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Literary papers of James B Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11108
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles and talks.

Dates: 1931-1989.

Literary papers of Janet Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11109
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, articles and talks.

Dates: 1928-1990.

Literary papers of Jen Hadfield.

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Identifier: Acc.14031

Literary papers of John Herdman.

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Identifier: Acc.11089
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of a novel, a play, short stories, poems, articles and an autobiography.

Dates: 1950-1994.

Literary papers of Séan Rafferty.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12351
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of poems, short stories, sketches and ???, typescripts of poems by Ted Hughes, and correspondence with Nicholas Johnson and Kevin Perryman.

Dates: circa 1945-2003.

Literary papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

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Identifier: Acc.12937
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, articles and plays, and radio scripts, with some related correspondence.

Dates: 1938-1964.

Literary papers of Tom Bryan.

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Identifier: Acc.13566
Scope and Contents Tom Bryan (1950- ) was born in Winnipeg, Canada, but has long been resident in Scotland, his mother’s country. A widely-published and broadcast poet and writer, he has published six collections of poetry, three non-fiction books, two collections of short stories and a novel. Tom Bryan has held a number of residencies and Royal Literary Fellowships, and was the sixth Brownsbank Writing Fellow. He co-edited `Northwords` magazine, founded `The Eildon Tree` and has edited other literary...
Dates: Circa 1981-2014.

Literary papers of Tom Pow.

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Identifier: Acc.12233/1-87
Scope and Contents Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates: 1969-2003.

Manuscript essays of George Mackay Brown concerning Gerard Manley Hopkins, with related notebooks and notes.

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Identifier: Acc.13909
Scope and Contents

Includes several manuscript essays concerning various aspects of Hopkins' work, as well as three notebooks and some loose pages of notes, all concerning Hopkins.

Dates: Circa 1962-1964.

Manuscripts of Donald MacPherson.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14890-14895
Scope and Contents Donald MacPherson is described in ‘Cairm’, volume 25, page 207. He was born in Laggan, Badenoch, about 1788 (MS.14891, page 124). He served in the 75th Regiment for fourteen years, and reached the rank of sergeant. On leaving the army he married Mary Stacey, a native of Richmond-on-Thames, and entered business as a bookseller at 54 Upper Ebury Street, Pimlico. In 1824 he published some of his English poems as ‘Melodies from the Gaelic’. This achieving some success, he proposed another work,...
Dates: 1st half of 19th century.

Manuscripts, typescripts, notes and drafts of Kathleen Jamie, with related papers.

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Identifier: Acc.11599/1-54
Scope and Contents Kathleen Jamie was born in Johnstone in 1962, and studied at the University of Edinburgh. These papers date from the period 1988 to 1997. During this time, Kathleen Jamie was writer in residence to various organisations, including the Workington Docks Project and the University of Dundee, and was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Scottish-Canadian Fellowship in 1994. The collection includes papers relating to the following published or broadcast works:The Golden Peak (London:...
Dates: 1980-1997.

Manuscripts, typescripts, research notes and personal papers of Jean Mary Allan, librarian and novelist.

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Identifier: Acc.8844/1-65
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, essays, talks and some personal papers.

Dates: 1896-circa 1976.

Microfilm of papers of Edwin Muir.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.464
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Copy of ‘First poems’ (London, 1925) by Edwin Muir, with numerous manuscript corrections and notes, [1925, or after], by the poet (MS.19651);

Copy of ‘Chorus of the newly dead’ (London, 1926) by Edwin Muir, with Muir's corrections, [1926, or after] (MS.19652);

Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems, [?1942-?1959], by Edwin Muir (MS.19653);

Notebook, 1947-1948, of Edwin Muir (MS.19663).

Dates: [1925, or after-?1959.]

Notebook, circa 1620, containing part of the Aberdeen Confession of Faith, 1616.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4867
Scope and Contents

With a poem concerning the Gunpowder Plot, seven sonnets, and a didactic poem, "Of Wisdome".

Dates: 1616-circa 1620.

Notebook containing a record of the campaigns of the 1st Battalion, Scots Fusilier Guards in the Crimea.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9319
Scope and Contents

The contents are compiled from official and other documents, and consist of: rolls of service of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who went to the Crimea; rolls of promotions, honours, and awards; detailed returns of the state and strength of the battalion, including medical reports; a journal of the campaigns and battles in which the battalion took part.

The notebook is illustrated with occasional sketches, ink and watercolour, and with two military poems.

Dates: 1854-1856.

Notebook entitled 'Poesias ... (nel siglo XVIII)' chiefly by José Perez de Montoro (died 1694), customs officer in Cadiz and secretary to Carlos II.

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Identifier: MS.6158
Scope and Contents The notebook contains sixty-seven religious and secular poems, as follows.(i) Anonymous and untitled patriotic poem, alluding to the tyranny of Napoleon, written on the flyleaves in an early nineteenth-century hand. (Folio 1.)(ii) Forty-six religious poems, all composed apparently by José Perez de Montoro, written in two or three different eighteenth-century hands. The majority are addressed to Saints in the form of 'letters', 'hymns', 'paraphrases', 'ballads',...
Dates: 17th century-early 19th century.

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Correspondence. 38
Typescripts. 31
Manuscripts. 30
Diaries. 17
Drafts. Documents. 16
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Letters. Correspondence. 12
Short stories. 12
Notes. 11
Photographs. 11
Novels. 10
Plays. 10
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 10
Articles. 8
Microfilms. 7
Sketches. 5
Autobiographies. 4
Biographies. 4
Personal papers. 4
Publications. 4
Recipes. Instructions (document genre). 4
Scripts. Documents 4
Speeches. Documents. 4
Translations. Documents. 4
Commonplace books. 3
Copies. Derivative objects. 3
Proofs. printed matter 3
Sketches 3
Audiocassettes. 2
Documents. 2
Essays. 2
Excerpts. 2
Family papers. 2
Fiction. 2
Financial records. 2
Illustrations. Layout features. 2
Lists. 2
Literature (writings). 2
Photocopies. 2
Printed materials. Object genre. 2
Sketchbooks. 2
Sound recordings. 2
Travel journals. 2
Videocassettes. 2
Watercolours. Paintings. 2
Aberdeen (inhabited place). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Aberdeen. Longitude: -2.0667. Latitude: 57.1667. 1
Accounts. 1
Albums. 1
Alps (mountain system). Europe. Longitude: 010 00 00 E. Latitude: 46 25 00 N. 1
Anecdotes. 1
Annotations. 1
Ballads. 1
Books 1
Broadcasts. Events. 1
Calligraphy. Visual works. 1
Caricatures. 1
Catalogues. 1
Commissions. Permissions. 1
Criticism. 1
Declarations. 1
Dictionaries. 1
Drafts. Documents 1
Drama. Literary genre. 1
Drawings. Visual works 1
Drawings. Visual works. 1
Egypt. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 30.0000. Latitude: 27.0000. 1
Emails. 1
England. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -2.0000. Latitude: 53.0000. 1
Envelopes. 1
Ephemera. 1
Fair copies. 1
Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 1
Genealogies. 1
Genealogy. 1
Greece. Europe. Nation. Longitude: 22.0000. Latitude: 39.0000. 1
Histories. 1
Interleaves. 1
Journals. Accounts. 1
Kenya. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 38.0000. Latitude: 1.0000. 1
Knitting patterns. 1
Librettos. Documents for music. 1
Memoirs. 1
Minutes. Administrative records. 1
Mountaineering. 1
Palestine. Middle East. Historical region. Longitude: 35.3333. Latitude: 31.9167. 1
Positives. Photographs. 1
Prints. Visual works. 1
Professional papers. 1
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Returns. Military reports. 1
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Language
English 66
Undetermined 30
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 5
Hebrew 1
Multiple languages 1
 
Names
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 3
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 3
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 3
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 3
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 2
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Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Irvine, Alexander, Minister of Little Dunkeld, 1773-1824 2
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 2
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 2
Price, Richard John, librarian, poet and editor, b 1966 2
Robertson, James Logie, literary scholar and author, pseudonym Hugh Haliburton, 1846-1922 2
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 2
Allan, Jean Mary (librarian and novelist, pseudonym Lennox Allan) 1
Arundel, Honor, novelist and journalist, 1919-1973 1
Brown, Andrew, South Africa, telegraph controller, fl 1899-1905 1
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 1
Bryan, Tom, Poet, b. 1950. 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Butlin, Ronald Y, writer, b 1949 1
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 1
Campbell, Angus Peter 1
Cavalier, Jean, Major-General, 1681-1740 1
Clodd, Harold Alexander Alan, publisher and book collector, 1918-2002 1
Cram, Alastair, Lawyer and Judge in Kenya, 1909-1994 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Gourdie, Tom (calligrapher) 1
Graves, Robert Ranke, poet and author, 1895-1985 1
Greig, Andrew, poet, b 1951 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
Hadfield, Jen (poet and artist) 1
Henry, William Stuart, artist, pseudonym Henry Stuart, fl 1942-1973 1
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Holton, Harvey, poet, 1949-2010 1
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 1
Hume, Elizabeth, Edinburgh, fl 1816 1
Hutchison, Alexander, poet, 1943-2015 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Johnson, Nicholas, poet, editor and festival director, b 1963 1
Lindsay, Maurice (poet and writer) 1
Lowndes, Alan Bailey, landscape painter, 1921-1978: recipient 1
MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin, writer and photographer, 1899-1970 1
MacLean, Sorley, 1911-1996 (poet) 1
Mackie, Alastair, poet, 1925-1995 1
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 1
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 1
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 1
Murray, William Hutchison, 1913-1996 (mountaineer, author and environmental campaigner) 1
Paterson, Don, b 1963 (poet and musician) 1
Perryman, Kevin Alan, Editor of "Babel", b 1950 1
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 1
Rafferty, Séan Dickson Kerr, poet, 1909-1993 1
Rafferty, Séan Dickson Kerr, poet, 1909-1993: recipient 1
Ransford, Tessa, poet, pseudonym Tessa Stiven, b 1938 1
Reid, Alastair, poet, b 1926 1
Reid, Alastair, poet, b 1926: recipient 1
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 1
Row, John, Minister of Carnock, Fife, c 1568-1646 1
Scott, Alexander Mackie, poet and editor, 1920-1989 1
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 1
Smith, John, Earshader, Isle of Lewis, poet, called the Earshader Bard, 1848-1881 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Stevenson, Anne, poet, b 1933 1
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 1
Stuart, Alice V, poet, 1899-1983 1
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 1
Todd, Ruthven Campbell, poet, 1914-1978 1
Wallace, William Francis Stuart, composer, 1860-1940 1
Willison, John, Minister of Dundee South Church, 1680-1750 1
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