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Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including notebooks, typescripts of novels and autobiographical work, and letters from various correspondents, including six from C M Grieve and four from Edwin Muir.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.239
Dates:
1926-1975.
Papers of the poet and author, David Hamish Maclaren, and his brother Colin.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26718-26720
Dates:
1966-1968, undated.
Papers of the Reverend Robert Lister Turner (1875-1949), a missionary in Papua.
File
Identifier: MS.9770
Scope and Contents
The Reverend Turner was sent to Papua in 1902 by the London Missionary Society, and worked both in the mission field and in Lawes College, Isuleilei, until his retirement in 1939.The papers consist of the following.(i) Typescripts with manuscript corrections, undated, of four lectures on the ethnology of Papua. The fourth lecture concerns the history of the London Missionary Society in Papua. Two pages are missing at the beginning of the third lecture. (Folio 1.)...
Dates:
1910-1939, undated.
Papers of the Scottish National Dictionary Association.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10885
Dates:
1945-1985.
Papers of W S Graham, originally from the collection of Alan Clodd.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12468
Scope and Contents
Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of poetry and letters, mostly to Alan Clodd.
Dates:
circa 1937-1981.
Papers of William Will.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7534
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and 68 letters from, among others, John Buchan, Sir Ian Hamilton and Neil Munro, on literary and personal matters.
Dates:
1919-1939.
Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents
The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008
Photocopies of typed transcripts of letters of Sir William Gordon to his sister.
File
Identifier: Acc.8919
Scope and Contents
Concerning the Crimea and India.
Dates:
circa 1850-1865.
Photocopies of typed transcripts of letters of Violet Emily Cragg to her mother.
File
Identifier: Acc.9555
Scope and Contents
Written while in Nigeria.
Dates:
1924-1930.
Photocopies of typescript extracts from 32 letters of Neil Gunn.
File
Identifier: Acc.5467
Dates:
1946-1969.
Photocopies of typescripts of a letter, 1889, of Charles Stuart, missionary in Nyasaland, to his mother, and a journal, 1915-1916, of his wife Margaret.
File
Identifier: Acc.11077
Dates:
1889-1916.
Photocopies of typescripts of letters to William Watson, from relatives in Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire.
File
Identifier: Acc.7439
Dates:
1801-1818, 1824.
Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).
File
Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents
The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated
Photographs and transcripts of poems by Allan Ramsay, with related correspondence.
File
Identifier: MS.9748
Scope and Contents
The collection was made by Professor John Burns Martin for his edition (with J W Oliver, completed by A M Kinghorn and A Law) of ‘The works of Allan Ramsay’, (Scottish Text Society, 1951-1974).The contents of the collection are as follows.(i) Photostats of Allan Ramsay's autograph manuscript of fourteen poems, now in the Henry Huntington Library, San Marino, California (H.M.211). (Folio 1.)(ii) Photostats of a manuscript, now in the Huntington Library...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 18th century, 1929.
Poem, 1956, of Joseph Macleod.
File
Identifier: Acc.8647
Scope and Contents
With letter, 1983, of Macleod to George Bruce, enclosing a typescript poem.
Dates:
1956-1983.
Poems and correspondence of Robert Crombie Saunders (born 1914).
File
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.
Poetical and editorial papers of Robin Fulton (1937- ).
Series
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 notebooks and other papers of Robert Crawford (1877-1931).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26023-26026
Scope and Contents
Robert Crawford, who was a miner in Ayrshire and later in Stirlingshire, published three collections of poems and also wrote philosophical essays.
Dates:
1920-1931, undated.
Seven letters of Eric Linklater.
File
Identifier: Acc.6756
Scope and Contents
On literary matters.
With typescript notes of Linklater, for a projected television programme on Sir Walter Scott.
Dates:
1954-1966.
Seven typescript letters of Ruthven Todd.
File
Identifier: Acc.11431
Scope and Contents
Todd discusses his work on William Blake, loans of prints to the National Library of Scotland, his teaching activities, art, literature, personalities and life in Mallorca.
Dates:
1969-1972.
Single letters to Naomi Mitchison from W H Auden, Edward Garnett, and Aldous Huxley.
File
Identifier: Acc.8185
Scope and Contents
On literary, political and personal matters.
With typescript of a poem, 1930, of Mitchison.
Dates:
1930-1938.
Six letters of Captain Thomas Henry Montgomery, Black Watch, from the Crimea.
File
Identifier: Acc.11640
Scope and Contents
Includes typed transcripts of nine others.
Dates:
1854-1856.
Small collections of correspondence and papers of and to members of the Haldane family.
Series
Identifier: MS.20260 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Dates:
[Circa 1735]-1948, undated.
"The Humble Complaint of Geo[rge] Eglisham Doctor of Physicke" addressed to Charles I.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11944
Scope and Contents
Includes typescript transcription.
Dates:
1626.