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Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13338/1-687
Scope and Contents The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates: 1818-2011, undated.

Personal and literary papers of Naomi Mitchison

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12578/1-45
Scope and Contents Papers relating to the life and work of the novelist, poet and writer Naomi Mitchison. Includes personal correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, press cuttings, family papers and photographs.Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, née Haldane, was born in Edinburgh in 1897. She was the youngest child of Louisa Kathleen Haldane, née Trotter, and John Scott Haldane (1860-1936). Her elder brother was the biologist J. B. S. 'Jack' Haldane (1892–1964).Naomi attended the Dragon School...
Dates: 1836-2002

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.

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.

Small collections of literary material.

 Series
Identifier: MS.15941

Successive typescript, printed and postcard versions of poem of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "Net/Planet", and photographs of final version; with a letter to 'Private Eye' and a copy of issue 11 of the 'Private Tutor' magazine.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4652
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

'Net/Planet' Poem

Original typescript, [circa 1966]

Form 3, 15 December 1966.

Proof of postcard published by the Wild Hawthorn Press, 1968.

2 colour photographs, undated.

Carbon copy of letter to Private Eye concerning 'The Dancers Inherit the Party', 1970.

'Private Tutor', number 11, May 1970.

Dates: [Circa 1966]-1970, undated.

Two letters and typescripts of four poems of George Bruce.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12634
Scope and Contents

Includes typescript recollection of George Bruce by the Rev Alasdair W Macdonell.

Dates: 1975-1976, 1999.

Typecripts, undated, of short stories, one with an African theme of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10840
Scope and Contents

Includes:

"Housing Diary", Glasgow, 1934

letter, 1964, of Marion Campbell

verse, undated, including some of Stephen Spender.

Dates: 1934-1964 and undated.

Typescript, 1989, of a poem "Misprint in a Great Man`s Obit" by Gavin Ewart.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10901
Scope and Contents

With two letters, 1977 and 1982, of Ewart, including one mentioning his poetry collection, "All My Little Ones".

Dates: 1977-1989.

Typescript and printed copies of 14 poems, 1985-1991 and undated, of W Price Turner.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10600
Scope and Contents

With 13 letters, 1954-1981, to Price Turner from Scottish poets.

Dates: 1954-1991.

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Manuscripts. 145
Correspondence. 73
Letters. Correspondence. 48
Articles. 47
Drafts. Documents. 46
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Short stories. 32
Notebooks. 31
Plays. 24
Photographs. 22
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 17
Proofs. printed matter 17
Reviews. Document genre 17
Copies. Derivative objects. 15
Speeches. Documents. 14
Novels. 13
Notes. 12
Diaries. 11
Proofs. Printed matter. 11
Translations. Documents. 11
Essays. 10
Photocopies. 9
Accounts. 7
Autobiographies. 6
Biographies. 6
Fiction. 6
Lists. 6
Scripts. Documents 6
Audiocassettes. 5
Books 5
Financial records. 5
Literature (writings). 5
Lectures. 4
Printed materials. Object genre. 4
Stats. Copies. 4
Criticism. 3
Documents. 3
Drawings. Visual works. 3
Excerpts. 3
Fragments. 3
Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 3
Histories. 3
Inscriptions. 3
Lithographs. Planographic prints. 3
Microfilms. 3
Minute books. 3
Publications. 3
Reports. 3
Sound recordings. 3
Transcripts. 3
Videocassettes. 3
Administrative records. 2
Annotations. 2
Bibliographies. 2
Christmas cards. 2
Declarations. 2
Descriptions. Documents. 2
Genealogies. 2
Obituaries. 2
Offprints. 2
Personal papers. 2
Postcards. 2
Professional papers. 2
Radio scripts. 2
Receipts. Financial records. 2
Reviews. Document genre. 2
Scores 2
Sketches 2
Sketches. 2
Slides. Photographs. 2
Travel journals 2
Travel literature 2
Worksheets. 2
Acrostics. 1
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Albums. 1
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 1
Authors 1
Born digital. 1
Business records. 1
Calligraphy. Visual works. 1
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Catalogues. 1
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Commentaries. 1
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DVDs. 1
Dedications. Documents. 1
Dispatches. 1
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Envelopes. 1
Estate records. 1
Exhibition catalogues. 1
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Facsimiles. Reproductions. 1
Fair copies. 1
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Language
English 200
Undetermined 41
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 3
Latin 1
Multiple languages 1
 
Names
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 11
Morrison, Trevor, poet, d 2013 11
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 9
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 8
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 7
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Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 7
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 7
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 7
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 7
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 6
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 6
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 4
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 4
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 4
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 4
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 4
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 4
Akros, literary magazine 3
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 3
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 3
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 3
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 3
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 3
Scotia Review, literary journal 3
Cruickshank, Helen Burness, poet, 1886-1975 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Fulton, Robin, poet, b 1937 2
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 2
Lines Review, Scottish poetry journal 2
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 2
Macdonald, Malcolm 'Callum' (printer and publisher) 2
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 2
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 2
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 2
Turner, William Price, author, 1927-1988 2
Watson, Roderick, poet, b 1943 2
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 2
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 2
Abbot, Ian, poet, 1947-1989 1
Adam, James Seymore, newspaper executive, 1907-2003 1
Akros Publications 1
Allan, Jean Mary (librarian and novelist, pseudonym Lennox Allan) 1
Anderson, William C, poet, 1867-1951 1
Bellany, John (artist) 1
Bellany, John, artist, b 1942 1
Benton, Gorman, poet, fl 1976 1
Black, David MacLeod, poet, b 1941 1
Bochanan, Dùghall, poet, 1716-1768 1
Bold, Alan Norman, poet, writer, critic and artist, 1943-1998 1
Bottrall, Ronald, poet, 1906-1989 1
Broadsheet, poetry magazine 1
Brooks, Ernest, illustrator and painter, 1911-1993: recipient 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Brown, Ian, Professor of Drama, Kingston University, London, b 1945 1
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 1
Brown, James Hope, poet, fl 1913-1932 1
Butlin, Ronald Y, writer, b 1949 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Campbell, Donald, poet and dramatist, b 1940 1
Campbell, Marion, wife of John, of Kilberry, née Durand, b 1919 1
Canvin, Mary, co-writer of "An Edinburgh Love Story", fl 1994 1
Clodd, Harold Alexander Alan, publisher and book collector, 1918-2002 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Copeland, Fanny Susan, translator and journalist, 1872-1970 1
Corrie, Joseph, miner and playwright, 1894-1968 1
Crawford, Kenna (artist) (b. 1959) 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Datta, Kitty W Scoular, Head of Department of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, née Scoular, b 1930 1
Duncan, Andrew, poet, b 1956 1
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 1
Dunnett, Sir Alastair MacTavish, Knight, journalist and newspaper editor, 1908-1998 1
Durrell, Lawrence George, novelist and poet, 1912-1990 1
Edinburgh Review (Scottish cultural magazine, 1969-) 1
Empson, Sir William, Knight, poet and literary critic, 1906-1984 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan (poet) (1916-1995) 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Ferrerio, Giovanni, philosopher, poet, historian, 1502-1579 1
Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun, patriot, ? 1653-1716. 1
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980: recipient 1
Gardner, Archibald Ward, physician, 1923-1994 1
Garnett, Edward William, publisher's editor and writer, 1868-1937 1
Gilchrist, James, correspondent of William Soutar, poet, fl 1940: recipient 1
Gillies, Valerie, poet, née Simmons, b 1948 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008: recipient 1
Gourdie, Tom (calligrapher) 1
Greig, Andrew, poet, b 1951 1
Guthrie, John, Chief Medical Officer, Kuwait Oil Company, composer, 1913-1986 1
Hay, George Campbell, poet, 1915-1984 1
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 1
Hunter, Margaret, wife of T Drummond, Secretary and Treasurer of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital Group, d ? 1999 1
Hunter, T Drummond, Secretary and Treasurer of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital Group, 1918-2002 1
Hutchison, Alexander, poet, b 1943 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Huxley, Aldous Leonard, writer, 1894-1963 1
Jackson, Alan, poet, b 1938 1
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