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Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14390
Scope and Contents
This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates:
Circa 1925-2014.
Letters of and to Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10909
Scope and Contents
With typescripts, undated, of prose pieces and verse including "Prisoners at War", photographs and press-cuttings.
Dates:
1943 and undated.
Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, with some related literary papers and photographs.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13344/1-14
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, including enclosures of poems, cuttings and other notes. Many of the poems and acrostics were written by Brown as gifts for special occasions, including one for Crawford's wedding in 1991 to Graham McGirk.
The collection also includes the uncorrected typescript of 'The ballad of the golden bird', published as 'The golden bird' (John Murray, 1987), which Brown dedicated to Kenna Crawford.
Dates:
1985-1995.
Letters, papers and photographs of James Keir Hardie and Emrys Hughes.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.176
Dates:
1884-1969.
Letters, photographs and papers, 1815-1936, 1972, and undated, of or concerning the Dallas and Macarthur families of Nairn, and relating chiefly to the activities of the brothers Macarthur in Quebec, Ontario, Iowa and Manitoba from 1861.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.277- is now Acc.10623.
Dates:
1815-1936, 1972.
Literary and personal papers of Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, including notebooks, photographs, typescripts of published and unpublished books, articles, stories and poems, with associated correspondence and some genealogical material.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6215 Box 1(a)-Box 9(d)
Dates:
circa 1931-1970, undated.
Literary, artistic and personal correspondence and papers of Alasdair Gray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14602/1-431
Scope and Contents
At the heart of this archive are the contents of the two filing cabinets which sat in Alasdair Gray’s study, and which have been catalogued here in their original filing order. These contain correspondence and papers relating to Alasdair Gray’s literary and artistic endeavours, as well as extensive personal correspondence and research materials.The most recent sections of the archive mainly relate to his last great work, his ‘paraphrasing’ of Dante’s ‘Divine comedy’, published by...
Dates:
1885-2019, undated.
Literary papers and speeches of Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond.
Series
Identifier: Dep.363
Dates:
Circa 1950-1983.
Literary papers, correspondence and artwork of Alasdair Gray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13289/1-109
Scope and Contents
This collection includes personal and working papers of Alasdair Gray, with the great majority of the papers concerning 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009) and 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).The 'play book' papers include typescripts from throughout Gray's life of many of the plays which made up the book, as well as annotated proofs, and correspondence concerning the book's production.There are extensive visual materials collated by Gray for the production of 'A...
Dates:
1951-2011.
Literary, personal and political papers of James Kelman, with digital archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13471
Dates:
circa 1970-2012.
"Long on Mud, Short on Glory", Florence Kaye`s typescript account of her time in the Scottish Women`s Land Army.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11662
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs
Dates:
Late 20th century.
Manuscripts, typescripts and other papers relating to the publication of works of Alasdair Gray, with some articles, reviews and biographical material.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9247/1-52
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and illustrative material relating to a wide range of Alasdair Gray’s work, including twenty-nine stage, radio and television plays, and the following published works:
'Lanark' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1981).
'Lean tales' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1985).
'Lean tales' (London: Abacus, 1987).
'Old negatives' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1989).
Dates:
1954-circa 1987.
Manuscripts, typescripts and research papers of Tom Leonard.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14605/1-42
Scope and Contents
This collection of the papers of the Glasgow poet Tom Leonard includes manuscript and typescript drafts of his poetry, as well as research papers and notes concerning his interests in literary theory, literary history and the Middle East.The poetry drafts include many works for inclusion in his 'Outside the narrative' (Word Power Books, 2009), as well as audio and visual elements for his performance piece 'My name is Tom' (Good Elf Publications, 1978). There are also files of...
Dates:
1817-2016, undated.
Manuscripts, typescripts, research notes and personal papers of Jean Mary Allan, librarian and novelist.
Fonds
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 talks, [?1965-?1969], of Sir James B Thomson; photographs, 19th century-[before 1987], of and concerning John MacArthur Russell and his family; and, an account, 1783, of East Indies caves.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.978
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Typescripts of talks, [?1965-?1969], of Sir James B Thomson on Tonga and Malaysia (Acc.9426);
Photographs, 19th century-[before 1987], of and concerning John MacArthur Russell and his family (Acc.9483);
'Account of the Caves of Kennery, Ambola, and Elephanta in the East Indies; in a letter from a gentleman in Bombay to his friend in England, 1783' (MS.3966).
Dates:
1783-[before 1987].
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Series
Identifier: MS.20311
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
‘Nye Eventyr’ by Hans Christian Anderson (Copenhagen, 1845), with verses, 1845, written by the author for Mrs Charlotte Cowan, Glasgow, on the flyleaf; with a photographic copy, a typed transcription, and a translation into English verse.
File
Identifier: MS.3921
Dates:
1845.
Papers and correspondence of Douglas Charles Parker.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21551-21561
Scope and Contents
D C Parker was an able amateur musician, and a professional writer on music, both as critic (1919-1934) on the ‘Evening Times’ of Glasgow, and as the biographer of Georges Bizet, and a contributor to many musical periodicals. His main enthusiasms were for the music of Wagner, Elgar, the French composers of the late 19th century, and for opera in general. His correspondence extends from his early contacts with Massenet and Saint Saëns, through to modern conductors such as Colin Davis. His...
Dates:
1902-1970.
Papers and correspondence of Ronald W Clark.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9589
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, notes, manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, drafts, photographs, pamphlets and press cuttings.
Dates:
1948-1987.
Papers concerning the 'Scotia Review', including corrected typescripts of short stories, poems, and articles submitted for publication, and photographs of contributers; with editorial correspondence, comprising 130 letters to David Morrison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7309 Box 1(1)-Box 4(3)
Dates:
1968-1977, undated.
Papers, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles and reviews, of Robert Nye; with manuscript and typescript drafts of the anthologies, 'The English sermon, 1750-1850' (1976), and 'The faber book of sonnets' (1976), edited by Nye, with associated correspondence.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6885 Box 1(1)-Box 3(5)
Dates:
Circa 1963-1976, undated.