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Notebooks and papers of Canon Andrew John Young, the poet and naturalist (1885-1971).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19740-19767
Scope and Contents

Much of the material consists of notes made by Canon Andrew John Young of his reading. Some of the notebooks include page references to other volumes of notes which are not in this collection.

Dates: 1937-1971.

Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.30.5.1-30.5.28
Scope and Contents

The notes and extracts appear to have been made between about 1784 and about 1820, but most are undated.

Dates: Circa 1784-circa 1820.

Papers of Alexander Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12236
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, noteboooks, and manuscripts and typescripts of poetry, fiction, plays, autiobiographical and critical works.

Dates: 1931-1981.

Papers of and concerning Hugh MacDiarmid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10173- is now MSS.27001-27246
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, articles, reviews and autobiography, literary notebooks and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1927-1978.

Papers of and concerning the poet and author, Ruthven Todd (1914-1978).

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26801-26888
Scope and Contents Ruthven Todd was born and educated in Edinburgh, and from 1932 to 1934 worked as a farm labourer in Mull before moving to London where he joined the Bohemian world of writers and artists in Fitzrovia. In 1947, he left for the United States where he eventually settled in Martha's Vineyard and became an American citizen. From 1960 until his death, he lived in the Balearic island of Majorca.Most of the papers date from Todd's Majorcan period, but because he based much of his work on...
Dates: 1925-1981, undated.

Papers of and concerning the poet George Campbell Hay (1915-1984).

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26721-26792
Scope and Contents Born in Elderslie and educated in Tarbert Loch Fyne, Edinburgh and Oxford, George Campbell Hay spent most of his life in Edinburgh, but preserved a lifelong attachment to Kintyre, and in particular to Tarbert. Much of his poetry is a celebration of Kintyre, the land and its people, particularly the fishermen. Most of these poems had been written between 1938 and 1945 and already published in periodicals; they include translations from eleven languages. Hay's most important work,...
Dates: [Circa 1925]-1987, undated.

Papers of, and relating to, Iain Crichton Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12600/1-65
Dates: Majority of material found within 1946, 1962-2000.

Papers of Andrew Greig.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11859
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts and correspondence concerning his poetry, short stories, novels and mountaineering expedition books.

Dates: 1968-1997.

Papers of Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd (1893-1981).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27438-27445
Scope and Contents

Born in Cults, Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd was educated in Aberdeen and became a lecturer in English at Aberdeen College of Education. She wrote poems in Scots and English and three novels as well as articles for magazines and journals.

Dates: 1896-1980, undated.

Papers of Edward Albert (1890-1944), who graduated Master of Arts in English at Edinburgh University, 1908, and spent his professional life as English master at George Watson's College, Edinburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9051-9152
Scope and Contents

The papers consist chiefly of manuscripts and typescripts of Edward Albert's educational works, manuscripts and typescripts of his works of fiction, and his correspondence.

Dates: 1921-1939, undated.

Papers of George Bruce.

 Fonds
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.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12195
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1928-2002.

Papers of James Logie Robertson.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6578/1-3
Scope and Contents James Logie Robertson was born in Milnathort, Kinross-shire in 1846 and educated at Orwell Parish School and Edinburgh University. He was assistant master at Heriot’s Hospital and George Watson’s College before joining the staff at Edinburgh Ladies’ College in 1876. His writings, some under the pen-name of ‘Hugh Haliburton’, include English text-books, essays and poetry. Robertson died in 1922. 1. corrected manuscript, circa 1880, of "Orellana: a Poem"2. corrected...
Dates: [Circa 1880]-1889.

Papers of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6975
Scope and Contents

Including literary notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of literary work, and family and personal correspondence.

With papers of Susan, Baroness Tweedsmuir, including typescripts of essays and addresses, and correspondence.

Dates: 1894-1940.

Papers of John L Broom and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10802
Scope and Contents

Includes diaries, notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of articles and addresses.

Dates: 1912-1992.

Papers of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14884-14889
Scope and Contents Gaelic manuscripts of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940), third daughter of John James Hugh Henry Stewart-Murray, 7th duke of Atholl (1840-1917). Having learned Gaelic in her youth, she collected 240 Gaelic folk tales in Perthshire (the manuscripts now held in Blair Castle), and also left behind notebooks of Gaelic songs and other Gaelic material. The contents are as follows.MS.14884. Songs copied from McLagan Collection; small collection of hymns...
Dates: Late 19th century-early 20th century.

Papers of Margaret M Morrison, the novelist (died 1973), who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost'.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27374-27410
Scope and Contents

The sister of Nancy Brysson Morrison, Margaret M Morrison studied at Glasgow School of Art and trained for the stage before beginning her career in literature.

Dates: 1936-1972, undated.

Papers of the family of Dunlop of Stevenson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.360
Dates: 18th century-20th century.

Papers of Thomas Johnston.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5862
Scope and Contents

Including notebooks, sketchbooks, correspondence, and manuscripts of lectures and addresses.

Dates: 1904-1957.

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.

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 notebooks and a manuscript of Morley Jamieson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8004
Scope and Contents

Containing drafts of a memoir and associated short story.

Dates: 1980.

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Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 3
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 2
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 2
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 2
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 2
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Allan, Jean Mary (librarian and novelist, pseudonym Lennox Allan) 1
Boyd, Edward, playwright and scriptwriter, 1916-1989 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 1
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 1
Clodd, Harold Alexander Alan, publisher and book collector, 1918-2002 1
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Evans, Jean Bell Shaw, children's author, pseudonym 'Jane Shaw', née Patrick, 1910-2000 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fidler, Kathleen Annie (afterwards Goldie, author and headmistress) 1
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 1
Gourdie, Tom (calligrapher) 1
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 1
Greig, Andrew, poet, b 1951 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 1
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 1
Johnson, Nicholas, poet, editor and festival director, b 1963 1
Johnston, Thomas, politician and newspaper editor, 1881-1965 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 1
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 1
Maitland, Sir Frederick Lewis, Knight, Rear-Admiral, 1777-1839 1
McIlvanney, William Angus (novelist, poet and journalist) 1
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 1
Morrison, Margaret Mackie (novelist, writing under the pen name 'March Cost') (1897-1973) 1
Perryman, Kevin Alan, Editor of "Babel", b 1950 1
Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery (statesman) 1
Rafferty, Séan Dickson Kerr, poet, 1909-1993 1
Rafferty, Séan Dickson Kerr, poet, 1909-1993: recipient 1
Robertson, James Logie, literary scholar and author, pseudonym Hugh Haliburton, 1846-1922 1
Scott, Alexander Mackie, poet and editor, 1920-1989 1
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 1
T and T Clark, Edinburgh, publishers 1
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