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Academic and literary correspondence of Professor Alastair Fowler, with some drafts of works and press cuttings.
This accession is one of several in the National Library of Scotland covering mainly incoming correspondence, but also containing copies of some outgoing letters and other literary material.
Acc.12015/57 gives biographical details on individual correspondents.
Correspondence and literary papers, including articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts, of Janet Adam Smith.
Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Correspondence and papers, including manuscripts, typescripts, articles and reviews, of Nigel Tranter.
Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of novels, topographical works, and articles, together with correspondence comprising around 2000 letters.
Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.
Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.
Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including papers and printed material of the Scottish National Party, PEN International and other political and cultural bodies.
Including manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles, reviews and lectures.
With letters of and to various correspondents, including James Bridie, C M Grieve, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Naomi Mitchison, and Edwin Muir.
And documents and correspondence concerning the SNP, PEN, the Saltire Society, and other organisations.
Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including printed material, mostly concerning Scottish politics.
Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles, reviews, addresses, and broadcast talks, with letters on literary, academic and political matters.
Also printed items concerning the Scottish National Party, PEN, and other organisations.
Correspondence and research papers of Janet Adam Smith.
Written, collected for and concerning Janet Adam Smith`s "John Buchan: A Biography" (London, 1965).
Correspondence concering Naomi Mitchison, "The Delicate Fire" and "The Moral Basis of Politics".
With cuttings of reviews, 1938, of "The Moral Basis of Politics".
Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.
The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Correspondence, production files, scripts, cuttings and other papers of John McGrath.
The bulk of the material dates from ca.1979-1990, though there are some earlier and later items. Much of it concerns McGrath’s work outside 7:84, the theatre company which he and others established in 1971.
Correspondence, typescripts and papers of Galliard Publishing.
Correspondence, typescripts, press cuttings and other papers of Wilfred Taylor.
Includes articles, reviews, memoirs, plays, speeches notes and correspondence.
With volume containing press cuttings, photographs and programmes, 1886-1937, concerning the Ayr Burns Club and Burns Federation.
Documents concerning the activities of Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart as British Vice-Consul in Moscow, with a championship medal of the Moscow Football League.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton relating to historical matters.
Correspondence, papers and copies of research documents assembled by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton for the publication of his books 'Motive for a Mission, the Story Behind Rudolf Hess’s Flight to Britain' (1st edition London 1971, 2nd edition Edinburgh 1979 and paperback edition, 1980); 'Air Battle for Malta: The Diaries of a Fighter Pilot', (Edinburgh 1981); and 'Roof of the World: Man’s First Flight Over Everest', (Edinburgh 1983).
Literary correspondence and papers of Mollie Hunter.
Includes manuscripts of novels, short stories and non-fiction, research notes, lectures and reviews.
Literary papers and speeches of Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond.
Literary papers of Norman Malcolm Macdonald.
Includes playscripts, a heavily corrected typescript of an historical novel "The Eternal Surge", correspondence and reviews.
Manuscript of ‘Ane Essay Relating to the Natural History of Scotland by way of Supplement to the Prodromus Naturalis Historae Scotae published anno 1684’ in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Manuscripts, typescripts and other papers relating to the publication of works of Alasdair Gray, with some articles, reviews and biographical material.
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).