
A signed copy of "A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle" (Edinburgh: Castle Wynd Printers, 1956) for Joyce Williams is also included.
Two letters of James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk, to John Young.
Acknowledging and commenting on Young`s, "Lochlomond Side and Other Poems" (Glasgow, 1872), and "Pictures in Prose and Verse" (Glasgow, 1877).
Bound with copies of the books.
Typecripts, undated, of short stories, one with an African theme of Naomi Mitchison.
Includes:
"Housing Diary", Glasgow, 1934
letter, 1964, of Marion Campbell
verse, undated, including some of Stephen Spender.
Typescript, 1989, of a poem "Misprint in a Great Man`s Obit" by Gavin Ewart.
With two letters, 1977 and 1982, of Ewart, including one mentioning his poetry collection, "All My Little Ones".
Typescript and printed copies of 14 poems, 1985-1991 and undated, of W Price Turner.
With 13 letters, 1954-1981, to Price Turner from Scottish poets.
Typescripts, 1961, of three versions of Alastair Fowler, "The Confidence Man", including copies of three associated letters.
With typescript, 1965, of Kitty W Scoular, "Natural Magic", and a photocopy of the Blage Manuscript, circa 1530-1550.
Typescripts of works by Sydney Goodsir Smith, Crieff Williamson and John Guthrie.
Unpublished poem and correspondence of George Outram.
A small collection of letters mainly to George Outram, and a manuscript of one of his `legal lyrics`, evidently unpublished. The letters are from various eminent correspondents and mainly relate to `The Glasgow Herald` and to Outram`s first privately printed collection of `Legal Lyrics` (1851). Correspondents include William Edmonstoune Aytoun, John Wilson and James Sheridan Knowles. With one unrelated letter, 1870, of Sir George Deas.
Verse letter, ? 1787, of Robert Burns to John Renton of Lamerton.
With a letter, ? 1851, of Robert Chambers to J C Renton concerning the manuscript.