Archives and Manuscript Catalogue

Scope and Contents Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...

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

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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.

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Includes articles, verses and short stories.

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

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

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Including corrected manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles and essays.

With letters of Alan Bold and Tom Scott to David Morrison, on literary matters.

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Including letters, notebooks, diaries and corrected typescripts of plays, short stories, poems, novels, and articles.

Correspondents include James Bridie, Neil Gunn, and Robert McLellan.

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Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles, reviews, short stories and poems, and business records including minute books, corrspondence and accounts.

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

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Includes corrected typescripts of poems, short stories, articles and reviews, with correspondence.

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

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Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems, short stories, articles, reviews lectures, with associated correspondence.

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Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, autobiography articles, essays and reviews.

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Including scripts of plays, short stories, articles, talks, broadcast scripts of radio and television documentaries, and associated correspondence.

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Including sketch books, typescripts of short stories, typescript and printed articles, and correspondence.

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Includes corrected typescripts and proofs of articles, short stories, poems and reviews, with associated correspondence.

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Joe Corrie worked as a miner in Fife and Ayrshire, and many of his plays and stories are set in mining communities. He was a prolific writer who published a number of plays, several collections of poetry, and two novels, as well as numerous stories and articles in newspapers. Many of his plays were popular with amateur dramatic groups.

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Includes diaries, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of novels, memoirs, short stories and articles.