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Manuscript notes and writings of George Mackay Brown, including journal entries, lists, drafts of a short story, review, and poems.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13910
Scope and Contents Assorted fragments of manuscript writing, including:A list of essays by George Mackay Brown for a proposed collection, 'drawn up with Brian Murray 23 November 1992'.A letter, 1993, from Celtic Cross Press concerning a review for 'A girdle round the moon', by Christopher J Moore, with notes of George Mackay Brown concerning the book written on the envelope.A manuscript draft, Christmas Eve 1981, of a story beginning 'The yellow dynasty it was called'....
Dates: 1979-1992, undated.

Manuscript of 'Six wee haufs', a poem by George Mackay Brown, with a copy of 'Phoenix: Moray House review'.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13122
Scope and Contents

The entire poem is unpublished, but the copy of 'Phoenix', 1961, included here features two of the six sections, published as single poems.

Dates: Circa 1961.

Manuscripts and typescripts of short stories and poems of George Mackay Brown.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4835/1-20
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts and typescripts of short stories, 1958-1967 and undated, and manuscript drafts for part of the poem cycle 'Fishermen with ploughs' (Hogarth Press, 1971).

Some of the stories were published in 'A calendar of love and other stories' (Hogarth Press, 1967) and 'A time to keep and other stories' (Hogarth Press, 1969).

Dates: 1958-1967.

Papers, including poetry, plays, broadcasts, correspondence and reviews, of George Mackay Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4864/1-31
Scope and Contents

These papers, which date from the period 1960 to 1969, include manuscripts and typescripts of poetry, plays, broadcasts and reviews.

The manuscripts of plays include drafts of 'A spell for green corn' (Hogarth Press, 1970).

Dates: 1960-1970, undated.

Photocopies of cards, acrostics, poems and stories of George Mackay Brown sent as birthday greetings to Alan, Peter and Betty Grant.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13125
Scope and Contents

Most of the material in this file was sent as birthday greetings to Alan, son of Peter and Betty Grant, with some birthday acrostics to the parents.

Dates: 1974-1995.

Photocopies of correspondence of and concerning Edwin and Willa Muir.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10557
Scope and Contents

Includes 52 letters of George Mackay Brown.

Dates: 1939-1976.

Publication file of Victor Gollancz Ltd, publishers, relating to 'An Orkney tapestry', by George MacKay Brown.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14179
Scope and Contents

The file is mostly correspondence, but also includes agreements.

Dates: 1967-1996.

Seven issues of 'The sun', magazine of Newbattle Abbey College, some containing work by George Mackay Brown.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13907
Content Description Includes some manuscript editorial notes (not in George Mackay Brown's hand) and the following issues:Winter 1951, with a short story by George Mackay Brown, heavily annotated and corrected. Cover of this issue is quite badly torn and fragments are missing.Spring 1952.Summer 1952, annotated 'George Brown his copy' on the front cover, and signed on the back cover by several contributors.Winter 1952, annotated 'George M Brown' on the front...
Dates: 1951-1956.

Short pieces of manuscript poetry, prose, notes and letters of George Mackay Brown.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13911/1-3
Scope and Contents

A collection of assorted manuscript writings of George Mackay Brown, including some early notebooks, 1946-1948, and manuscripts of various poems, short stories and plays.

Dates: 1946-1995, undated.

Two letters of George Mackay Brown to John Wilson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14426
Scope and Contents

On life at Moray House, and on Brown's poetry.

Dates: 1960-1961.

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Crouden, Patricia, correspondent of George Mackay Brown, fl 1975-2003 2
Fleming, Maurice, Editor of "The Scots Magazine", b ?1926 2
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 2
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Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 2
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 2
Bean, William Jackson (arboriculturist and dendrologist) (1863-1947) 1
Bergonzi, Bernard, author, b 1929 1
Betjeman, John, Sir (poet) 1
Blanch, Lesley (writer) 1
Bold, Alan Norman, poet, writer, critic and artist, 1943-1998 1
Burgess, Moira, b 1936 (author of "Glasgow books and writers of the twentieth century") 1
Campbell, Austin, film director, fl 1960-1971 1
Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie, Baron (art patron and historian) 1
Crawford, Kenna (artist) (b. 1959) 1
Curtis, Michael, physician, fl 1976-1988 1
Davie, Elspeth Mary, novelist and art teacher, née Dryer, 1919-1995 1
Davie, George Elder, Reader in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, 1912-2007 1
Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan, Sir (author) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 1
Grant, Betty (friend and correspondent of George Mackay Brown) (fl. 1967-1996) 1
Grant, Peter (friend and correspondent of George Mackay Brown) (fl. 1967-1996) 1
Grimble, Arthur Francis, Sir, Knight (colonial governor and ethnographer) (1888-1956) 1
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 1
Ingrams, William Harold (colonial official) (1897-1973) 1
Jabavu, Noni (writer and journalist) (1919-2008) 1
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer (novelist and screenwriter) (1927-2013) 1
John Murray (publishers, London) 1
Lancaster, Sir Osbert, Knight, cartoonist, author and critic , 1908-1986: transcriber 1
Lochhead, Marion Cleland, journalist, editor and author, 1902-1985 1
MacCaig, Norman Alexander, poet, 1910-1996 1
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 1
Marchand, Leslie Alexis (literary scholar and Byron biographer) (1900-1999) 1
McGrath, John Peter, playwright, director, 1935-2002 1
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik (physician and author) (1857-1949) 1
Murphy, Dervla (cyclist and travel writer) (1931-2022) 1
Murray, John Arnaud Robin (publisher (VI), formerly Grey) (1909-1993) 1
Newbattle Abbey College (adult education institution) 1
Origo, Iris Margaret, Dame (writer and historian, née Cutting) 1
Poggi, Valentina, President of Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Bologna, fl 1985-2007 1
Poggi, Valentina, President of Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Bologna, fl 1985-2007: recipient 1
Prebble, John (writer and historian) (1915-2001) 1
Robertson, Aileen (daughter of Jennifer, writer and poet) (b 1970) 1
Robertson, Jennifer, writer and poet, b ? 1940 1
Sagan, Françoise (French novelist and dramatist) (1935-2004) 1
Scotia Review, literary journal 1
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 1
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 1
Stark, Freya Madeline, Dame (writer and traveller) 1
Starkie, Walter Fitzwilliam (Hispanic scholar and travel writer) (1894-1976) 1
Tozer, Katharine (writer) (1907-1943) 1
Varè, Daniele (Italian expatriate diplomat and author) (1880-1956) 1
Victor Gollancz Ltd (publishers) 1
Wilson, John Dewar (researcher) 1
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