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11 literary notebooks and other papers of Morley Jamieson.
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.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.
Corrected drafts and typescripts of ten series of poems of Kenneth White.
Corrected manuscript and printed version of poem of David Morrison, "Sterk Vision".
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of 19 poems of Roderick Watson.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of 190 poems of Duncan Glen.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and a play of David Morrison.
Corrected proofs of John Bellany and Alan Bold, "Homage to MacDiarmid".
With lithographic plates, and manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem.
Corrected typescripts of two poems of Hugh MacDiarmid, "The Fingers of Peace Contract in the Communist Salute", and, "The Nature of a Bird`s World".
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Correspondence and papers relating to publications and exhibitions of Hamish Whyte and the Mariscat Press.
Draft letter (beginning missing), 1865, of David Livingstone.
On possible misinterpretation of his remarks on America.
Includes:
letter, 1857, of Roualeyn Gordon Cumming to Livingstone, acknowledging a copy of his book
photocopy of a poem, 1874, on Livingstone.
Draft manuscript of 'No Scottish twilight' (1947), edited by Maurice Lindsay and Fred Urquhart, with assorted literary manuscript material.
Draft poetry and prose of Bill Sutherland.
With press cuttings, two audio cassettes and copies of 4 publications by Bill Sutherland: 'A Clydeside Lad' (Clydeside Press, 1990); 'Highflats sonnets and other jokes' (n.p., n.d.); 'The Anatony of Wavie McSurd' (Dumbarton: The Author, n.d.); 'Sonnets of a year' (?Dumbarton: ?The Author, n.d.).
Drafts and corrected typescript of Forbes Macgregor, "The Gowks of Mowdieknowes".
With associated correspondence, and photocopies of a play and three poems.
Drafts of Alan Bold, "A Celtic Quintet".
With proofs and litho plates.