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Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 1(1)-Box 46(2)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1962-1976, undated.

Correspondence, papers, bromides and negatives of 'Chapman' literary magazine.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10684/1-46
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems, short stories, articles and reviews, together with editorial correspondence.

Dates: 1981-1988, undated.

‘Lays and lyrics’ by Charles Gray (Edinburgh, 1841) with pencil and wash illustrations, 1846, of A A Ritchie.

 File
Identifier: MS.15947
Scope and Contents

At the back of the volume, “A familiar Epistle, addressed to Peter M'Leod, Esq., of Polbeth” by Charles Gray (Edinburgh, 1845) has been bound in.

There are also manuscript verses by A A Ritchie (folio 1), class certificates, 1833-1834, of Charles Gray's son, Charles E Gray, from St Andrews University (folio 3) and a newspaper article, 1845, on Gray's poetry (folio 9).

Dates: 1833-1846.

Letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.9
Scope and Contents The collection chiefly concerns Scotstarvet`s patronage of literature and learning, and political events on the continent.Symbols have been written in an unidentified hand, apparently of late 17th century provenance, in the upper left-hand corner of many of the letters; their meaning is not known. Leaves from a lost ‘album amicorum’ of Scotstarvet have been identified in folios 101-112. They contain inscriptions to him with mottoes, or classical extracts, by a number...
Dates: 1617-1668, undated.

Literary papers and diaries of the author and poet, Violet Jacob (1863-1946).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27411-27416
Scope and Contents

Born Kennedy-Erskine, she was brought up in the House of Dun near Montrose, and married an army officer in 1894. She wrote in both Scots and English, and some of her prose works are set in Angus.

Dates: 1895-[circa 1945], undated.

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 John Herdman.

 Fonds
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 Joseph Chiari.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13331
Scope and Contents

Literary papers, circa 1937-1989, of Joseph Chiari; includes manuscripts of poetry, prose, plays and non-fiction work, with some correspondence.

Dates: Circa 1937-1989.

Literary papers of the poet and author, Alastair Reid (born 1926).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27446-27464
Scope and Contents

Born in Whithorn and educated at St Andrews, Alastair Reid lived in Spain and Latin America for many years, translating from Spanish as well as writing his own poetry and prose. His papers reflect these different kinds of work.

Dates: 1953-1981, undated.

Literary typescripts of Naomi Mitchison.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10772
Scope and Contents

Includes a play, article and poetry.

Dates: circa 1930-1970.

Manuscript poems of Forbes Macgregor.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10549
Scope and Contents

With manuscripts and typescripts of three articles, 1932 and undated, of Macgregor.

Dates: 1921-1990 and undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of Tom Leonard concerning "Nora`s Place" and "Situations Theoretical and Contemporary".

 File
Identifier: Acc.11402
Scope and Contents

Includes four prose articles.

Dates: 1986-1994 and undated.

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Typescripts. 47
Correspondence. 35
Manuscripts. 31
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Letters. Correspondence. 12
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Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 9
Notebooks. 8
Proofs. printed matter 8
Diaries. 6
Drafts. Documents. 6
Photographs. 6
Proofs. Printed matter. 6
Essays. 5
Notes. 5
Novels. 5
Accounts. 4
Autobiographies. 3
Biographies. 3
Lectures. 3
Photocopies. 3
Publications. 3
Reviews. Document genre. 3
Sound recordings. 3
Translations. Documents. 3
Copies. Derivative objects. 2
Excerpts. 2
Lithographs. Planographic prints. 2
Microfilms. 2
Minute books. 2
Negatives. Photographs. 2
Obituaries. 2
Printed materials. Object genre. 2
Scripts. Documents. 2
Slides. Photographs. 2
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Address books. Reference sources. 1
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Inscriptions. 1
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Lists. 1
Magazines. periodicals. 1
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Novellas. 1
Offprints. 1
Optical discs. 1
Order forms. 1
Personal papers. 1
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Portraits. 1
Postcards. 1
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Travel journals. 1
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Language
English 49
Undetermined 17
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1
 
Names
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 5
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 3
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 3
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 3
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Akros, literary magazine 2
Black, David MacLeod, poet, b 1941 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Scotia Review, literary journal 2
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
Akros Publications 1
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Chiari, Joseph, author and critic, 1911-1989 1
Edinburgh Review (Scottish cultural magazine, 1969-) 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Fulton, Robin, poet, b 1937 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008: recipient 1
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 1
Hendry, James Findlay, poet and essayist, 1912-1986 1
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Lamont, Archie, geologist and nationalist, 1907-1985 1
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 1
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 1
Luca, Christine De (poet) 1
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 1
MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin, writer and photographer, 1899-1970 1
MacLean Sorley, Poet, 1911-1996. 1
MacNeacail, Aonghas, poet, b 1942 1
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 1
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 1
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 1
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 1
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 1
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 1
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 1
Moncrieff, George Scott-, writer, 1910-1974 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
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 1
Rowlands, Eurys Ionor, scholar, 1926-2006 1
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 1
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 1
Tannahill, Andrew, poet and translator, 1900-1986 1
Wells, Robert Preston, California, fl 1977-1980 1
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 1
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